Just wanted to update you on stuff. My pain level has really escalated unfortunately. I can't sit for more than 20 minutes w/o feeling really awful l so I've decided I'm going to get myself well first and then worry about the exam. There's no way I could make it thru a 3-4 hour exam feeling like this. I thought I could tough it out but I realized this morning I was being foolish.
I'm going to see if I can get my surgery scheduled sooner. If not it'll be August 18th and I could get thru if I need to. The more I thought about it the more I realized I was putting myself in a stupid situation by obesessing over getting the exam done and not putting my health first.
I'll check back in later on when I'm all healed up and ready to reschedule. Until then I'll still study enough to maintain the material but I'm mostly going to just try to heal.
I got to thinking about how exhausted everyone was from the exam and (as far as I know) they were feeling relatively healthy.
I thought that trying to undertake something that long and intense feeling like this made no sense at all.
I faxed over a note from my surgeon to Tracy over at ACE and they'll let me reschedule w/o having to pay again. I just need to call her when I'm healed up and ready to book it again.
In the mean time I'll keep studying, reviewing etc.
As long as there are no complications w/ the surgery and it does in fact remedy my situation, I should be feeling pretty well right away and there's lots of dates in Sept. available as of now. Either way, the difference of a couple months isn't going to change my life one way or the other and it makes sense to take the test when I'm feeling my best, not my worst :)
Scott- You're doing the right thing, but I know you must be disappointed. It's sooo true isn't it- that nothing worth having is easy?! Your new career will be there when the time is right for you, but your health has to come first. Please keep us posted on your surgery. Thoughts and prayers... Yvonne
I appreciate all you wrote. I finally had to face the fact that I was trying to push thru the exam out of pure stubborness (and the desire to have it behind me). But I realized that it was extremely foolish to unnecessarily put myself such a difficult situation.
The more I read about how exhausted everyone sounded after the exam the more I realized that it will be hard enough to take feeling well, and to take it feeling like this would foolish.
Right now, certainly, all that really matters is getting my health right, from there everything will get much easier :)
Thanks again for everything and best of luck w/ your training career! I am VERY excited for you, you're gonna be a great trainer! :)
