Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Snow in Iowa



How I long for S. Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla about now. We're supposed to get a possible 8" of snow. Then I turned on the Weather Channel and see that Chicago (Kate, Pat, Lauren and Lexy dog) may get up to 24" and suddenly Iowa doesn't seem so bad.

I've had a couple of scares from my chemo doctor this past week but have everything sorted out now and am putting it out of my mind (trying to anyway). Being scared is absolutely no way to live each day. Will start seeing my acupuncturist Wm. Terrell again on a regular basis and will figure out a great diet full of super-foods! Woe is me, I think I may have to quit my diet of Peanut M&M's. And no, Anne Marie, peanut M & M's really aren't vitamins! How I wish they were a super-food! WAHHHH.

Brussel sprouts, on the other hand....I just bet THEY'RE a super-food! And gas producing broccoli and cauliflower. Strawberry cheesecake and dark chocolate cake with fudge frosting.....NOT superfoods.

So when I was a bit scared about some medical things, Aisling and I went to WalMart and I was going to buy cheesecake and icecream, and chocolate cupcakes, and cream filled doughnuts, and powdered sugar donuts, and a bunch of junk food because I haven't eaten any junk food lately. I looked each one over, put each one back on the shelf, and purchased a small piece of carrot cake. Since it has carrots in it, I thought that could count towards my five to seven servings of vegetables! But how I wanted the cheesecake and the cream filled donuts! I can't go back in there until I grow some willpower.

I feel great, am taking a Z-pack for my cough (I've had this cough for about 3 weeks and that was one of my worries) and the medicine seems to be helping. I will be going to the pulmonary specialist next week just to check in on the Advair not seeming to work. (Oh, I did read that Advair can cause weight gain!) I got off of the prednisone and the citalopram because I can't lose this darned weight, and now find out this causes weight gain too. Ahhhhh.

I'm not taking anything right now but Vitamin C (chewable), chewable one-a-day vitamins (and believe me, I could eat the whole jar!) and the Z-pack.

Normal in Iowa --

5:26 p.m.