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I hope this update video helps some of you newly diagnosed, or just wondering what being on one of the most frequently prescribed biologics is like.
I wish all of my fellow spoonies the best. - -- And don't take this decision lightly. Do NOT let anyone else coerce you or make the decision for you. This is your life, your body, your illness. BE INFORMED and be your own advocate.
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This is the make it or break it week. In so many ways.
I could just list my goals, but I think it might be more helpful to you and to me to explain why they are on this list and just how I plan to improve them and my life.
1. Financial Aid
I'm pretty sure this one needs no explanation. My award letter is not what I expected it to be. Its fine, just odd. So I need to speak with my counselor.
2. Get my windshield repaired
Again, no explanation needed.
3. Get back to eating the way I want (really it's a need) to.
So this has less to do with dietetics than with Crohn's and medications. I have pretty much figured out what I can and cannot eat to feel good and keep my weight/bloat/water retention down. I'm also working on figuring out which foods help my mental state. I MUST get back to that way of eating.
4. Start Product reviews
I had promised a long time ago to do product reviews from the perspective of consumer (does it taste good, is it economical), Crohnie (will it give me a flare, allergens), and dietitian (is it actually healthy, who would this product suit). I need to actually do this.
5. Uh. Exercise
I started doing yoga twice daily months ago and about a month ago, I stopped. Idiotic. Yoga not only is great for flexibility, it's amazing for relaxation and sleep. It teaches mindfulness and it's extra low impact for any painful joints. Also. Walking. I'm home with my pup and yet I've still lost all ambition to stay healthy.
6. Step up my YouTube game
This goal is actually many goals in one. Work on thumbnails, tags, titles. Also professional content. Last week I recorded a series of probiotics videos. They aren't up to the standard they really should be, but I'm uploading them to keep my presence up and then the quality will continue to improve with better equipment, software, and editting techniques come in.
I've got some great ideas for content, but the production quality is holding me back. So it's all about the education and practice this week. Hopefully by next week and the week after you'll start to notice.
7. Start the third weekly blog post that corresponds to that weeks video theme
I think it's more useful to people to watch a video and then have a more in depth resource to click through to.
8. Move beyond just posting for comfort and routine
The quality and content has to be there. I think the anxiety study has started to move in to my real life, so it's time to repurpose the channel to correspond with the blog and bring forth my inner dietitian.
9. Plan for the next functional food video series
It's not just probiotics that really help ALL people. There are many others. We could delve into kombucha, aloe, and a plethora of others to determine whether they are actually functional and how do we best use them.
10. Get through the main research on Thyroid diet
Beyond goitrogens, selenium, and iodine. What else is there that needs to be eliminated or added to the diet to help make our thyroids function the best and does it still help when the patient has an autoimmune disorder..
So those are the main ones. I won't be too gutted if I don't get through them all. And some are going to be a choice everyday. But this week is the beginning of a new Era. And at this point, it has to be, for me, for my future, for my confidence, for my health.
I've never been good at sticking with things I've only promised to myself. But if I ever plan on having a business or even making any sort of a difference here (or even making some money from it) I need to be better and more committed. I need to put some real effort and invest in this project.
So, with this really short post, that it is what I am doing. I am committing to you and myself to keep up and improve both this blog and my videos.
The posts in both locations will become more informative, more professional, while staying personal and entirely genuine.
Please stick with me and stick by me as I finally do something to help myself in the long run and stop being so reactionary and only doing things in reaction to my immediate and often painful circumstances.
I am here to tell you I am taking my life back and I'm going to help others do the same!
Did you know today is Norwegian Heritage day? I didn't, but that's awesome.
So. Update.
Eventually this blog should take the form of health, diet, and lifestyle advice that will be supplemental to my career as an RDN. Until that happens, it will continue to serve as a life and school update platform, slowly molding and evolving into a more health and professional based platform.
The first step in that evolution is here.
I am starting a new blog series that should be coming weekly on Mondays (nevermind that this one is coming at you on Wednesday). Here I will feature a goal for the week along with a review of a product, book, or diet that I've been learning about.
This week I mainly focus on the goals.
I've got so many for this first week home.
