Yeah, it's working!

OK, got some good news. Although I wasn't able to go to the gym on Monday (4/24), I had my successful weigh in on Wednesday and I lost 3 lbs!!! I was so happy, little surprised but very happy. Surprised because I couldn't loose the weight in so long and now it was finally working. Wow, this is awesome!

Anyway, the reason I couldn't get to the gym is because I got really sick over the weekend. I had this strange pain in my back and first I thought my kidneys were hurting. Ooops, that can be very serious, specially with my diabetes. It started Friday night after dinner. My husband and I had gone out for a bite to eat to this new sports bar close to the gym. We were just catching up from the week and I felt this pain in my back. Wasn't sure what it was but once I returned back home I was able to fall a sleep immediately, thank goodness.

I didn't feel anything the next morning when I got up so no worries, right? My husband and I went to this diabetes expo downtown in Phoenix. By the way, that was really interesting, we really enjoyed it. But while walking around, the pain had come back. It was a really awkward pain. Later on that day, it progressed to almost unbearable. Around 10:30 pm, we had to go to the emergency room. They ran all kinds of tests, tried to get in an IV for the pain, but unfortunaely they couldn't find a vain, so I ended up with a morfine shot in my 'behind'.
After a long wait in between nurses and doctor visits, they finally had to discharge me with a pain killer prescription. They told me that my blood results came back better than the nurse's :-) and that they could not find anything? I think it was about 5:00 am the next morning that we left the ER. The morfine had finally kicked in so I was able to get some sleep. They recommended that I would see my family care practitioner as soon as the pain would come back.

The next day, Sunday, I made sure I relaxed all day long. The pain did return that night and I wasn't able to get too much sleep. After some more painkillers the next morning, I was finally doing better. So far the pain has not been back and that's how I want to keep it.

Our next weigh in at the gym is on Monday 5/15 but first I have my Weight Watchers meeting tomorrow... I hope I did pretty good. I'll keep you posted!