She's back!

Where did Natasha go? I bet you didn't even know that she was gone. I did.
Where was she gone? Well that's a little harder to explain.

If you're regular on this site you may have noticed that we haven't really been saying too much lately. Tasha hadn't been feeling well since November and we thought she was just tiered, so we took a break, took a holiday, but still not better. She almost actually got worse. She was unable to train, had no energy, had huge issues with her stomach, lots of pain and her legs felt "empty".

I'll spare you all the details, cause some of them are kind of personal, but needless to say it was looking pretty grim. We even brought her to the ER twice! Now if you know me, I'm not one to panic over small illnesses or a little sickness...remember Tasha broke her wrist in Belgium one year and I made her wait to get back to Canada to get it checked out....as a Nurse my slogan was "...I really wouldn't worry about it".

Well, we did worry, alot. In addition to going to the ER, she was a physio, sports med doc, family doc, had a vascular ultrasound, had an echocardiogram, ecg's, x rays, 5 rounds of blood work and is still awaiting a GI and Vascular Surgeon and Cardiology follow up. Man she even saw a naturapath!

Well on one side good thing we live in Canada or else we would probably be in debt for the rest of our lives with those bills. On the flip side, damn the Canadian Health CARE system is slow.

Well through all of this Tasha did what she could to start feeling better, she started eliminating certain foods that could have been causing her symptoms. So she started by eliminating yeast and gluten, then dairy and lactose, then she eliminated sugar, then caffeine, then meat. Gradually she started feeling a little better here and there until this week, boom she was back! So I now date a Vegan.

Her heart rate is responding to training, her stomach is normal, she can feel her legs and most importantly she is smiling! It was a rough few months for both us. Well mostly for her, racking her brains to try and figure out what was happening, why it was happening and most importantly...how the hell to get better as no one had any answers. I mena we went from thinking that she had thyroid problems, to food intolerance's, to vascular problems...it was crazy.

But she took it by the horns and fought with an amazing will power to just point blank, cold turkey change her entire eating pattern in order to basically cure herself. Even her blood tests, in which her hemoglobin and hematocrit and thyroid function were low have responded. If you told me that nutrition had such an impact on health I would not believe it without seeing this for myself, cause realistically we are talking about someone who eats better than 98% of the population to begin with...it's truely crazy.

Maybe a little rest and time played a key role as well, but I can't help think that the changes she had made have greatly contributed to her new state of health and happiness.

The intensity she brought to her training in the past she used to fuel her fire to get better...she didn't wait for a doctor to give her a magic bullet, I'm not sure if I could have made all the changes she did...heck I have trouble only having 2 espressos a day, never mind not eating any gluten...do you know what that means? No bread, no flour, no pasta, no yeast not even eating anything that is made in a the same factory that processes wheat...yah right good luck with that...but she did it, everyday, 100% no cheating.

Anyways she's back training, smiling, looking healthy and happy.

Yah so that's the deal. I just didn't want to talk about training on the blog when I knew the most important person in my life was miserable cause she felt awful, couldn't train, felt sick and wondered what it was going to take to be healthy again.

So I'll have some pics coming soon of our new kits , new bikes, new toys now that things are almost back to normal.

I've called in a lot of prayers to the man upstairs, cause all I could do was pray...has me thinking that having faith through tough times is so important. I would just lay in bed at night and I would just talk to God so loud in my head just begging for her to be better.

Thank you.

Derrick