by Jamie Holloway | Feb 27, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Yep, another post about my new exercise program pulmonary rehab. I started reading the booklet this evening, after I took a two hour nap and took a soak in the bathtub to help my legs feel better. I am also having a flare-up this week. My wrist, middle finger on my...
by Jamie Holloway | Feb 26, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I started my pulmonary rehab this morning. I am sore. I had to walk for 6 minutes, thankfully I was allowed to stop and take breaks. One thing I found out about myself is that I know how to listen to my body. I wasn’t out of breath, but my heart was racing...
by Jamie Holloway | Feb 8, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Happy Friday! Yesterday I went and saw a Pulmonologist about getting me into pulmonary rehabilitation. Dr. Coates said that this type of rehabilitation is for people who suffer from COPD, which I do not have, thank you God. My lungs are healthy, but the airway that...
by Jamie Holloway | Feb 3, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true. Ralph Waldo Trine I sometimes get so aggravated by comments or thoughts from people. The question isn’t it limiting or it would be limiting to somehow set me off on a rampage of wanting to...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 31, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I have had the tune “Getting To Know You” from the Yul Brenner’s movie “The King and I” with Maureen O’Hara from the late 50’s early 60’s stuck in my head. I am getting to know my stomach again. I used to know my stomach well, but that all changed when I had my...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 30, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I got all my staples out of my belly. I am so happy, I feel like doing a belly dance, but I will spare you the visual image of me swinging my belly back and forth in excitement. Yes, I hurt, the staples make the wounds hurt worse and now I have a bandage on all 6...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 27, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Yesterday I spent the entire day relaxing in order for my body to heal. I also took a water pill and been peeing a lot in order to get the water retention gone from my body. I see the evidence in my right foot and I hate seeing my foot swollen. It is ugly. I retain...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 19, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Yesterday was a challenging day, actually the whole week was. Every single day I had something to do and even today I have something to do. I am tired, but I feel good at the same time about what I am accomplishing. It is a bit of a contradiction, but sometimes things...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 16, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I am in Longview. I got here yesterday evening after my doctor appointment. I got my heart results. The good news, my heart is healthy, the correct size, the valves are open, and I am pumping correctly. The heart rate going up while I am walking around is due to my...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 5, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
“You have to be willing to consider that, regardless of the trauma, there is a divine purpose that moves in tandem with every even in your life, painful and joyful.” Carolyn Myss I would love to be assured that the trauma’s that I have suffered in the last four years...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 4, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Another mile stone that is happening on my journey is that I can now put my Jaxton trach into the stoma without needing the mirror to guide me. I also learned the value of lube in making sliding the sucker in easier for me. Considering that I have had my trach or some...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 1, 2013 | Auto-immune, Exhilarating People, The Magnificent Journey
I took a break from blogging on the last day of the year. I wanted to spend time with my longtime friend whose birthday it was. We first celebrated by driving in the snow to Ridgefield, Washington to Myrtle’s Tea House. What a beautiful service they provide and...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 29, 2012 | Auto-immune, Exhilarating People, Inspiring Nutrition, The Magnificent Journey
As I flipped my mattress on my bed I realized that I just did too much. Strange how something so simple can cause me to get so out of breathe that I have to sit down and rest. Thankfully my caregiver was here. I like the fact that he allows me to try to be independent...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 27, 2012 | Auto-immune, Inspiring Nutrition, The Magnificent Journey
I started a big project to coincide with my myfitnesspal. I have a pininterest account and I have been spending the last year pinning healthy recipes that I find from Oprah, WebMD, and Eat Better America on my board called Good Eats. I have also pinned from other...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 24, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Walking down the hallway towards the rec room I felt my body communicating its struggle to breathe, heart racing, difficulty in getting oxygen in the lungs as I moved my body, and a slower than usual pace all leads me to the conclusion that my inflammation is back...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 21, 2012 | Auto-immune, Inspiring Nutrition, The Magnificent Journey
“You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered down, occasional hope that you’ll get to tomorrow. I intend to start exercising. I intend to get my desk in order; I intend to change my eating habits. Intention without...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 20, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Wednesday morning I went to the Legacy Good Samaritan to get an Echo Cardiogram done of my heart. I got to see and hear my own heart, what an experience that was. I woke up with not wanting to get up. I wanted to stay curled up in my bed sleeping with my cat. I forced...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 18, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
“I now know what it is to feel as vulnerable as a human being can feel. I was ready to become dependent on others’ care, which, for someone as independent as I am, was no comfort. Having to say if this what I must accept, so be it, can feel like chewing glass, but not...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 16, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I had an opportunity to view my timeline on Face Book. It opened my eyes to the fact that I had been through a lot in 2012. Six surgeries, getting a caregiver, learning to live with a trach and then a t-tube in my throat, doing the Christmas Angel Telethon, and...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 15, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Another step towards my healing I am wearing a turquoise blue heart monitor. The reason you may be wondering is because when I had my chemo treatment on November 13th, 2012 a month ago to be exact. I started having heart palpitations and went to the ER. I remember...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 2, 2012 | Auto-immune, Inspiring Nutrition, The Magnificent Journey
Anyone who knows me realizes that I read and research nutrition. That is one of my passions, though I have to admit that I rarely put any of the good information to use. The reason being I am overwhelmed with the amount of hard work, dedication, and commitment it...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 1, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I awoke at 4 AM looking forward to getting my results from the biopsy I had done at the end of October to see if I have IGG4. Arriving at my destination sitting in the doctor’s office anticipating the chance to finally know what I have and not just a bunch of guesses....
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 24, 2012 | Auto-immune, Inspiring Nutrition, The Magnificent Journey
Last night I went to bed early, around 8 PM only to wake up by 10 PM with the pit of my stomach hurting. I have gone through this similar thing before. Every so often, my stomach stops digesting food and I end up with a pain in the pit of my stomach until I throw up....
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 23, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I have been thinking about my body lately. I came across this concept of forgiving my body. Why not? Seems reasonable, we forgive others for things they do wrong, so why not our own frail bodies that fall apart for no apparent reason or have unknown ailments that...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 20, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and endless plans: That the moment one definitely commits...
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