Happy 60th Birthday
First I want to say Happy 60th Birthday to Mike today, I am so blessed to do life with him and am praying for many more birthdays! We can’t believe we are getting this “old” but are looking at it a different way...” we GET to be this old!” So much has happened in the last month so hopefully I don’t make this too long. Mike had to go off Retevmo and all additional supplements due to very high liver enzymes and has had repeat blood work several times but they remained high. Finally on Wednesday we went to Mayo again for bloodwork and an ultrasound of all of Mike’s internal organs. Thankfully all his organs look great and his liver enzymes are down enough that he can start back on his medication at half dose. They will check his blood again in a week or two and see if he is tolerating it and hopefully bump it up to regular dose. 🙏🏼
We went to our place in Arizona with our son Josh and his family and had a great week in the sun but after much thought and prayer we decided to sell our home, so we listed it with our friend and realtor Susan. We rented a U-haul and packed up all our things with Josh’s help and now we are praying for the perfect buyer to come along and love it as much as we did. We managed to keep doing 75Hard the whole week until the last day. It didn’t really feel like our “bitch voices” got the better of us, it just felt way to stressful to continue! We wear Oura rings to track sleep, activity, heart rate, etc... and they were “telling us” that we were not listening to our bodies. So after 34 days completed we decided to pause 75Hard, but we will start back up because we really like the discipline of it. We are not looking at either thing as a defeat but a chance at starting over.
We have had so many positive responses to the podcast we were on with Amy Ledin and are so glad that we stepped out on a limb and did it, if it helps even one person with cancer or any other issues they are struggling with! Mike is a natural and God really blessed him with an ability to communicate with people. Thanks to all who took the time to listen, and if you haven’t listened to the podcast and want to, it is called F*it with Amy Ledin and it’s episode #113.
We are thankful for another year and want to encourage everyone to look for the blessings in every day because they are there if we pay attention! Right now it’s so easy to see all the bad going on in the world, I know I can get sucked into that rabbit hole more than I want to admit, but I climb my way back out and realize that I need to keep my focus on what I want in life not what I don’t want. Now it’s time for Jack’s Warburg Basketball season to start and we are super excited for that.
Matthew 24:10-13 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Endure, and be blessed,
Paula