In 2012 I became a Mom. In the year of Maternity Leave I was sick 3-4 times. It was an amazing break from being ill with infections.  However, when I walked, it felt like I was walking on glass. Every joint in my feet hurt so much.  I also found that walking I was losing my breath, my muscles felt like they were seizing.  I gained a lot, 60 pounds. That is what the doctors focused on.  My weight.  Even though my cough developed long before that, and when I was training to join the forces, I found I wasn't able to exhale all the way.  And as I pushed myself harder, it felt like I was drowning, with less space to exhale.  So much I stopped riding my bike to work as in the heat, I felt I was going to collapse.  

The second picture was me after I lost my weight.  Somehow, between birth and going back to work I caught H-Pylori and lost all my weight.