Cheriz: My life with Cystic Fibrosis

I have my follow up appointment on December 20th. Until then I'm just going to keep up with 4 sets of nebulizer treatments a day. Do my IPV machine once a day and the vest twice. Hopefully, I can start incorporating some more exercise into my daily routine. I did get some exercise over the weekend!! Haha. This Saturday was my work/company's annual Christmas Party. Maloof throws the Emerald Ball every year and this is my 2nd year attending (since I have been a Realtor for 1 full year now)! I LOVED dancing the night away! Well, as much as my 40% lung function would let me. Andrew and I love to dance though. We met in show choir and it may be my favorite thing to do! So I really look forward to this event all year! I wish I could of danced more, but hopefully I can get my lung function back to where it needs to be. It was nice to see I could still dance & enjoy the Ball. It was a busy day though!!! I spent most of Saturday (before the party) with my mom at the Richwoo...

Traveling to see Stacey: With the Holidays comes traveling and visiting loved ones. Don't get me wrong traveling SO well worth it AND we are lucky to only travel a few hours. It's just all the stuff I have to remember to pack is hard. Check out how much I had to pack for our Honeymoon HERE!  Last night was the 1 year Anniversary of Andrew proposing to me, make sure to read about it HERE . My college best friend/ roommate of many years came to visit the day before, stayed the night, and hung out with me during the next day (before Andrew got off work & proposed). Andrew had plotted knowing Stacey was coming, so in a small way she was part of the engagement (Which I LOVE). Stacey (Staceface as I call her sometimes) really REALLY helped me survive college. Now, I don't mean typical " Oh man, I'm hungover but have a final" surviving... I mean she helped make my meds when I was sick, she'd take my iv meds out of the fridge an hour before I had to h...

The Good Stuff and Not so Great: With the Holidays come cherished family time, cheerful smiles, and great memories. I LOVE the holidays. Surprisingly Thanksgiving is my favorite (for the single reason my mom's entire side ALWAYS gets together for it). We have tons of food, board games, and fun! I mean check it out, 2 plates just for me! [note: all my enzymes to the right. bahaha] So much homemade food! Thanksgiving was a blast, granted Andrew and I had a lot of work around that time too. We didn't get as much time off as we would of loved, BUT we did get Thanksgiving! Whew. I had Friday off too, but I didn't do to much Black Friday shopping. I got some movies (go figure), but no big purchases this years. I actually already have 90% of the my Christmas shopping done too! Whew.  I tried to make sure I was on top of everything this year. We aren't doing Christmas cards, because we are in the middle of doing our Wedding Thank Yous! So that was enough postage to pa...

Happy, so much to celebrate: Yes, my clinical trial that I was all set to do the screening for tomorrow has been postponed until Jan 7th. The Clinical Trial Reps want Doc to wait until Jan 7th, so I'll have had a full month off between the closing date of the last trial and beginning of this trial. Which will be 2 months from my last experimental (or placebo) drug, giving it a decent amount of time to get out of my system. Which makes sense, but I understand considering the waiting period between the drug & closing date AND the length of time between the opening/screening and first dose is lengthy enough Doc thought it would still fit protocol. But he is right, better safe than sorry. So even though that Clinical Trial got postponed I'm still rather cheery. Why? Well, quite a few reasons! 1. I gained a few of those much needed pounds back over Thanksgiving! YAY!!!! Holidays are the perfect time to gain weight, whew. Thank goodness for Thanksg...

CF: A part of me: Some Celebrations are this weekend: First of all, Happy Birthday to my Dad!  I think my Dad is absolutely Amazing!!! Please take a minute to read all about why he is a phenominal father in this past father's day blog post!  Also you can read about a funny story with a simple example for how dad is always there to save the day in this lil past post here! So besides my Dad's Bday being today, Andew and I put up Christmas/Had a Holiday Dinner yesterday! We put up the Christmas Tree, some decorations, listened to Christmas Music and did some baking!  Here are some of our Christmas/Holiday Pictures!        Our Tree ------------------------------------------- Media Center -------------------------------------- Above the Couch ------------------------------------------- Our Hallway Closet Doors :-) Haha! We used a Clean/New Stomach Syringe for the Turkey! Seri...

A Week of Antibiotics and Christmas Decorations... I feel a lot better. I'm so glad I didn't end up on IVs or in the hospital! I have been really trying to do all my meds. And for the most part I have been. I'm not 100% back yet, but I'm headed there. I had a few days off from work in a row, which really helped. And on Saturday I had nothing planned, so we decided to have a movie marathon day at my house (with a handful of friends), so I could be lazy, do meds, eat, and relax all day. Genius idea. When I'm sick my biggest downfall is that I keep running around. I perform in theatre, I go to parties, out with friends, stay up late.  I don't change my schedule at all, excpet I take more pills and do more therapies. Which I know I should not do as much, BUT I really can't stand not doing stuff. I loved being involved, working, going to school, etc.                      ...