Quick Tidbits
Lowfat cheese has almost 100mg more sodium than the regular stuff. I’m just going to use a small handful, should be fine.
My dad is back at the hospital for observation more than anything. He will be fine from what I’m told. Can’t afford the gas to go see for myself.
Sleep apnea going…ok I guess. They have me on meds for waking up in the AM, but it’s been rough trying to figure out the right combination of meds in the AM & pressure in the AutoPap in the evenings. I’m handling it alright I guess.
Shaved my legs the other day & it felt so good I wondered why I don’t do it more often. LOL I’ve been using the Johnson’s Softwash Melt Away Stress bodywash & it smells great, keeps my skin nice and worked great for a leg shave.
It’s not gotten hot enough here to put the A/C in the window (and I may regret typing this as it may tempt the fates) so I’ve just been using a fan in the window. The only drawback to this is my next door neighbor likes to grill out & burn stuff in his big barrel. hahaha, but it hasn’t made me crave a big juicy cheeseburger, so that’s good.
Cleaned out my car, including the trunk. Time to start on the apt but wanted to check in. xoxox
Posted by suchaprettyface on July 6th, 2008 under General | Comment now »Just some jumbled up things
- Kraft Mayo made with olive oil has half a gram less fat and about 20mg less sodium than my previous favorite, Hellman’s Light. Since I am watching sodium first fat second, I will be buying the olive oil stuff from now on. I just can’t stomach the fat free.
- There were Pinch of Salt chips by Frito Lay, but they disappeared from stores quite quickly. I think I’m going to ask the store manager what is going on. They were good! How nice was that to enjoy chips & salsa again?
- I want to know how much sodium is in ramen if you don’t use the packet that comes with it, wonder where I would find such info.
- Kellogg’s makes Blueberry Muffin frosted mini wheats. I think I love you, Kelloggs. *sheds a tear*
- Eggland’s Best + oatmeal 3x a week reduced my cholesterol considerably. Raisins or Craisins + cinnamon are wonderful in oatmeal. I am slowly weaning myself from the instant to the steel cut.
- I have heard from a source recently that artificial sweeteners are not good for my kidneys. I’m not sure which one, but am going to get more info soon. It sucks though b/c I love love LOVE Cherry Coke Zero. It tastes WAY better than Diet Cherry Coke. I’ve no idea why. The ingredients are almost the same.
- I’m back in my skinny (size 22) jeans. I’m going grocery shopping like this.
- My birthday was great!
- Hope everyone else is having a great weekend!!! xoxox
Sleep thing
Still working on it. They called & said it needs to be changed. No one from the DME company has called me back to do that over the phone with me yet. *sigh* I mean for real. Is this hard.
Doing well on the diet. Working on the exercise, as always. Water never a problem.
Posted by suchaprettyface on June 14th, 2008 under General | Comment now »Fell off the wagon, got a wakeup call
Tomorrow is Farmer’s Market, I will be going to get some good things.
My feet have puffed up & haven’t gone down. I know since it’s shark week the hormones & water retention & etc, but jeez! So I’m biting the bullet & going as salt free as possible. I’ve done it before & I can do it again.
I’ve also been fighting a cold this week. Why is it when there’s multiple things going on that I have an epiphany? I think I am taking a few days off next week or the week after. The sleep machine works nicely & the wakey pills make my days brighter. I need a couple days where I don’t have anything else scheduled. We’ll see if I get it.
Hope everyone else has a great weekend. xoxox
Posted by suchaprettyface on May 17th, 2008 under General | Comment now »Just an update
Have to get the pills regulated, still. That will come in time. Trying to do some spring cleaning, too, and purging clothes that are too big. It’s a good feeling.
Work has been crazy. I’m trying not to medicate with food, but 34 years of that is hard to forget overnight. I had a southern style chicken sandwich at McD’s today (ugh, don’t bother, they are just trying to rip off Chick Fil A, which I think we can all agree is the superior chicken product) but instead of fries & a coke, I got the fruit/yogurt parfait & also the fruit salad. Fries just don’t do it for me unless it’s a very specific kind.
Got my labs back from Mayo Clinic, and my uric acid is up. After some searching online, high amounts of vitamin C can cause this level to rise. High levels of uric acid can mean kidneystones or gout.
I have been chomping a chewable vitamin C with every iron pill. Vitamin C helps the iron be absorbed. Well, **** THAT. I don’t need kidney stones or gout on top of everything else.
Anyone want 20-30 unused vitamin C tabs?
