Getting sick

I've had to think if i wanted to post this but have decided that i would like to be able to read this later so I'm going to put it up.... After the trip to NY/NJ got back and felt fine...returned to work and everything was going great until about 3pm when I started to feel like i was getting motion sickness.  This progressed and by 5pm i was home lying flat in bed.  Called my doc and started some meds.....on tues i got up and slowly got ready for work but had to call one of my girls to come get me and she took one look at me helped me undress and get back into bed.  My doc actually came over and checked me out since I the meds didn't seem to be working and added some more to try.  I couldn't sit or stand without holding on to something and i couldn't use a fork to eat and had to try to eat lying down......wed was no better and the scale showed i had lost about 7 pounds.  I woke up at about 5am on thur and could neither sit nor stand on my own.....the scale showed i had now lost about 10 pounds or so and then the vomiting started.......we got me to the ER and they gave me iv fluids and meds, a CT showed i had a brain and no obvious stroke or tumor or bleed, my lab wasn't even too bad despite being clinically dehydrated.  They admitted me.  I had an MRI which was interesting....thought of Trish and hoped it would be alright.....it was and I can better understand the feeling of dread she and others have before theirs.  It was finally decided to start some steroids......and they helped.  They made my Blood sugars go wild but I "happily" was willing to  start some short acting insulin rather than continue to feel so dizzy.  I've been slowly getting better and I have returned to work and on Thur I was able to keep my eyes open in the car......last night i watched a little TV,  I've had to listen to it until then as the movement would make me dizzy.  When sick I couldn't read as I couldn't focus and would see double letters when trying.  I'm still some unsteady when standing and walking but I'm no longer bumping into the wall though I'm not yet back to baseline.  The steroids made me hungry and it and the blood sugars had me craving sweets and I did bloat up some but that is mostly gone and my weight this am is good.  My sugars are still messed up but I'm hoping they will get better with time. I also hope the last of this strange feeling will go away.  A funny thing was that I could not eat raw vegetables....when I would chew them I would start getting dizzy......I was having to eat soft foods that didn't require much chewing.  So it's going to be a quiet weekend again.  Sent my dh to Sam's with a friend so he can get some fruit and a chicken to use for this week.

Internet returns

I didn't actually plan on dropping out of everything,  Mother Nature did it for me.  The storm in May took out our phones and at 1st we thought the internet was OK but it went too.  Due to the extensive problems in our area it took a while to get an appointment to get the internet fixed but it has now been done and I can get back to my occ blogging and to reading other blogs.  My kids told me to go to IHOP or Starbucks but I'm just too old for that.  I'm also not able to use my phone for blogging.  I guess it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
During this past month we went to NYC for a wedding and I stopped by to meet Alan.  I will be missing his blog and wish him much luck in his future endeavors.  I did eat some foods that were not diet friendly while there.  I was really hoping to visit with someone else but it didn't work out,  maybe it will give me an excuse to go back.
I didn't make any progress this past month,  but neither did I lose much ground.  I have found that I have a better eye for what a portion should be and managed to say no to things that i would have eaten last year.

Hope everyone had a good month.

Eating on plan...cont....nails

Blogger would not let me edit the 1st part of my post so I gave in and posted it....I had to stop because a friend was trying to fly and the airport was closed due to a possible bomb...so I checked into it online and to her flight and she is now settled down at the airport and will be leaving on her delayed flight soon and has been transferred to a later connection. 

......dry enough i added the silver.  I need to find a darker purple glitter to use for my base and avoid the topcoat and see how i feel about it.....too much silver for my taste but I did get some comments on it.  Just now while watching the updates on the airport I put some of the sally Hansen violet on top ....I like the color but it didn't break up like i like it too.....I'll try it directly on a tacky undercoat one day and if i don't like that i can always use it the way it is today as its a nice color but more of a streaky effect than a crackle or shatter.  I also wonder how it would do over pink glitter with the Nichole with hearts over it.....I have been thinking of wearing that to the wedding.......may see how it looks this weekend.

Eating on Plan

I am still working on eating on plan.  This past weekend was hard....we were out of town and i had hoped we would eat some meals at my friend's house and packed some food but ended up eating out for every meal.  i took my plan with me and ordered as close as i could but I know that despite asking that somethings were brushed with oil or butter for grilling,  some things were easy...roastbeef sand on wheat with a side salad, no dressing,  but almost everything had more salt than when I cook it.  One thing that happened was a nice find....my dh is a baseball fan and we went to a Tx Rangers game and they now have a healthful eating concession with fresh fruit and a grilled chicken salad.  The concert was great,  I only lost a little money,  and the accessible room at the hotel really was accessible and I have a nice still painful bruise from running into a hook in the dark that was in an accessible location.  In fact everyone was great dealing with my friends wheelchair and we plan to go back and do this again.

