Paleo Pals - Health, Weight Loss & Support

Hanging my head in shame, I used Miracle whip in a salad yesterday for dinner and ate some. I just did a google search and read it has High Fructose corn syrup in it, tears I tell you, I have tears for being so stupid, because I just ate a bit of that salad again! UGH! This is frustrating again. I don't like the taste of paleo mayo. This living and learning the hard way is not working very well for my thighs! haha

Basement - we think we have figured out the problem. Apparently we should have been adjusting the air exchange or turning it off during the high humidity days. Fingers crossed that this is all it is and an easy fix. It's been raining most of the day and I have found no water on the walls or floor of the basement. YAY!!!!!

Got Stella 5 new toys today, she sniffed them and that was that, she went to the corner and layed down.

Egads - can you just come stay with me for a bit till I get the hang of this new lifestyle????

Jade - when is your surgery, you may have mentioned this already but what is your surgery for?

JKL how are you feeling my dear?

Junie - how did the MRI go? Are you finding ways to stay cool?

kath - how are you holding up lovely?

ksusan - guess I should get those melatonin out of the recycle bin. hahahaha Kids are definitely part of the cranky mommy personality!

Egads007

I called ten minutes ago with a to paraphrase "did my paperwork get lost? I was told I would see the plastic surgeon within two to three weeks of my BS appt and it's been over a week with no appt date" this is an actual issue for me it seems whenever my name gets near electronics.

HA I got the return call as I was typing this I go next week. They didn't say it but it is feeling like my paperwork got misplaced.

Thank you for the belated birthday wishes. I so wish it had been better it wasn't one big thing just a lot of little things in too short a span of time.

Blessed be

I posted this in the surgery post:

So apparently there is a disconnect between me and a couple of the  health professionals, and it's possible I won't be getting implants after all. I was talking pre pec dti and they thought I was talking about under the muscle dti which is apparently a thing here ? i didn't  even know that was a thing.

I will find out next week as I got a callback and an appt with the ps then.

So it looks like I may be living flat anyways.should have known.they were way too easy and agreeable when I said that was the only option I was willing to do right now other then flat.

Speaking of food I gotta go make some bok choy and mushrooms for supper.

Inna I recognise that this diet goes aganst the grain. LOL The reason I went Paleo is after I recurred, I reread Gary Taubes book and the part about cancer. Primitive peoples dont get cancer until they eat a modern, western diet. I was semi vegetarian most of my life and that didnt work so i decided to embrace Paleo and try it. Plus I researched and researched diet and the only things I found to prevent recurrence is lower fasting glucose, not gaining weight and eating one fewer serving of carb per day. Honestly this is the only way for me to prevent weight gain because high carb seems to keep me ravenous. And I exercise a lot so that also makes me hungry. And then also, my primary care doc said its a good diet abd I trust him.

Vamp does Stella need a Thundershirt? OMG some days I relate to her.

Egads -DS is doing well on new medication and has not changed his diet beyond the no corn, no dairy so far. He is not motivated when he feels well, for sure. Stubborn as a mule.

Morning, cave people! Just wanted to say that I am not against low carb diets. I’ve been on Atkins and Ducane diets for years with great results, until both stopped working. I try to avoid carbs and processed foods as a general rule, but I think something broke in my body a few years ago, and coincidentally, that’s when I got cancer. I think I will go to a nutritionist once I am done with chemo and rads and ask for food plan. I’ll never be a vegan or a vegetarian, that’s for sure. Maybe pescatarian, because I love fish. I won’t give up my Greek yogurt either, but will definitely stop making my famous home-made granola loaded with all the happiness in the world. People have been known to eat it with a spoon as a desert, that’s how good it is . I’ve been exercising steadily for years as well, so I have no idea how I gained extra 18lb in the last 4 years. Well, 8 of them are already gone anyway. Must get through 2 more DD Taxols first...

All right, all right, no granola! Here’s my chicken with green snot recipe instead. Sorry, can’t type it, too long. I usually omit Erythritol, because I have no idea what that is.

