Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Day 14 – 10 July

My knees are  a bit sore today, I guess I’ve been taking the stairs too much? I sure didn’t drink enough water yesterday (1st day of period -_-)

Breakfast
Carroty Cream of Wheat
Half a Bagel with Butter
Tea
Lunch
2 Bananas (a few hours apart)
Dinner
Sweet Plantain
Curried Lentils
Snack
Wise Corn Chips
Dinner
Carroty Cream of Wheat
Curried Barley Pilaf

Teddy grabbed my right arm today above the elbow, the other problem area. It doesn’t hurt, though the muscle has a memory of soreness, which is really a minor threat of SCKD pain, or the memory of it. Or both.

         It has officially been two weeks on my new diet, and this is a life changing experience. I haven’t been taking pain killers nearly as much, though there was a dose and half yesterday for my period. My body feels better, more whole, less weak, more strong. I’m tolerating the cold of the air conditioner on the trains and buses better. It’s just different. I’m excited to see how things progress as my body produces new blood cells and the old sickled ones die away. I don’t know how long it will take my body to make new ones, but I will keep recording how I feel! I could not be doing this job if it were not for my diet change, I would be too weak. It’s good not to feel so weak all the time. And I can walk more!!!! (^_^)

         The down side is the diarrhea, that’s persisted over the past few days. But my stomach has issues in general. I will take a laxative Thursday night to see if that solves my problems.[1]


[1] I found out much later that there was a problem with my refrigerator and that must have been what was causing the bloating and other symptoms as opposed to my dietary changes.

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