Miami, My Second Home!!!

Ahhhhh yes, life is much easier with my pain patch on :-) I'm not sure if my pain has progressed in the past few months, but once I took the patch off, I couldn't even sit on the couch all day with my feet elevated and be comfortable (even though I still kept going, going, going and enjoying my life anyway). While my quality of life has not increased with the use of the patches as far as what I was aiming for, which is the ability to stand for longer periods of time, I am able to sit comfortably. I'll take it for now!!!

Yesterday, I had a massage appointment and spent the rest of the day with my fiance and my pup laying out by the pool, shopping at Whole Foods, laughing, loving, and once the air cooled, I accompanied them to the park so they could go for a run and I could read at a picnic table with the fireflies lighting the air around me. Lovely :-) How fun is my life?! Tomorrow, I am off to Miami, my second home (I went to the University of Miami for undergrad), to visit my girlfriend who is home on a month leave from the Peace Corp. Traveling is painful, but I'm used to it being that I spent 4 years of my life flying back and forth from Miami to NJ.

I may get frustrated sometimes, but who doesn't??? I'm a 24 year old former athlete who was planning on running 30 marathons just like my dad when my pain hit me. I had to quit my college cross-country team, move back home with my parents, and figure out how to start anew with this illness in my life. A true athlete can never take the athlete out of herself because it runs through our veins, it is in our blood. It is only natural that I feel frustrated when treatments fail, but that is life. You live, you learn.

I'm off to visit my grandma and spend the rest of the day with Pat and the baby.... oh, and finish packing!