MERRY CHRISTMAS
I cannot believe it's been over a month since I last posted... Good grief! Things have been so hectic with the holidays.
First and foremost, I have TWO friends who have PCOS who have conceived while being on the EPC program. I want to say YAAAAAAAY and congratulations!!!!!!! I am so happy for you both!
I am doing well on the program. I have gained some weight now but then when I read the book, "A New Dawn" it says that about now many women have gained 24 pounds and I have gained less than half that so I am doing okay. A happy medium between a normal weight woman and a fluffier lady like me ~ hee hee... :) Just call me FLUFFY!
My honey likes me fluffy ~ thank goodness. He likes me not fluffy too though, so when I am done with pregnancy and can lose weight I will be doing that. He likes me most happy, however that is. Speaking of my honey, we just celebrated our 11 year wedding anniversary on December 17th. How wonderful! He is the best husband on earth and I adore him. Here is to being 85 and rocking side by side in our rockers, blissfully happy. :o)
I have been forgetting a dose of my vitamin C almost everyday for the last month and boy I can tell. It is amazing how subtly the good signs may feel until you start to notice them getting less!! Then they're not so subtle anymore! I have had my kids taking vitamin C too in an effort to keep them healthy this cold and flu season. So far we're all doing pretty good. It is really important to me to keep us all healthy with my mom and sister going through cancer and needing to be ILLNESS FREE while they get treatment.
Speaking of them... my mom has been recovering from her second surgery and will soon start chemo and radiation now. She has had a lot of trouble with one arm because they cut nerves when they removed lymph nodes. She wants to go back to work but her doctor said she could get lymphodema, not to mention the germs, so he doesn't want her to.
My sister is doing well. She is very upbeat and positive. She finds out this week if she is in remission or not yet. If she is in remission she will have radiation on her brain and then be done for a while.
My nephew who is stationed in Iraq is doing good. He has begun to receive packages of goodies to distribute to his company and he is SO thrilled to be doing that. Operation Support Alpha Company is really going wonderful and I cannot thank those of you who are participating enough! This is not only for Christmas but also for the next almost TWO years that they will be there and really appreciate any care packages we send. You can read more about it at www.heartl.com/packages.html
I wanted to wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS and I hope your holidays are wonderful and safe. I will post again soon!
First and foremost, I have TWO friends who have PCOS who have conceived while being on the EPC program. I want to say YAAAAAAAY and congratulations!!!!!!! I am so happy for you both!
I am doing well on the program. I have gained some weight now but then when I read the book, "A New Dawn" it says that about now many women have gained 24 pounds and I have gained less than half that so I am doing okay. A happy medium between a normal weight woman and a fluffier lady like me ~ hee hee... :) Just call me FLUFFY!
My honey likes me fluffy ~ thank goodness. He likes me not fluffy too though, so when I am done with pregnancy and can lose weight I will be doing that. He likes me most happy, however that is. Speaking of my honey, we just celebrated our 11 year wedding anniversary on December 17th. How wonderful! He is the best husband on earth and I adore him. Here is to being 85 and rocking side by side in our rockers, blissfully happy. :o)
I have been forgetting a dose of my vitamin C almost everyday for the last month and boy I can tell. It is amazing how subtly the good signs may feel until you start to notice them getting less!! Then they're not so subtle anymore! I have had my kids taking vitamin C too in an effort to keep them healthy this cold and flu season. So far we're all doing pretty good. It is really important to me to keep us all healthy with my mom and sister going through cancer and needing to be ILLNESS FREE while they get treatment.
Speaking of them... my mom has been recovering from her second surgery and will soon start chemo and radiation now. She has had a lot of trouble with one arm because they cut nerves when they removed lymph nodes. She wants to go back to work but her doctor said she could get lymphodema, not to mention the germs, so he doesn't want her to.
My sister is doing well. She is very upbeat and positive. She finds out this week if she is in remission or not yet. If she is in remission she will have radiation on her brain and then be done for a while.
My nephew who is stationed in Iraq is doing good. He has begun to receive packages of goodies to distribute to his company and he is SO thrilled to be doing that. Operation Support Alpha Company is really going wonderful and I cannot thank those of you who are participating enough! This is not only for Christmas but also for the next almost TWO years that they will be there and really appreciate any care packages we send. You can read more about it at www.heartl.com/packages.html
I wanted to wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS and I hope your holidays are wonderful and safe. I will post again soon!
posted by ~ Tarra ~ @ 9:36 PM
2 Comments:
At 1:04 PM,
Anonymous said…
I'm so happy things are going better for you and your family! Have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. I hope I will be the next to have an "EPC" pregnancy!!
Chrystal
At 1:30 AM,
Tanya said…
Hi,
I'm just checking out your blog, hope you don't mind. I too suffer with pcos. I was diagnosed in 1999. I had suffered two miscarriages and then had one beautiful daughter in 97. No one could explain as to why I miscarried, especially the second one, they said it just basically "fell out". After my first miscarriage, thats when things got really weird. I had already gained the weight, but then my periods disappeared and no one could tell me what was wrong. So my daughter was born with the help of clomid and progesterone for the first three months of my pregnancy. Not until we started trying for our second did I find out what was wrong with me. It was so nice to know that it wasn't just in my head, that there really was an explanation to my rapid weight gain, infertility and lack of periods.
I was put on metformin, I did that off and on. I had my boy in 2002. I haven't really gone back on the met since then. I've kind of been in denial since he was born...about having pcos. I've just tried to ignore it. But I know that I need to get myself turned around. I'm tired of feeling hopeless about my weight. I WANT to have my period...I feel so much better when I do.
Last night I googled "pcos blogs" and happened upon yours and Tulin's. I'm seriously considering purchasing "A new dawn". I was also wondering what the EPC program is? I can't figure out what it means. Obviously its some kind of plan...eating plan I guess.
I just want to thank you all for puttin pcos out there and for all the info. I thinks its great that people are blogging about this. I find blogging to be so freeing at times. I don't blog about my pcos. But maybe once I get myself on some kind of plan to get feeling "normal" again, then maybe I'll blog a bit about it then.
Alright, I've written enough. Take care, and I'll be checking in every once in a while.
By the way, you have gorgeous children. God Bless you all.
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