Just Say No to Drugs

This morning was my follow up visit with Dr. Gloom and Doom. I will say he's not so gloomy and doomy as he was in the hospital, but he's still not overly pleasant, has no sense of humor what so ever and says "so" a lot, in the way that people say "um". Drives me a little bonkers.

Anyway, all my labs looked great so today will be my last day on Prednisone. Yippie!! So hopefully my moon face, giant swollen football neck, and the 10 lbs I've put on will all magically melt away. The magic part, I have a feeling, will involve me getting back into a rigorous gym routine. I've always been goal oriented so to help me get motivated to get off my hump I'm going to aim for running the Mercedes 1/2 Marathon again in February. Right now I can handle about one mile before my right leg goes numb (this could be do to the fact that I need to buy new running shoes). So I have three months to get back up to 13.1 miles. It can be done!

I do have a consult with a Rheumatologist. That appointment hasn't been scheduled yet, but Dr. G&D thought it would be a good idea to rule anything else out. Actually I believe his exact words were "So.... you can go or not, it's like flipping a coin. So...." to which my response was "well you tell me because I have no idea". And so the consult was put in motion.

As much as I enjoyed the nurses at the Hematology/ Oncology Infusion clinic, I'm so happy that I don't have to go every week and get blood drawn any more! Finally it feels like I'm closing that chapter and can cautiously move forward with my life!