Blood panels finally normal!
So good news after having blood panels done yesterday - and it only took 11 months! Finally all blood panels are normal. Glucose, ALT, AST, Aldolase; CPK has a new normal for me - maybe 50 points above normal - so 190 - but a WAY better number than 3 months ago at 5,000 - and 11 months ago at 10,000! And that is after an hour of weight lifting, too.
So I think I am back to 100% upper body and 85% lower body. I can bench 55lbs and bar curl 35 pounds, and that is close to where I was a year ago.And I do 45 minutes on the elliptical trainer or nu step, or combination there of.
The Neurologist did ask me to schedule gall bladder surgery since I'm pretty good right now and he wants surgery done before it is an emergency. So I have called and we are setting up a time. My Rheumy did NOT want me to have surgery because of the immune suppressing drugs I am on, but I have several longer business trips coming up later this summer and cannot afford to have a gall bladder attack during a trip. So hopefully it'll be a one-day deal, three days at home, and then back to light duty for a couple of days, full duty in a week. I see my Rheumy in a month, but am hoping for surgery in the next two weeks. I have a feeling she'll be really cross, but as soon as I make the appointment, I'll call and confess.
It is Memorial weekend coming up and I have a hard-scape bubble pot fountain I want to construct in a portion of my garden - a project I was going to do LAST summer but couldn't because I couldn't pick up a pencil let alone a pot! So hoping for good weather so I can play a little tennis, maybe golf a bit, and do my yard project. Oh yes, and figure out what I'm gonna pay as co-insurance for surgery for a stupid gall bladder. Anyone have an exacto knife.....? maybe I can keep it in a jar on my mantle, next to my ovaries, uterus, and a couple of lymph nodes.....
So I think I am back to 100% upper body and 85% lower body. I can bench 55lbs and bar curl 35 pounds, and that is close to where I was a year ago.And I do 45 minutes on the elliptical trainer or nu step, or combination there of.
The Neurologist did ask me to schedule gall bladder surgery since I'm pretty good right now and he wants surgery done before it is an emergency. So I have called and we are setting up a time. My Rheumy did NOT want me to have surgery because of the immune suppressing drugs I am on, but I have several longer business trips coming up later this summer and cannot afford to have a gall bladder attack during a trip. So hopefully it'll be a one-day deal, three days at home, and then back to light duty for a couple of days, full duty in a week. I see my Rheumy in a month, but am hoping for surgery in the next two weeks. I have a feeling she'll be really cross, but as soon as I make the appointment, I'll call and confess.
It is Memorial weekend coming up and I have a hard-scape bubble pot fountain I want to construct in a portion of my garden - a project I was going to do LAST summer but couldn't because I couldn't pick up a pencil let alone a pot! So hoping for good weather so I can play a little tennis, maybe golf a bit, and do my yard project. Oh yes, and figure out what I'm gonna pay as co-insurance for surgery for a stupid gall bladder. Anyone have an exacto knife.....? maybe I can keep it in a jar on my mantle, next to my ovaries, uterus, and a couple of lymph nodes.....
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