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March 2014

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Location:

Orem,UT,USA

Member Since:

Nov 10, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

19 Marathons!

2007 St. George Marathon 3:07

2009 Boston Marathon 3:11:17

2009 Bryce Canyon 1/2 Marathon 1:24:48

2009 Top of Utah Marathon 3:03

2009 Halloween 1/2 Marathon 1:22:38

2010 Bryce Canyon 1/2 Marathon 1:23:48

2010 Top of Utah Marathon 3:01:51

2011 Bryce Canyon 1/2 Marathon 1:22:16

2011 St. George Marathon 2:58:19

2012 Provo City Marathon 2:59:24

2012 Bryce Canyon 1/2 Marthon 1:22:08

2012 St. George Marathon 2:54:39

Long-Term Running Goals:

I love to run!  I want to feel good and run for a very long time.

Personal:

My husband Brent and I live in Orem with our three kids ages 12, 10 & 7.  Brent is a Marriage and Family Therapist and I'm at home with the kids.  I used to be a CPA, but now I just do a little bookkeeping from home.  For a lot of years running a marathon was something I did to get back in shape after having a baby.  Just finishing was accomplishment enough, now I want to finish faster.

I ran the St. George Marathon in 3:18 when I was 18 and set a record for my age division 15-18.  Now I train with the girl who broke my record.  I love the marathon and half marathon.   Long runs are what keep me from going crazy.

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~~Saturday morning I ran 20 miles.  Melanie and I met at Gold’s Gym on 800 North in Orem to run up/down Provo Canyon.  Marie and Dessiree came with us for the first 5 miles.  I felt so tired right from the start.  Melanie got way ahead of me and I caught up to her on the water stops.  We went on the trail until just before Bridal Veil.  Then there were signs saying avalanche control was using explosives in the next 24 hours and the trail was closed.  We went out on the highway and up into South Fork.  When we got to Vivian Park there were several highway patrol cars and officers heading down the trail.  We ran up South Fork, but not quite as far as we planned.  It started to snow and became very cold. 
 When I got back to our drinks at Vivian Melanie was ready to start running again.  I told her to go ahead and that I wanted to stretch.  She took off down the highway and I stretched for a couple of minutes.  As I got out to the highway a man my and “Incident Management” truck across the street yelled to me and said, “You can’t run down there, we’re shutting down the highway to bomb the mountain.”  I could see cars still coming up and knew I would be stuck there for a long time if I stopped so I said, “I’ll hurry,” and took off running. 
 About a ½ mile later a highway patrol car pulled up next to me and the patrol man said, “I need to drive you down the highway about a mile.  We’ve got explosives all ready to bomb the mountain and we’re shutting down the highway.”  I got in the car and mentioned my friend was running up ahead.  He said she was in the other patrol car.  They dropped us off at the turnoff to Bridal Veil.  We continued down the canyon on the trail to the gym.  I felt so tired.  I had a hard time running as fast as I thought I should.  We finished up on the treadmills at the gym.  Melanie did 22 miles and I quit at 20. 

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4 miles

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12 miles some intervals. 

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Melanie and I ran Suncrest.  I felt even worse doing it than I did the week before and didn't even go all the way to the top.  Avg 7:38 pace.

I started having female problems in November, spotting between my periods quite a bit.  In January it got worse and towards the end of February I realized I had been bleeding mostly like a regular period for over a month.  I scheduled an apointment to take my IUD out hoping that would help, but had to wait almost two weeks to get that done. 

Got the IUD out this day.  Unfortunately it didn't stop my bleeding, it only made it worse.

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4 miles 7:40 pace.  So exhausted.

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This was the day I realized something was really wrong with me! 

~Melanie, Kim and I met at Gold’s Gym to run up by the temple and over along the Murdock trail south until we hit 10 miles and back to the gym.  My legs felt even more tired than the week before right from the start.  I kept falling behind and catching up at the stops.  Finally after about 7 miles I said, “Something is wrong with me.”  Melanie said something about me bleeding so much and Kim suggested I might have low iron.  I had wondered if the bleeding was an issue, but hadn’t thought about taking iron supplements.  I struggled on my way back to the gym.  It felt like the end of a horrible marathon.  I stopped every two miles for a while and went into a bathroom to change my tampon because I was bleeding through it and all over my pants that were fortunately black.  Soon I was stopping every mile and I walked a little at mile 17 and felt like I was going to cry.  Then I decided to just finish and ran to mile 19 before deciding to quit.  I started to walk the last mile, but it was taking too long so I ran another ½ mile to the gym.

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I woke up feeling dizzy and horrible.  I had been bleeding a lot since Friday.  I counted the tampons left in the box, having had to purchase more on Sunday morning.  I soaked and bleed through 20 in 24 hours. 

