The Pink Pirates have done it again! Racing to “Save Second Base” in this year’s Denver Race For The Cure in honor of friends, family, and strangers suffering from breast cancer. This year was a special year for us, as we welcomed two new pirates to our crew:
Alaina, snoozing all the way to the start line
Evan, decked out in his pirate garb
Navigating a crowd of over fifty thousand people is a bit different when you’ve got a stroller, but once we got going, the day couldn’t have gone better. Gorgeous weather, happy babies, and an amazing group of people with a common goal made for a perfect morning! (Brunch afterward at McCormick’s didn’t hurt either!) It is a great feeling to bring my new baby in on a tradition that I’ve shared with my mom and some of our closest friends in celebration of so many amazing people. My grandmother is a survivor, with over 36 years cancer free. Her strength is an inspiration, and something that I plan to celebrate with my daughter and her grandma for years to come!
I don’t have all of the photos from everyone yet, but here are a few of my favorites:
About two weeks after finding out from the staff at Centeno Schultz that it was ok for me to indulge in the occasional cocktail again, I got sick. I thought it would be nice to have a beer on the patio, but it just did not sound good. Nothing sounded good, in fact, I went about three weeks of feeling like I was perpetually hung over before I realized what was going on…
Team Jones got knocked up! Amazingly, during my first trimester, my back pain decreased significantly. Was it from Regenexx or the pregnancy hormones? We may never know, but it was great to feel a bit better for the first time in four yea
rs! Unfortunately, the pain in my back was replaced by that whole perpetual hangover feeling. Not so fun.
Luckily, my first trimester passed, and the sickness eventually went away. Only to be followed a few short days later by a nasty bout of H1N1. I couldn’t even tell you if my back hurt during this time. Everything hurt. For about five weeks, I alternated between completely delirious and convinced that death was imminent. And I was totally okay with it. I was miserable! Two solid weeks of the flu gave way to sinus, ear, and eye infections followed by bronchitis. Not the most fun I’ve ever had.
Luckily, this too passed. Because of the flu, I hadn’t put weight on as quickly as most pregnant women did. In fact, I lost a bit of weight for a while. At this point, I was still beyond thrilled that my back was feeling so much better than I’d anticipated. Unfortunately, as soon as my abdomen started its rapid expansion, the back pain came back with a vengeance. I have an amazing chiropractor that I’ve been working with to help ease the pain, and recently got an SI brace to help with some extra pain I’ve been having around my SI joint. This is an area that Dr. Schultz expressed concern about throughout my Regenexx experience. He mentioned that a good portion of my pain may have been coming from there and not just my disc that was being treated. I can never do things the easy way!
Anyways, the Regenexx updates are going to be giving way to baby updates for a while, as it is just too hard to tell what is working and what is hurting. I really don’t want to say the procedure did or did not do its job with an extra variable interfering.
