Avengers Half Marathon Weekend

As you know I have been in a funk lately.  The hubby and I were looking at RunDisney web page and saw that the 5K and half were still open.  So after some talking the hubby and I decided to go for it.  So we booked ourselves into the half and the three of us into the 5K.

I am really excited.  I am really shocked that it didn't sell out yet.  Usually RunDisney races fill up within an hour.  Although I am not complaining because now we get to go!!

Now I am trying to plan where we are going to stay.  I am note sure if we are going to stay on or off site yet.  I am kind of leaning towards onsite because the kiddo is a bit anxious about some of the rids (the last two times he didn't want to ride much of anything) so I want to be able to have a nice hotel to go back to where you can go back and relax and enjoy the hotel experience.We are trying to keep the trip on the lower end of the budget though because we were not planning on taking any more trips this year.  We are lucky to have an airfare credit with one of the airlines so that is a plus.  We are also purging big time in the house and are going to have a community garage sale so all the money that we make there will go towards the trip.

We are going to take a bit of extra time and and spend it at the beach so we are looking into that as well.

Let the fun planning phase begin.

MIA

I have been MIA lately and I am really sorry.  I have been dealing with a lot about my health and it has been a tough couple of week.  I don't want to turn this blog into a depressing sap fest but this post is probably going to head that way so I apologize, you can skip this one and I will have a more upbeat one in the next few weeks (most likely my bathroom update)

As you know I have been going through some health problems lately and it turns out I don't have Celiac Disease which is good on one hand, the fact that I can still eat the Gray Stuff  but bad on the other hand because I feel like I am back to square one when it comes to what is wrong with me. I have a few more tests to undergo over the next few months which puts some added stress on me.   Part of me thinks that it's my weight and diet which has been pretty poor the last 6 months but that doesn't explain the low iron.  It might just be that my body doesn't process iron and I might have to get iron transfusions which is not the end of the world just kind of scary.  The hubby and I had a long conversation and we decided that we need to suck it up and make the changes to better our lives.  You will probably see a bit more food and health posts, instragram pics and pins.  If you guys have any recommendations pleas let me know.

Plus my anxiety has been on high alert which SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't like to talk about it with many people but when I first started struggling with it I felt so alone and like no one understood but if this post can help anyone or make one less person feel alone it was worth writing.   It comes on with no warning and scares me.  Sometimes I think maybe there really is something wrong with me that I just don't know about, and other times I will think oh it's just my anxiety, just breath.  That feeling of everything closing in on you, that you cant breath, and your heart either feels like it is beating to fast, or not beating at all.    I know that in time it will pass and that I just need to hang on and not give in.   I don't know what I would do without my hubby.  He saw me through the worst of my anxiety and he still married me lol.

I feel a bit like I have not outlets right now.  One of the big things I love is planning my life around trips and I don't have any this year and all of our trips next year are up in the air until a few months from now.  If anyone needs some help planning a trip you can always email me at lifetravelrunrepeat@gmail.com.  I have lots of recommendations on Disneyland, Disney world, Disneyland Paris, California, Washington, Paris & Europe.  I LOVE helping people plan and it might help my stress relief.

If you stuck around this long thank you for just kind of letting me vent I feel a lot better.

Here is to a healthier life and managing my anxiety.

Update on Health

I figured I would give a quick update on my health.  I went and had an endoscopy to see if that was causing any of my recent health issues.  It turns out that almost all of the biopsies they took are precancerous and they think I might have Celiac Disease (allergy to gluten) and I have a hiatal hernia.  So I am going to have to make the decision if I want the surgery or not.  I have a follow up with them in May.  He put me on some new meds to see if that will help with some of the reflux problems I have been having so he wants to see if that helps out or not.

I am really nervous about the precancer stuff because of my family history regarding cancer.  Both my Dad's side and my Mom's side have had cancer, in fact my Grandpa has had it 6 times.  I have to go in every 2 years to get the scopes done again and any precancerous items removed.  I keep going through good moments and bad moments.  I think of my son and what if I do get cancer and putting him through all of the pain of that.  I don't want him to see me weak and in pain.  I think of my husband having to take me to Dr. appts and watching me be a shadow of my former self.  If I do get it will I be strong enough to fight it or will I give up like my Dad?  The hubby says not to think about it and that we just need to do everything we can to get healthy and eat cancer fighting foods.

The Celiac Disease is a bit of a bummer.  I know a lot of progress has been made in foods and options for gluten free, more so than there was even 5 years ago.  The first thing I looked up was if I can have cheese because I LOVE cheese :)  Luckily if I do have it I can eat most cheeses.  The one thing I will miss is Mickey Pretzels :(  They took some blood work today and hopefully I will get a call soon letting me know if I do have it or not.  When I looked up symptoms it would actually make a lot of sense if I do have it because it can cause low iron, and a few other symptoms I have been having.  Now comes the nerve wracking part, waiting.

As for the hernia I will probably opt to have the surgery because I don't want to be medicated for the rest of my life.  I have done a ton of research on diet changes and such and most of what I read has been "Once I stopped eating everything but chicken and apples and only drank water I have not had any problems".  I don't want to only be able to eat two things for the rest of my life either and I don't know how I would give up tea, but surgery is so scary.

Going through all this health stuff really reiterates how glad I am that we made the choice to travel and have these wonderful memories with my family.

The only thing I can do is take it one day at a time, and do the best I can to stay healthy.