More Than I Can Chew

The last several weeks have been very busy for me. I've been helping very good friends(3) thru serious health issues along with support group moderating, a couple of medical appts. each week, and scheduling in my curves workout 3 times a week, along with grocery shopping, and trips to the drug store without overdoing my rubber exposures each day.

This past week, I've been learning more about organic foods and checking them out in the stores. i've begun learning about the hazards of PBA in our canned foods since the 50's, and also found in some plastic storage containers. This is worse than food handled with latex gloves, and it's also approved by the FDA. I joined Weston A. Price Foundation, my local chapter, and began learning more about nutritionally dense foods(not found in the grocery store). This is what organic foods are, pasture raised, no hormones or antibiotics; essentially safe and very nutritious food that all of us should be eating.

I came across a website while googling for locations of accessable spring water. Well, I drove around town to check out one that had been pointed out to me a number of years ago. I couldn't find it. I think the access was closed. The other may be a possibility. It's 200 years old and overgrown with brush. It may not produce all the time. Then I wonder, how do I learn how to safely access or get the spring active again? It just came into my head. Maybe the DEC can help me with this one.

On Thursday, I spend to long picking up extra groceries to donate to my food pantry. The lines at the checkouts are too long, so I use my rescue inhaler while in line and take my benadryl before i leave the parking lot. This is safer because I'm only a few minutes from home. The rest of the day is strung out on benadryl every 4 hours.

On Friday, I should be homebound and on benadryl, but first I go to get measured and work out at curves. I had signed up for Saturday class for weight management. Then I go home and continue with benadryl every 4 hours for another strung out day. I began having hives in my mouth. This isn't cool, it's really a systemic reaction, but doesn't go any further. Whew, no need for an epi-pen and call to the allergist. By my exposure rules, I should stay homebound on Saturday.

I went to the class anyway. I was ok in there for 1 1/2 hrs. Yippee! But as I read what I need to be eating for weight loss, after I've gotten home, to figure out a new grocery list, I start slowly going into the meltdown that almost became major. I was still having trouble on Sunday when I went to check out organics in a different grocery. I had decided that I was going to chunk down my approach to this diet, but I was still getting anxious. I got the organic butter I wanted to make my own ghee and a few other things. One bag and an immersion mixer was $80. Yikes. On the way home, I prayed for help and guidance.

The answer came. Chunk it down. My activity level has increased with working out. I'm forgetting that I'm disabled. I'm forgetting that I'm scheduling everything so I can just fit my workouts in with buying groceries, picking up prescriptions, doctor appts., tests, and trying to manage my home(which I'm way behind with). I'm also forgetting how old I am. I'm not ancient, but I'm not 20, or 30, or 40 either. I'm not giving up, I just need to watch my times outside home more carefully. I need to stop testing to see how many exposures to rubber I can have and then end up calling 911 and ending up in intensive care on a respirator for a few days.

Sal