Here they are:
- PPD test administration and reading
- Immunization record and flu shot record
- Transfer of scripts to pharmacy that accepts WA AppleHealth
- Dr appt with GI
- Discuss the merits of staying on Humira vs coming off of it entirely or in favor of another med
- If staying on Humira, transfer to specialty pharmacy
- What I Learned This Week post Saturday
- Change YouTube channel name
So as you can see this week is a focus on personal health and getting my ducks in a row for clinicals.
In the state of NY, every Healthcare professional must have a yearly PPD test (for TB) - which is pretty standard - and a yearly flu vaccine.
I got my influenza vaccination in November last year here in WA, at a local pharmacy so I have to find that record and get it transferred to my immunization record through my primary care physician and get all of that sent to my school so that it can be disseminated to the proper people before I start clinicals.
Other than those goals, I'm trying to relax and prepare myself mentally for the next big step in my college and professional journey - taking care of self, in other words.
I've been vlogging in bits and pieces this week and those clips will be coming to my YouTube channel as well.
As I mentioned above, I am also looking to change the name of my YouTube channel to better reflect where I am taking the content and my plans for the future in terms of business pursuits.
You will notice the content change shortly as well I hope. Not this week and maybe not next but definitely within the month of May. My first foray into science based diet advice will either be on Thyroid diet research or personalized Crohn's diets.
Part of my other blog series (What I Learned This Week) will wrap up how I did on my goals and what I learned from them and any changes or progress I have made.
I hope you are all looking forward to these changes and some previews into what might be coming from me in future as I step into a career as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (MSRD). I look forward to your input and feedback and PLEASE SHARE the videos and blog entries so I canreachmorepeople.
It has been a long time since I have written a post. Lately, I have just been filming a video as an update instead of writing a post.
This past week was finals week. My first term in Buffalo is done and I am 1/5 done in my journey here. I will be back in Buffalo in about 7 weeks to start my first round of clinical rotations. It is incredibly scary, but I am trying to stay focused on the fact that this next 7 months may be the hardest of my life so far.
With that being said, I have to make sure that every other part of my life is set and I will not be having to deal with crazy health problems, money issues, etc. The next seven weeks will be spent hopefully relaxing, but also spending quite a bit of time getting my life in shape, in every sense of the word.
There are so many things that need to be done. My first week back home (starting Monday actually) is going to be spent getting a new physical, updating my TB/PPD, and having a gastroenterology appointment. So most of my health-ish things will be taken care of right off the bat. Then I have to go through all of my medications and work out whether I need to purchase new insurance instead of just Medicaid (AKA AppleHealth). Hopefully getting all of those things done right away will allow me to focus on the other parts of my life - family, fitness, modelling nutrition, relaxation.
The other thing, which I mentioned in my last Vlog, is starting the process of finding out which internal streams of dialogue actually represent me and sorting out what I know does not represent me.
I guess you could say I am hoping to "find myself" this short summer off of school so that I can come back and start this next set of classes and clinicals the best way possible.
Building confidence, learning about myself, getting in shape mentally - physically - emotionally: that is my plan for the summer -- oh, and a lot of horses too. And my dog. And sleep.
This first four months in the CPD program have been rough, but looking back, I know they could have been much worse. And I know I handled them as well as I could. And toward the end, I was really starting to come into my own. I owe a lot of that to therapy.
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Buffalo Marches can be incredibly unpredictable. But this winter has been tranquil in comparison to many.
Financial matters do not get any less frustrating or scary. And, in fact, they get more so. To the point where you want to bite someone's head off for impeding your life, your dreams, your passions, and your needs.
I have no idea why I have this insatiable appetite of late, it is really frustrating.
Two weeks is too long to go without seeing the psych...
I have more emotion when it comes to dealing with my family member's upsets than my own.. and that is not healthy, that much I have learned. I have been leaned on too long to support the weight of others at this point.
Ask for what you want. Without embarrassment. Without hesitation. You just might get it. You just might need what you have asked for.
But, I am acutely aware of how much I fear looking weak.
I do, in fact, NEED to study. And I can, in fact, only get an 87% on an online, open book test.
Autism spectrum disorders are some of the hardest to accommodate for in a post secondary education setting and we are no where near prepared to accommodate them. Disability offices tend not to have the scope, resources, or financial reach to help this type of student. They tend to fall through the cracks even with incredibly high levels of intelligence and this frustrates me to no end. likewise with veterans; we must help them more.
My boss has Hashimoto's thyroiditis as well.
