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22 February 2015

I'M NOT CRAZY!!! AND MY DOCTOR IS MAKING ME EAT COOKIES!!!!

OK, I am crazy, but I'm not a hypochondriac. I'm actually unwell! All these symptoms I've been having, the dizziness, the headaches, the heart palpitations, the list goes on, I'm anemic. It explains why I'm so cold all the time, I thought it was just winter, but my fingers really hurt after a couple of minutes outside. I'm thankful for adhd because I think the hyperactivity and the tiredness of the anemia are counteracting each other. I am tired all the time, but I'm able to keep going. I also thought maybe that was a sugar withdrawal symptom. No sugar for um...over a month. (I'm too tired to do math right now) I drink coffee to calm me down, so maybe until I get my iron levels up I should cut back. As for being pale, well that's more of lifestyle for me rather than anemia. Baby, I was born this way.

I went to Dr because I've been getting food caught in my throat. My Dr thinks it's either anxiety or post nasal drip. The girlfriend is convinced it's cancer, because that's what her dad died from. I'm having to reassure her I'm fine. So my Dr ordered a cookie swallow test. I swear I'm not making this up. I have to go eat cookies while they xray or something my throat. It's probably going to be cardboard cookies. She also ordered some more blood work and checked my thyroid, and had me on a 24 hour heart monitor, during which my heart was a complete lady and did no extra palpitations or funny tricks. B**** I've learned the palpitations can be from the anemia, so I'm actually not as worried about that now. They can be so bad I have to cough to make them stop.

My numbers: for those of you who understand any of this...
Iron 12 mcg/dL normal is 50-170
Ferritin 1.6 ng/mL normal is 8.0-388.0
Vitamin D (since my calcium was low last test) 16.5 normal is 30-100
White Bloodcell Count 6.55 normal
Red Bloodcell Count 4.18 normal
Hemoglobin 8.0 low
Hemotocrit 27.6
Mean Corpuscular Volume 66.0 low
Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin 19.1 low
Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Concentration 29.0 low
Red cell Distribution Width 16.0 normal
RDW-SD 38.5 normal
PLATELET 333 normal
Mean Platelt Volume 9.7 normal
Thyroid function cascade 0.772 normal

Essentially what these numbers mean as I'm reading them is that my girlfriend must be a vampire. Someone has stolen all my blood! Now I'm supposed to take iron and vitamin C supplements, and vitamin D with calcium twice a day. I'm looking for high iron foods, I know greens are a big one. Now I walk around singing "I'm strong to the finach 'cause I eats me spinach. I'm Popeye the sailor man. toot toot" It's annoying. My Dr also suggested and IUD and I don't know how I feel about that. Any tips, suggestions, life experiences, extra money you have lying around, would be greatly appreciated.

I have been stupid busy this week, and next week ain't look so hot either. I did manage to pick up my new van. :D When I say new I mean NEW! This puppy had 9 miles on it when I drove it off the lot. 9! You know what's more exciting than watching a vehicle roll over to 100,000 miles? Watching a vehicle roll over to 10 miles. Ooo double digits! It's niiiice! Now I park nowhere near cars, carts, or animals. I guess I will be getting more exercise this way. The only problem with the van is it came from a factory in Toronto and all I can get on the radio is hockey.

Have a great week everybody! Go hockey team!
Weigh-in: 181.4 lb lost so far: 32.6 lb still to go: 41.4 lb Diet followed reasonably well
   (33 comments) gaining 0.4 lb a week

16 February 2015

15 February 2015

I lost a whole pound! All at once! Yay!

So, here's a question I've been wondering about. This may be a bit tmi. I weigh myself, I pee, I weigh myself, and I weigh the same. Now, logically if I lose a cup of fluid, shouldn't I weigh 8 oz less? Do I have some sort of anti-gravity bladder where the fluid does not register a weight until it hits the earth? I'm imagining little bacteria floating around in there with space suits on. Any scientists want to explain this to me?

I've been getting headaches this week. I'm guessing it's because I've not been drinking enough water. I hate taking too much medicine just for headaches, because I learned from Chaz Bono that you can build up an immunity to pain killers. True story.

