Summertime

Well I must admit I am totally confused by how many enzymes I need to take with food! I have not moved over to Nutrizym 22 yet but have been experimenting with Nutrizym 10. I am not taking any with breakfast or lunch and only two with my evening meal and 4 with a really fatty meal such as takeaway. Yesterday I went to the cinema and ate about 2/3's of a large popcorn and two small milky ways (well Lidl's version of them!) and only had one tablet. I seem to be more regular and less bloated! I need to speak with the dietitian at my next outpatients appointment as I am so confused, i'm not sure what I should be looking for in my stools (gross I know). I used to get belly ache and horrible stools if I didn't take my tablets, is it possible to become more pancreatic sufficient as you get older!? I think they need to test me or I need to confirm what I should be looking out for. It's really weird eating and not taking any tablets, I keep getting them out of the drawer automatically! My weight is going up if anything as I am just hungry all the time, it's driving my insane, I don't know if this is linked to me not taking my enzymes. Food just tastes so good at the moment!

I'm really stable at the moment and feeling good. Don't get me wrong I still have CF and have serious lung infections and lung damage and my energy levels are not the same as someone without CF, I still cough lots and get breathless and have to do loads of treatment every day. Yesterday in the cinema I was coughing loads and was worried I was annoying everyone, I was scared I'd even coughed a greeny on my hand (I hadn't thankfully!), so I still have to deal with crap like that on a daily basis. I'm saying this because some people seem to think that when I say I'm feeling good I am as healthy as a normal person, no not at all, one can only dream... However, I am good for me, but if a healthy person felt like me they'd probably be curled up in bed whining.

I have been to the gym four times a week the past two weeks. Can you believe that?! Yoga once a week and gyming it three times, I swear if I ever have a transplant and have normal energy levels I'm not going to be able to sit still because even now if I feel good I feel I need to be doing stuff to keep that way. Obviously my gym sessions are not anything to shout about, there was a small child next to me on Thursday who was going faster on the cross trainer than me but I'm beating my personal bests if you can call them that, so I'm proud and happy with myself.

I feel like life is how it should be at the moment, I wake up on a morning and rather than dreading the day and figuring out how I'll manage to get through it, I can wake up and look forward to the day. Summertime is definitely the best time of year even if we are in England and it rains for most of it!

My Clever Little Alfie

I feel like I have neglected Alfie for a while on my blog so here are some videos of him doing stay, recall and stop. He is really good at obedience and training whatever his other faults may be. Love him so much!