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This is going well.....oddly

In my quest to lose some poundage, I've come to realize that it doesn't necessarily take diet AND exercise to lose weight.

I have lost about 15lbs in the last 3 weeks or so, and haven't really worked out much. I feel lazy.

How did I manage 15lbs and little workout? Maybe it's the pop...Yep...leaving that alone helps. Maybe it's the smaller sizes. MMM, yep, that helps too. Maybe it's also the metabolife I'm taking. MMm hardly since I take it every other day when I feel like it.

Next week I'm getting back to running. Couch to 5k here I come (again!)!

Back on my own 2 feet

Per request of a best friend of mine, I decided to update. Here's to you, Lola!

I don't really know what to write when it comes to blogging. I write very well, when I feel like it, but I guess that's because when the time's right, the words just fall out of my fingertips.

So, to the topic "Back on my own 2 feet".

It's been an interesting couple of weeks. I had started a program called "Couch to 5K". I was doing well. Then my knee acted up. So I stopped doing it for a while. Today my knee is much better and within the week I'll be back at running again. I just want it to completely heal because knee injuries yo, are no joke. I'm only working 16 hours right now at work. I am 3 weeks into the new semester with Chamberlain, and about 6 months from now, you'll see Misty, RN popping up everywhere, pending passing my NCLEX. So there's my personal life.

In the relationship side, Bill and I are healing. And I'm pretty sure everyone knows what that means. Every day is a new day that puts the past further and further behind us, and I'm thankful for that. Healing is hard work. At our particular place, we are in the scab of the wound. It keeps getting picked off and scars are starting to form, but with plenty of reminders and a great big bandaid, that scab has started being left alone. I love my husband, I really do. And what happened between he and I, well, I am sorry for that too, but what did it teach us? It taught us that we aren't "over". That we are meant to be married. That love conquers all. So now we do a weekly date night. Last week we went to youngs and I have funny pics from that. The week before we also did something fun. I think this week we are going out again. To a tattoo shop. Yep, another tat for me. And him. Something "symbolic" that puts the whole cherade behind us. I'm getting a butterfly on my back...at the shoulder line. I think he's getting our little girl's name somewhere on him. I also want to get my nose pierced, but I may not do it for fear of being ridiculed. Individuality is important to me, and if it means you have 90 piercings and are full of tattoo's...at least that's you. :).

So there's the update. Boring! I'll write more.

Oh ouch.

I don't know what to do! I started my running program just fine, then one morning decided to go biking. That night, I went for a short session of the walk/run I'd been doing. And I could not do it.

I suffered a knee injury 2 years ago at work. I was squatting to a stand when my knee popped and gave out on me. I was diagnosed with patello-femoral chondromalacia...or softening of the cartilage. No fun at all...even now 2 years later when I am despirately trying to get back into shape.

Today during my run/walk, I wrapped my knee as suggested by a good friend of mine. I thought, more stabilization would be so much better, so I'll be able to finish this today. Nope. I did 5 minutes of a brisk walk, 60 seconds of a slow jog, 90 seconds of walking, then 45 seconds jogging, 2 minutes walking and then finally 30 seconds jogging. I couldn't finish what I had started and I was devastated. I don't know what to do.

So writing this blog, I sit here when ice, rather a bag of peas, on my bad knee. And it is swollen to all hell.

Injuries suck. Especially when they don't heal properly.

Caring for kids

This week starts a new semester for me in nursing school. The last 32 weeks focused on the care of adults, medicaitons, nursing careplans, and so on. This 8 weeks focuses on caring for children...something that freaks me out so much. You'd figure it wouldn't bother me so much being a mom of a child already, but it does. I don't like to see my own child sick, and I hated seeing sick kids/babies come in through the ER when I worked there. I know kids get sick, some kids get very very very sick, but it doesn't alleviate the fear of caring for one. My goal of being a careflight nurse includes caring for children, and I hope I don't freeze when I have to take care of a child who is a trauma victim.

Many people say "I don't know how you do it...I can't be a nurse. I can't see blood/clean up stool, care for elderly" blah blah blah. I don't mind caring for adults. But I am scared of caring for children.

Next Tuesday I will start caring for children at Nationwide Children's Hospital...doing careplans, giving medications...taking care of wee ones. I just hope all goes ok.

Today, Day 3

Well, my other blogs on myspace about running are, well, history. I had a few good ones on there that I never thought to save until AFTER I cancelled the account and couldn't log back in. So I'll start with running day 3 here!

To reiterate what I am up to, I started "The Couch to 5K Running Plan". It's a nice running plant that starts you off very slow, because as the article states clearly this is COUCH to 5K. Not walking to 5K, but COUCH. Shoot for me it's almost BED to 5K. I went from not doing any form of exercise to a running program. And before anyone yells at me, yes, running is bad for the knees. It's bad for a lot...but it will help build bone too. So there.

Today, day 3 started off like days 1 and 2. I take a day off in between each day for rest and relaxation because it's not good to run every single day. The first 3 days I am to warm up with a brisk 5 minute walk (after a good 5 minute stretch) then alternate 60 seconds of running with 90 seconds of walking. Days 1 and 2 went great! No pain in the knees, no shortness of breath. On day 2 I went biking in the morning and felt some pain in my knees. When I ran on day 2 I felt ok. Day 3.....well, lets say I was hunting for ice at 10pm. I felt awesome afterward except for the pain in my knees. I can't stand feeling like I'm old...I need to run, I need to do this for myself and I need to take it slowly, but I also need for my knee to knock it off so I can exercise without pain.

So Rest, Ice Compression, Elevation found me at 11pm. Along with some lovely ibuprofen that has me tired.

I'll have to get some pictures up here of before and during training. It'll be nice to see the changes that occur!

First of the blog

Wow. It's been a while since I blogged. Scary to me still! Anyway, since myspace was cancelled per a request, I started this lovely blog. I can't hand write things down, it's hard on the hands. Gotta keep my hands nice! LOL! No, actually I type so much faster than write. I'm going to blog about a lot. A lot might be boring. A lot might not be so boring. No matter what I won't care what anyone thinks. So there.