and then...

Whammo!!! My new, strong, beautiful body began to have pain, and grow in places that were NOT my "tough spot". So off to the doc I went again!  Now I had been working full time, training early morning, reading the Word, praying, even leading some Bible Studies! I remember going on evening to pray with the elders of our church - we called them the 3 "J'''s, and they had been praying together I think 25 years when i met them. I actually asked them to pray for complete healing, but only if I had learned at this juncture what God had for me. It seemed the more I learned of God, the healthier I became!!

So, I digress. Now I had a tumor growing in my stomach (uterus, to be exact) not deadly or even really harmful, except for the fact that it sat on my sciatic nerve, and when I moved a certain way, it felt like something was ripping from my body that should NOT be! So  my training ground to a halt until I was able to find a doc to remove it safely.
Again, God provided. I had a dear friend who had gone before me - with a dinner plate sized tumor of the same kind. At that time, there was a doctor in Philadelphia had developed a technique to remove these without the woman bleeding out. (Did I mention, mine was the size of a 4 month old baby?) I refused the total hysterectomy offered by 100% of the docs I could get in to see.  I told them I was going to have children, and no tumor was going to stop that!
 Off to Philly we flew, and out that tumor came! 8 weeks later - my return to the gym! Whoohoo!! But now, my rockin' trainer had moved to Georgia!!  We still kept in touch, and she was always wonderfully encouraging - she taught me what I needed to know and told me I could do it - I just had to think it through!  And she was right! After a number of baubles, I started back on a rock solid routine.  So grateful to have her voice, instruction, encouragement in my head to keep me going. In fact, I even began training a few friends and family to boot!
But my body would not respond, I was in a lot of pain, and I was exhausted.... off to the biochemist. Apparently, enough had to be taken out inthe surgery, that my hormones were flipping into menopause! So onto progesterone, and more to try to stave this (attack?) off!
Would you believe months later, after almost 10 yrs of marriage, and all docs saying it would most likely not happen, my hubby and I were blessed with twins!!!
Strong, healthy pregnancy.... tough, icky first months - all normal!

and strong, BEAUTIFUL, healthy boy and girl twins!!!!   Our God is amazing, isn't He???? There was a number of issues woven in there - but wow, this is a long entry!!

our new family moved to Houston, TX, (where my hubby and I were raised) to be near grandparents. Again, I was offered a membership to a gym my sister in law trained in as a trainer, and voila! Back on track again... lifting weights and grinning ear to ear!   Childcare for 2 hours a day = it was Heaven!!!

Apparently, my body again was really upset. As my twins turned 2, my body told me it had been a real struggle, and went into Thyroid cancer. Again God was there - providing strength, courage, and real, deep, joy...