Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Back to my "old self"

Well kind of anyways! My nurse called me the other day to tell me that my labs showed no signs of lupus right now! What awesome news! Basically that means my body is in complete remission (back to where it was BEFORE my flare up, before I had Nolan). If a doctor were to test me for Lupus today, it would show no signs in my lab work. Crazy hu?! Who knows what would happen if I came off my medication...but for now, it's showing nothing while on medication, so that's great!

The Lupus Walk for Hope was last weekend and what a GREAT turnout! I had about 30 people alone just on my team-Thanks to everyone who came out! We dont have final numbers in yet, but I'm thinkings it is going to be over $25,000 raised! The ambassador role was very exciting, but of course...I started crying during my speech! Someday I will be able to talk about my experience with Lupus without crying. I'm hopeful anyways!!!

The new house is starting to feel like "home". Boxes are unpacked, rooms are decorated, neighbors have been introduced. We are really enjoying the town and neighborhood and excited to raise the family here! I feel 10 times safer here, which is worth it in itself!!! We are also starting to look into a new church here. Our church now is in St.Cloud, and we just are having a hard time making it on Sundays considering it is a 1/2 hour drive one way. A closer church would be much easier!! We are going to try out a Lutheran Church on Sunday. Excited for that!

Can't believe Fall is just around the corner. SOOO excited to have a normal fall this year and for family pictures in October! Last year at this time, my face was HUGE so there was no way I was taking family pictures and I also held myself back in a lot of the fun fall activities. Very excited!

I probably won't update for another few weeks unless something VERY interesting in my life pops up:) No updates usually mean healthy Anne:)