Bloodwork and paleo

Thursday, May 03, 2012

Recent bloodwork results.....I've never had such good cholesterol and triglyceride levels in I don't know how long. Funny how every doc except my naturopathic doc doesn't get my success at all.

After having a heart attack I got all the regular bullcrap. Eat like no fat, take statins, etc. Only because I bothered to read at all did I find that's not a good way and certainly not the natural way but, of course, that was before the naturopathic doc.

I've gone paleo...no grains, mainly, and I eat only coconut oil and butter and I don't skimp on them or meat..I eat 40% of my calories of each...20% carbs only.

After the latest bloodwork at a different facility for an injury was another doc asking if I am certain I had a heart attack because the bloodwork looks so good. She went and requested my records from my doc because she didn't believe me and they proved it. She asked which statin I was on...I told her none. She asked what I changed so I explained it. She audibly gasped! When are they going to learn they need to listen to more research that is open minded?

:::shakes head:::

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An AHA moment

Saturday, June 04, 2011

Ohmigawsh! I'm totally stunned. I've been telling my dad for months now that his fibromyalgia is thyroid driven but he refuses to believe me because he refuses to be on any med for the rest of his life.

My brother called. Mainly to discuss how my mother is doing because she just had her knee replaced. But then he mentioned that he had been talking to a family acquaintance that is a distant relative. ( Her grandmother is also my dad's grandmother).

He told her how about a year ago his son had to have his thyroid removed because of cancer. She just casually stated how "well that's another one in the family." My brother asked her what she meant by that. She told him that her grandmother had to have hers removed as well as her two daughters and so on down that side of the family.

That was the first time my brother and I had ever heard that there was any one in the family anywhere that dealt with this. My father's father( who's mother this was) died pretty young and that side of the family never was very close so my dad didn't remember ever hearing about any of this.

My mother having my brother and I take fluoride didn't help us either. But at least now we know where this started from and can tell all of our children a better family history.

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NEW TSA possible slogans

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Ok, so I'm trying to deal with life by using humor. It's a good way!

Can't see London, can't see France, unless we see your underpants!

Grope discounts available.

If we did our job any better, we'd have to buy you dinner first.

Don't worry, my hands are still warm from the last guy.

Wanna fly? Drop your fly!

We've handled more balls than Barney Frank.

We are now free to move about your pants.

We rub you the wrong way, so you can be on your way.

It's not a grope, it's a freedom pat.

When in doubt, we make you whip it out.

TSA: Touchin', Squeezin', Arrestin'.

You 'were' a virgin.

We handle more packages than the USPS.

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A sad day

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

I found out this afternoon that my last living aunt has brain cancer. I'm not certain if you can say one can have cancer worse than another but she has a bad case of it. The past month she has been unable to communicate coherently, getting her words mixed up and unable to say others.

My mom and her 4 siblings had a traumatic childhood(Marilyn was the middle child and 2nd of 3 daughters-my mom will be left with a younger brother). My grandfather had another family with children in between the children he had with my grandmother. He left my grandmother to fend for herself and her growing brood. She worked many jobs during the day for people in town because the state had told her if she got a full time job she would lose the kids....if she got assistance she also would lose her kids. So she claimed nothing and forged ahead by herself, taking my grandfather back when he showed up because her parents were of the strict, rigid thinking that she had married him she should put up with it. When he finally died when my mother was in the 2nd grade I think that took a lot of strain off of all of them. They have always been extremely closely knit as a result of relying on each other for everything. That's how I was raised....to rely on my family and to respect them for what they've endured and how they've risen above such hardship.

So, finding out Aunt Marilyn has this last hurdle is hard. She got hit by a car as a young woman and managed to rise above that. She helped me drive from St. Louis to Dayton, OH with an infant dealing with an ear infection when I needed her. She's one of the funniest women I've ever known. She can be cantankerous, opinionated, and unbending at times but she's also a great lover of her family and truly cares about every one of us.

If you're of the praying sort of person....please add her to your list. We'll soon find out if they can treat her at all but if you ask me.....the prayers are the only thing that does alot of good. This has hit this family hard.

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Have you seen my moose!? LOL

Saturday, October 30, 2010

HAVE YOU SEEN MY MOOSE?

Without the picture, this would be hard to believe.

Pogo Moose Incident - Fairbanks , Alaska

'They were laying new power cables which were strung on the ground for miles. The moose are rutting right now and very agitated. He was thrashing around and got his antlers stuck in the cables. When the men (miles away) began pulling the lines up with their big equipment, the moose went up with them. They noticed excess tension in the lines and went searching for the problem. He was still alive when they lowered him to the ground. He was a huge 60-inch bull and slightly peeved!'

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