Camy's diary

Yesterday nihgt I developed these really strong chest pains and shortness of breath, I coughed like crazy through the night and so this morning I went to the Dr.
I have pneumonia! Yuck! So now I am on antibiotics and pain medicine for a week and then we will reasses the situation, he thinks it will be all better by then, I really hope so because I am in a lot of pain. The doc thinks I had the flu and then it developed into a secondary pneumonia...
The fever also comes and goes, from really high temperatures (40ºC) down to normal, and I go from freezing to sweating like a pig all day long.

The most painful thing is that I won't be able to run the race for life, I might be able to walk it, if I can breath normally till then, but chances are I won't even be able to go at all. I am quite heartbroken about this... :(

Anyhow, my appetite is still not quite there, so my food intake is very very low, but other than coughing I don't really do much, so I guess it is ok if I only get like 500 cals a day! And I do not want to trigger vomiting on top of the pneumonia.

Food:
Breakfast: 330 ml of juice (tropical fruit juice)
Lunch: dessert bowl of salad, 1 apple
Dinner: half a dessert bowl of corn pasta, 1 hard boiled egg, 200 ml of OJ and 1 apple (skinned, the man skins my apple and cuts it... he is such a lovey!)

Cough cough, Camy
 
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I'm so sorry about your cold :( Being sick in the summer is the worst...I hate that! I hope you feel better soon!

~Kristi~
 
heh i did the pnumonia thing a few weeks back, its horribly painful on the lungs and takes a couple of weeks to be ok again even after they clear up.
 
Oh no, so sorry to hear that! Too bad you can't do the race...

I also just find out the mini indoor triathlon I was going to take part in is on the same day as my bf's gran's wedding... sucks ass!!!

Well, rest and take care... you'll feel tons better when it's all over!
 
Thank you angel, Anke, wishes and pastelroses, for your get well wishes! Anke I am sorry that the triathlon falls on a day you won't make it, but you can just try to do it on another day, for yourself. I am going to race for life once I feel better all by myself I guess...


My supervisor in hospital also thinks I won't be able to run, in fact she told me not to get out of bed unless it is for bathroom breaks until monday...
I feel much better already, the fever seems to have broken, I am still clammy and sweaty but in no way as badly as I was before, in fact I almost don't notice. My head aches less, and the lungs hurt less but still definitely hurt. And the cough sounds awful, but is less painful... so I think I am definitely on the road to recovery. I have had pneumonia before a few times and I know it takes quite a while to go back to normal (last time the cough didn't clear for months!). This absolutely sucks for my weight loss journey as well, because without exercise my whole program is out the window!

I have lost like 3 pounds since falling sick (no wonder) and I hope they don't rush back once I am cured, I am going to open a thread in the hardcore section to see if anyone knows how to preserve "starvation pounds" from coming back. I mean it is not the right way of losing weight but seeing as it is happening, I might as well try to keep them gone!

Otherwise I just lie around, read a ton, watch some DVDs and doodle around... sleep a lot... this could be a good life if it wasn't for the pain and stuff. I have to try to do some statistics today, since my head feels ok and I think I will be able to sit on the table.

Food of the day:
Breakfast: 200 ml of OJ
Lunch: sausage and lentil soup (half a bowlful), 1 apple
Dinner: half a cod fillet, a handful of steamed vegetables, 1 apple
Cough, cough, Camy
 
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Hey, now why didn't I even think of doing it on my own?? I think I shall do that too! Thanks!

Glad to hear you're getting a little better!
 
I have this dream I have had for a long time... I want to be a ballet/dance teacher for small children. Like really small 3 to 5 year olds.
Unfortunately I am not a very skilled dancer. I like to dance, I have danced for years (sine I was 13 till I was 20) but I m just not one of those natural talents. However to teach kids that small you don't have to be amazing, just kind. I have this picture in my head of this really cute ballet teacher that taught little kids at my school, she was kind tempered and just so lovely and I would love to be like her just for an hour a week.

