Not sure about other places, but it's cold here. Yesterday, it was 77. Today the high will be 48. So glad I am going home for my grandmother's birthday celebration in a few days. It will be much, much, much warmer in SC! I am so ready for the warm weather and my body is as well.

Last time I blogged, it was about my upcoming surgery. I have put that on hold. While trying to figure out who will help me, I need to raise my iron levels. So far so good! The iron pills are working. I get my levels checked again on the 18th and hopefully they will be much higher. After I go home for grandma's birthday, I have my best friends graduation in May. I hope to have my surgery after that. I do not want to be at home at all once it has finally warmed up. Before I had my strokes I always think of the word's one of my clients said at the end of winter when she promised her kids she will go outside. "I am going to live it up in the sun." She hardly did it but I thought to myself, I am going to do that. Live it up in the sun folks. That's if you like the sun that is.

I have been working with a nurse in a program through my insurance company. She is keeping me on track as far as my health is concerned for the next six months. The hard part with all this is having to explain what happened to me over and over again. Besides telling her it was also telling my Hematologist my background as well. I don't want to see any new doctors any time soon. But the nurse let me know about a counselor/dietician that is down the street from work who is very good. I have been looking for a counselor for a very long time. It's also big bonus that she is a dietician as well. My depression sucks. That sucker made me feel like I am ugly and I should keep quiet about certain things. But I am slowly but surely fighting back. The trick is not going back down that road.

I have also joined a couple of "Meet Up" groups. The people I have met have been really nice, but when things are done, they are done. I want to be able to find some people that I can also talk/hang out with when we don't have a group meeting.

But for now it's time to live it up in the sun. Even with a hat, coat and sweater on.