month update

after taking a week off from supplements I am back on my full regimen as outlined in october.

Weekend update

Starting wednesday I took off days from the supplements. So tuesday was the last day. I have had continued irritation down there and major discharge today, like straight up cottage cheese. Gross.

I have been 100% with every supplement. That regimen is as follows...3 ashwagandha, 2 charcoal, 2 D3, 2 probiotics, and 2 liver support. I feel less stress in the general sense. Still breaking out along my jaw line which leads me to think hormones are still not resolved. I havent had enough soymilk lately, none this week so far.

Yes to every supplement this week, no soymilk yesterday but yes Monday, tuesday, and today. I Also started a low mold diet Monday to continue detoxing.

 Before I forget
I ran out of soymilk Monday, so that is the only day this week I have had it. All supplements all days though at the new dosage. Coming up to my period I have felt less stressed than I normally would.

Week recap

Soymilk and supplements everyday, I forgot soymilk 1 day.

Changes after 1 month

Sleep is different. I think I'm so used to bad sleep that normal sleep doesnt seem normal. I am tired and ready for bed around 9 daily. With the exceptions of weird dreams, crying kids, or rain, I sleep through the night now.

My skin is breaking out, jawline mini breakouts are the most prevalent. This indicates hormone imbalance which I guess is to be expected.

Oklahoma had had very high pollen and mold counts environmentally in the past week or so. I feel like it has made my anxiety worse. There is nothing that has gone wrong or not gone as planned, so my stress should not be so high.

Starting today I have upped my supplements after muscle testing.

3 vitamin D
2 charcoal
3 ashwagandha
2 liver support
2 probiotics

I am working on starting a low mold diet, more coming on that soon.

End of week

12th, no soymilk but all other supplements as normal

13th, soymilk and all supplements

14th, no soymilk but all supplements

Changes I've noticed:
Acne has returned but seems to be isolated to the jawline area.
My sleep has improved over all. I've had one night where I couldn't fall asleep but I relate that to external life things.
My patience has increased and my anxiety/stress have gone down. I'd say from a 7 to a 5.
Down there, still having issues.
Memory-wise...still have brain fog and problems getting words from my brain to my mouth.

Soymilk 8 oz
Supplements as always

I don't think I noted that I have added in a probiotic to the routine of supplements. But I have.

It is difficult sometimes. All of this. The first day after my period I have another infection. White discharge with white clumps. It sucks. And it is painful. Constant itching and irritation. I cannot live at the medical center to be tested (or ignored and mistreated) constantly. I know something is wrong down there and it has been since living in Oklahoma. 2 years of constant itching, burning, irritation, etc. So. Yeah.

Monday-- supplements no soy milk, I forgot.
Tuesday-- 8 oz soy milk and supplements

Stress piles on as my husband feels depressed and devastated by his health concerns. I have the screenshots of our messages should legal need them. Just the stress of what direction your case should be going on top of all of the medical. It is hard in so many ways.

Weekend

Saturday
Same as the week. All supplements and soy milk

Sunday
Supplements, no soy milk.

My body is detoxing. The remaining crap is looking for sugar to survive. I never crave sugar and now it's all I crave. The crap wants a food source before it is eradicated. I hope to do my body justice by eating clean and helping the supplements kill/remove the bad.

First week september

Monday - Friday daily:
8 oz soymilk
2 ashwagandha
2 liver support
1 D3
1 activated charcoal
1 probiotic

This week was incredibly stressful. Between my cycle starting the 3rd (boom, 28 day cycle) and homeschool starting, and dance for both girls and soccer for Jack, I was a crazy person from stress and lack of sleep.

I was relieved that I went from a 26 day cycle to 28 day cycle. I hope I can maintain/improve from that.

End of August

Tuesday
8oz soymilk
2 ashwagandha
2 liver supplements
1 vitamin D
1 activated  charcoal
1 probiotic

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
2 ashwagandha
2 liver supplements
1 vitamin D
1 activated  charcoal
1 probiotic
Per day

Ran out of soymilk Tuesday.
This week sucked and was stressful

Monday 8.26

Today hubs and I both took the recommended dose of every supplement, except the charcoal we took half a dose.

I also had 8oz soymilk

I gagged...a lot 😂😂

Saturday nothing.

Sunday. Package of supplements arrived. Took 1 dose of liver support, ashwagandha, vitamin D, and half serving of activated charcoal. Hubs did as well. Also, 8oz soymilk.

Did not start the 5th supplement yet.

Friday 8.23

Friday
8 oz soymilk
1 probiotic

Extremely anxious and felt frustrated today. Felt very set off by the small things. I think I'm coming up on another cycle.

Saturday
 My app says 8 days, I think it could be sooner. Beginning to feel PMS symptoms. Also, didnt sleep well. Woke up feeling congested. Continued to use essential oils, forgot medicine and vitamins before leaving the house today.