No one seems to be able to do anything to help my situation, but they all feel it is unfair.
Cholesterol does not contribute at all to calorie intake.
Motivational interviewing is incredible and I need to practice it more.
My birthday is on Tuesday; I will be 26 yo. End of health insurance and beginning of the ugly 20s. Here's to 26 and still being a student. Here's to 26 and being much healthier than 21. Here's to 26 and learning to love myself and be myself. And on and on.
Check out the new videos from this week:
Hashimoto's
Let's try some alternative therapies in addition to traditional Western meds and medicine
This week, I put more effort into my appearance, even though it pained me. I do not know why I would try to look better than I have since I got here, that is what people have come to expect from me. I am setting myself up for failure. I have this odd sense of self-loathing right now; although, I am working on focusing on the things that make me happy.
I am still afraid to ask for help. But my therapist is working with me on identifying my actual fears, the root of my fears. I cannot just tell myself that I am afraid of everything. If that were true, I would not do anything, not go to class, not eat, not leave my bed. And while some days it is incredibly hard to leave my bed, I do it. I get up. I go to class, I go to work. I get dressed. Some days I hide my true self, appearance and all. Some days I outright lie about myself, my history, my likes and dislikes. All so that people do not get to know me. That is a fear. That no one will like me if they know me. I have worn so many different masks throughout my life; there is one for every role I have been thrust in to. But what mask do I wear for a role I have finally put myself in? Did I actually pick this role? If I did, is it okay to be myself?
I am afraid of myself.
What does that mean? Where does it leave me? If I do not know who I am, what does that make me?
Almost every week I write this blog about the things I have learned, realized, and tried during the previous week(s). But I do not even know the basics. I have learned nothing about myself.
I look back on all the things I have done, all the good things and the bad, the big things and the small. But I know nothing. I can identify sometimes where I have learned things about myself and they are all when I learned a new thing that I am afraid of and how amazed I was that I was strong enough to handle the situation. Most of them, I handled badly. Meaning, I retreated further from myself and from others. I separated myself from my emotions and my own mind, terrified of what lurked there.
I had really poor example of affection, trust, and love growing up. It got even harder as I got older to identify emotions and to identify with other people. I am to the point now, where I trust no one, not even myself, least of all myself. I have a few friends. Those friends do not know me either. And there are maybe 2 or 3 people on the planet whom I would trust to know the real me, even before I know it myself.
While I am constantly amazed at my resiliency and strength in the moment of adversity, I cannot prepare myself for the future. I am terrified of it and myself, and everyone else. Everything that can go wrong will, that is what I trust. And although I know that, I do not know how to prepare myself, so I do not, and that leaves me to be strong in the moment and pick of the pieces of myself and my relationships and run farther away from them and the problem.
Even as I read this back, it does not make much sense. I do know what I want to do, nothing specific. I want to succeed.
I want to feel like a success.
I want to be motivated and inspired.
I want to be an inspiration.
I want to stop using my life as an excuse.
I want to be truthful.
I want to want to be self-sufficient.
I want to be able to ask for help without feeling like a failure. I want to be able to do it at all.
I want to be able to make friends.
I want to be able to trust myself.
I want to be able to let others in.
I want to be wanted.
I want to know that I am wanted.
I want to be able to be prepared for the future, which means acknowledging weaknesses and fears and not letting them stop me.
I want to stop hiding from myself and everyone else.
I want to know what any of this means.
I want to know what I am actually afraid of.
I want to be able to share my burdens and not feel like a burden or a failure.
I want to feel beautiful inside and out.
I want to be acknowledged and gratified.
I want to practice what I preach.
I want to be courageous and strong. I want to be open. Open to others, open for others, open to myself, open to experience, open to love.
None of this has to do with school or finances, or any other stress in my life. The root of my issues is internal. I know that now. But there is so much I want, and I have no idea how to get started.
This week's videos reflect some of this. I am now past suicidal ideation, but for a while, it was a very real, plausible solution to the lack of haves and the surplus of wants. Check out the update and anxiety/depression videos linked below.
Weekly Update
Suicidal ideation video
Check back later for more posts and videos, I promise they are not all this depressing. Some of them, in fact, are rather informative.
I get to go home for Spring Break, and that is in less than three weeks.
The end of winter, at least this year, is weird. Rain, snow, thunder, hail, 70 degree temps, and back to snow.
