Jumping Right In

I thought I wanted a splashy blog template for this new blog of mine, but what I’ve come to realize over the last 10 weeks is I’m not splashy. I’m direct, to the point and simple. If you’ve come here for flash then you’ve definitely come to the wrong blog. I have no plans for pretty pictures or banners only plain and simple talk on my health, wealth, happiness and me.

Turns out that the health part of this blog is taking on a bigger slice of life than I thought, more on that later, wealth is not only about money, it’ll cover spirituality and all the wonderful big and small things in my life. Happiness is just that. I’m happy with my life but what person doesn’t want to be happier and In Search Of is my journey to creating my best life.

As I said earlier health is the largest slice of my personal pie and this blog. I made a promise to myself at the beginning of this year to work toward a healthier me and of course life got busy and I pushed my promise aside. Then February hit and I caught what I thought was a common cold and cough. It was anything but common. The cold passed in time but the cough held on and sent me scurrying for answers. I wanted to know why all the normal medicines wouldn’t work on my cough. Why was I the lucky woman to have a hacking cough that kept me up at night when everyone else I knew suffering the same symptoms was recovering and moving on with life. Turns out none of them were past smokers.

After close to eight weeks of seeing doctors and taking medicine, inhalers, and antibiotics my cough is finally under control but learning why and that it all could have been prevented is the hardest part for me. I learned that I have the beginning stages of emphysema in the upper quadrant of my left lung, scaring from past infections and lucky me a small possibly cancerous tumor! Add all that to the facts that I’m thirty-seven, fat and not in a nearly the shape I would like to admit too you end up with a cranky thirty-seven year-old woman with two children, a husband and three dogs that has absolutely no energy. If I never smoked I wouldn’t have the beginning stages of emphysema and I most likely wouldn't have a possible tumor in my lung either. However I have what I have and I’m dealing with it. I don’t like my current doctor so I am going for a second opinion because he wants me to take a six-month wait and see attitude with my lungs and that is not an option!

So my first In Search Of journey is finding a competent doctor that has my best interests at the forefront of my treatment and won’t take a wait and see approach. So tomorrow I meet with another doctor. Until next time may you find all you’re searching for!