And yes, I also think Mediterranean diet is the one for me

Give me some credit; I was going to make the granola for my uber-picky, super-active granddaughters (ages 10 & 4). I loved that Inna said it was "loaded with all the happiness in the world." As for me, I'll be trying the chicken & green snot! (I LOVE anything Szechuan.) As an aside, grain doesn't appear to bother me but I really don't have any desire for it these days.

Vamp & Egads, don't worry about salty language here! My DH actually IS a sailor (long retired) & I can outdo him when necessary! (Like the time my BS's office called the day before I was to have those damned cancer cells taken out of my breast & informed me they would be cancelling my surgery because I hadn't provided all the films they needed - even though I had hand-carried all the images to their office days earlier & they were sitting on the receptionist's desk because she had neglected to take them down to imaging! Ooh, my language that day probably blistered paint! Come to think about it, they remodeled that office shortly after my surgery. Do you think I really did destroy their paint job?)

Kath, I'm happy you're doing better. Just keep coming here, we're your tribe now. BTW, I'm in NoVa so we're practically neighbors!

Vamp, I second the thundershirt suggestion because I've seen it work. My DD's dog (a rescue after being abandoned in Houston during a recent hurricane, poor baby) is understandably high strung & anxious. The thundershirt fits snuggly enough to feel like a big, cozy hug & has really seemed to calm him. It doesn't work for every dog but it shouldn't be too hot since my DD uses it in Austin, TX. Worth a try.

TwoH & Egads, you have stubborn sons? I can SO relate! But mine is getting his comeuppance in the form of an even more stubborn daughter (or, as Barbara Bush termed it "he's getting back some of his own")!

And Egads, that orange garlic grilled chicken looks amazing! That is definitely something I want to try. (And I understand your fear of a beating - we cavegirls carry big clubs!)

Ahh, Inna Gadda Davida. I had many memorable times with Iron Butterfly playing in the background (sheesh, I'm old) but those are stories for another time ...

Egads this is the Thundershirt.

Hello everyone,

The MRI went well on Wednesday. On Thursday I went to the Neurology Dept. (without an appt.) and asked if I could get an appt to speak to the neurologist. They asked me to wait in the lobby and approx. 30 min. later I was called in to see the neurologist. I waited another 20 min. and the neuro came and showed me my MRI results. My tumor can be seen in the center of my T11, plus I have spondylosis in my Lumbar spine (it's a mess, but no cancer in the lumbar spine).

The neuro and I had an in depth conversation about cryo-ablation of the bone & vertebroplasty, then he made several phone calls right there in front of me. The one doctor here who does this procedure is out of the clinic until the 23rd, but his nurse called him and he agreed to do it. So I'll be here another week. I have 3 appts. on Monday, 1 on Tuesday, none on Wednesday (so far), procedure on Thursday, plus I'll probably spend the night in the hospital since this procedure is done under general anesthesia.

Discharged on Friday, PICC line removed, then I'll return to the hotel and rest for the rest of the day & Saturday. Then on Sunday I will fly home to Oregon.

I have been incredibly fortunate to get all of this accomplished in 2 weeks. The Amer. Cancer Soc. was able to help me with 8 days of my hotel stay, but today they let me know they are unable to help with the last 5 days. So I will have to pay for those days. Even so, I am thankful to have this opportunity.

Yesterday I made several phone calls back home to see if there is any doctor who performs cryoablation of a bone w/ vertebroplasty, but I couldn't find one. There are doctors that do Interventional Radiology back home, but none that are Neuro-Interventional Radiologists like the doctor here at Mayo. So it is worth staying here to have it done here.

It rained a bunch yesterday and was much cooler & pleasant here today.

While Rochester is a very nice and clean city, the cost of living here is very high. One nurse told me that the amount of money here in Rochester is mind boggling and that is why it costs so much to live here.

Okay, that's all for now and I will bid you all goodnight.

JunieB