Mudderella 10-04-2014

I think was around January when Yvette and I started signing up for Muderella, we wanted to do something like this last year but due to a scheduled wedding, I had no partner in crime so we signed up for this year. I was so excited, new job, new schedule and now new stuff to do for the year. I was kind of scared because we signed up way too early and I was thinking what if something happens, were not trained and we cannot do it. I pushed that to the back of my mind and started biking to the park (10 miles from home), swimming on weekends or whenever I can to train for it. I shouldn't have entertained the thought of something bad happening because something did.

These past few months I have been sick, sick to the point where all I can do most days is lay down, hope the swelling in my foot transfer to other parts of my body so I can either sit up or at least go to the restroom. What brought it on, I do not know. All I know is that one day I woke up one leg is swollen and won't even fit in my shoes. I thought I brought the wrong pair again and I'd have to return it. Then the next day two of them were swollen and wearing pants was making my back hurt and was constricting the flow of blood in my body. I started wearing dresses and bigger underwear, because nothing would fit. The doctor did not care to give me the proper medicine right away and I blame them for most of it.

Two weeks before the event I started getting better because finally they gave me some medicine to keep the swelling down as well as to deal with the arthritis. Not that it's working now but finally I was seeing progress and yay finally we were going to be able to do the Mud Run. I still wasn't in shape but heck why not. We paid a lot of money to be there and I will be there.

I didn't get to do all the obstacles but I had fun on the slides and the ones that I did. Will I do it again? Not when I'm sick, maybe when I get better and I have this arthritis/lupus under control.

I'm just thankful Yvette had so much patience waiting for me on the walks, and when I was having cramps.

http://youtu.be/rYfE5jDrIBo