Called the nurse and she said to go to the emergency room.  I asked what they would do there, saying that would cost me a lot of money.  She insisted I should go.  I wanted to just go into the office to see the doctor.  Realizing that was the only way to get help I spent 2 hours there for the doctor there to talk to my doctor and send me home saying it's typical to bleed a lot after an IUD removal and to keep my apointment in two weeks.  I was mad.

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7 miles on treadmill, stopping a lot and feeling bad.  Still bleeding the same.

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~~Thursday morning I met Melanie to run Suncrest.  I was bleeding though my tampon before I even started running and changed it by the dumpster.  I started out with her and stopped after .25 miles.  I told her not to wait for me and that I didn’t know how far I would go.  She went ahead and I kept going.  I stopped at 1.5 miles and started to cry.  I felt so horrible and was going so slow.  When I hit the real hilly part I was doing an 11 min mile.  I turned around at 2 miles and headed down.  Even coming down I felt like I needed to stop for breaks.  I ran an average 8:50 pace for 4 miles and felt horrible.  I drove home and felt myself bleeding out all over the place.  I sat on a hat so I wouldn’t get blood on the seat. 
 When I got home big clots of blood were dripping out of me into the toilet.  I showered and got the kids off to school.  I called the doctor’s office and cried on the phone to the receptionist and nurse, telling them how much I was bleeding and that I felt horrible and couldn’t wait two weeks to see the doctor.  The nurse told me to come in at 9:30 a.m. 
 I saw Dr. McCarter and he said I was hemorrhaging and suggested a D&C to clean out my uterus and restart my cycle.  I got that scheduled for the next morning.  I felt like he should have done that for me on Monday, but was too exhausted to get upset. 

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Brent took me to the Orem Community Hospital at 8:15 a.m. to prepare for the surgery. 
I initially planned to have a spinal block because I don’t like having general anesthesia.  I always have a sore throat from the tube they put down my throat and usually end up feeling sick to my stomach afterwards.  I also thought it might be interesting to watch the procedure on the screen.  I spent about 30 minutes talking to Dr. Brown, the anesthesiologist about it.  He convinced me he could put me under with general anesthesia and wake me up quickly without putting a tube down my throat.  He said I would be out of the hospital a lot faster than with the spinal block and since they literally charge by the minute I went for that.  He said he wouldn't put a tube down my throat and if I had problems he would get down on his knees and beg my forgiveness.  
I convinced him to give me the least amount of everything possible and told the nurse I would rather deal with a little pain than all the problems pain medications seem to cause me, high blood pressure, heart racing, nausea, etc.  When I had my nasal passage surgery a year ago I was feeling ok until they gave me medication for pain.  Then I needed three of four other medications to deal with the side effects of the pain medication and I went home so doped up on stuff I felt horrible. 
When the nurse anesthetist came in he said he was going to give me some medication before we went into the operating room.  I said I didn’t want it and asked exactly what it was for.  He said it was to calm me down.  I said, “I don’t want it.  I want the least medication possible.”  I had just had a 30 minute conversation about how I wanted the least medication possible with the anesthesiologist.  I calmly told him I would be fine. 
They wheeled me down to the operating room and I got on the table.  The nurse put the mask on my face first with oxygen and then something to put me to sleep.  The next thing I knew I was back in the room I started in and Brent was sitting on the chair next to me. 
The anesthesiologist came in a few minutes later and asked if he needed to beg my forgiveness.  I said I felt great.  He brought me straight to the room I started in instead of the recovery room clearly to save me money.  I thought that was nice.  It also shows that it sometimes pays to ask about the cost.  Then Dr. McCarter came in and showed me pictures of my uterus.  He said I had a lot of tissue and blood vessels built up in there probably because of the IUD.  He thought the procedure would fix my problem.  They were sending the tissue to the lab to be tested to make sure there wasn’t anything serious though.  We signed our discharge papers at 10:55 a.m. and left a few minutes later. 
I talked to Melanie in the hospital shortly after the surgery, as soon as I felt with it enough to carry on a conversation.  We talked for a few minutes and then I called her again after I got home.  Melanie said, “You need to tell them to give you something to fix your blood.  Tell them you’re a marathon runner and you have a race in a month.”  I was thinking, “I don’t know that I’ll be running the race in a month,” but didn’t tell her that.
I was surprised I wasn’t sore after the surgery and also that my bleeding stopped so quickly.  I was spotting a little when I left the hospital but by 2:30 p.m. even that stopped.  It was nice to be able to tell the kids I was fixed and not bleeding anymore.  I was so glad to be on the road to recovery instead of feeling like I was slowly bleeding to death!
 

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