My roommates are pretty cool, and one of them is also continuing to stay on for the next two years, so she might just be my roomie for the long haul,
Apparently, my boss thinks I am working too much.
When I try hard enough, I can actually get some studying done, I just have to go about it the right way. Schedule the time. Go in early, have no other option but to study. Find a quiet place and continually remind myself that the more productive I am at that time, the less I have to do later.
My classmates names: Matt, Ryan, Ryan, Trish, Mary, Casey, Kaylah, Garrett, Rachel, Laura.
My therapist has bad days too...
and abuse doesn't just go away. Neither does self doubt, or feelings of neglect.
But, I am finally getting the tools I need to deal with it and move on.
Fiber is absolutely awesome (see video link below) but there are 12 different types of it, and I have to know them all.
I kick tush on nutritional biochem exam and exercise science exam.
I like grits. And West African Peanut Stew over millet. And simply roasted cauliflower.
I still dislike eggplant. Me and Shrimp = No.
I will try/eat anything you put in front of me, within reason.
There is a 4 day horse show going on while I am at home!!
Being honest is the best way to be. Ask for what you want, you just might get it.
LESSON 1: There are no shoulds in the past or the future. Only Wills and Dids. The long, twisting road is the road with the most memories and stories, so don't wish it away. The destination is still the destination, no matter how long it takes to get there.
This past week, I filmed a bunch of videos. They aren't the best quality, but its still a useful outlet, so I am going to continue to film them.
I also started doing daily yoga. Sometimes once a day, sometimes twice. Always a vinyasa/strength practice and/or a hatha/restorative practice. It is actually helping. PLUS, I am getting in 10000 a day. Its too important now to my health not to at least try.
Also, I am terrified of losing my insurance....... so anything I can do to help myself in the future and move away from so many meds and move toward fewer doctors and fewer doctor appointment is THE BEST!
Next Week
I am looking forward to Cajun Creole food, blah buster day, working a few less hours, another blog post, dinner with the roomies, no exams. And another therapy session.
One week closer to going home and seeing my puppy.
I need to find a good Thai food place. Another way to make money. Start studying for my counseling midterm. Film first cancer video.
Telling myself is not enough, I need to want it. Wanting something is not enough, I need to need it. Sometimes you can do everything in your power and still not succeed or be good enough for someone else. And that's okay.
I pull more hair out getting it caught in my coat zipper than in the shower. I am getting used to be cold. But there is definitely such a thing as painful cold. I am incredibly interested in Evolutionary Medicine and may incorporate it into my thesis. I have not gotten less nervous in interviews, especially ones being recorded.
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Chicken Pot Stickers with baby bok choy
HAPPY Chinese New Year!!
This past two weeks has been rough. There was no blog post last week, even though I promised in my last update video that there would be. There is no excuse. Writing these posts is cathartic for me, but I just fell down on the job. I just let myself down. There are so many things in this life that I know I could achieve for myself if I only believed it, if I only felt that I needed it, needed it enough.
I just need to believe it. I am good enough and I can do it.
Last week, I had my first full week of work at my new office. I finished training on Monday and worked for a good three hours. Then worked by myself in the office, in charge, for several hours the next day. To be honest, I do not even remember what happened the week before. It was difficult. I had no motivation and I was feeling absurdly guilty about things I had done and things I had not done.
I tend to go into my room, shut the door, and forget my responsibilities and, yet, obsess over them to the point of anxiety attacks. Money, food, classes, travel, tuition, work, medicines, doctor appointments, documentation, age. Its all too much. So I have to let it go. Right now, ignorance is bliss. I have done everything I can do to make this term go smoothly, so it is time to let myself off the hook, so I can focus on the reason I am here.
I am here to be a student and to learn. That is it.
But... (oh here it comes)
My life is not just me, and it is not just this finite set of things. I have everything to think about and I have to think about how my life and my actions impact my family and the people around me.
But...
I have to live my life. And if this stress is stopping me from being a good student who is going to become a good dietitian, than there is no point to me being here.
It is a cyclical argument.
So here I go, looking out for number 1. Lets see how long this lasts, and if it even works.
Things I tried this week: Yoga class, Chinese New Year celebrations, eggplant/egg pitas, toffuti sour cream, farro, running a disability office by myself for an afternoon, being supportive of my mom in an adult to adult sort of way, and using my fitbit again. Interviewing/counseling a patient.
