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Hello everyone! As most of my buddies know, I don’t blog much, and I thought it was high time I sent one out.  I had a terrible week, and oddly enough the eating stayed on track (for the most part), but the exercise went by the way side. I hate to come to all of you when the chips seem to be down, but here I am.

On Tuesday we found out that the doctor strongly recommended surgery for my 31 year old brother, because they suspect he has testicular cancer. This was based on ultra sound images, and blood work. On Friday he had surgery, and now we are waiting for the pathology report to come back tomorrow for the results. They basically said that it is cancer just by viewing it, but we don’t know what type or what stage it is in. This type of cancer has a very high success rate of being cured, so we are hopeful on that account. Nonetheless, my family is scared! It has just happened so fast, and it is kind of hard to wrap your mind around it.

In the same week my 21 year old son had his follow up visit with the retina specialist. He had his 5th and final surgery on his right eye a little over a month ago. He got bad news on Thursday. The doc said that the retina is not laying correctly and there are tiny microscopic holes developing. This is exactly what happened in the beginning of this whole mess with the eye. He has some scar tissue-from all of the surgery-and it is causing some pulling-hence the holes. I am so bothered with this because my son will not go through any more surgery. I am not even sure if surgery will fix the problem at this point. I am also bothered by the fact that the doc said come back in 1 month to reevaluate it again….take pictures, etc. Ok, when there are holes in the retina, fluid then goes through the holes, and the retina is then pulled out of place. Come back in a month!!!???  The jist of what will eventually happen is that my son will go blind in that right eye. Like I said he refuses to go through any more surgeries…..they were pure hell! Also, at this point I think they have “messed around” with it enough! Its not like its the worst thing that could happen-it just saddens me, and I worry about his other eye. Ethan, my son, seems just fine with all of this and I guess that is the most important thing. He hasn’t really been able to see out of that eye now for almost a year, so he has adjusted.

So ya see….my week was a recipe for failure (I am an emotional eater). Like I said, stayed pretty good on track with the food. My emotions have been a wreck!! I am trying not to dwell on things…..for fear I will end up in a puddle.

Update on the guy in my office that started dieting to loose weight for his HS reunion in May….he has lost a total of 14#. He is doing good, but not loosing as fast as he thought he would. It’s so funny because he weighs himself at work…..fully dressed with some heavy work shoes on!! So not like us girls! I wouldn’t think of weighing with a stitch on!! lol!

Gonna really try and get my act together this week. Really would like to loose 2#’s! I know the exercise is what has to happen. I have set some small goals for myself this week, and I am going to attain them! I have lost 20#’s so far, and it is time to attack the next 20! I know I can do this.

I hope all of you are doing great! Thank you to to my Wildcat team for being soooo awesome! I hope you all have a fantastic week!

*TOGETHER WE CAN!!! 

Have a super Sunday!