Its the last day of the year.  I am going to a friends house for New Years Eve but wanted to get my workout in before I left. I took a 1.2 mile walk with my sister.  Rick has said he really doesn't think I should continue with the 3 half marathon's because of health issues. The risk of injury is to great expecially since the prednisone has made me gain about 17lbs.  My mom emailed Ms. Earle to see if we can schedule a meeting with the committee. We have to get this figured out so I can know what i'm going to do.

I emailed my mentor, to see what he thinks i should be doing to get going and told him we still haven't heard from Ms. Earle and/or the committee as to whether I can change to 5k's.  we'll see what he says I should do to get started again. I did not run/walk today. I worked at Look Up Lodge painting.

I did not walk or run today I had basketball and I'm still not sure what I should do about my workouts when I have basketball. I had asked my mentor but with all the other stuff we have been talking about, we always forget to come back to that questions.  We do a lot of short distance running in basketball but I usually have to sit out some of it, because it makes me feel sick.  The coach says I'm doing good but I need to get in better shape. I need to talk to Rick again about how I should train when I have practice and/or games. I'll email him and to let him know that I guess at this point we better go ahead and say I'm gonna run the 3 half marathons, the doctor said if I felt ok I could run i'm just not sure if I can run that much and get 3 half marathons done in three months.

Today I woke up this morning and I was broken out again. I took the amount of prednisone  the doctor told me to take as well as my other medications. Even though I was not feeling well,  I walked about a another 1.2 miles just to get my heart rate going again. I slept till 12:30 this morning and I didn't eat lunch but for dinner I had turkey dressing and gravy.

Because I have started to break out again with my hives, we have rescheduled my allergist appoint (originally scheduled for Jan. 5th) to today.  I have been taking the Prednisone like the doctor prescribed (10mg everyday) along with 2 claritin, and the 2 Hydroxyzine at night.   Unfortunately, I have been broken out each morning when I wake up.  It isn't all over my body but is on my arms, shoulders and sometimes my feet.  I'm really sick of all this.  I'm ready to get on with my senior year and with my basketball and training.
The doctor said that we should continue to take 10mg. of Prednisone everyday for a week, continue the 2 Claritin everyday, add the 2 Zyrtec back in at lunch time and then use the Hydroxyzine as  needed (up to 6 per day) to help control the outbreaks.  He said that we are going to have to inidate the body with the antihistamines to try to get whatever this is under control.  After a week, we are going to alternate the Prednisone 10 mg one day, then 5mg the next. We will do that for another week along with all the above listed meds, then the following week we will go to 10 mg one day and then one day off still with all the other meds.  Then if  there are no break outs the next week we will go to 5mg one day and the next day off with all other meds.  The Hydroxyzine is the medicine that we can play with in regards to dosage when I'm breaking out (up to a certain amount)   If at anytime I begin to break out and can't control it with the Hydroxyzine I'm suppose to go back up in dosage of the prednisone that I was previously good at.

After my mom emailed Ms. Earle to talk about Rick's thoughts on whether I could actually get in the proper training and finish three marathons in the  amount of time we have left. Rick, my trainer, had stated that based on the doctors recommendation of not over doing the running, and the fact that I'm on so much medication perhaps we should consider trying to complete 4 or 5   5-K's instead of 3 half marathons.  Ms. Earle does not think the committee will agree to that and she but she has forwarded them the emails from Rick.  We wanted to find out for sure whether I would be at serious health risk if I begin my  running training again.  We explained to the doctor that this was a senior project and we really needed to train but of course did not want to put me as risk health wise.  He said I should be fine as long as  I felt okay.  The steroids shouldn't harm me as an athlete, they will and have increased my appetite a lot. ( As a matter of fact, I weighted 237lbs today).  This added weight over the last 2 months has made me a little more sluggish and less limber. It makes me hold water weight as well.  The doctor recommended trying to eat less even though my appetite is greater.  I have been trying to eat healthier like Rick has recommended in his book too.  So, I guess that means I've been given the doctors clearance to go ahead and train, I just need to talk to Rick again to see if he thinks I can safely train and run three half marathons by the end of March.  I doubt the committee will allow me to change the project now.  We'll see.

In the meantime while we work out the details of what I'm actually going to be training for, I started working out again today. I did not want to kill myself by over doing it, so I simply walked at a brisk pace 1.25 miles. It felt good to do a little more cardio.

It getting real close to Christmas and I am going to take a short break of all this stuff and try to enjoy time with my family. I've ran today and I am going to continue to eat correctly over this short break. Merry Christmas everyone!

It is getting close to Christmas but I am still going on. It is very cold outside and my gym membership just ran out so a am trying to find places to run in. Eating is becoming harder to do because I love the food around Christmas time. I'm just going to keep going and and try my best to do everything I have said I've said i'll do.

Another follow appt. with the allergist. My mom is very frustrated that I'm still on the prednisone and they can't seem to help us know when I can come off it. I have broken out several times lately. The doctor said to go back to 10mg for a week then alternate 10mg and 5mg everyday then 10mg everyday then a day off until we come back in on Jan. 5th.  Still taking all the other meds.  With the break outs still occurring I haven't been running just working out at basketball. I don't know what to do.

Getting back in the swing of things

I haven't blogged in a while and I have needed to. I am going to meat with  Rick sometime soon  and get back to running since I have been sick.  I have good days and bad days.  I'm still taking the medications and trying to play basketball and work out /run/walk when I can.  I have mostly not had any breakouts but I have still been taking my medications. If I forget even one dose i seem to break out.  I had really hoped that whatever was causing the hives would have been gone by now.  I go back to the doctor in a couple of days. I don't know what they are going to say, I know they can not do the allergy testing until I'm off all the medications.

 I am still feeling bad but I am trying to run and work out through it anyway. I'm still eating well in the hope that it helps whatever problem I have with allergies. I am going to keep it going and hope for the best.

After a great day a couple of days ago I am now back in a slump. I worked out the last couple of days and it went very well but today I just fell like crap. It should go away in a little bit. Well at least I hope it does but you never know with this kind of stuff. I wish it would just go away.

I feeling better today so I ran 2 miles or so and also I had some protein shakes today. I have been very energetic today and I will probably work out a little later just to improve strength training. Just gotta keep going.

I have been running/walking when I can but it has still been hard because all of these breakouts that I've had. I have been eating well and have been working out when I don't feel awful because of this condition that I have gone through.

Went to basketball practice today.  We ran and did drills.  I really get a workout when i practice and hope that this workout is good enough to help me with my marathon trainings since I can't do both I just don't have the energy.  I need to talk to Rick again about what my work outs should be when I have games and practices.  Also about when I should schedule my first race.  Everything has been messed up since I've been sick and not really able to keep our original workout plan.