What’s up?
Shwew, it has definitely been a minute since I made a legit just blog post. I am alive and well no worries really on that front. Basically this is just a long update as to why I’ve been a bit hit or miss with things and just a general what’s been going on.
Probably the biggest thing is a health concern I’ve had basically since I was younger. May be TMI but a peeve of mine is society generally shames women for talking about a normal bodily function called your period. Yea, we have them and not everyone’s is the same, clutch your pearls. Anywho, I wanted to be transparent, not graphic, so I can provide a bit of insight into why I’ve been coming and going. I’ve had really bad periods basically since the get go, heavy irregular and having to use the over the counter cocktail of meds for camps because they were always so bad. It tapered off a lot when I got a bit older and was using the Nexplanon implant. Well after getting my 3rd one, my body seemed to be wondering what the f this foreign object is and was trying to ignore it, irritate it out, dude I don’t know. The past over a year my periods had gotten bad to the point of the ones in high school again. Real talk, when you are having a heavy period you don’t want to do squat (at least I don’t).
I finally was like I got to ask if there’s something that can be done about this. I explain to my new GYN (I mean we moved so that means a myriad of new doctors…yay?) what all was going on and if there’s anything that can be done or if I’m over- reacting. She legit listened to me and didn’t just brush it off as, “well its a period.” If you’ve had a doctor do this its really irritating. She ran tons of tests and turns out, (again sparing gory details), the progesterone only method (Nexplanon) had been a leading cause of my issues and it was increasingly making things worse, and I had a very large cyst on an ovary I just assumed all the sharp pain was period cramps, nope not at all.
We got a plan set up and now I get to go every 2 months roughly to keep an eye out to make sure I don’t have more concerning cysts. I also had one burst (literally the worst pain of my freaking life for like 3 days). I also got that implant out and got an IUD. For all the people when they say you’ll have mild discomfort they are lying out their ass. I was practically bed ridden. It was awful. To any of you who didn’t have this experience seriously I tip my hat to you because dear god if I had been up in the air even a little about wanting kids and then had that, I swear that sealed the deal on me never wanting them.
Now that I’ve went over the top explaining that, hubs and I have also been making sure to check our mental health and make sure we take time for ourselves. The world is all go go go past a point of exhaustion and my Aries brain is like yes go past that point and make sure you get the gold star medal too. Its not necessary. We’ve also been trying to get out about two times a month just to try new restaurants we haven’t tried or to go places we haven’t been and just exploring instead of just staying in the four walls of the house.
We decided to start sprucing up the house. We moved to a very cookie cutter area (FL is a giant cookie cutter), and have our cookie cutter house too. The house is amazing don’t get me wrong but it definitely needs some character. That’s where my crazy husband and I come in. We redid our water closet by putting up some super cute cat wallpaper because…hello. We added just little cutesy things and wow did it make a world of difference. Next we want to tackle organization of the kitchen, then redoing walls and basically everything in the laundry room. I’m 5’9” almost 5’ 10” and I have a hard time reaching shelves. Then the bedroom is the tackle after that. The amount of pinterest pins I have is insane y’all.
Now I'm sewing stuff and crocheting and trying to catch up and make some more horror things to add. I’m back I’m just not going as hard as I was because, my entire life is not social media nor design. I want to enjoy everything and also make sure my hubs and I have the best life for us…and the keekats.
Thank you all so much for your patience, love and checking on me. You’re amazing and thank you very very much! <3
Torie
