Womanly Troubles

I believe the title says it all.  Although I am at the ripe age of twenty-six going onto twenty-seven this winter, I have medical issues for the last ten to fifteen years.  I think they seem to have increased after high school and on.  Migraines that makes me cry and hide in the dark like a vampire.  I don't even want to dwell onto what happens when THAT time of the month comes around.  After having two kids, my body has been fighting me.

I try to exercise when I can when I'm not running around after my babies.  I have to stick to a bland diet.  A few years ago for my birthday, I wanted to eat pho (Vietnamese noodle soup with meatballs, thinly sliced beef, and very good broth) and spring rolls.  Unfortunately for me, I took a few bites of my food and was doubled over in pain.  Burning, stabbing, swelling pain.  My stomach had felt like an atomic bomb had gone off and that the awesome broth I love so much was burning the lining of my stomach away.  I wanted to die.  My husband thought I was crazy.  After that, I was prescribed medicine by my doctor to keep the gastrointestinal pain away.

Since then, I have tried to stay away from foods that I know will trigger a reflux attack.  But, having travelled for months and of course enjoying great not-good-for-me foods, it finally came to rear its ugly head last night.  It was rib night at the local pub.  I was really excited because just the sound of eating half a rack of ribs made me even more excited for dinner.

First mistake: eating salad.  Any type of salad has always been the number one source of reflux for me.  I don't know why but it just has been like that since my first child.  The second mistake was putting a little pepper onto the salad and eating the onions in the salad too.  The onions have natural acid and since I did not take any medicine to protect my tummy, I was soon punished when my plate of dry rubbed ribs came out.  The rub was awesome on the ribs along with the peppered mushroom gravy on my mashed potatoes.  But, all it took was a few bites from the ribs and I was immediately in pain.

I felt my stomach had expanded so much that I could feel the bottom of my stomach protruding from beneath my sternum.  Then, the atomic bomb went off in my belly.  I couldn't finish my dinner.  So now as I write to you all today, I finally gave in and took my medicine at least half an hour before getting my breakfast today.  I hate taking medicine but it's something I have to get used to to be healthy and strong for my family.

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I don't know why but today I feel so out of energy.  My legs feel like I've been doing the running man, basketball jump drills, and everything else I do in an Insanity workout.  It feels like one of those days where you just don't want to get out of bed.  I've literally been in bed since breakfast.  I feel like I need to get Vitamin B, D, C, and Iron.  I take multivitamins with extra vitamin C everyday and it still doesn't feel  like its enough.  I can't even exercise because the migraine that has been squeezing my brain has been around for the last two days.  I just need to suck it up and drive on... after I rest.

These next week will be crazy for me and my family.  We will be finding out if we will be living on post or off post.  My son finally gets to resume school next week.  I just want to cry and scream like a big baby right now.. Trying not to lose my mind while everything is going at a turtle pace is really taxing. But we shall see. Till next time.