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March 27, 2021 Dear Diary

Weekend Chat 3/27/2021

Welcome to the second edition of the Weekend Chat series here at Sincerely Nell. How was your week? I’d love to know your highlights. Feel free to leave them in the comments section below!

This week has been kind of crazy. Mostly a typical week but the end of it has me being referred to a cardiologist. Me! 42 year old me. There is a lot of heart disease on both sides of my family, I have had Lyme (which can attack the heart) for 13 years, I’m overweight, and although recently my cholesterol numbers were fine, they’ve not always been so. My symptoms are concerning enough that seeing a heart doctor is prudent. So, I’ll be getting an appointment and insisting I be seen as soon as possible. Let me tell you, it’s never a dull moment around here.

So, let’s chat about more light-hearted moments of the week. 

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Monday my husband and I got his car inspected, ordered lots of furniture, grabbing lunch, and back home. We had a great time together. Minus the hour and a half sitting around for a car inspection. Who likes that?

And lunch at our favorite place – 54th Street Grill & Bar

We ordered this dining room set and the living room set. It’ll be months before these items are in stock but we aren’t in a rush so we’ll wait.

I spent quite a bit of time being creative. You’ll catch that theme with each passing Weekend Chat blog post – I’m highly creative, it’s what I do. Below you’ll see what I worked on this week.

I was commissioned to draw my cousin’s pup that had passed away not that long ago. I think he turned out sweet. I’m brand new to inking portraits so it isn’t perfect but it was appreciated by her and that is what matters. And of course, I hand embroidered several pieces because I love stitching.

Lots of walking with my kiddos. Don’t you love my outfit? I’m such a fashionista!

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IG WRAP UP

I wasn’t very active on on Instagram this week since I’ve not been feeling great. I kinda just went radio silent but here are a couple that I did end up posting. In case you don’t yet follow me on my public account.

A bit about following your gut when you aren’t feeling well.

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And a bit about my hero in my chronic illness journey.

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So guys, if you read last weeks post you’ll know that I had lofty goals of posts I was going to write and not one of those goals happened. Such is life I suppose.

I may try to get them written this week but frankly I have quite a busy life and we shall see what happens.

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And, you can find me on Pinterest! I’m brand new over there so not a lot going on yet but I will have lots and lots of helpful boards and content there very soon.

YOUR TURN

I’d love for you to share with me below in the comments your week highlights! I read every single comment and would love to connect with you there. Don’t be shy, say hi!

 

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Hi, I’m Nell!

“Hope, healing, and hacks for the chronically ill woman living her best life despite illness.”

My name is Nell and I’m a Lyme warrior on a mission to support chronically ill women with encouragement, inspiration, realness, and hope.

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I was bitten by a tick 13 years ago this year (2021) while pregnant with my third child. It was two years before I would receive the diagnosis of late-stage Lyme disease and it would be a few months later that my third child would be diagnosed with the same. We spent about 4 years with a LLMD on antibiotics before switching to a LLND and moving to an all natural approach to Lyme.

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I started my day off with another migraine. I've I started my day off with another migraine. 

I've been experiencing an uptick in headaches and migraines for about a year, but majorly so in the past couple of months. 

I think it's too much of a coincidence to think the health issues and uptick in headaches and migraines aren't related. I'm hoping once we uncover the health issues, it'll help figure out the headaches and migraines. 

Unraveling health mysteries takes time, often seeing more than one doctor, and requires a whole lotta patience. 

I really think this cardiologist is going to get to the bottom of, at least some of what's going on. I get my echo this Thursday night to check heart function, Monday is my stress test, and then the following week will be my follow-up and I hope some sort of diagnosis and treatment for whatever's going on (in addition to the Lyme I already have).

It is a lot for one body to handle but I am very optimistic in life, I am positive and look for the bright side in things, I'm strong and resilient, and I will be ok. 

My strength comes from hard things in life that taught me how to find personal strength, also comes from my relationship with Christ, and knowing this isn't my only life I'll live. Keeping my eyes on heaven helps me keep perspective and hope. 

So I'll keep moving forward, being thankful for doctors, modern medicine, my family, God, my strength, and hopeful for proper diagnosis and some sort of treatment or management of whatever's going on. 

I want you to know, God is good, even when life isn't. God didn't give me health battles, but He is helping me through them. He didn't give me a broken body to teach me lessons but He is so good He can use what was meant for my harm and use it for my good. I'm grateful for Him. I'm thankful I have Him to lean on and believe in.

#migraineawareness #migrainerelief #migrainessuck #migrainewarrior #migrainemom #migrainemanagement #chronicmigraine #chronicmigraines #lymedisease #lymediseaseawareness #lymediseaseawarenessmonth #lymediseasewarrior #lymediseasesucks #godisgoodallthetime #godisalwaysgood
I want to remind you, you've got this. Nothing is I want to remind you, you've got this. Nothing is beyond your ability to rise above, hold your head up high, and keep a good attitude and perspective in life. Nothing. 

I've met some incredible people who have been hit with unreal odds against them and yet they keep smiling, they keep fighting, climbing, and keeping their eyes on whatever keeps them square in the middle of perspective. 

That's not to say that a good attitude means you aren't going to cry, hurt, need to rest and recover, have down days etc. To me it just means you're able to rebound and keep moving, growing, reaching for healing. 

13 years of a long term infection like Lyme has pushed me to the end of myself a time or two, it has taught me so much about my resilience and attitude, my outlook on life, and has kept my eyes on heaven, where I personally get my perspective from. 

I want you to see the strength inside yourself. I want you to know you can battle whatever you're battling, the hard-fought war, and find the joy in each day, find the gratitude that keeps you going. Even having hard days, sad days, overwhelming days, because they will come, and some of us have them more often than others, you can smile. You really can. 

Keep going friend. You've got this. WE'VE got this! Really, we do. Hang in there.

I hope you enjoyed your time on my blog! See you again real soon.

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