Things are looking brighter.....

First of all I have to thank you all for all of your prayers and concern it really means a lot to me.
The day before I last posted I had just got a call from my best friend telling me she has 3rd stage breast cancer. I was in shock and really could not think straight for a week. She was just told a few weeks earlier that every thing was fine and she only had fluid filled cysts. Then the doctor calls her out of the blue and tells her they were wrong and she has 3rd stage cancer. How can this be??? She is taking it very well and is well on her way to treatment. She has had several procedures done already and has already had her first dose of chemotherapy in just these two weeks since she found out. I got a call from my doctor saying I missed my suggested mammogram recheck 6 months ago.....thats nice to hear.....I wish they would have let me know I was suppose to go in at 6 months.....I scheduled it for 1 year like they told me to. Now I am stressing out about missing my check up and wondering what they are going to tell me when I go in. I have to call tomorrow to get an appointment.
Last week I found out my Mother was in the hospital........guess how I found out......her neighbor called me to say she thought I might want to know that she was in the hospital. What kind of family does that??? No one called me......they said it was no big deal and they were just running tests on her and didn't know what was wrong with her but, still I would have liked to know that she was there in the first place....I guess that would be too logical for my family. They are not capable of thinking the obvious.(or maybe even thinking at all)
Ok..... enough ranting.
Good things that have happened since I last posted......I got my bike out a couple of weeks ago and have been riding around the driveway. One day I rode 2 miles (50 laps around the drive way...I clocked it on my car once for fun with my kids). Mostly I have been helping my daughter to learn how to ride her bike though and not getting in the riding time I had hoped for. I'm hoping she will start riding with me sooooooon!!!! I have been going to workout on Mon. and Wed. and last week I went, for a third time that week, to thursday morning class with another lady from my class. The instructor/owner even asked me.....me, like I am good enough...to teach a few moves to a young guy that was there. I couldn't believe it! We are coming up for another test real soon here too. This term has been so full of new stuff and not a lot of time to practice. I'm sure it will go just fine though. I can't get too nervous about it, I just have to do my best. I have been choosing fruit for snacking and eating more veggies with dinner. The scales have not showed anything good....I have gained 3 pounds over the last 3 weeks ( and that means I don't really deserve to have the badge that I have posted right now).
Oh...I have to tell you this....it is not good but weird....one day last week I woke up with these huge water pockets on my eyelids I could barely see......it was the strangest thing!!!! One day I wake up all puffy and the next day I'm not....I can't figure this out...even when I am drinking my water I struggle with this.