Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Sleepless in Deltona

Well I'm back, technically tomorrow and as promised I'll tell you the riveting story of my dietary needs. It started with my ENT or neurologist or some doctor out in Alabama telling me that I needed to watch my sodium intake (but I was just so out of energy all the time so I wasn't going to cook, and I had almost every fast food place right down the road from my apartment so in my mind problem solved). Well, it was problem solved until you try to find something healthy from a fast food place, and theres only so many salads I can get from McDonald's before it just really feels wrong to be paying them for that.
After I had to move back to Florida, but finally got to see a doctor that actually knew what lymes was, let alone bartonella and whatever the other one I have is (seriously I thought I was going to have to go to a vet because they're actually the ones that found bartonella...I actually asked about getting an appointment with my dogs vet back in Al, he was really good), but anyways this doctor here tells me I should be eating low gluten and low dairy. I was so hesitant to this because everyone says gluten free stuff tastes awful, it tastes like cardboard. Well lucky for me that my cousin and her friend started this business not that long ago, Ready Set Cupcake, that happens to be gluten free cupcakes, so what better way to ease my foot into the door than with cupcakes. And I got to try their new product first, whoopie pies, which were so yummy!
Quick sidebar right here, anyone who's gluten free should definitely try their products. It's so cool, it's pre-made and frozen so all you have to do is bake and then frost, but on their website it has all these cool ideas for you to make a plain chocolate/vanilla cake or frosting into something totally different.
Oh, second sidebar, anyone near DeLand needs to check out the DeLand Natural Bakery. Love, love, and love some more everything about this store. The vegan gluten free white bread (which I know sounds like it has like nothing in it) is so good, and I used to eat so unhealthy, and now I'm suprising myself. I actually like most of the gluten free stuff better.
As far as medicines go right now I am looking to start back up on factive on monday, but I've been on a bunch on vitamins, and even though I know it's a long road I can tell they're helping. I was actually able to go out shopping for a little with my mom the other day and then we went to Moe's for lunch (our usual spot because I can get tofu). It was one of the first times in a while I've left the house not for a doctors appointment, so taking it one step at a time. But the vitamins I'm on are: Vitamin D, B, C, Folic acid(I'll have to be on that for the rest of my life for some funky blood clotting disorder that I'm at a higher risk for), calcium, probiotics, a multivitamin, magnesium, and I just started a new vitamin so I'll have to let y'all know when it's not almost one in the morning. The vitamins like the C and magnesium I'm not taking right now (even though I should probably be taking the vitamin C anyway, it won't hurt me), but just how it was "prescribed" I'm supposed to take it with the factive so I'll start them again monday. Yay, horse pills...
Well, I think it's time to take a different kind of pill and try to go to sleep. I've been banned from my Xanax for the time being because it interacts or something with something, a lot of things like that become a little fuzzy and I'm unfortunately still a little forgetful, I guess it's the lyme brain, but I'm just thankful I have my mom here with me to keep everything straight for me while I can't.

Hoping for sleep, wishing you goodnight, and signing offline,
The lyme life

P.S. last thing TRY IT!!! and goodnight

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