Life has it's share of ups and downs. This past month it's been gain some - and I don't mean in a good way. I had a bad month on the scales and I chalk it up to stress eating over every stupid little thing that went wrong. I had a mole removed after the doc thought it looked abnormal, and sure enough the biopsy came back showing abnormal tissue. The surgery to remove the abnormal tissue left me with an ugly big scar across my forearm - going on three weeks and it still looks nasty. We had the storm damage, and window replacement and I wasn't happy with the finish work, but will get someone to add some trim around the windows and maybe clean it up a bit. I just wanted those contractors to get done and get out - I was so frustrated with them. I had the microwave tripping the circuit breaker and finally got a reputable electrical contractor out to run new wire to put it on a separate circuit - something I had asked the first guys to do but they took a short cut - and it still kept tripping. Arrrrrrrrgggh!

Our youngest son took his male dog in to get him neutered and I had him for an overnight after he had to go back to emergency vet when he worked his way out of his collar and tore his stitches open and into his abdomen wall ...crazy dog. He is a hyperactive little maltipoo and hearing impaired so difficult to communicate with him. The first night I had the dog so son could go back to work, I found out that our son left work at 5:30 and spent 5 hours in ER with high blood pressure - too much stress from the dog's health issues and work related problems. Another worry I didn't need right now. Then I stayed up late to keep the dog calmed down and read a post on fb from a niece who had recently had a kidney stone removed, and they now discovered three large masses on her kidneys. One turned out to be early stage cancer and they will treat it. Seems like it's just been one thing on top of another and through it all, I kept stuffing food in my face - partially from stress, partially boredom while Gary sleeps so many hours a day.

It's a new month, a new day, and time to get back on track - I forced myself to sign back into Weight Watchers online and start over. I have to get the weight off. I have to force myself to get back to the pool now that my three weeks since surgery (when I wasn't supposed to do any strenuous activities) is over. Tomorrow is my 4 hour day with Kelly here to shower, dress and feed Gary, so I'm going to the pool - ugly scar and all. It's a must - as I've convinced myself that if I don't lose 20 lb. before Thanksgiving, I'm not going to our sons big family dinner. It's time to lose again!!!

Sarah