Half Marathon - It seemed like a good idea 3 months ago!

So, as some of you know, my stepson Casey was diagnosed with Lymphoma last year on his 6th birthday. It was a pretty tough 6 months for us. He is done with chemo and is currently in remission, but watching what he had to go through and seeing the other kids at the hospital fight for their lives really made me want to do something real with my life. I was the captain of "Casey's Cruisers" in the Light the Night walk benefiting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and my team raised $1685 for LLS. In October I joined Team In Training and I'm training for a half marathon on April 5th. I was doing ok at first, I went "running" (if you can call it that) 4 times a week, 3 on my own or with my daughter and once every Saturday with my team. Those are hard, they're early morning in freezing cold weather and they're longer than the ones we do during the week. But before each run, we have a Mission Moment and someone shares their experience with cancer and it always reminds why I'm out there freezing my buns off about to run for 6 miles. During December, I really let life get in the way of my training. I had a lot going on getting ready for Christmas and family coming into town, then I got sick and it just got easier and easier to put off my training. Then on Christmas day I started having sever abdominal pains. This lasted for days and instead of going to the hospital, I just figured it was indigestion or something. I went to the doctor on Monday and she took a blood sample and sent me home with some samples of Prevacid. The next day I called back saying that the pain was unbearable and asked for meds. They called in a prescription for me and set up an ultrasound for the next morning. Tuesday night I was throwing up from the pain and my husband loaded me in the car and took me to the emergency room. I found out I had severe gall stones and by the looks of it I had had them for a long time. I told the doctor I could rememeber having these same pains as far back as 6 years but they never lasted as long and were never as severe. On New Year's Eve I had emergency surgery and had my gall bladder removed. I was so happy to get rid of the pain. But here I am on January 22nd, still healing from surgery and not able to train yet. I'm so far behind I'm worried I won't catch up. I just know if I was healthier and didn't have so much fat that I would have healed much quicker. Of course, I haven't been for my follow up yet so maybe I can start training again next week. Who knows. Anyway, I was feeling discouraged because I have a lot of training to do and a lot of money to raise in order to particpate in this event. I started sending out emails and started a football pot for the Super Bowl so hopefully I'll be able to raise the money and be ready for the run when it's here.
If you would like to help find a cure for cancer, please visit my website http://pages.teamintraining.org/ntx/bigd09/rstone and make a donation. You can see Casey and find out more about blood cancers. Any help is greatly appreciated.