Something Was Wrong but I Didn't Think It Was Herpes - Oh Sh*T Anniversary Pt.1

e bbq that night. That's besides the point. But that was the first bit of pain I had experienced. On the car ride home earlier that day I remember a bit of discomfort but I thought that it was just from having a lot of sex. Also, we were in our swimsuits all weekend and I remember thinking that I must be getting a yeast infection or BV. Something was off.

We went to the 4th of July community celebration, had a hot dog and some watermelon and that was that. That night when I went to bed I can remember thinking that the pain from that hug just kept getting worse. I was wearing white jeans that night and it was so painful to sit down. So I did what I think most people do. I decided to look in the mirror.

Now I'm chuckling because it's a really hard thing to do. My sink was pretty high so I couldn't see anything in the bathroom. I had to look in the mirror that was in my bedroom. I remember laying on my bed but the bed was too far away to then see anything in the reflection. I then was trying to get in the award pose in front of the mirror but that was way more difficult than twister. So I pulled out, wait for it, my iPod. To take a photo of it and see what was going on down there.

Just by chance I had my annual physical scheduled for that Tuesday. I remembered thinking that maybe this would just go away but if not I'd be at the appointment on Tuesday.

Somehow I got to sleep and got myself to 6:00 am yoga on Monday morning.

Let me fill you in a little bit about my life back in 2011. I mean I had an iPod which was still cool so don't judge that. But i was 28 and was stuck in a funk. I had dated guys that ended up to be dead ends, I was still living at home because I had gotten into debt when I was 25. I had a great job in the mortgage industry but was emotionally struggling and not in a great spot. I was still in that phase of going out to taco Tuesday and having drinks and then showing up to work the next day feeling depleted and so on. In other words I really wasn't taking care of myself and was just bumping along. Needless to say the idea of being crushed with a herpes diagnosis was something I wasn't prepared to handle. But of course this was really the right time for it to happen because what I'll share and what you've heard my talk about in the past was, getting herpes really forced me to wake up and make positive changes in my life.