Dec 6: Just regular stuff
Deneen: Thank you so much for your last comment. I'm planning on printing it out to remind myself of what I have and can accomplish. It was wonderful.
The last couple weeks have been very busy. This vegan thing is taking a lot more time and effort than I anticipated, apparently it was naïve to think otherwise. Fresh food requires more food shopping and since I'm not used to cooking the food prep takes me longer than it would someone who is more used to it. I'm being about 95% vegan, allowing for my latte in the mornings and occasional egg or butter in something.
Saw my rheumatologist yesterday. My blood work is fine, although my blood sugar was up it wasn't a fasting sample, although the prednisone can cause that, so will be getting a HgbA1C to check for longer term elevation. More incentive to stick to the vegan. Haven't lost much weight, but I've gotten very good at finding vegan things that aren't healthy, such as French fries. Totally vegan: potatoes cooked in peanut oil with salt! As are potato chips, as is sugar...... Yeah, got to be more disciplined! She says that it will take a couple more months before the diet could be expected to make a difference to the autoimmune issues, but had some anecdotal stories from her practice of people getting totally off their meds by becoming vegan, so I'm sticking to it.
Saw dentist Monday and the hygienist told me about these tablets you 'stick' in your mouth that stimulate saliva; wearing at night seems to be helping from waking up as much with the CPAP. Saw internist Weds; don't really like her but the office is walking distance and she gives me what I want.
The disability claims are still being 'evaluated'. SSD has already told me the earliest a check is issued by them is 5 months. STD still hasn't kicked in. The hold-up is the records from the physician's offices. I know from experience that disability forms are low priority in offices, and they won't process them until all physician's have sent back the paper work. Once the STD is approved it will be retroactive back to Nov 18. I have planned for this and have savings, but still a little scary when it looks like another couple weeks before checks start coming in. Certainly watching my spending a lot more strictly!
Thanksgiving week before and after was busy but satisfying. I spent two days cooking, Thanksgiving was incredibly busy: packed the car with supplies and all the food, drove to Mom's where the chef made me a lovely vegetable platter, then drove down to 'Aunt' Beth's, which is below DC so took 4 hours to drive 196 miles. I did eat a little turkey, Susan had lovingly made me a gluten-free stuffing, and there were beans & cranberry sauce without gluten. A divine pecan pie was worth a chance, so I ate everything but the crust, happily without any reaction. While the day was a lot of planning & driving, but then I stayed for the next several days, happily leaving on Monday with little traffic.
Tonight is the office holiday party, already called the restaurant and they say they can accommodate my gluten free vegan needs; this should be interesting. Tomorrow am going with Holly and her boyfriend to a Messiah at Ursinus. Not feeling super introspective at the moment.
Thanks for checking in, Laurie
The last couple weeks have been very busy. This vegan thing is taking a lot more time and effort than I anticipated, apparently it was naïve to think otherwise. Fresh food requires more food shopping and since I'm not used to cooking the food prep takes me longer than it would someone who is more used to it. I'm being about 95% vegan, allowing for my latte in the mornings and occasional egg or butter in something.
Saw my rheumatologist yesterday. My blood work is fine, although my blood sugar was up it wasn't a fasting sample, although the prednisone can cause that, so will be getting a HgbA1C to check for longer term elevation. More incentive to stick to the vegan. Haven't lost much weight, but I've gotten very good at finding vegan things that aren't healthy, such as French fries. Totally vegan: potatoes cooked in peanut oil with salt! As are potato chips, as is sugar...... Yeah, got to be more disciplined! She says that it will take a couple more months before the diet could be expected to make a difference to the autoimmune issues, but had some anecdotal stories from her practice of people getting totally off their meds by becoming vegan, so I'm sticking to it.
Saw dentist Monday and the hygienist told me about these tablets you 'stick' in your mouth that stimulate saliva; wearing at night seems to be helping from waking up as much with the CPAP. Saw internist Weds; don't really like her but the office is walking distance and she gives me what I want.
The disability claims are still being 'evaluated'. SSD has already told me the earliest a check is issued by them is 5 months. STD still hasn't kicked in. The hold-up is the records from the physician's offices. I know from experience that disability forms are low priority in offices, and they won't process them until all physician's have sent back the paper work. Once the STD is approved it will be retroactive back to Nov 18. I have planned for this and have savings, but still a little scary when it looks like another couple weeks before checks start coming in. Certainly watching my spending a lot more strictly!
Thanksgiving week before and after was busy but satisfying. I spent two days cooking, Thanksgiving was incredibly busy: packed the car with supplies and all the food, drove to Mom's where the chef made me a lovely vegetable platter, then drove down to 'Aunt' Beth's, which is below DC so took 4 hours to drive 196 miles. I did eat a little turkey, Susan had lovingly made me a gluten-free stuffing, and there were beans & cranberry sauce without gluten. A divine pecan pie was worth a chance, so I ate everything but the crust, happily without any reaction. While the day was a lot of planning & driving, but then I stayed for the next several days, happily leaving on Monday with little traffic.
Tonight is the office holiday party, already called the restaurant and they say they can accommodate my gluten free vegan needs; this should be interesting. Tomorrow am going with Holly and her boyfriend to a Messiah at Ursinus. Not feeling super introspective at the moment.
Thanks for checking in, Laurie
posted by Laurie @ 1:15 PM
1 Comments:
At 6:18 PM,
Anonymous said…
Laurie,
Glad to hear your Thanksgiving was good. Like any new habit, the vegan thing will get easier!!.
Deneen
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