Life Happens

I’m about to get really personal and mention some things that we as woman have to go through as we get older.  I was scheduled to run 13 miles today, but per doctors orders, I have to let my body recover for 72 hours.  You see, this past Thursday, I had a procedure done that gets rid of my menstrual cycle FOREVER!  Sometimes it sucks to be a female for I feel our bodies deal with so much more than men.  Don’t get me wrong.  I love being a female, just dealing with that once a month period can be annoying at times. I’ve had irregular periods since April and been getting them twice in a month since then.  Doctor states I’m not premenopausal so didn’t know what the hell was happening.    That is no fun and got me a little scared.  I never had this problem before and wondered if maybe there was something else going on that I didn’t know about.  Eddie didn’t want to wait and had me go see my doctor ASAP for he was thinking the worse.  I guess that’s the fireman in him.  He sees a lot of death in his job and wanted to make sure I was okay.  At my doctors’s visit, I was told that I may be a good candidate for a hysteroscopy ablation.  I was done having kids and only getting older and I figured why not.  I asked if this would mess with my hormones and they said no.  I’m not premenopausal yet, and they would leave my ovaries in.  They just laser off my uterus lining and that’s what stops my periods for good!  I told her, that’s perfect!!  Why don’t more woman do this?  If I knew this, I would of done it sooner!  She just laughed.  I first had a sonogram done to make sure they didn’t see anything else in there and did some lab work.  Everything came back good and I was good to schedule my outpatient surgery procedure.  It’s kinda of a bittersweet feeling.  Saying goodbye to having more babies is over.  Sometimes I feel like I have no control of my body. Ever since I got my stress fracture, I’ve been in a funk.  I’ve gained some weight and my nutrition wasn’t the best.  It’s taken longer for my foot to heal and I can’t run as fast as I used to.  Sometimes I wonder if I ever will again.  They say that the time comes when you wake up and you no longer will be able to run like you used to.  I wonder if that’s where I’m at now.  If it is, so be it.  I will still run, but will have to chill it and maybe not do 3 marathons in a year like I have been doing since I starting in 2011.

The day before,I’m not gonna lie, I was a little worried.  I decided to run my long distance run after work on Wednesday.  I was scheduled to run 13, but it got dark on my that I was only able to run 11 miles.  I was good with that.  Eddie took off work to take me to hospital and take care of me.  I don’t remember anything about the surgery for they put me under and when I woke Eddie was there to greet me.  Although hesaid I kept saying the same things over and over again.  So, weird how you just wake up like nothing ever happened.  Doctor said everything went well and to just take it easy for the next 72 hours.  I scheduled for a sub to teach my cycle class on Thursday and Sunday, but I should be back to my normal self and working out and running again by Monday.  It’s back to putting my health first and enjoy life!