FINALLY!

Well I am about to embark on another great adventure!  Tomorrow is the day I turn in my two week notice at my day job and begin my real estate career full time.  This is my dream and finally I have made it happen.  So ready to go out and help some people find their slice of paradise in SWFL!

Phase 1 complete

Well, again a lot has happened since my last blog. I had my heart surgery on April 1, 2011 (April fool's day no less) :) and all in all it wasn't bad. The surgeon was able to do it minimally invasive and my recovery was much faster. I was able to go back to work half days on April 28th for a couple of weeks then back to fulltime after that.

The really big news is that I passed my FL state real estate exam and I can't begin to tell you how excited and happy this made me. Finally I can begin to get my dream back of selling real estate and working with people and getting back to TN and I will never leave there again!! It is home to me and truly, in my opinion, the most beautiful place on earth. It calls to me!

Now I have to find a broker to work for who will allow me to work parttime until I get some clients built up.

I am happy and we're going to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 2 tomorrow.

Lovin life!
Good night!

I did quit smoking when I said I was in Jan. I haven't scheduled my fingerprints or RE test yet but I will.

Life is funny sometimes. Dec. 2009 I started doing the Beachbody Insanity program and even though I hurt my shoulder I pushed through and completed the program and I have never been more proud of myself for completing such a brutal program. Then I started P90X but that shoulder injury just persisted. Well it happens that I was born with a bicuspid valve in my heart rather than a tricuspid valve and it appears that the extreme workouts I was doing has made my heart work too hard and surgery is looming.

I have known this all my life but this is something that one is never really ready for. So the doc has said to limit my activity to a moderate 45 minutes on the treadmill. Then something happened with my insurance and my cardiologist I had been seeing for over two years was no longer in my insurance network until their paperwork gets straightened out. Sooooooooooooo I had to see another cardiologist. He told me to STOP all activity except just what I need to do to get through my normal day.

Then he gave me a heart cath test and my arteries are all standing wide open to compensate for the valve problem and to keep my heart from being damaged. I was supposed to go in for a TEE test as well (trans-esophagial echo) but he said he did not want to lower my blood pressure with anesthesia so that test was out. He said that my valve was in the severe stage and if there was still a critical category he would put me in there with a measurement of .635.

Soooooooooooo that was FEb. 16 and I spent time looking for a surgeon (he wanted to send me to a local one). I got one from my heart valve journal surgeon database and he's in Fort Myers and I couldn't make the appointment, my cardiologist had to make the appointment.
It is scheduled for March 23rd.

I'm still checking my insurance website daily to see if my original cardiologist is back in the plan because I really need to have him as my doc. I'm really really hoping that the surgeon can do my surgery soon as I am getting tired very easily and having chest pains.

Just needed to vent as things just take so long and no one gets in a hurry. More later.

Well, I am happy to report since my last post that I weigh less now than I did when I left TN (2 pounds less) and am at 152. This is still too heavy for my height so I have to really kick it in gear. I'm having open heart surgery in Feb. to replace my worn out valve and to replace the piece of my aorta that is bulging. I am quitting smoking tomorrow and have bought my patches for the big smokeout! I have taken my FL real estate course and passed the course exam now I have to get my fingerprints done and apply to take my state exam. I can do this.

Just Don't Know

Well, it's been a while again. I just don't know what is wrong with me. I just don't feel like doing anything. Since last post I quit the workouts again and have worked out off and on here and there but my cholesterol is up again and I have some inflammation somewhere in my body according to my lab work - doc says normally means the heart so who knows what it could be. Hopefully I will figure things out. We found a new place to rent that is a little cheaper so after we spread out the security and deposits over six months then our rent will be a little cheaper. It doesn't have a pool but we haven't been able to use the pool we have the whole time we've been here because the pool guy never cleaned the pool. So anyway I'm just a sad sack today.

YEP Again

Well this time I fell off the workout wagon because my cardiologist said so. He says no lifting weights until I get the results of my echocardiogram that I had to have due to heart palpitations. Go figure - I was doing so well with my P90X and hopefully will get back to that. I'll keep you posted.