Blog Highlights From Beginning Through August

MUST SEE! If you haven't checked this out yet please be sure to do so!

http://www.pcosliving.com/epctest/epctest.html

You will need real player to check out the film clips. This shows immune activation and various other states. It explains how and why the theories of chronic inflammation work. It shows why the EPC blood test works.

From my first blog entry: take a guess as to how much money was reimbursed to us? $900-- some odd dollars. Just under $1000 dollars. For TWO months of meds. And, aside from me, NO ONE here takes a thing. It's all me. All my stuff. It is really embarrassing that by June my medications are fully paid for because I have met the maximum on my insurance plan. I feel like I should be an elderly person with a hundred medical issues....

From my second blog entry:
my private hell (with what was PCOS) was killing me and I slowed down in doing everything I loved.
Though weight has so much to do with feeling "womanly" and "feminine" and beautiful.... What I want more than anything else is to become healthy and know that I am going to be around when my kids are growing up and that I am not going to Kiel over from a heart attack and leave my husband alone to raise 5 little ones on his own.

June 23rd blog entry: a lesson I need to take to heart in MANY aspects of my life I think! There just isn't enough time for this bologny. I WANT TO LIVE. I want to have ZEST again. And... I want to share it with my loved ones. And those who don't love me? Pooey on them... I give up on trying to please those who will never be pleased, those who SUCK the energy right out of you, chew you up and spit you out and leave you in a mush. It is time that I give THE BEST OF ME to those who love me. And stop bothering with all of those who don't. My loved ones do not deserve the scraps I have been throwing them. Time for them to get the WHOLE ME. The HEALED ME.

July 11th: I am still struggling with how horrible people can be. I read somewhere that spiritual people are especially hurt because they are more free than others to risk vulnerability. Caring and loving for them is not an option but a necessity, a vocation. I definitely think that reaching out to others has always been a vocation for me. And there are those who would say "toughen up". But you know, to hurt is human. Jesus hurt very deeply. To put on a tough front, to me, is to act arrogant. That isn't me.

July 12 Moving On Up - A good entry: OK - that is enough moping around about how rotten other people can be. Time to move on out and get on with life.
If you can picture a car pulling over to the side of the road... the door opens... out flies some luggage and bags... out flies a couple purses.... then out plops a couple of people who look like hell and have horns on their head. The car rips away, blowing dust all over them. The happy passengers yell out the window "Hasta la Vista" while the ex-passengers stick up their thumbs and look for the next vehicle of people to weigh down and torture with their ill will and bad manners.

From July 19th Blog entry: Answered Prayers
By Tarra Hartl (announcing pregnancy)

July 23 Blog Entry: How are you feeling? How's your cholesterol? Are you going to be around for your children's future or are you going to keil over from a heart attack before they get to adulthood? Are you morbidly obese? The words "morbid obesity" kill me. It means we are so overweight that we could DIE from health concerns having to do with that. Have you lost babies to miscarriage, preeclampsia, or other complications? I have lost two and nearly lost my own life as well. Are you on medications to treat all kinds of symptoms but not the problem? (A headache is NOT an aspirin deficiency...).

August 1st - Don't sweat the small stuff:

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in

a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.

August 18 Driven: All I know is, in my opinion, it should be their DUTY, in accordance with their mission statement, to provide the information (NOT endorse it mind you - just make it available) to their members and website visitors - so that the info is there and people can make their own choices. Perhaps one or two or 20 or 100 or 1000 women or men wouldn't have to *EDITED BY AUTHOR* while their children watch. Can you imagine thinking... "Oh Gosh, I guess perhaps my loved one wouldn't have had to have suffered, or died, if only we would have known about this and been able to try this 5 or 10 years ago...." WOW, what a horrible thought. And, that thought is reality. It happens everyday.