After MUCH procrastination…

I went to the dentist the other day for my 6 month cleaning. During that cleaning I had to admire that I had yet to make any efforts other than a bite guard to  resolve my possible TMJ. Yeah. Procrastinating is a problem. 

So I have an appointment for my jaw with an orthodontist to be looked at AND this drive me to FINALLY made an appointment for my arm because you know, THAT has been going on for the same timeline if not more. At least since January. Sigh. I thought “maybe exercise will make it better or worse after I joined water aerobics in March. Yeah, no it didn’t make a bit of a difference. Not better, not worse. It STILL wakes me if I lay on of at night with pain. Fun times as I’m a side sleeper. Sigh. 

So Dr appointment for arm done and because the regular physician can’t DO anything so sent me to an orthopedic doctor to do an MRI on the arm. They suspect that the ligament from shoulder to upper arm has an issue. 

Sooooo appointment has been made for the orthopedic doctor as well.

While at the regular doctor I asked about reducing my one medication for blood pressure after the weight loss (60lbs as of now) as it didn’t spike until the weight gain. So I’m hopeful. I am taking 1/2 my pill per day and measuring my BP daily to prove its not an issue anymore (hopefully!). I also found out I had an appointment in a week that I had no knowledge of!  Whoops!!  Oh well I know now!!  It was great timing for my requests for to this!  

So, 

Checkup scheduled for all blood work ✅

Asking to reduce BP meds ✅

Asking about my arm ✅

Asking about my jaw ✅

How my day typically goes

Ok so maybe not THIS bad but here is how my day CAN go if all is moving well

What is all this??  The white bag holds items to go to Blue Moon as I sold some items from there. Yay me!  

The boxes on the seat are multiple boxes to be mailed at the post office. And the black bag is my water aerobics bag with suit and towels and such. The timeline is this: 4:00 finish boxing sold items 4:10-15 get it all in the car and off we go!!  Drop at PO, drove to Blue Moon and reset shelves. Get back in car and drive to the OTHER side of town for the gym, get changed and get an hour in with water aerobics. The pool heater is STILL broken. Very COLD water at 70ish degrees. Force myself to get in and get it done. I’m proud of myself as it’s been FIVE months that I have been going!  There are days I have to force myself to go. More lately as the water is cold. 

That white bag also held another mirror to put on the back of the shelves. 

Here are the shelves at Blue Moon as of yesterday!

Just a few changes. I sold my set of brown grape bowls ( large salad bowl with 5 smaller bowls ).  I wasn’t sure about them but I got them for what I labeled as $.19 for the bunch so why NOT buy them, right?  I got a huge box of items from a store going out of business. I paid $5 for the box of items. I have sold 5 things from that sale already making that a great purchase!  Other than that I’m not sure that this store has been good for me. I have sold a few things but it’s just paying the rent at this point. I’m trying another approach this week and listing my new items on marketplace as well as in the booth to get it sold and more traffic to the actual booth. S

Well see if that works. 

Other than that I’m making progress in getting organized a bit better as seen from the prior post. Progress even little is good!

The only other hiccup in my world is my Fitbit died. I was so sad!  I have had it just over a year and I had my doubts I would like it and really didn’t use it as intended for the first half of its life BUT after starting my weight loss and health journey I have really liked having it. I MISSED it so I orders another. I didn’t pay for the first one as it came with a study I was participating in for cancer healing. BUT I got a 20% discount on a new one so I went ahead and purchased another just like the one I had. I will lose some data but who cares really?  For now, not me. We shall see once I get the new device. 

What’s the thing I miss most?  Being able to see the time in the middle of the night!  I wake up to pee and can glance at my watch and see the time but cannot see it in the background of my phone. Silly I know but little things like that. 

Next to get off these blood pressure pills and see if the weight loss was enough to take care of that pesky issue!!it didn’t start until I topped out on my weight so I’m hoping the 60 pound weight loss is enough to have taken care of that new health risk!