Numbers and BIG Things

A few weeks ago, I told you about my Mounjaro journey. Well, today I took my 52nd shot. I’ve been on this medicine for one year! It’s been quite the roller coaster. On the downside, I’ve lost SOOOOO much hair. Then I’ve been dealing with a bit of an identity crisis. I feel like I don’t know myself in this body. I’ve been having to buy new clothes, and it’s not the fun experience you’d think it should be. Also, on Sundays when I take the shot, I get hit with the worst fatigue. Therefore, I’m pretty useless, and I hate that the day goes to waste. Vince tells me it’s a good thing I get forced to rest. I still hate it.

These last few weeks my weight has been going between 135 and 133. I’m just a few pounds shy of my personal goal of 131. I’ll get there. I just need to stop jacking around. But it’s been a little difficult with everything else I’ve got going on.

My health numbers have been rockin’! I check my blood sugar every morning, and it’s nice to see the numbers be green for normal. My doctor told me I’m the poster child for what these meds should be doing. As much as I hate having to keep doing this, I’m happy to have this boost in my health. It’s nice to not be a slave to my appetite anymore.

In other news, Aria is growing in so many ways. She recently finished her first round of braces. Well, aligners actually. She did the Spark system, which is similar to Invisalign. I was scared she would not keep up with doing it, but she did. She will have to do another round, but she’s still losing lots of baby teeth. So we’ll see how she’s doing in a few months before going again. But I’m really glad we were able to do this for her. Her little teeth were coming in all sorts of crooked. Now they’re in much better alignment!

The other night, she and I were out running errands. She asked if we could pick up Crumble cookies on our way home. I placed the order on the app, and we headed that direction. Before we got there, I had an idea. I asked her, “Hey, you wanna’ do a big kid thing?” She said, “Like what?” I told her, “Do you want to get down by yourself and get our order?” At first, she wasn’t too sure, but I told her exactly what to do. She said, “Okay, I’ll try.” I assured her that if she needed me, she could wave at me and I’d hop right out of the car and go in. I parked right in front of the door. She got out of the car and I told her, “You got this!” I was scared watching her go in by herself. I was concerned the employees would ignore her and she’d lose her confidence, but that didn’t happen. From the car, I watched her go up to the counter, the guy behind it showed her the cookies inside the box, she nodded, and I could see her say, “Yup!”

Then she confidently walked out of the store and back to our car. I asked her, “So how did it go?” She said, “Good! When I walked in, the guy called your name and I told him that it was for me.” I said, “So it wasn’t bad, right? You did a big kid thing.” She said, “Yeah, that was fun!” I explained to her that I wanted her to do this because I want her to start learning how do things for herself, like ordering and paying for her food. She was excited to be able to do that.

As much as I want to always protect her, I understand she’s growing up. I want her to not be scared to do things. Even though later that night she admitted, “But I don’t think I can go into a store by myself yet.” I told her, “Yeah, I’m not ready for that one yet either.”