Exercise....I did a lot of walking over the weekend but have not been as good this week and have yet to start doing anything else......I need a fire under me.

Nails....My youngest son, the fashion guru told me that I can't wear black nailpolish to a wedding .  So I  went to Ulta and found some different colors of shatter and while on hold for 56 min the other day i did some silver over purple.  As i needed to save time I used a quick dry top coat and when it felt

Still Here

Well I thought about having some junk yesterday....if it was the last day, why not enjoy it......but guess what....I'm still here and so seem to be everyone I know.  Therefore I am glad I didn't fool around(it was only a little thought) and today my planned eating continues.  I was out of fresh veggies to grill, so went shopping and also got food for the next couple of weeks.  We only have a couple of days of menus for next week and as most of my shopping consisted of veggies and fruit it will hopefully work out OK.  I still have frozen fish and shrimp and got chicken and steak this morning.  I'll cut up the steak tomorrow and then freeze it and they were nice enough to pack the chicken in separate packages and even cut some into strips.  The scale was ok this morning and i figure it will likely be about the same tomorrow as i seasoned dinner with spices and salt tonight.  I'm ready for the salad and tuna and glad we're all still around.

Nail polish.....I have started reading Erikas  nail blog.  I bit my nails for years and when I finally stopped in college it was partly because i started to polish my nails with bright colors to help remind me to keep them out of my mouth.  I still find it very important to keep my nails polished but I don't have the time or energy to change them more often than weekly, but i love seeing all the different colors she uses.  I am also playing with some different polishes as my favorite co is going to have their new line made by a co i personally don't like the wear or look of.  What brought me to write this tonight is that I almost bought some yellow polish today....it was shiny but not glitter and I had liked how some yellow looked on Erika but decided that i would need a tan to want to try it, so i passed it by. I do think that i will be inspired to try some new colors and brands by Erika and while i won't start a nail blog i will label it when i write about polish so anyone with no interest can avoid it.


Let's see how thin we can be by 2012 when the next end of life as we know it is predicted to occur.

Grill Crazy

My Forman is getting a work out this week.  I do find that i miss salads.....I've even been thinking of trying to grill spinach or romaine, but haven't tried it ....yet.  I'm currently trying to decide if i can grill cauliflower or if i will have to throw it in the oven on a cookie sheet....if i put it on the grill to finish....or if i microwave it to soften it before grilling....will i meet the letter of the law?  I haven't decided what to do yet....any ideas?  This is now a short post, i had a longer one but i didn't realize i wasn't plugged in and it turned itself off.

Did it

I did it.  I've made it thru the 1st week of P6.  I know I have the rest of today to get thru but I'm sliding into home this week.  The big challenge was the meeting.  I took my stuff in a freezer chest and except for one little problem it worked great.  I'd frozen a bunch of water bottles and lined the bottom with those. Then packed my stuff with more chilled water and bags of ice.  I even took my blender.  I had tea and diet coke from the snacks put out and even went to the lunch lectures.....taking my own food with me.  The desserts were on the table and the salads when we sat down. My dh enjoyed having 2 desserts each day and ate my salads....but boy it was hard giving it up yesterday.  I sat and stared at it thinking how could some lettuce hurt but I could hear Allan saying....follow the plan or get out and I passed it over.  The fact that the salad interested me more than the dessert was mentally an interesting thing.  I've always had a sweet tooth and I would have thought that it was looking at those desserts as i tend to try to keep them out of sight at home, but I'm really missing my salads.  I realize that I am so glad I didn't do any kind of surgery as I would not have liked having to limit my raw bulky veggies.  I'm learning to eat the right amounts of cal dense items and enjoying some extra veggies when wanting something to snack on rather than chips or cake.  Thus today is easy......I'm drinking my jugs of fluid and enjoyed eating bk and lunch and catching up some on  the blogs.  I did get to read a little on my phone and tried doing a comment but I don't have it down yet.
Oh yes, the exception...my fudgsicles  didn't stay frozen.
I even walked some laps of the conference area between talks.
.......and I lost 4 pounds this week.