SUPER WHAT?

Oh my aching arm.  Driving up North last weekend I began to realize that I could not hold the steering wheel with my left arm without feeling excruciating pain.  Further into the weekend I could not close the car door with my left hand and I could not lift my arm to fix my hair and put deodorant on my left armpit.  I managed through the weekend and made it home with calming moments of mediation and balancing my energy fields.  But this kind of pain called for drastic measures.  Dr. Bentley...HELP!

When it comes to joint and muscle pain Dr. Mark Bentley is my best friend.  He did the initial diagnosis on Wednesday.  "Your SUPRASPINATUS MUSCLE is inflamed."  My super what?  It's one of the 4 muscles that makes up the rotator cuff.  And it didn't just happen by trauma to the muscle.  It happened over time.

Glorious news!  Anything that happens over time means it will take more time to recover.  

Understand this about me...I would rather prevent pain and illness than endure the process of recovery.  I eat well, I exercise (well sometimes), I take vitamins and minerals.  Basically, I am a health freak.  Low sugar, low salt, low fat.  That's me.  Actually, I don't really like food.  I eat to live and definitely do not live to eat.  Fresh fruit and vegies, honey instead of sugar, water, lots and lots of water...and I love herbal teas sweetened with stevia.  

Enough of that...check this out...

The day I was diagnosed was also the first day of the Washington County Fair.  I was supposed to take it easy and ice my shoulder 3 or 4 times a day.  Really?  K...well that's not happening until Sunday.  

The Fair was exhausting in a satisfying sort of way.  My involvement includes parking with my Red Rock Rotary Club, Representing the Washington County School District Foundation as a board member and doing whatever Wendy, my leader, tells me to do as a member of the Washington County Fair Board.  Hamilton and Asa helped me on Wednesday in the foundation booth.  Ra joined me for parking on Thursday and he did it every night after that while I worked the fair.  The fair parade was so much fun on Saturday morning then Pam Graf and I got the prizes for the baby contest all taken care of.  The highlight of the fair is always the Demolition Derby but that's a-whole-nother blog post and my arm is hurting from all this typing.  

I think it would be best to follow doctors orders and ice my supraspinatus.         

CATCHING UP

So many blogs and so little time leaves my own personal blog in the dust of my hurried existence.  On this beautiful peaceful Sunday morning I am taking time to catch up.

Family

All is well.  After a summer of sickness (colds and coughs turning to pneumonia), ankle sprains, wart removal, wisdom teeth extraction (or soon to be), soccer parties, picnics and movies - we are down to the final 10 days of summer.  This weekend I am looking forward to the Park City Soccer Tournament where I will spend 3 glorious days on the sidelines of the soccer fields, enjoying the majestic beauty of the surrounding mountains.  

Updates from Isaac are the best part of my week.  His missionary enthusiasm is contagious.  I am motivated by his attitude and his passion to succeed.  His letters are long, although not long enough for his mother, and his blog is updated regularly.  Click HERE if you want to know how he is.  

WORK 

Wow, I don't even know where to begin.  My work as the PR/Promotions Manager at CMI is overwhelming in a positive sort of way.  Not only am I promoting and branding 6 divisions of media but I am now a radio DJ!  

When I was young and really into music and the radio, friends and family would tell me I had a future in radio.  I would look at them with this perplexed sort of look.  Now, here I am.  Working at CMI, connected to Classical 91.3 and accepting the opportunity to host a show M-F from 8p - 10p.

My show is called Peaceful Relaxation.  The format is New Age.  I learned how to track on Friday.  It will air for the first time tomorrow night.  I have big plans for the show so future updates can be expected.

Service  

Over the next 3 months I will be buried in the Washington County Fair, The Lions Club Roundup Rodeo, events associated with the Washington County School District Foundation and the HWSG International Festival.  I will also be serving the community through Red Rock Rotary and Leadership Academy.  I hold a place as a committee/board member for each of these organizations.  I am a philanthropist at heart and haven't quite figured out how to say no.

Sometime around the beginning of November I should've dug my way out...just in time to be overwhelmed by the holidays.  Maybe I will find some time to exhale in January.

Spiritual 

After all is said and done, the reason I can do all that I do and not completely breakdown is because I start every day with prayer and meditation.  My testimony of the LDS faith I belong to continues to govern my life and my study of chakra and Human Energy Flow (HEF) brings all things into balance.  In September (among all that I am doing) I will stop my world for a few short days and begin the HEF certification process.  I am so excited for this.

When I study chakra and the art of balancing human energy, the spirit speaks truth to me.  The light of Christ flows through each of us and radiates from our being in a rainbow of colors.  The more I learn about this the more I connect to my foundation.

My peaceful morning is not so peaceful anymore so this blog update will have to end here.