My mother & father in law made it in last night. Poor things, two traffic accidents on the way here and they ended up not getting in until 4:00 A.M. I’m just glad they got in safe.

I have an Auto-immune disease, this means my body has literally turned against itself. My immune system attacks things in my body that it shouldn’t. This means I have to work twice as hard to feel normal. Every Day I have to think about what I’m putting into my body and how it will effect me. For years I didn’t. I drank mountain dew like it was going out of style, smoked (when I finally quit I was up to 2 sometimes 3 packs a day), ate whatever I wanted, and didn’t really exercise.

Then at 30 years old, I suddenly noticed that normal things became harder for me to do. It became harder for me to ascend a flight a stairs. I would be extremely tired half way through the day when I hadn’t even done that much. I had trouble sleeping properly, I would occasionally have blurred vision. My back (which had always given me troubles) was suddenly bothering me even more. I would get flutters in my chest. Have Panic attacks and was constantly suffering from horrible mood swings. I would be either severely depressed or on some kind of Euphoric high, there was no happy medium. I was even wrongfully diagnosed as have bi-polar disorder.

Then I was told I had Graves’ Disease. At the time Mark‘s Job didn’t provide dependent insurance. So I had none. I was diagnosed by a clinic doctor who did next to nothing in the way of explaining this disease to me. He gave me some pills and sent me on my way. He didn’t tell me I needed to regularly have blood work done to adjust the medicine, he didn’t tell me that Graves` Disease could kill me. He didn’t even explain to me how it would effect my life so drastically. So They gave me these pills and suddenly within 3 months I gained 100lbs adding that much weight that quickly to someone who already had back issues, combined with the muscle deterioration caused by graves` and suddenly I could barely walk or stand without much pain. These days when I go out I need to take my wheel chair.

Eventually Mark got another job and we got insurance, and I found a doctor. Then I came to understand the gravity of my situation. But I sunk into a deep depression and it took me a long time to move out it and realize that I didn’t want to be my disease. I don’t want it to define me. Eight years, and tons of research later I’ve finally accepted that I need to work harder than most just to have a somewhat normal life. I’ve had to change my diet, change my lifestyle and do things that 10 years ago I wouldn’t have given a second thought too.

So please remember that having your health is an amazing thing take care of your body it’s the only one you have and if yours hasn’t turned against you treat it kindly and do your best to take care of it.

“People who avoid carbohydrates and eat more fat, even saturated fat, lose more body fat and have fewer cardiovascular risks than people who follow the low-fat diet that health authorities have favored for decades, a major new study shows.”

A Call for a Low-Carb Diet That Embraces Fat (Published 2014)

In a finding that upends long-held notions about a healthy diet, a major study shows that avoiding carbohydrates and eating more fat contributes to weight loss and fewer cardiovascular risks.

This is an awesome song by Kawehi 😀

Here you go Mark 

Feeling down today, I don’t know why. Depression Sucks

Final Season of Sons Of Anarchy starting soon, I’m excited to see it but I’m also sad it’s the final season.

Are you Kidding me? Are we seriously going to take two steps back by cutting out the scientific process? WTF???? This is how ignorance is perpetuated! It makes sense though, the school system has been going down hill for a long time, it’s not really used to educate any more but more to teach kids how to fall in line and not ask questions.

Ohio lawmakers want to limit the teaching of the scientific process

Sponsor endorses ID, wants to bar “political... interpretation of scientific facts.”