Kicking Ass and Taking Names!

Yup that's right.  I am kicking some serious health ass and taking names along the way.  OK maybe not actually taking names, but I could if there were people to take names from....

Anywho...

I have been at the gym 6 days a week for the past few weeks and I am LOVING IT.  I take Pilates and Yoga on the weekends and tonight I did a Body Pumps class with barbells and weights and all that fun jazz.  I took it two weeks ago too.  There is one on Monday nights which I might start going to.  Its a dam good workout!  And considering right now I have less than one full lung working, I am kicking some SERIOUS ASS!  However, I wanted to attempt the Couch to 5k again, so I decided to try 30 seconds of jogging.  Yeah serious fail.  My lungs laughed at me, then died.  My O2 plummeted, but weirdly enough, my HR stayed about the same.  Went up a few points but I expected it to sky rocket.  So looks like I won't be running any marathons in the next few months.  But that is OK.

I have also been doing my vest every single night!  That makes almost six whole weeks of doing it, even when I went to visit family!  And today I did it TWICE!  Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.  I know!

In other news...I dropped one of my summer classes.  So now I will be taking just the two.  I decided that three was way too many and bound to land me in the slammer.  Two I can handle.  And I can switch up my program some so I take one class this Fall and then an independent study next Spring and be done.  The IS is a portfolio class, and it entails just revising papers you want to include in your portfolio.

That is all for now.  I have a clinic appointment in May again so I will see if this exercising ass kicking is doing anything for my numbers.

Bad bad CF patient!

I am a very bad CF patient.

Why?

Well...........I haven't done my vest since I got out of the hospital, almost 2 months ago!

AHHHHHHHHHHH

I know I know....the first few weeks I was sore from the port placement.  Then it turned in to me being scared that the vest would hurt the port anyway.  Then it just got out of hand.

BUT I am writing this post as I sit hooked up to the vest finally!  It is not a pleasant feeling, and I don't know if round one after not doing it for 2 months will last the whole 20 minutes.  I hear in time it will get less awkward and less irritating so that means I need to keep at it!

My port is still awkward for me.  I am extremely aware of its presence at all times of the day.  So the vest was just scary!  I can't even wear a bra because it annoys the site.  Which, thankfully, I was "blessed" with very tiny boobs and I don't need to wear one!

Lately the old lungs have been very sore and not happy so I decided I needed to suck it up and attempt the vest again.  It can't hurt....well....you know what I mean!!!

My New Vest!!!

I got my new vest yesterday, and the jacket today!

When I opened the package I thought for sure the adult Medium was going to SWIM on me!  But I reminded myself that I was measured for it.  And what do you know, when I put it on it fit great (blown up of course).

I got the purple one to spice things up lol!!!

noooooow toooo maaake suuuuure IIIIII uuuuuse iiiiiit daaaaiiiillllyy ;)

Vesting

I have been SOOOOO good with vesting!  2 times a day every day for the past week and a half.  That my friends is a record for me.  I will do it at least once a day but to get it both morning and night has been great.  And I have been adding in a third treatment in the middle of the day, no vest.  Most of that is necessity though.  But still.  I am working on my diligence and so far so good.  I just have to stick with it.