Doing better with help

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

I’m thinking of the group today. It seems to be very quiet lately and I hope

it’s because many are feeling better with the summer months and out on errands

or enjoying some activities?

Many of our newer members are in the early stages of disease and I’m thinking

of them also. I realize it’s hard for some to come on-line to complete

strangers and pour your heart out not knowing if your safe to share your

feelings with the world. That is why this group was set up as a closed group so

that hopefully all would be comfortable in private amongst others that

understand.

I’ve had some personal issues in my life I’ve shared lately and I would like

to give you all an update. My young granddaughter Sydney’s iodine procedure on

her Thyroid went well. My daughter and Son in Law work so much that I haven’t

had the chance to find out what the next step in her treatment is other than

medications to eventually get her heart, emotions and other systems stabilized.

The other issue was that my ex husband did have the biopsy on the tumor on his

face but the results were inconclusive. They couldn’t get enough cells to

determine if he had malignant cells. The doctor is now sending him for a CT

scan. He will also have an MRI before surgery and that will be the 100% results

after all. At least he finally let go of enough anger to say he would correspond

with me by writing. I am grateful for that as I feel that is the best way for us

both to handle things without excessive emotional trauma. He is going to move to

his families’ for a while and because he was living just down the street from

me, that will take a lot of pressure from me as well.

Thank you all for your support through my sharing. I am feeling stronger each

day emotionally and that gives me hope that I won’t flare after these past

years of the extreme stress. In the past two and a half years I have lost 115

lbs. and while that has made a huge difference with being able to move again,

the last 30 has just been from January to July and my doctors aren’t too

pleased with that. I stared out in little ways trying to lose the weight but

with inflammatory gastritis, and then so much emotional stress building as time

passed, it has become a concern that I not lose more. It worried me a bit

because at the beginning of my Still’s I lost to 107 lbs. and I am 5’11â€.

I am trying to eat better now but it’s such an adjustment now I live alone.

Thank you if you’ve read this far. I didn’t mean this to end up a saga. As I

started, I wish you all better days and would like to share hugs, love and

smiles.