The Week I Crawled Through HELL!

Monday evening I noticed (what I thought was a cold sore) pop up  on my bottom lip. My first thought was "Oh man the stress from this past weekend is catching up with me, better nip this in the bud now." I went and applied some pure Melissa e.o. on it right away, figured by morning it would be nearly gone.

OH If Only that it were that simple. NOPE it wasn't GOD had something for me to Learn, something for my family to learn and I woke up to find half my lips and chin covered with impetigo!!!

If you aren't sure what that is, Impetigo is a Bacterial Infection caused by a cross between the Strep and Staph bacteria strains. It eats your face and blisters and oozes and scabs and burns and stings and itches and LOOKS Horrendous all wrapped into 1.

Tuesday morning, kinda hard to see it still, but I could sure Feel it. 

So I went to the Dr. usually I 90% of the time cure things with natural remedies, but what a lot of you aren't aware of is that I actually had a break out of impetigo on my ears just 4 weeks ago and it lasted for 2 full weeks, with me trying my best to throw Natural Remedies at it I thought I had finally won.

Wednesday morning after I thought it was just a cold sore . 

Well I guess I hadn't and it decided with the perfect Storm of Stress, Anxiety, Parenting, and Marriage Issue it was a GREAT Time to attack my Face.

So the P.A. gave me a topical cream, and after another 24 hours of it spreading rapidly and hurting horrifically (I couldn't even open my mouth to talk at this point it was so swollen closed) my hubby had the P.A. call in an oral Antibiotic, which should have been Helpful; but was not because just the next morning I began taking Lysine (I had close to 20 people recommend I pop it like candy, and it ought to help.) which I had a awful allergic reaction too on TOP of my Already miserable symptoms from the impetigo.

Now it's Saturday night and I am in so much pain I just can't even bare it, I only got 3 hours of broken sleep and was suffering at about an 8/10 on a pain scale (the only time I've experienced was 10 being in full blown Labor) so you can imagine an 8 was still Terrible. Sunday Morning I head into a different quick care and my hubby had to do all the talking and answering questions as I couldn't even open my mouth, it was scabbed over and hurt each time I tried. He explained to the PA what had been going on and the PA administer a different Antibiotic (just in case it was that one that I was allergic too, I hadn't yet figured out it was the Lysine) and Steroids. Then he also took a sample to Culture so we can know for sure what this was. Should be getting that culture result back today.




The next morning the allergic reaction continued and had worsened (although the spread of the impetigo had stopped, thank Goodness) so I went BACK to the PA we saw on Sunday and he then got me a script for an antihistamine to Relieve the Reaction to Lysine. By the end of the day Monday I felt SO Much better, FINALLY things were working and I was on the mend.

Today I woke up and felt So Much Better, I finally got a wonderful Nights sleep, and had Some Energy to Clean the House, Sanitize Everything that I had been using or touched, Washed, Dried and put my bed sheets back on. Vacuumed my bedroom floor, and EVEN Got in a 15 minute Good and Sweaty Workout.

Gosh That Felt GOOD!!!  

Often times we do NOT realize JUST how important our Health is until we experience something to this extent. And often times we DO NOT Turn it over to the LORD like we should either until we experience things that ONLY he can Cure.








My Husband was the MAN through most of this ordeal and kept his cool, made the meals, kept the house in order, the kids alive, and me tended too. LAYNE I really Sincerely appreciate all the SERVICE you performed for me this past week, I couldn't have gone at it alone.






MY Team of Co workers Totally Stepped up and filled in where I couldn't and I was so proud of them and their efforts too. I LOVE that I have a Team of Women who were Praying for me, Cared enough to check in and ask how I was doing, and Supported my clients while I couldn't. I am Telling you Beachbody is SO MUCH MORE than just getting a Fit Body. It's about Building Life Long Relationships and teaching by Example HOW to be create and maintain Healthy habits for LIFE.

Heck a few years ago I would Certainly NOT have been itching to get to Working out, in fact I would have taken for granted that I am still not 100% back to regular health and pushed it off until I was. BUT this BODY was CRAVING my Me Time, my Destressing Time, my Sweating out the Anxiety, and Time to Gather my thoughts, I WANTED it and I couldn't have it.

Can you see those Sweat droplets on my top lip? Heck YES!!!

So today I woke up Got my Active-wear on and Pushed Play. NOW I will be 100% honest in the fact I couldn't do more than 15 mins, and was out of breath and dripping sweat all over, but I did What I could and for that I am Please with myself.

There are so many things I have learned through this Past week and here are a Few to wrap this up, some are serious and some are just funny, but I had many ah-ha experiences and I wanted to share a few of them:

Feeling Like a NEW Woman, I'm So
Grateful I am on the mend. 

*Liquid Diets, were you can only use a straw for more than a couple days SUCK (pun intended)
*I learned that allowing others to serve me, was more difficult that I thought, I am usually the one serving everyone else, but it also felt NICE to know so many of you and my family Cared.
*Many Prayers are a Powerful Force when so many are all praying for the same outcome, THANK YOU to each of you who added your prayers to mine.
*I have no Idea how y'all can stand to Binge watch Shows on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, etc... I tried if for Just one of the Days and I felt so bored and miserable. It certainly is NOT my cup of Tea.
*I realized how much I TREASURE the hugs and kisses I receive from my kiddos multiple times a day, and Hurt that I couldn't allow them to love on me (impetigo is highly contagious)
*Turning this over to the Savior and asking him to SHOW me What it is I needed to be learning from this experience is much easier said than DONE. However through priesthood blessings, prayers and whispering of the Holy Ghost I was led to know how to combat it and I am Winning Finally.
*If you Want the WHOLE BED to yourself for a WEEK, get impetigo... hahaha



THANKS for Reading to the END for those who did, and IF you would like to be a Part of a TEAM Family like I am and have ever Considered Coaching as a Career lets Talk... I am telling you These Ladies Pulled me through this like Nothing I have experienced Before.

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