I'm married to my best friend in the world and a stay at home Mom of 4 cute and very busy children. Ranging in age from 12 down to 3. I stay busy running kids, keeping up a house, have a passion for photography and feel blessed to have my own business for the past almost 10 years. And for the past 2 1/2 yrs have been our ward Relief Society President. All of these things are great blessings in my life but at the same time, make life VERY busy and not a lot of time with taking care of myself. The kids, like everyone else, are involved in sports, drama (both in school and at home :)) , a choral group, piano lessons, flute lessons, YW, activity days, scouts, etc. My hubby took on a little switch in carrier for a brief time in order to get ready to start his own engineering business. He is consulting as well as working full time with his Dad and brother at the family car business. This has also been a blessing but has also been hard to not see him as much as we would like to! Well, a little over 2 years ago, I started seeing a nutritionist and REALLY changed the way I eat. I dropped almost 30 lbs in a 6 month span and felt so much better. Ran a half marathon, did a half mar. relay and also a bike race. I felt better than ever! Then last Jan. they found a large tumor on my right thyroid that needed to be removed. I had thyroid surgery and they removed half my thyroid and thankfully the tumor was benign. At the same time, they discovered I have Hoshimotos disease as well (where the immune system slowly attacks the thyroid ) BUT.....It has literally thrown my body into a big imbalance. I stayed seeing my ENT for awhile and thought he could help keep me balances--no such luck. I then went to an endocrinologist and hoped she could dig a little deeper. I was worried about hormone levels, adrenals, etc. Again, no such luck. Going back a little bit (about 20 years) ....I also suffer from endometriosis and have thankfully been able to keep it under control and have 4 kids. But in between that have stayed on "the pill" continuous with no cycles. Deep down, this has been a little concerning but the ease of taking a small pill daily, overrode that worry! Well, that too has come back to bite me! I am in COMPLETE IMBALANCE and feel like I'm NOT ME! I literally feel daily like I have been hit by a MAC TRUCK and am exhausted. I am moody and impatient. and highly emotional. I feel most days like if I have any more stress come in, I may BREAK! I was doing a family shoot a month or so ago for dome good friends who asked how I had been doing from my thyroid stuff, I of course said "Not great" and their daughter turns out to be an assistant to a WELLNESS Dr. in Bountiful -- He does chiropractic as well as holistic health and specializes in thyroid and hormone imbalance! DING!!! I immediately felt an answer to prayer! I set up an apt and went to see him. As he explained and truly taught me about my thyroid, adrenals, levels, stress, etc. I wanted to jump up and down. He explained that medicine is great for a lot of things, but also not so great. Often times, medicine treats ONLY the SYMPTOM and NOT the real ISSUE of why our bodies are doing/ or NOt doing what they should. I wished the whole time that R (my husband) was with me and hearing all that he said. So I set up another apt. and took R with me. The plan is a 6 month regimen and involves blood work, adrenal testing, weekly and bi-weekly consults, supplements, etc. and is NOT covered by insurance. I needed us BOTH to feel good. After much prayer and open minds, we went back and had a great meeting. We decided to JUMP! The next day I started my adrenal testing and sent it off. Then had blood work to do. My first apt. was on Aug. 1st. They had told me that I was goinng to need to make a lot of changes on my own. And my DIET COKE addicition would be one of them! So the night before, we went as a family to DICKIES BBQ. I had a great Diet coke and we had an almost mgical evening enjoying pulled pork, Beans, rolls and ice cream. Then went to Lagoon. IT was my "eat, drink, and be Merry" moment. I met with Dr. D the next morning and he went over ALL my labs with me! They had all my labs and were ready for me.!
The lab work came back with a massive VARIETY of things WRONG! Which was hard in some ways to hear and in most others, completely a RELIEF! There was a REASON I have been feeling so awful! My blood sugars were high, I'm anemic, my thyroid level a 5.6 which = major HYPO thyroid, and my adrenals showed stage 2 adrenal fatigue and an allergy to wheat! What the heck?! He basically told me all the things I need to go on supplement wise and then also told me about my new eating plan for the next 3 months....NO wheat, NO dairy, NO sugar ! Holy moly! How in the world????? I left though feeling committed and ready to go get started shopping and start it all the next day.
Well, that afternoon, I was about my normal routine, getting ready for kids to get home and making zuchini bread to enjoy one last time before I started no bread the next day! :( I was having some unreal pains in between my ribs and in a lot of "gas like" pain. It would not go away! I had a dinner with family that night planned (family in town for Kevin's funeral) and also a RS meeting I needed to attend the first part of. Well, my body had other plans! The pain got worse almost by the minute. I took two hot baths, laid in bed, stood up, nothing helped. By 8:00 R got home and we went right to instacare. I was in so much pain I was in tears! They told us to go right to The ER -- I was NOT going there but driving away, had no choice. The pain was even worse and we drove strait to LDS hospital. They started and IV and gave me morpheine and then started me drinking an awful tasting lemony drink over the course of 90 min. The more I drank, the worse I felt. WORSE than labor pains! I was still in tears and then R looked at my belly and said, "Oh NO, something is WRONG!" I immediately flipped and started shaking as they wheeled me into CAT scan -- They continued fluids through me and put my arm above me and I also rolled. They took the scan and somewhere in there, the pain left and the kink was gone. I had a block in my upper intestine and thank heavens, we didn't need surgery! I went home and we got back around 2:30 am.
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