{"id":56003,"date":"2018-11-30T08:26:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=56003"},"modified":"2018-11-30T08:26:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:26:47","slug":"whereve-i-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=56003","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;ve I Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been around! Just taking a break. My parents came down to Portland to visit the weekend before Thanksgiving, which was really nice. Michael and I got to have a little time away and Logan got to spend some time with his grandparents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/art.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/art.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/art-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/art-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/art-690x518.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had a nice Thanksgiving with Michael&#8217;s family. His brother got the meal again from Zupan&#8217;s, which was delicious, and the smoked turkey from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/podnahspit.com\/\">Podnah&#8217;s BBQ<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. It was SO GOOD! Smoked turkey is the best thing ever. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pie.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pie-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pie-690x920.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-56008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/turkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/turkey.jpg 562w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/turkey-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stevie is fitting in and settling in nicely. He&#8217;s found his favorite spot:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/stevie2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/stevie2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/stevie2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/stevie2-690x920.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He gets along with Bella for the most part. He likes to sit with Bella and they cuddle\/sleep\/nap together and Stevie gives Bella kisses, which is super cute. Stevie is definitely still a kitten, though, and tries to play with Bella sometimes and Bella is like &#8220;WHAT IN THE HELL IS HAPPENING&#8221;. There have been a few times I&#8217;ve had to separate them to keep anything from happening. Nothing bad, just erring on the side of caution. Maya hasn&#8217;t quite adjusted to the new kitty yet, which I knew would take a long time (if ever).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/stevie3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/stevie3.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/stevie3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/stevie3-690x920.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stevie is adorable and cute and cuddly. He wants to be with his people at all times. Which is sometimes annoying&#8211;especially when he trips us up because he&#8217;s under our feet. \ud83d\ude09 Kittens!!<\/p>\n<p>Now for me: A few months ago I had a CT scan on my sinuses because I&#8217;ve had so many sinus infections. I met with the ENT doctor\/surgeon to go over the results. I may or may not be having sinus surgery. I haven&#8217;t decided yet.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, I have a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/deviated-septum\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20351710\">deviated septum<\/a><\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Deviated-Septum-pic-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Deviated-Septum-pic-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Deviated-Septum-pic-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Deviated-Septum-pic-690x431.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Deviated-Septum-pic.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which is a birth defect. I don&#8217;t think I ever had a broken nose to cause it. In addition, I have an issue with my left sinus. This is not a photo of my CT scan, but I wanted to give you an idea:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/septoplasty_CT-IT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/septoplasty_CT-IT.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/septoplasty_CT-IT-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So the sinus is the black open area where there is air. My right sinus is open and &#8220;black&#8221; like the above picture. The left sinus is completely gray. So if I do have sinus surgery it would be to fix the deviated septum and to open up the turbinate\/sinus area. That would fix my sinus issues and I&#8217;d hopefully stop having sinus infections SO MUCH.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of sinus surgery sounds scary and awful, so I&#8217;m not sure yet if I want to do it. The doctor claims the recovery isn&#8217;t THAT bad&#8230;about a week or two of being uncomfortable and not being able to breathe out of your nose and then I should be ok. 4 weeks of no heavy physical activity\/swimming. I just don&#8217;t know. I mean my day to day life isn&#8217;t miserable. Not right now. I just hate that every cold I get turns into a sinus infection. Time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>In other medical news: I have plantar fascitiis. I was having some Achilles and heel pain, that felt like a bruise, on and off for a few months and saw my doctor last week and got the diagnosis. It was a super bummer. I know that PF is a painful, chronic issue that is often hard to get rid of so I was kind of disappointed to hear that. She suggested inserts.<\/p>\n<p>I got inserts for my shoes specifically for plantar fascitiis. I felt IMMEDIATE relief for my feet. It was like magic. Except, within a few days I started having back pain. What the hell?! Seriously, I felt like the Princess and the Pea. One tiny thing threw off my ENTIRE BODY.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56017 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I talked to my doctor and she said to ease into using the inserts, just a few hours a day to get used to them. Ok&#8230;.So that is not fun right now. It really feels like my whole body is broken right now!<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on right now.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>QUESTION: Have you had sinus surgery? How did it go?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been around! Just taking a break. My parents came down to Portland to visit the weekend before Thanksgiving, which was really nice. Michael and I got to have a little time away and Logan got to spend some time with his grandparents. We had a nice Thanksgiving with Michael&#8217;s family. His brother got the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[454,95,1960,1683,243,9932,1810,9827],"tags":[8777,9935,551,1994,9132,1992,8810,9934,9928,9937,9936,8820,9933,8312],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56003"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56020,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56003\/revisions\/56020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}