It's All About The Food

So, we are having some good days and some bad days.  The bad days consist of extreme tiredness and more than the usual pain.  Still controlling the pain with tylenol and ibuprofen.  Good days are just tiredness.  I was real concerned with Walt's weight loss.  Much more than he was.  He kept saying "a few more pounds and I'll weigh what I did when we got married".  When he lost 3 lbs. in 2 days I got kicked into high gear.  Did some more research and started pounding down the protein.  So, with the poached eggs in the morning he is getting cottage cheese, a small beef patty and avocado.  Walt loves his avocado mashed with salt and onion powder.  Yum.  Last night I made shrimp, avocado and broccoli wrapped in a lettuce leaf.  Egg drop soup on the side.  Shrimp has to be wild caught (twice as expensive, of course). Shrimp is good for you because it has a lot of B vitamins and protein.  Beef is grass fed. ($4.00 a pound) Why does it have to be so expensive to be healthy?  I have beef jerky in the oven drying out.  Walt needs to snack and there are just not a lot of choices.  I have to make my own cause I can't find one without sugar.  It was a blessing to find out that he can have meat, just not big amounts that take his immune system a lot of work to digest.

We drove out to Bonanza yesterday to take Thomas home and sit in the park to watch the kids play.  Thomas stayed a couple of nights with us while Amanda took the big kids to visit with their dad for a few weeks.  George couldn't go cause the first night we had Gavin he got sick in the middle of the night with a terrible cough.  George had to come get him.  We just can't have sickness in this house.  The sitting in the sun is part of Walt's therapy.  Soaking up as much Vitamin D as possible will help his immune system.

Here's a fact:  We all have cancer cells in our bodies.  The reason some people get tumors is that their immune systems can't fight it off.  Please all of you, work on making your immune systems the best it can be.

I got to thinking that if anyone has a comment or suggestion that you might not want to post here I will give you my email address.  Think most of you have it, but just in case:  conniejn1@gmail.com

Friends and family are back in their homes in Idyllwild.  That fire was too close for comfort and we are all grateful for the prayers that helped our friends cope with a terrifying situation.
And, of course, thank you for your prayers for Walt and myself.  You can't imagine the comfort they bring us.