Next week I get my new work van. Yay! When I say new I mean this van was ordered for me, they called when it came off the production line, still smells like the factory, less than 100 miles, no french fries under the seat, shiny, brand new van! For some reason they delivered it 2 towns away, so I have to figure out when I can get there.

Today is Saturday the 14th. Be sure and check your tubs for shark fins before you get in (just showed my age there).
Weigh-in: 181.0 lb lost so far: 33.0 lb still to go: 41.0 lb Diet followed reasonably well
   (29 comments) losing 1.0 lb a week

10 February 2015

I couldn't sleep last night. I take that back. I could sleep, my brain couldn't. Whenever I wake up the 2 year old in my brain thinks it's time to play and won't stop talking. I thought to myself I would use this time to try and meditate. They've learned meditation changes your brain for the better so I want in on this. I also thought maybe I could just bore myself back to sleep. WRONG! My brain was fascinated with meditation. Free reign to think of ANYTHING! I don't remember everything because there was too much,but I do remember a puppet show, dancing, me standing there in yoga pajamas (whatever that is) in the middle of a circle of a dozen other me's yelling at them all to shut up because I was meditating, and then the Rolling Stones singing 19th Nervous Breakdown. I'm not sure what all that means, but I think I picked the right user name. Meditation + ADHD = weirdness

08 February 2015

I DON'T UNDERSTAND! I HAVE BEEN SO GOOD! I didn't tell you there was cheesecake. CHEESCAKE WITH BLUEBERRY TOPPING! AND I DIDN'T EAT IT! AAARRGH! Maybe I should have eaten it then this would explain why I gained weight. I swear it's like my body is afraid to be in the 70's. I feel like going outside and cussing out a squirrel. CHEESECAKE! On Sunday mornings I like to watch cooking shows and OF COURSE everything today is chocolate. I'm doing so well with no sugar and this week every where I look there is tons of sugar. I feel like a heroin addict in a needle store. I haven't had sugar in 24 days. I think it's making me bitter.

I did workout accidentally again yesterday. I was cleaning the top of my machines. The first stop I was at has a game room so it was (crap I forgot the machine in the foyer) about 11 machines to clean. They have this chunky cube chair thing that I was scooting around and standing on. My workout was scoot chair with leg, step up on chair, strech, clean, scoot chair with inside thigh, push machine away from the wall, step up, clean, step down, scoot, step up, etc. Variations of this exercise included step on Snoopy, stretch, clean, step down off Snoopy. You get the picture should you want to repeat this workout at home.

Yesterday was a slightly emotional day. I'm really getting tired of these. My niece had a miscarriage. I'm very sad for her, but at the same time I've decided I'm a monster, because I don't think this is the worst thing that could happen to her. She's 21, just got her first job, just got married, just bought a house. SLOW DOWN! I mean her husband is in school. She's supporting them. Have a seat. Take a breath. Babies are a lot of work. If I didn't know better I'd say she was dying and is trying to cram her bucket list into a year. Like I said, I'm a monster.

WARNING ANGRY PART:

THEN just to make my day happier, I get this really weird text from my oldest sister. It said "would it be ok if E (my 14 year old daughter) goes to Peru on a missions trip with M (daughter's friend), and her church in June. E does not know bout this M's dad asked about it". Just to clarify this is PERU Peru and not Peru, Illinois. My response was O_O and O_o and '_' FIRST of all, E had a sleepover all planned at my house as a going away party for a friend, and M's Dad wouldn't let her come over to my house for one night, but he wants to take my kid out of the country, to PERU. I've never met the man, and in fact any contact with him or his wife has been through my sister. So I mentioned this fact to my sister. Her response was "I wouldn't want to spend the night there either". rude. Did I forget to mention everyone in this story is an uber-Christian except me? Ah yes the bible passage where Jesus said "thou shalt hate and pass judgement on the lesbian because the lesbian is going to hell, and shouldst thou talk to the lesbian thou shalt also too become the lesbian". SCREW YOU! people suck.

EDIT:

Yesterday was also in the high 30's low 40's and sunny. It was beautiful and I was walking around without a coat on. It was awesome! I just couldn't end this journal on such a bitter note.
Weigh-in: 182.0 lb lost so far: 32.0 lb still to go: 42.0 lb Diet followed reasonably well
   (13 comments) gaining 1.9 lb a week

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