Sunday, February 12, 2012

Valentine's Day Gone bad

Because Valentine's day is in the middle of the week, and we both work, I planned an early Valentines day for this weekend at Chena Hot Springs. Well, we stayed the night, went in the hot springs  wanted to go see the norhtern lights but the tour was booked. The next morning, we checked out of our hotel, went to breakfast at the restaruant, and then proceeded to the dog sled ride we signed up for.
Well, this is where it went all wrong. We climbed in the sled and not 3 minutes later we were on the trail. The dogs were excited and moving right along when they decided to take a corner a little too sharp and quick. This caused the sled to tip over. The lady that was on the back of the sled fell off, Jim and I both fell out. I landed on the bottom. My arm got the worst of it. My left elbow was underneath the sled and Jim. The dogs kept going which caused my elbow to be in much more of a bad situation as it was still under the sled.
The good news is, it is not broken. However, we all thought is was because I couldn't move it, it was horribly swollen (still is) and already had a bruise forming before we could even get the x rays done. I don't bruise easily. I am sore on the upper part of my body today. I feel it in my left elbow, my right shoulder and a little in my neck.
Jim cut his knee. It isn't a horrible cut, but it sure bled like it was. He is stiff in his legs today. So, between the two of us, we have one whole body and one broken body.
To make matters worse, I either have the flu, or am vomiting from all the stress my body went through. We are not sure which. 
My exercise for my arm includes grabbing a saltine cracker and slowly bring it to my mouth, so I can keep it from getting more stiff.
I have been reading my book, The Hunger Games, today. However, I can no longer read it because I got to page 122 and it went back to page 91. I figured, I'll just turn to the next page that says 122 and then I will find 123. Nope, it skips straight to page 155. My weekend just keeps getting better and better. ARG!!




Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Sad News with a little Seaweed

So, I was normal, for a little while. I don't know why, or what I did differently, but I don't have the regular cycle anymore. My cysts are back according to the ultrasound I had today. I don't know why I the periods and now nothing. My thinking is it could be stress from work, not eating as healthy as I should since I haven't made the time to do so with work, or it could be that I haven't been exercising. Anyway, it could be all of those things mixed together. I don't know. I just know the diet works and I need to stick to it harder than I have been along with the exercise and making the stress go down.
I bought a new book called, "Secrets of Longevity Hundreds of ways to live to be 100," by Dr. Mao Shing Ni. He has a lot of good information, most of which I already know, but he brought up a new thing I have not heard of. Seaweed has iodine in it, naturally! Not the added stuff that is in table salt. (Which, bytheway, I stopped eating. I now eat sea salt.) Iodine has been linked to help with thyroid problems, goiters and cysts! So, I decided to try it. My facial hair, attitude and everything but my cysts are good. So, If I just need to get rid of cysts, then why not have some seaweed! I bought and tried some yesterday. (Before I found out my cysts were like glue and sticking to me.) It was revolting! I thought it wouldn't be that bad. Apparently it is an aquired tasted. Then I was thinking that maybe it was the type. You know how spinach tastes good raw but not canned? So, I bought some in a soup mix. It was better, but I still didn't like it. So, I tried cooking it differently, and still didn't like it. I finally broke down and bought it in pill form. I don't taste it, and it goes down quickly. WOW! How easy was that?. I also plan on exercising and sticking to my diet more so that I can be regular again. I tend to do reverse my eating habits when I see things working and then think ok I am good. Then I start eating badly again. I can't do that anymore. ARG!
Everything else is still normal. I still have lower levels of testosterone, and my A1C and all that is still normal according to my last test. It's just the cysts! They're nasty and annoying! I think they are worse than seaweed!