Today
8 zo soymilk
1 probiotic
1 packet emergen-c

Healing week 1

If anyone sees this, I am documenting my journey to healing after toxic mold exposure. We moved out of our house 1 year ago and still have health issues. They have lessened but not  disappeared. After quitting all meds I want to heal my body instead of continuing to put bandaids on it via rx.
Week 1
Monday: soymilk 8oz
Tuesday soymilk 8oz

Why soymilk? I have a hormone imbalance causing 3 week cycles. Soy naturally changes estrogen. Because I have yet to be hormone tested this is a small first step in getting my hormones back in check. More supplements coming soon. More testing coming soon. More everything coming soon.

Baby Girl

It's been a while since I've blogged on our personal blog, but I wanted to share Abilynn's birth story in the same place that I shared Julia and Jackson's stories.

So with Abilynn I had a false alarm 9 days before she was born. And this was a true false alarm...she had been really active and that mixed with contractions made me think she was coming. I got to the hospital and nothing. They picked up one contraction in 30 minutes!! Soooo, we waited. I woke up one morning and turned to Brenan and told him I couldn't wake up pregnant another day. This was Thursday, the 12th. So I did something unexpected and I took the dog for a walk around our neighborhood. I got back and was having contractions. I didn't want to get my hopes up so I casually had Brenan timing them, starting at 9 am. I was so paranoid about another false alarm that I denied this was happening. So I cleaned. If it was happening, the house needed to be cleaner. Then I showered and took a really long time doing my hair and makeup (totally unusual for me, I just needed the distraction). I text my friend at around 10 to see if the kids could go to her place since my contractions were every 3 minutes solid. She wasn't home, luckily I had a plan B friend that I could call. Jess was absolutely amazing, above and beyond fabulous. She rushed home from where she was, rescheduled her whole day, and took the kids at 11. Then Brenan and I drove to the hospital. I just kept taking my time doing everything not wanting to get my hopes up again. So I got hooked up to the monitors and sure enough I was having real contractions every 3 minutes. But I was only dilated to a 3 and about 75% effaced so the nurse asked if I wanted to go home and wait it out or if I wanted to take laps around the hospital. Obviously we chose laps. So we walked around L&D for an hour and she checked me again. I was at a 4 but hadn't effaced anymore. Everytime they gave us the option, we chose to stay and do laps. I was NOT going home. She also had me rock in a rocking chair, drink lots of water, and do more laps. The nice thing about that hospital (versus Utah hospitals) is that they didn't admit me and put me on an IV right when I got there. Just a side note. Anyway, I took a break and Brenan ran off for lunch. While he was gone the doctor came in and asked what I wanted to do since I was dilated to a 5 and about 80% effaced; He said there was no "if" the baby comes, just a matter of when. He could break my water or let me go home. I tried calling Brenan, who didn't answer just then, and ended up making the decision on my own to have my water broken. So at 4:15 he broke my water, then wished me good luck and left. Up until this point we hadn't told anyone we were in the hospital, we were trying to play it cool. So we finally called our parents to let them know baby was coming (and also that we had been there all day). Around 6 the baby still hadn't come so they started me on Pitocin and at that point they finally put me on an  IV (which I was glad they waited). Contractions came stronger and I was at the point of no return for any pain relief, so I got a shot of something around 7 and that was it. Whatever drug they gave me was like magic. My pain went down so much that I was ready to take a nap, like literally had my eyes shut through about 20 minutes of contractions. I was at an 8 so the nurse went to go report to the doctor and let him know how I was progressing. Since I was just chilling Brenan went to the bathroom. All of a sudden I felt some serious pain and was holding on to the hospital bed for dear life. I was alone, screaming. She was coming. Brenan gets back and runs to my side and about 3 seconds later the nurse runs in and asks if I can feel the baby. Yup. Nurse calls in people and turns to me and tells me she has delivered babies before and not to worry. Then an intern walks in and tells me she is going to deliver my baby and she takes a peek down there and says, "oh, she has a lot of hair." Like...what? Cool,  get her out. I start pushing, not even realizing that they're not done setting up. The nurse kept telling me to breath. Let me just say that if I have the ability to yell at you, I'm breathing. I think I did 3 real, full force pushes and baby was here! She came so quickly that they didn't have time to sit me up, put up stirrups, remove the bottom half of the bed, none of that. It was kinda crazy. Something I hadn't had happen before was holding the baby right away. In Utah they whisked both babies away right away, so it was kinda cool to hold her immediately. Our little miss was born at 19:53 on February 12th, weighing 7 lbs, 2oz. We didn't have a name for her until about an hour after she was born. Then it kinda just came to me and I turned to Brenan and asked what he thought of the name Abilynn. He loved it and we sat for about 5 minutes trying to decide how to spell it.

My last belly shot

All hooked up

Check out those awesome contractions

Us

Her cute going home outfit

End of the year

I wanted to be able to say I blogged before the end of the year, and I was sick of seeing my old post lingering at the top like it was hanging on in desperation,  so here is my last 2013 post.

Mind your manners.
Be nice to others.
Help out when possible.
Make healthy choices.
Have a great 2014.