Oops

I guess I haven't updated this thing all summer (well at least since our first day on our honeymoon). The honeymoon was great, we got a lot of beach time in and we were able to act like big kids at Universal Studios. The rest of the summer was spent (for me) working at LA Fitness until I quit in July, getting my room ready for school, and just being a lazy bum.

To update as of now. School started on August 14th and it has been pretty eventful. I have been pushing myself to be a better teacher than last year, which seems to be my goal every year. The students are pretty good; I can't really complain since I have a few shining stars already. I miss my kids from last year, but I was able to surprise them on their first day of high school. A bunch of the eighth grade teachers from last year along with our principals gathered together in front of their main entrance and surpised them when they got off the bus. Most were so nervous but so greatful to see some of their old teachers...who am I kidding, they were ecstatic!!!!

All has been rolling along fine in the year until this week. I started having some upper abdomenal pains on Saturday and I decided to call a doctor on Monday when the pain didn't go away. I did not have a primary health physician at the time so I had to just find one through my insurance company. Well I went to my appointment on Wednesday and my doctor was starting to get a little nervous when he found out that my blood pressure was 150 over 90...apparently at my age I shouldn't be higher than 130 over 80 at the most. My doctor proceeds to leave my stomach pains, the main reason for my visit, as a secondary concern and decides that he needs to figure out why my heart rate and blood pressure were so high. He ends up giving me an EKG which is where they stick stickers all over your chest, on your arms, and legs to do a quick heart monitor. He said that the results seem fine but that I seemed to have an extra beat every now and then which may mean that my heart will be working harder at this age and the could mean that it may struggle when I am older.

After this, he schedules me for an upper abdomenal ultrasound to make sure that I don't have any gallbladder stones or anything in my gallbladder that shouldn't be there. I have the ultrasound on Tuesday so stay tuned. Well moving along....My doctor also wanted to take some blood to see why my blood pressure was so high (he thought it may be my birth control that was causing this high blood pressure problem). Well this was the very FIRST time that I have given blood in my life. You could say I was a little bit nervous (nervous enough that a nice older nurse had to hold and hand so I wouldn't flinch, which I didn't). I survived that and my next day wasn't any better.

During my first block class, my husband Josh calls me and tells me that our alarm company called and it seems that someone may have broken into our house. Lucky for me, I had my student teacher with me there today and the students were only doing a writer's workshop. I called the Avon police department to see if anyone had been to my house and they said that a police officer went there after a call about a living room motion detector being set off, and it ended up being a false alarm. Good news, but we still got a warning since they had to come out and there was no burglar. Still don't know what set if off, but nothing is missing.

Then during my last block I get a call from my doctor's office and my blood test results were in.
Good news was that my blood sugar was good and I was worried about that but they found out that I had hyperthyroidism and now need to see an endocologist (spelling is wrong, I would be lucky if I could even say it right). So that would make my 5th doctor's appointment in the months of September (including the lady doctor appointment I had scheduled this summer) all during school hours.

I will keep you updated on how all of those go. Wish me lucky that my stomach pain is just acid reflux. I can't get anymore bad news about my health right now :(