I do not like venison. Buffalo is not as snowy as I thought it would be, but it is Buffalo and I will probably eat those words as time progresses. My anxiety is stopping me from doing many things, including laundry. I am afraid to ask for letters of recommendation. Depression SUCKS --> I already knew that, but I have been reminded. Enteric coated microcapsules can be awesome. Mint, chocolate, and milk all increase the likelihood of heartburn/GERD. Job growth for the dietetics field may increase more than 16% over the next 4 years, more than the increase in new dietitians being churned out from DPDs and CPDs. It only takes an extra/unburned 10 calories per day to gain a pound of fat per year.
Week Two DONE!
And it has been a bear.. I do not have much to say this week as I did not start writing this post until a few minutes ago instead of writing it throughout the week. HIGH STRESS and the resurgence of depression almost back to premed level have really hampered my progress this week in classes, learning, blogging, and filming.
One good thing this week was my success in the first cooking lab of the semester. Pan-seared Salmon with pan-roasted root vegetables with cranberry chutney and mint was complemented by the professor and tasted divine. It was American Indian/Native American and Native Alaskan culture week.
Also - I wanted to add a little line about What I Tried this Week.
Venison, acorn squash, using my card in the parking gate, using the industrial dishwasher, and going to a future Resident Adviser meeting.
Next week: Week 3 of Classes. Asking for letters of recommendation/reference. Human resources meeting. Schedule for work and possibly first day. Meeting with scary adviser. Meeting with Financial Aid.
Oh yeah, its snowing..... Yay Buffalo.....
Recent Videos
Room Tour and Food Allergies were featured this week.
Some people are loving, some people are hateful,. And some people are so hateful, they do not deserve to breathe the same air as the rest of us. When it comes down to it, friends and family are ALL we have, so treasure them. You can do ANYTHING you set your mind to, you have to choose whether it is going to be a destructive or constructive something.
YOU ONLY REGRET THE THINGS YOU DON'T DO!
Life is hard enough without looking over your shoulder all the time. Make sure YOU are not the reason someone else is looking over their shoulder. Being on either end of that interaction is not the way to live.
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This week has tested my strength and my ability to overcome both aspects of my anxiety and depression. It started out not knowing whether I moved into the correct room or not, I WAS. Thank gods. Then it transitioned to two days of uncertainty and waiting.
I am living on campus, and that may or may not out for the rest of my time here. Having this level of anxiety is stopping me from doing this again. It has to stop.
One my first day of classes, I only had two classes. I also had to buy a parking permit and obtain an ID. Turns out the incredible debacle of getting the parking pass turned out just fine but it was a an incredibly stressful five hours. Getting my ID, which should have been very simple, ended up being another trial, but it also worked out fine. SO I made it through my first day.
Wednesday was also stressful : job interview, dietetics luncheon where I knew no one, and class with my intimidating adviser.
Thursday and Friday were just fine.
I want to say I haven't learned anything academically this week, but that probably is not true. OH - one thing - Calcium ions make heartburn (GERD, Gastric reflux) much worse. So that old adage of drinking milk for a sour stomach = worse sour stomach/burning. Caffeine, alcohol, mint does the same.
Also found the grocery stores in the area ✔
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Next week: first full week.
All of that being said, make sure you live this one life the way you want to. Do what makes you happy and that will help others be happy as well. As long as you are not hurting anyone else or yourself (or throwing someone under the bus), you can do it all. Believe in yourself and in the goodness of others.
Love you all, as always, and I will have much more next week, Promise. Plus Food Allergy video and Suicide video up on YouTube.
Anxiety is a beast. Sometimes it can help you and other times, it is the thing that takes you down hardest - worse than any of the perceived terrible endings you had thought of. You can think of everything bad that could possibly happen, but it is the spending so much time in your head that causes you the most trouble.
So, we can either get out of our heads completely and totally go with the flow; or, we can change our overactive imaginations into tools that can help us..
When I figure out how to do that, I will definitely let you know. For now, enjoy these musings on paranoia versus imagination.
