I'm going to be fine!

I heard back from my doctor about the results of my heart monitoring. He said there wasn't anything that was alarming. The doctor said that my heart can get up to 150bpm for no apparent reason at all, so he thinks I'm having stress/anxiety that may be causing the heart quickening. I'll go on some medicine to help with that. I'll follow-up with my doctor in a month to see if the medicine has been helping with the symptoms. I'm sure they will!

My heart

So, I went to the doctor a couple weeks ago with a pain in my left breast. It wasn't a lump or anything so we weren't worried about cancer. My doctor couldn't really explain it so he ran some blood work. This week my nurse called me back about the blood work. Almost everything looked okay, except it showed slight breakdown of my heart muscle. Because of this the doctor wanted me to come in to talk about it and get an EKG. I went in on Wednesday to my appointment. The EKG results showed that I haven't had a heart attack (well - that's great!), but my doctor said I have a slow heart beat. With my symptoms of: slow heart beat, the heart muscle breakdown bloodwork, the pain in my breast, my cholesterol (it isn't too terrible), and some heart fluttering (most likely due to my slow heart beat) -- my doctor wants me to do more testing. I'll have to be monitored for a few days and push a button anytime I feel a flutter (my heart beating faster) or any pain. This is so they can tell what's going on with my heart when I'm having a flutter or whatever. It all sounds scary, but I'm really not worried. I think everything will be fine. Really I'm just typing it out to help it make sense to me. I'm not in any pain or anything.. so I'm expecting it to be okay! I'll be getting the monitoring thing tomorrow - so maybe within the next 2 weeks I'll know more. I'll make sure to post again.

A few pictures

Monkey see... Monkey do! Before you flip out, she can't actually suck the Diet Coke through the straw. I just think it's funny that she wants the straw like mommy!

Did I mention Lucy has decided to be a punk-rocker with her very own mohawk? HA HA!

Riding in the train - we played for at least an hour with this diaper box. It was our very own choo-choo train that we pushed around the house. Abby loved it! Lucy didn't mind it. :)

Hello again!

I'm starting to feel guilty for not writing so much.. it's kind of like how I've started journals probably 10 different times in my life and wasn't very good at writing in them consistently. I will try to be better! We are doing good here. Lucy will be 6 months in a few days. I took her today to get her pictures taken - she was a perfect model! In fact, the photographer put a few preview pictures on her blog.. check it out: http://ashworthphotography.blogspot.com/ She did a great job taking pictures of Lucy and trying to take pics of Abby. Abby wasn't so cooperative. She hasn't sat for 'real' pictures ever since she was 18 months old, so I wasn't expecting much to begin with. I should get the pictures within a week and I will definitely post them! I'll be back soon.. for sure. :)