Getting ready for Christmas

Hey everyone!

So the docs have blamed stress for any & all symptoms I've experienced. I guess that is the only explanation seeing as the ultrasound results came back completely normal. My yearly winter cough has arrived but thankfully I'm still sleeping through the night. Since my health has been so nutty lately I've also not returned to work. I know it's better for me this way but it's also sad. I LOVE Christmas (besides the fact that I get sick usually every time) but I'm hoping this year will be different! Great food, friends & family :D

Things that have kept my cough from getting worse:

Silver
MSM
Garlic oil pills
My supplement routine

My dad found some very interesting research when it comes to silver:

http://www.silverlungs.com/

Definitely going on my wish list!

I got the iPhone 4S!!! Its white & so beautiful! I love it!

Merry Christmas!

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Life Can Be Crazy

It's been a while since I've updated my blog. Honestly I was waiting for a positive pregnancy test before posting again, but since those are hard to come by & my life is exploding beyond my control I've decided to update anyways.

Lungs: had some rough days a few months back with chest pain but thankfully an x-ray came back clear.

GI: always a battle, lately with the help of activated charcoal & papaya enzymes it's been pretty good.

Pregnancy status: since my body is screwed up in almost every other way why not a little more craziness? Waiting on an ultrasound because even with blood & home pregnancy tests coming back negative my body doesn't seem to agree (see pic) and that is not the only symptom.

This is me telling my not so secret life issue, yes "time will tell" but man is the waiting annoying!

Good news: as soon as the iPhone 5 is out I'm getting one!

Fantastical Day

First I'll address how CF clinic went...

I gained more weight!!!! How awesome is that? I'm now 55.5 kg or 122 lbs! The heaviest I've EVER been! So exciting!!! Perfect weight for wanting to start a family soon....

Since I mentioned THAT, I will also tell you that Abe was very brave and got a blood test to check if he's a CF carrier. We will hopefully find out in the next few weeks.

As you can see in the attached pic, my PFT's are pretty awesome, and they are up from last clinic.

We used this time in the city as an opportunity to celebrate our 1 year wedding anniversary, we will be married 1 year on May 1st.

We went to the mall to drop off our wedding rings to get Rhodium Plating done, then spent the next few hours going into stores and for the most part window shopping. Abe did buy me a summer shirt & we both got aviators! (pics on facebook on the album "♥ a year ♥") 

Supper was spent at Mongo's Grill, its an amazing place! We will definitely be going there again.

It was a hugely fantastical day.

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Vitamin D Results!

Normal vitamin D levels 75-250

My previous vitamin D results: 32

What I changed to improve it:

-70,000 iu's of D3 a week
-Tanning
Plus my multi vitamin

**My most resent results: 73!**

What I've added:

-Alfalfa

I retest in another 12 weeks.

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Saving Money with iHerb.com!

http://www.iHerb.com

There are quite a few products I usually get from the health food store but recently I discovered iHerb.com and found a way to save over $40 per order!

Probiotics 

Alfalfa

D3 

Echinacea Plus tea

Cranberry

Garlic oil

Red Raspberry Leaf

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CF movie review: Jack & Jill vs. The World

I started watching this movie with very little expectations. I've seen what Mercy & Grey's did with CF and I was not impressed, ya it helps raise awareness but seriously, they could have done a far better job IF THEY TRIED!

So... I was watching the movie... I started relating to Jill, her independence, her reluctance to share with new people about CF, I've been asked some of the questions they asked on there SO MANY TIMES! The struggle of telling the man you love your sick - been there, done that! I have to admit, my guy reacted WAY better, although at that time I might have left out the fatal part, he neglected to ask.  After I got out of the hospital from a severe CF arthritis attack, months after we've been dating I broke down and told him EVERYTHING. He was awesome then too! :)

Anyways back to the movie! The one thing I had a problem with was her spending time in the hospital with another CF patient, IN THE SAME ROOM! but that is a minor compared to all the things they did right with the story, which was: the seriousness of the disease, the invisibility of CF (we don't look like we're sick), the coughing spells when we laugh really hard, the bunch of pills we have around, the amount of food we eat, the random hospital stays when we need a "tune up", the fighter spirit in all of us and the complete annoyance of people who don't take their health and lives seriously!

I would really love the people in my life to watch this movie, because I believe it will help them understand what my sisters (Aline & Kate) and I fight everyday.

P.S. Freddy Prince Jr. isn't bad to watch either, hehe.

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Book Update

"Slow and steady wins the race".  Well, I'm not sure what race my book would win lol but it is going slow and steady! Which means at some point it will be done. I still need an editor, English is not my forte. 

Right now I am working on telling Abe's and my love story!

What I have completed is my regimen for staying healthy, my time doing Tae Kwon Do and any Journal entries that have to do with what I've written about... its sort of neat how its all working out.

I've dedicated an entire page on my CF website to my book, if you want to check it out go to: http://www.cfchampion.com/Book.html.

I think I would like to have most of my poems in the book, perhaps one as a precursor to each chapter...

Well theres my update!

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