Posted by suchaprettyface on April 29th, 2008 under General | Comment now »Yay! Finally a loss!
I have lost 5 pounds since I last got weighed 2-3 weeks ago. It’s not much, but it’s a step in the right direction. And when I hopped off the table & weighed myself completely naked, well it was 8 pounds!!! Whee!
Well, I wish I had better news for you about the wakey pills, but I don’t. I take them @ 9 when I wake up & no matter what I do I am up until 2. One of these days I will gradually wake up at 8 & take them & eventually at 7. Maybe if I wake up at 7 I can be in bed by midnight? I dunno, man.
The weekends are still hard. 20+ years of sleeping late on the weekends. If I try to sleep even until 10:30 I get a raging headache. Aces.
However, the benefits outweigh the insomnia. I will figure out how to do this eventually. Right?!?!?!
Posted by suchaprettyface on April 22nd, 2008 under sleep apnea | 1 Comment »Update
Wakey pills + insomnia = OH YEAH! Late night bloggin’, everyone! So apparently the trick with these pills is to take them at the buttcrack of dawn? No one told them I’ve been sleeping until 9am for the past almost 3 years I’ve had this job & worked these hours? HAHAHAHA.
So by the time I take the meds, they keep me up until all hours. Good times. Over the weekend I tried to “fool” the meds by taking them & then going back to sleep & was rewarded with a headache that lasted 2 1/2 hours. Suckage. So I still have some figuring out to do.
Not much else, I’m gonna try & get some sleep & set the alarm for extra early to take some meds, weeeeeeee!
Posted by suchaprettyface on April 15th, 2008 under sleep apnea | Comment now »Update
The wakey pills have made life easier. I can see a light at the end of the tunnel. I actually cooked a meal tonight. I’ve been much more cheerful. I like this new life, wish I had discovered it 6 years ago!
More later, hope everyone else is doing well. xoxox
Posted by suchaprettyface on April 11th, 2008 under sleep apnea | Comment now »Sleep Apnea, part 87
Ok, now for the meat of this blog: the sleep doctor. I went in this am, disheveled & bleary eyed, as I always am in the morning. Before the diagnosis, I just assumed that everyone spent their mornings this way. I let the nurse know that I was gaining weight, not losing like they told me. The ramp part is unbearable because it feels like I can’t breathe. (For those not in the sleep apnea loop, a ramp is the first 10 minutes that a breathing machine is on at night. It kind of acclimates your throat to having air pumped into it. They start it at a lower rate than what gets pumped into you at night. You choose your own ramp, 10, 20, or 45 minutes. Mine is on 10 minutes & sometimes I leave the mask off during the ramp, because it feels like I can’t breathe.) This is causing some anxiety as you can tell by my blog earlier this week. Also I feel like I have no energy to do anything.
So the doctor comes in & says that when I was on the Autopap machine I stopped breathing about once an hour, as opposed to the 6-11 times per hour I stopped breathing before the sleep machine.
He asked me if he could put me on the Autopap & I said yes, please. The CPAP has a water reservoir, so your nose & throat don’t dry out, but dude. I’ve felt like I was drowning a few times. So I got the machine I wanted.
Then I reminded him gently that he thought I had a sleepy brain when he first saw me, and he said, yes. I think that’s what you have; I’m not going to make you do a nap study, let’s just take care of the problem now.
I was so happy I almost did a cartwheel!!!
So I begin my new meds tomorrow. If they counteract with the TOLVAPTAN & I die tomorrow, please know that I loved you all, I want my kidneys donated to the PKD Foundation for research, and K-Lo gets everything in my Nasty Drawer. The pooch gets the insurance money.
Posted by suchaprettyface on March 27th, 2008 under sleep apnea | Comment now »Very good day
I stuck to the plan I had, which was one plate of food & nothing I didn’t LOVE. I drank 1 soda (cherry coke zero) and stuck to water the rest of the time. My cousin Debbie makes the BEST desserts. I had one small Guinness brownie. YUM.
Got some cute clothes this weekend @ Fashion Bug & Kohl’s. I only had one nice going out top, so I got another, and a little sweaterlette to go over my ghastly arms. I got a nice pink henley top, a blue v neck top, and a red one with stars all over it. I got some suede gloves and new undies. 2 more new tops and a pair of capris that will be cute for summer.
We got another f***ing 10 inches of snow Friday but I don’t care. I am going to take a walk tomorrow.
Hope everyone else had a great day!!!
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