Guessing Game

The kids are off track for the next three weeks starting today, so we signed them up for another round of swimming lessons. All three of them are in classes for the next three weeks. They seem to be having fun with it and it’s great to finally get that checked off the list. It’s something we have been meaning to do for them for a long time, the rec center classes just fill up so fast! The girls are pretty confident in the water now and I don’t have any qualms about letting them go to swimming parties with friends any more, which I’m sure they will appreciate.

I finished week 5 of the C25K and it felt great! It’s getting easier all the time. I managed about 2.5 miles and I jogged for 20 minutes straight. It’s the first time I’ve ever gone that long. This gives me hope that I’ll be able to survive the 25 minute jog on the schedule for next week. I’ve been so nervous about leaving the walking breaks behind because I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to make it.

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Over the last several years I've been having some fairly severe stomach pain off and on. At first I thought that specific foods were causing the problem so I started avoiding eating those things. The ‘attacks’ were fairly few and far between so I didn’t really worry about it. Lately though, they have been happening with increasing frequency and lasting longer. So a couple of months ago when I had one that lasted three days, I finally broke down and called the doctor.

She gave me a medication to try and they took a few tests to try to determine what it might be and so far, they haven’t been able to pinpoint what is causing the pain. I went in for an abdominal ultrasound last week and they didn’t find anything there either so I had another appointment with the doctor today to see if there might be something else that she was missing.

We went over the symptoms again and she is now theorizing that it might be a functional issue rather than some sort of inflammation or something like gallstones. So, I have a new medication to try to see if it will solve the problem. If this doesn’t work, it looks like I’m off to a specialist.