So I thought I could give free ballet classes for small girls in an orphanage in Ghana. I am sure they would like to be entertained, they would get so much from the music and the dance, and I mean sure I am not a fully trained dance teacher, but I am probably the closest to one they can get! I am not sure if this plan will work, but I am making it my own little project.
In fact so much that I am going to take a few intensive dance courses this summer to freshen up my skills. I have just been googling and I will do I think 3 intensive courses in dance in august/early september. The first one starts the 4rth of august, they are each a 5 day course with 90 minutes of class a day. They are expensive but not terribly so and I am so looking forward to this. I have so many choreographies in my head that I could do with the little ones and if it works out I could then maybe try to make a class for slightly older girls as well...
And dancing 90 minutes a day on top of swimming etc... will be great for my weight loss project!
I am very excited, this is the first time I have actually put in on paper, made it real, but I think I could probably make it work. Where there's a will, there is a way, right? Woohoo!
I am now going to ggogle to see if I can come in contact with someone at an orphanage!

Camy!
 
oooh good luck with the dancing. just thought i'd check in and see how you are feeling. i hope you get better soon and the 3 pounds or whatever it is stay off. x
 
Omg, I have not heard of such an awesome goal before. You can totally do it! I am so happy you've found something else to be passionate about!!
 
That is a wonderful dream, it would be such a fantastic gift to impart to those in the orphanage. I truly hope this happens for you.
 
I am just too frustrated with the world to put it into words... everything bugs me, especially the man! He is supposed to write a small autobiography today to give to his new boss on monday (he has to send it in today though). He is terrible at selling himself. He sells himself too smugly (I am good at this and that and really, I am quite amazingly good at this and that) and has no concept of what info others should have or not (he wrote a whole paragraph about his last name... booooooooooooooooooo-ring!).
I tried to help but he doesn't like that I take him less serious than he takes himself (a few jokes here and there... actually mainly jokes because come on the guy has already hired him, and this will be read by tons of other guys and girls his age (the whole purpose is to bond with other people from, this organization), nobody likes a 23 year old who takes himself too seriously!)... and then when he figured that he couldn't do it, I was too frustrated with him to help him... my jokes sounded less funny the second time around! so now I am here in "my" room sulking!

I need out, I need out so badly... I might go and watch a movie tonight. Pneumonia Shneumonia I am going crazy! And getting nothing done! And doing what I never let myself do... watch cancer kid videos on youtube. I have this thing, I watch them and cry and then I feel terrible for all these people and get this angst, about the future and what if my kids have cancer and die and I can't stop myself. I know it is the stupidest thing ever, but I think if 1 more person remembers them, that makes them more alive... I know just an excuse to do some bad autodestructive behaviour!

Food of the day:
Breakfast: soy milk and banana shake (huge one! 2 bananas, probably 250 ml of soy milk)
Lunch: half a mug of soup, 4 bites of salad
Snack: 4 lindt balls (oopsie)
Dinner: half a "big" popcorn and half a diet coke (I know not exactly what the WHO recommends as a healthy dinner, but once in my life it won't really hurt me, will it?

Cough, cough, Camy
 
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Just quickly: I am feeling much much better, went out and spend 8 hours with my friends, which was great... I missed them. We played baseball and frisbee and I even ran etc...

My dance plan is going awesome, a woman has donated over 100$ worth of stuff already... I really need to find me an orphanage soon though! Otherwise I will feel like a total phony getting all there kiddie leotards with no proper plan of action.

