Not going so well...

Well, I just realized I didn't blog my letter yesterday. WHOOPS!! I was going to do it now, but I decided not to.

Yesterday was so incredibly stressful. Last fall when I was at school, I noticed my heart was acting funny. It would skip a couple of beats, then speed up super fast. This would only last a few seconds, but the results was a few minutes of me not being able to catch my breath, and getting super freaked out.

It got worse as the semester went on, and I was going to mention it to my mom at Christmas time, but with everything going on then it just really escaped my mine. There were also issues with my dad and health insurance going on then (but that's another entry).

A few weeks ago, I was in St. Louis with my dad when it happened again, and I literally could not catch my breath for 10 minutes. That was the last straw-everything possible that could be wrong with me was going through my mind, and it was stressing me out to the point of exhaustion.

So yesterday I went to the doctor. They did an EKG (which showed nothing wrong!) and took a blood sample. This morning I woke up to a message from the nurse, saying she had the lab results and needed to talk to me. GULP.

Turns out---I have an underactive thyroid. Weird. And, it can cause the shortness of breath and heart palpitations. I still have to do testing for my heart, just in case.

But I finally feel like I can relax. So, look for another blog tonight as I continue the 30 day letter challenge.

30 Day Challenge-Day 1

Recently, I've had a few friends start a 30 day blog letter challenge thing. You basically write a letter to someone/thing every day for 30 days. I meant to start this a week ago, but due to visitors at home and some family happenings, I haven't. But here it is, Day 1--a letter to my best friend.


Dear Millie,

You rock. Seriously. You're so intelligent, so charismatic, so lovable, and I look up to you so much, you have no idea. I would never tell you all of this in person, because you are not a mushy person (at least with friends), but I feel I can write all of this down and it will be ok.

You are so great in everything you do. Your relationship with Mike makes me hopeful that one day I can find someone who loves me that much. You two are perfect. Marry him.

And I want you to know that I'm so proud of you. You could have let things in your past hold you back, but you chose to move ahead and make a fantastic life for yourself. I know you are going to accomplish so much in the future.

And even though you don't really care for Harry Potter, and have never seen the Star Wars movies (you know I have to give you a hard time about that), I will still always be there for you, for anything you might need.

Love,
Courtney