October 5 2010

I am so tired of being sick all the time. I was doing so good healthwise and then I started to get sick again. I can only blame myself but it is maddening just the same. I bought some Cupcake Pebbles cereal after reading the label and thinking it was safe because there were no offending ingredients but have still been very sick ever since eating it and I have been eating it a lot because it tastes very good. Of course it tastes good it is a kids cereal. I emailed the company to see if their cereals are gluten free and they told me no none of their cereals are gluten free. Why am I stuck with bland cereal or expensive cereal?

Why can't I be creative in what I eat like a normal person? Why do I have to stick with the same foods over and over? I hate being gluten intolerant.

Sept. 17, 2010

Ok, I saw Dr. Baker today and although I knew I was going to gain weight I still didn't like it. I gained 7 pounds and plan on taking it back off by the time I see him in November. I am hoping that by the time I see him I will be close if not there to my goal of being below 200 pounds but I am cautiously optomistic. I will just have to be more diligent in my way of eating and when I get hungry instead of reaching for chocolate reach for celery. I do have my tootsie pops which help also with the sweet tooth cravings and they aren't too high calorie and are individually wrapped and take awhile to eat. He did remind me today that I am to be eating fat free cheese and I guess that would mean fat free mayo too. I may try fat free cream cheese in my lettuce wraps instead as that isn't so bad caloriewise. He also reminded me that I am not to be drinking with my meals 30 minutes before and 1 hour after. That is going to be a hard one to break as I get some serious dry mouth. Maybe I suck a mint or something. If it gets to bad I can ask him about that. He was encouraged by the fact that mom and I are going on a walk for the Children's Advocacy Center of Benton County tomorrow. Which means we are getting up really early as registration is at 7:00 and the walk begins at 7:45. So I will work on the things I need to work on and then go from there. I am working on a DVD that I workout on I bought at Vintage Stock with some money mom and dad gave for my birthday and if you do the whole tape you will have walked 4 miles. I am about 2/3 way through it. Now that it has gotten cooler at night I need to go walking on the Bella Vista walking trail but don't want to go alone so need a walking buddy. I have an idea of someone to ask and will ask soon.

So this is it for now.

Jan

July 27, 2010

I just got home from seeing Dr. Baker and got a good report. I have been taken off my wound vac and have put on a wet/dry bandage. I have to have that changed twice a day so I guess that means that home health will be coming every day at least once a day and then mom will be changing it at night. Not really sure how that is going to work Dr. Baker was in a hurry and we didn't get a chance to ask him so I guess we will find out tomorrow. He didn't give us many supplies so I guess that means home health will be coming.

I learned a valuable lesson though don't mix blue cheese with feta cheese it makes your tummy hurt. We stopped at Whole foods for lunch and so I could look at their gluten free foods as I am trying the gluten free lifestyle for awhile to see if it makes me feel better and we ate at the salad bar and it made my stomach upset and that is the only thing I can think of because I was the only one that got sick. So don't try this at home LOL. I was impressed with their selection of gluten free products though and we are going to start getting our quinoa there as it is a lot cheaper there than up here and a little cheaper than at Kroger plus it is right off of the highway.

So the good thing is I am healing well enough to be taken off the wound vac and hopefully soon enough to go home. I will need to figure out things though to have in place when the urge to go down to the neighbor's house and bum a smoke hits so I don't do that as it is hard for me fight the urge. I wasn't able to resist in the short term time I was at home. I know it is bad for me and I know I don't need to do it but the addiction is a hard one to give up. So I need to come up with things to take the place of that.

July 14, 2010

I found out today that I am no longer able to drive for awhile. When I had gone to see Dr. Baker last he had released me to drive and I was able to go home. Well that didn't last long when he found out that made it so I was no longer eligible for home health. I am having to move back in with mom and dad :(. I don't understand why I can't go to the wound care center for my wound care. I don't see what the deal is. I guess he has his reasons though. I am waiting to hear back from him. Mom will have to take me back into town when they get home as I need to get my daily meds. I dole them out weekly and I do that on Wednesday's. Just what she wants to do drive more after being in the car all day. They are on their way home from Colorado.

So needless to say I am bummed. I see Dr. Baker again on July 30th and then will see if I am able to get rid of the wound vac. When I saw him last he said just a couple of more weeks. So I will be looking forward to getting rid of this thing.

July 2 2010

I am so excited I get to go home. I saw Dr. Baker today and asked him when do I get to drive and go home? He teased me and asked if I could drive before. He then said as long as I'm not on any pain killers that he didn't see a problem with me driving. So tomorrow and over the weekend I will be moving back home. I will be taking Tyger with me. He may like it out here at my parents but it was never to be a permanent thing. Right now Tyger is asleep on the desk beside me I think he knows something is up but he can't figure out what it is. I hope he doesn't meow the whole way back home. I guess when Rex brought him out here he cried almost the whole way. Tyger doesn't like cars.

But I am excited about going home and hopefully soon getting rid of this wound vac. I asked him when I would be getting rid of it and he said probably with in the next few weeks. So hopefully when I go to see him July 30 he will give the ok to get rid of it.

I know it has been awhile since I have posted so I thought I would bring you all up to speed on what is going on.

I saw Dr. Baker yesterday and he said I have to stay with mom and dad one more month. He is afraid if I go back home that old habits die hard and he thinks that if I go back home I will fall back into old habits namely smoking and not eating as I should. So I can be policed better out here. I wasn't real happy when I heard that but I understand why he is doing it. I guess healing any way I can is better than anything. At least we haven't killed each other. We are getting along better than I thought we would. I thought we would be at each other's throats by now but we aren't and it has me kind of shocked. At least it's not a permanant thing. I go back and see Dr. Baker on June 1 and he said I might and should be able to go home then. I think I should be closed up or nearly closed up by then.

We stopped at Toad Suck Days on the way back from Little Rock yesterday so I got my walk in, sore toe and all. I had my toe nail "operated" on they took part of it off on Tuesday to prevent it from becoming ingrown again. Dr. Byrum said my toenail was very curved and this should stop that problem. I know it did in my left foot. The problem is that this time it is hurting a lot more not sure why but it is. I got the good stuff though and it is helping. I could use my crutches but I hate using those. I am on those enough as it is. Anyway back to Toad Suck Days. They mainly had food vendors and I had a corndog. Mom had a polish sausage and Dad had tornado potatoes which he said were basically potato chips on a stick that were fresh out of the fryer. He said they were good. We also got a funnel cake. Gotta have one of those when you are at a festival. Dad got some good pictures which I'm sure he will post on his facebook page. There was a street band playing and some swing dancers they sure were good, very agile. I think they were going to be on the news probably in Little Rock because someone was filming them.

But I think the highlight of the day for me was when I got to see the TIV (tornado interception vehicle) it is from this show called Storm Chasers on the Discovery Channel. It was going East as we were going West. I just happened to be looking out my window and saw it go by. I freaked out. I always wondered if I would ever get to see it as we are close to tornado alley. I think they were driving TIV 1 because that is what it looked like. I know in past seasons the second one they built has had problems and they have to go back to the first one and so we will see when they start to show the show again. But anyway I was excited.

I guess that is all for now.

Wednesday April 7 2010

I went to see Dr. Baker yesterday and got a good report. The little black spots the home health nurse and mom were seeing was foam. I was so excited. No hospital for me. The first time in the last 2 visits that I haven't had to go to the hospital after seeing him. I did get busted for smoking though. I had a moment of weakness and bummed some from the neighbor. I really need to figure out a way to handle the cravings and what to do when the urge to go down to the neighbor's house happens. Something to work out with Savannah.