Food was a bit all over the place:
Breakfast: 1 apple
Lunch: dim sum (yummy, not too extremely much!)
Snack: 1 scoop of coconut icecream
Dinner: ok here is the problem: chocolate and crisps, and 3 small glasses of coke (regular)

Exercise:
1 hour of frisbee
1 hour of baseball (although I was pitcher when we pitched, so I didn't have to run too much)

Camy
 
Check out the ticker! I am carefully happy that I may keep the loss, since I resumed semi-normal eating 2 days ago and the scales have not moved up.
Since now I am post-race for life (boohoo) I need a new fitness plan (the change in fitness plan makes it more adventurous and fun!).
So this first week 21 to 27th of July I am easing my way back in to sports world post pneumonia. I am going to try to swim 4 times. Monday 20 lanes (easy level), Wednesday 30 lanes (slowly uppping it), Friday 40 lanes (getting there) and Saturday 50 lanes.
I am also going to try to do my abs routine those 4 days.

The week afterwards 28th to 3rd of august I will combine, I will swim 3 times (around 40-50 lanes each time) probably monday, wednesday, friday, and tuesday, thursday and saturday I can chose between 1 hour of rollerblading or 1 hour of gymming. I will probably prefer the blading if the weather is nice!
I will try to do abs exercise most days that week!

The third week is my first dance week! So the week from the 4rth to the 10th I will have 90 minutes of dance every morning. I will add to that 30 lanes swimming on monday, wednesday and friday. All other exercise will be optional (some blading or gymming), but that is my core weekly program.

Then I am going on my 3 day beach holiday, so fingers crossed I am as close as possible to my minigoal: 127 pounds (I know that is like 10 pounds in 3 weeks and ridiculous, but a girl can dream, right?).

Ok, now that I have planned the exercise 3 weeks in advance I will go and see my man be a roman warrior in an italian festival.

Food of the day:
Breakfast: half a mug of strawberry and banana soy milkshake
Lunch: 1 frapp (light caramel) and 1 small italian sausage
Dinner: 1 piece of salmon and rice noodles in broth (very salty), 2 handfulls of chocolate raisins

Exercise:
probably just walking (quite a lot of walking actually, I am happy to say)

Camy
 
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I am sorry to hear about how ill you have been with pneumonia. It sounds like you are getting a bit better now which is good.

It is such a shame that your race plans had to be cancelled (or postponed if you do it by yourself as you mentioned as a possible intention).

I love the ballet class idea. I am sure that you will get a lot out of bringing pleasure to the lives of young children - and it will be great exercise for you too. Your intensive classes in preparation sound good. Do they lead to a dancing qualification? I know that City and Guilds produce some qualifications in things like aerobics teaching. When I last looked at dancing qualifications - you could get some from organisations like IDTA (I have some of their qualifications - but not in ballet). There are also other DTAs - I have some NCDTA qualifications.
 
Ew, pneumonia is NOT fun. I'm sure you are bored out of your mind by now. I know I would be. Nothing is worse than a long sickness. I hope you get better soon!!!

I can't wait until your dancing starts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So excited for you and I can't wait to hear more about it!!!
 
Hey Camy!

Good to see things are looking up! Your new exercise plan is totally doable... you're going to feel so good!!!

I just got over a bad flu... haven't exercised in almost a week... I will be using you for inspiration! :)
 
The plan for today is:
study stats, buy myself a dress (tomorrow we have this reception with diplomatic staff etc for the man's new job and I want to look pretty) or at least a really nice top..., go swimming, work in hospital for a couple of hours. Busy busy day! I also have to run some errands (bank, supermarket etc...).

Food of the day:
Breakfast: 8 strawberries, 1 apple, 1 banana
Lunch: sushi
Snack: 1 frapp (caramel, light)
Dinner: 2 salads, one with 2 stripes of chicken and 2 stripes of avocado, 1 with 70 cals worth of shredded salmon (first one was so puny I had to make myself one when I got home)

Exercise:
almost 4 hours worth of walking

Camy
 
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omg stats. that just gave me a shiver. i'm so so so so sorry!! I love avocado, and I'm glad you eat it too. Everyone always says to me you can't eat avocado on a diet. Everything in moderation!!! Good luck with your busy week, sounds killer.
 
It's a bit overboard, but yesterday I had an ENTIRE (small) mushed up avo on a piece of toast... yum!!!!
 
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