7th Annual Liz Hurley Ribbon Run - Part Two

As mentioned in the last post, Jackie, Jan and I were on Team Christina this year. Christina attends Twickenham C of C and some of her friends started a team for her as she is in the beginning stages of battling breast cancer. Somehow the word spread and people from other churches began to join, which is how we ended up being on the team. Some of Jan’s friends knew about it and we all decided to join. At last count, I believe there were 144 people on the team, raising the second largest sum of money behind one of the corporations in town. I was able to meet Christina at the Spaghetti Dinner on Friday night and she seemed to be in good spirits and was really excited about all the people running on her team.

The team had really cute shirts, pink for the girls and white for the guys, and we all wore them on race day.

When I got up Saturday morning, I had almost no pain in my foot, which was a modern day miracle; however, I still decided to walk rather than run because I didn’t want to press my luck. I made it through the whole 3.2 miles, but it was the slowest finish time I have ever had, which kind of makes me chuckle. My foot punished me by hurting the rest of the day and weekend.

There were tons of people and tons of pink as always. We had a really fun time and enjoyed spending the morning together.

As a reminder, my college roommate, Melissa, is walking in a 60-mile walk this weekend for breast cancer awareness. Please keep her in your prayers as she attempts to accomplish her goal. She is also volunteering to carry the names of your loved ones with her during her walk. If you’d like for her to remember someone you know, then please check out this blog post and leave her a comment. Good luck Melissa! Love ya!

Here are some pictures for you:

Here are Jackie and I before the race. I had ordered the hat from Etsy and got lots of compliments on it. After we started the race I was ready to shed it because it was getting warm, but my hair was greasy so I kept it on.

There were lots of dogs there and this little one was the first to catch my eye. I loved its doggie sweater.

Here is one of the banners at the tent for Team Christina.

All of the phrases on the banner were on the backs of our shirts.

Another dog - this one and its friend had on pink tutus.

I'm pretty sure The Tide would have nothing to do with wearing a tutu.

Kim, Louwena (not sure if I spelled that right), Jan, Jackie and Me.

I didn't get the dark pants memo apparently

The women's 5K is off to a good start!

There were tons of runners/walkers

Jackie and I thought the shirts for this team were funny.

There were babies along for the ride too!

This one's for you, Tony - with a little less than a mile to go we came across these people blowing Vuvuzelas.

I felt like I was at the World Cup! I heard them before I reached them and knew immediately what they were and I was right!

Here's a closer look!

I've Been Keeping My Feet Dry

Dear readers,
Take care of your feet. If you don’t, you will be broke. Thanks for listening!
Natasha

In case you didn’t catch on, I’ve been having some problems with my feet. I realize you probably didn’t come here today expecting to read about feet, but this is all I’ve got today, people. Sorry.

For about a year I’ve been having issues with my feet and over the past few months, the pain has gotten increasingly worse. The only time they didn’t hurt is when I was sitting down, and sometimes they even hurt then. My left foot hurt the worst. Finally I broke down and made an appointment with the podiatrist, Dr. Behmer, of the Huntsville Podiatry Center. He is the caretaker of Tony’s mom’s feet and surprisingly enough, I recently discovered that he performed surgery on my dad’s feet back in 1973. It’s a small world; don’t let anyone tell you differently.

So, last week I had my first appointment only to discover that I have heel spurs, bursitis, and bunions, among other things. So after this discovery, Dr. Behmer tells me he’s going to give me a shot of cortisone, in both feet. Huh? Now I have a friend, Sandy, who had these shots before and she cried like a baby and told how it was the worst thing in the world. So, I was not excited about this at all. Besides that, I wanted someone there to hold my hand and I was there all alone. Needless to say, I survived the shots all by myself. The nurse taped my feet up and told me to keep the tape on and keep them dry for five days. Huh? Yep, five days.

So for five days last week I took a bath with bags on my feet and my feet on the side of the bathtub. I best you have a lovely mental picture now don’t you. The tape actually helped quite a bit, the only hard part was keeping my feet dry.

Yesterday I went in for round two of the cortisone shots and my dad was kind enough to accompany me and hold my hand. I think it’s the anticipation leading up to the shots that is almost as bad as the actual shots. Thankfully, since I had not had any pain in the right foot, I only had to get a shot in my left foot yesterday and the right foot was spared. Today, however, my left foot hurts worse than it has in a week’s time and I’m not sure what’s going on with that, but I don’t like it.

I go in for round three next week. I’m really not sure how many rounds there are, but my wallet’s getting dry thanks to doctor’s visits and inserts and new shoes. So, the point of this post is to take care of your feet or you too will be handing over wads of cash to your doctor.