The Fruit and Vegetable Bar is a daily discussion of ways to work more fruits and vegetables into our diets. We’re aiming at the 5-9 servings a day.n And to realize that it’s not as intimidating a challenge as we thought it was.
I noticed yesterday when I stopped by that diner to buy my fruit salad (and I’m glad to report that I only ate 1/3 of it yesterday!) that they had some very nice vegetable salads also. The sad thing was that there selection of dressing packets didn’t include a single low/non fat dressing.3 So I don’t think I’ll be counting on them regularly for my lunch salads. But, it’s nice to find sources of emergency food.
And Saturday, I’ll go to the local Farmer’s Market, buy my own assorted fruits and vegetables and make my salads myself! (keeping my fingers crossed)
What are your plans for fresh fruits and vegetables today?
My plan is to have a small salad with lettuce, tomato, onion, cherry peppers, cheese and almonds, with blue cheese diluted with vinaigrette dressing and croutons.
This is all I am having because in the evening I will attend the hood Seder and sin.
I visited the shaman today, he is pleased with the shugga, but he has increased the gabapentin to some astronomical number in the continuing quest for pain control. Oxycontin and percocet stay the same, but he has cut the potassium in half due to a slight improvement in the Metformin Side Effect, and the fact that my last postassium was normal, just barely, but normal.
I still haven’t seen the neurologist, the shaman of today did not have satisfactory answers to my questions regarding the invasive and painful tests. It will let us put numbers on it, he said, and what will be the benefit to me? I asked, he did not really have an answer, continued talking about the benefits to THEM of having these numbers. He was, however tactful enough not to mention the principal benefit to them, which is, of course, the expensive price of the tests.
Ductape, thanks for sharing this information about your visit with your doctor. I’ve got an appointment with mine next week and you’ve reminded me that I want to let her know what my questions are in advance of the appointment so that she can think about the answers before I get there.
It seems like one of the most common answers doctors give me is, “I’ve never thought of that before” and then when I see them months later they know all about it. I’d like to speed that process up if I can.
kbird what I do is similar to what you do about food, I think.
I jot down questions to ask the shamans whenever they occur to me, and the evening before I am to see them, I copy all the questions down, along with a summary of pertinent information about my condition, the stronger Oxycontin is better this way, but still not doing enough that way, I am taking extras of these, those make my nose itch, the green ones make me dream of peas, whatever.
That way I do not have to depend on memory or be distracted by being annoyed that I had to wait and am therefore running behind, that it is almost time for my pills and I am therefore not sedated/pain controlled enough, that I have taken all my pills and am too sedated to remember the very interesting question I thought of two weeks ago, etc.
It is all there on my little piece of paper (or sheaf of papers, depending on how many questions I have on that day) and if I am grumpy enough, I can merely hand the paper over and glower, or if I am feeling genial, use it as a guide and converse.