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WOW!! What an experience this has been… Things are going well, we are still just patiently waiting for our 501(c)3… We have our first walk-a-thon planned for June 8th!! I can’t believe how excited we are!! It’s just hard because we have ask for donations that are not tax deductible yet and that is going to be really hard to do… So everyone say a little prayer for us… We have a band playing and a 5mile walk… around beautiful Capitol Lake… We will hopefully have fliers out soon… but of course we would like to have our sponsors set up first… and getting sponsors with no 501(c)3 is going to be hard to do… so ahhhhh…. if anyone knows any companies that would be interested in sponsorships, please contact me at 360-556-5180…
Thank you all so much for your continued support
The other day I am out riding my horse and I decide to push myself a little harder than I usually do… In my head, I wonder if it is OK to do so or if I should take it easy… After an hour of riding, breathing hard, sweating, I get off of my horse and head into the barn… My trainer, who isn’t feeling well, says she has to haro(plow) the mare pasture and I offer to do it for her… So there I am, driving the big tractor through the pasture… to me, it is so meditative… I do breathing exercises and just concentrate on my lungs and how good it feels to take deep breaths… I thank God for my health and really put myself in a great place… The whole tractor is vibrating and I get 2 hours of thankfulness along with the benefits of a vest… WOW!! But then I wonder if maybe today I had pushed myself a little too hard…
I get home, take a shower, and sit down to relax… Of course coughing just comes along with CF, but tonight, I am paying more attention to it… Then it happens, the dreaded coughing of the blood… eekkk… I HATE IT!! Even though I know that it happens and that it is normal, I HATE IT!!! So then of course, I am concentrating on it and noticing that it isn’t stopping… darn it, I did overwork my lungs today…
When I get to my boyfriends house I decide to share with him what is going on… that is always a little scary because to us (CFers) we know that a little blood in our mucus isn’t necessarily as horrible as it sounds, but to a person who is in love with us, it can be really scary… He shares with me that maybe I shouldn’t go riding tomorrow and I should just take it easy, but that is not me… I DO NOT LET MY CF LIMIT ME!!! I never have and I am not going to start now…. maybe that is good?? maybe it isn’t?? Ahhhh… Needlesstosay, I went riding the next day… hehe… it’s my downfall… I’m stubborn when it comes to my CF trying to limit me…
I need my fellow CFers opinion on this… Have you experienced this at all?? and what did you do?? Do you think I should start watching how hard I work myself?? I just don’t know if I can…
Thank you all for your help in this manner…. I appreciate it so much…
Sarah
