Hormones.

 

For several months now, I've been dealing with increasingly painful uterine problems. It's gotten to the point where I am now in pain for 3 weeks out of the month and have mild relief for 1. I went to the doctor a couple weeks ago and I told her that my symptoms seem to point toward endometriosis. To my surprise, she agreed. (I have a crappy doc.) She prescribed me birth control pills to try.
 

 

I've been taking the pill for about 3 weeks now, and I cannot believe how well they've been working for me. I still have uterine pain, but it's 80% better. I guess we'll find out how it's really going once I hit the green pills. Another plus side: I'm having an awesome side effect ...my anxiety is almost gone! I went from having anxiety/panic attacks almost daily, to once a week. I am honestly just amazed. I feel like a different person.

 

I've noticed that as my pain increased every month, my face (and chest) has steadily gotten worse. I've never had perfect skin, by an means...but never like this. I went from "comfortable" to "please don't look at me!" I have people ask me "Do you have a rash?" or say "It looks like you're having an allergic reaction!" or "Wow, you're really breaking out." Yeah...thanks for the concern. I just have adult acne. :( It's so embarrassing! I've tried a different cleanser, washing my face twice a day, different medications, getting sun, drinking more water...I'm even going back to the dermatologist to beg for help. I'm assuming that the hormone problem that was attacking my uterus also affected my skin. I'm praying that the b/c pills will help...but after almost a month, I'm seeing zero difference.

     (forgive the psycho eyes, I tend to do that in selfies lol.)

What have you used to get rid of acne? I need some tried and true tips and tricks. I'm just a train wreck...I'm super fat, have horrible skin and bad hair. WTF. I was already a teenager once, I'm not looking to go through that again. Apparently I pissed off the powers that be and I'm being punished lol.

Quick updates: Today is appointment 4 of 6 with my dietician. Next week I go get my "crazy test" results from the bariatric shrink. If all goes as planned, I'm about 4 months out from surgery.

I called the "quit line" and got set up with the Quit Smoking Program. In the next day or so, I should be getting my free quit smoking aids and I will be on my way. Yay getting my health back!!!

Anywho, that's all for now. Catch ya later!!

The Perpetually Injured Child...

I know that kids get hurt...but Fiona seems to get injured far more often than any kid I know. I feel bad for her, because I know how it is to be "that kid". I was always hurting myself...and still am lol. A couple days ago she was clothes lined at the park (update at the end of the blog) and today, she got attacked by the cat. She wanted to play with Barley, but he wasn't in the mood. I told her to back off...but she wouldn't listen. So she came over to me crying because he attacked her. I didn't see any scratches at all, so I kissed her boo boo and continued about my business. I looked over at her, and she had blood running from her head and down her face!!! OMG!!!! 

 

I scooped her up and ran her to the kitchen to clean her up, expecting to see a huge gash...but there wasn't anything!! Meanwhile, Eoghan's freaking out because his little sister is bleeding all over the place and I'm trying to get him to bring me the phone so I could call my mom. (I was getting ready to bring her to the ER lol). As I'm on the phone, I see the wound...

See that teeny tiny little speck in the middle of her scalp? Yeah...that's it. That tiny little gouge caused her to bleed like she cracked her head open. Ugh.

 

Update for the playground incident: I called the landlord and told him what went down. He told me to get in touch with the city, as it's a city playground, and tell them what happened and to request a sign stating that "Parents must supervise children at all times". He also called the other owner of the different buildings and found out that this isn't their first incident with the little boy that tied the rope to the slide. They will be contacting the boys mother and notifying her of what happened.

 

I think I'm going to get a roll of bubble wrap and wrap her up in it. I'm tired of her getting hurt all the time. Silly Polish genetics.

Parental Advisory Request.

When we moved to our apartment, we were thrilled that there was a playground right out our front door. We also found out that it was built just last Fall! As it started getting warmer, the kids started to come out to play at the park more often. I was excited that the kids would have so many friends to play with. I quickly realized that there was a big problem with it all. No parental supervision.

Here's the thing...we live in the projects. Granted, they're in Eagan, so they aren't in "the hood", but, they are "the projects" nonetheless. There are easily over a hundred families in the dozen different apartment buildings. Seems like most of them also have a few children each. On a good day, there are 20+ different kids playing outside. Usually, it's just Jim and/or me and maybe another parent. Needless to say, it gets pretty chaotic at times. There are a few kids that are trouble makers and are constantly fighting or being little shits...I have no problem telling these kids to knock it off or go home. "I'm going to get my mom!" Please do. I'd love to tell her that she needs to watch her kids! It's to the point that even if I was comfortable letting my kids go to the park without me, I wouldn't do it because some of the other kids running around there are too naughty/mean.
 

Today Jim brought the kids down to play for a little bit while I made brunch. Fiona came up the stairs crying because she got hurt. Then Jim came upstairs pissed, and explained what happened. Somebody took a jump rope and strung across the bottom of one of the slides...Fiona went down it and got clothes lined pretty bad by the rope. Another case of no parental supervision. Hopefully if there was some, the parent would say "don't do that, that's dangerous!" Then again, who knows...people can be so freaking stupid. Problem is, my child could have been seriously hurt. It's bad enough that she's got scrapes and marks all over her neck and chest...

 

It's going to be a long summer. Hopefully I am able to make it before I go off on somebody for neglecting their children or not picking up their dog's poop or throwing their alcohol bottles on the grass by the park. I can't handle this crap. Somebody buy me some land outside the cities...it's time to move.