Wildlife are both easier and harder to spot in the snow. The snowiest place I thought we'd see was actually the least snowy. Ohio has some darn awful drivers. On ramps to I-90 in parts of Montana have cattle guards on them. Wyomingans farm deer. People in Wyoming and not afraid of mischief done to their tiny oil wells. Indoor waterparks are a big deal in the northern plains of the US. People in Indiana are proud to be Indianan. The fog is dense in Indianapolis. Peoria, Illinois, smells like Fried Chicken. Ohio has beautiful bridges. I am not as brave as I sometimes pretend to be, but when it comes down to it, I can get things done.
I guess I am ready to get back to business as usual.... I am scared to death, but I am so ready to have a routine and to move on with my life. I had a panic attack last night and that was another scary adventure. Right now, I am doing slightly better. I am laying down on my bed watching the Seahawks (hopefully win) against Atlanta and dreading the morning when I have to figure out what comes next. Tomorrow is check in day and I have to figure out if I moved into the right room this morning. So far my impression of this school's housing procedure is that they expect you to know what to do without any information.
But I will stop that negative train of thought right here....
I am looking forward to Tuesday when classes start. If I am in class with papers do and reading that I can focus on avoiding, the time will go by much faster and then I can begin to worry about what is going to happen over the summer. Which reminds me that I still have to register for Summer. Which means I have to go meet with my advisor who scares the crap out of me. And I also have to get at least 3 forms signed so that my financial aid package (which is still being revised) can go through, so I am not stuck with a $20000+ bill in the next week. In addition to that, I have to decide whether I am going to shell out the mucho bucks to buy all 6 textbooks I am going to need. And all of the things I have to do to maintain my car, and how much worse the snow, ice, and salt makes it.
This is how my brain works: too many thoughts that all lead to another though and they are usually all negative.
Silver linings DO NOT come easily to me. Stressful thoughts DO.
I just have so much to do. And the anxiety is eating me up.
Back to the positives.
I am starting a new life and a new journey to the end of school, rather than a journey to the beginning of school. And there is no better feeling that that of moving forward. I have some ideas for new videos on my YouTube channel (migraines, thyroid meds, thyroid diets, etc..). I have a job interview for Wednesday.
Money is tight, my nerves are stretched thin, I may be in the wrong room. But I am moving forward. First big hurdle = crossed.
Starting next week, there will be more diet content on the blog. Thanks for hanging in there everyone!!
I am off to start my Masters to become a registered dietitian in Buffalo, New York. It is an emotional journey and really hard for me to come to terms with after all that has happened before this long journey started and since.
This road has been filled with obstacles both in and out of my control. But it is time to let go and let _____. Whatever happens at this point is meant to be. I have to believe that everything happens for a reason and I am beginning to believe that I cannot force my destiny but I cab steer that journey in the direction of a fate that is acceptable to me.
I hope you all join me in this journey of self discovery, self confidence building, and self recovery.
I can do this. I must do this. New Years Resolutions must be worked on continuously. Even thinks I can do this but me. NO knows. Everyone KNOWS I can do this, except me. Dairy may be causing my bouts with Gastritis. Low Blood Pressure is another menace of Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
New Years Re-Solutions are important to me. This year more than ever. I need to forgive myself and move on with life, living in the present. You do not live if you are continually fretting in the past or paranoid about the future. And much like in dreams, where you pinch yourself to know it's not real, we need a device to ensure that we are focused on what is real in the here and now.
As I go forward (literally and figuratively) on my journey to Buffalo and beyond to my Masters and my life, I am coming up with that device to remind myself that the only thing that matters is what is going on in the moment and the decisions made in that moment. Currently, this is where my dancing resolution comes in. Dance, paint, run, so something to get out of your head and into the present.
Tonight will mark the first literal leg or step of the journey to school. We are currently in Montana about 1/4 of the way to the final destination (no pun intended). The car is full, read overstuffed, and we have 4 days of the journey left. Buffalo Baymax and I are taking pictures whenever we stop to try and document and take advantage of everything that this roadtrip has to offer.
Will update as I can, and continue to post videos as I travel. See New Years Re-Solutions video and Crohn's Supplements I use to stay in remission video below and always if you search my name on YouTube (Shelby Slenkamp)
I hope you like this new weekly blog post series. Of course, as soon as I get settled into my new place I will be posting the reviews and video accompaniment posts. Until then, remember to be kind and follow me on Twitter and Instagram (@seskamp) and subscribe on YouTube.com/seslenkamp
