Friday, July 28, 2017

Internist still working my case.


One test was redone for an infection that is causing a higher leukocytes count and so it was suggested that the nephrologist should look at it, okay... and it came back still abnormal, nothing to do with my stage three renal failure that is definitely diagnosed, but this has to do with the possibility of that infection. And the internist believes that it is caused by my chronic problem from the Multiple Sclerosis.
All communication is through the medical patient portal where I also have access to test results and to message the doctor as well.
And Dr. Nord, internist, does seem to want to help.
Flummoxed once more.

Moving on...

Tonight we did something we hadn't done in quite some time we had a pizza for dinner.
We ordered from a different pizzeria that we hadn't for quite awhile.
The name of the pizza place... are you ready....? Best Pizza!
We ordered a large thin crust plain, normally $12.99 and a small antipasto, but they have a discount for carry-out that was a nice surprise, which Hubby does anyway i.e. carry-out, and that large pie was only $5.99, total bill $11.99 including the small antipasto! And they were good.

I heat up my own toppings that I just like and Hubby doesn't want, and they were mushrooms, onions, spinach, and one breakfast turkey sausage link cut up small, all mentioned goes on half the pie, but I ate only two slices of mine, and Hubby ate all four of his, the whole other half, plus some antipasto. I had just a little antipasto, no meat, just a few veggies.
Most of what I heated up for the pie was vegetables for my side anyway.

I Googled the diet restrictions for CKD, chronic kidney disease, and it seems that less dairy, and lesser amounts of meat proteins, more veggies and fruits/ berries. I can live with that, but still need more specifics.

Today, Hubby and I combined that pineapple with the mango both grown in our own backyard; we  peeled and cut them up into small pieces and put all into a container with water and froze in our freezer, duh, and once partially frozen I then put them into our blender with more ice, vanilla and honey and pulsed them until they were the consistency of a slushy and put them back into the container into the freezer to access when I so desire as a healthy dessert sherbet!
I did sample a little bit and it did taste very good!

Below is our very first indoor experimental pineapple tree, wish us luck!
The top is from the one we cut up today like we have done previously with all our outdoor ones, but never before indoors.

I had suggested to a friend that moved out of state and who also enjoyed growing his own pineapples when living in Florida, but now lives in Colorado to try to see if they could grow them indoors? Well, I have no idea if he has, but I decided to try just because anyway. Hubby could always take it outside if it all goes terribly awry, and looks like it is going to not survive. Its amazing how many plants that do not do well in our very dry inside due to air-conditioning running all of the time, and you take the needy for humidity plant outdoors and wow it is revived!
So this a test, a harmless test. I could mist it, but unless natural too much or too little cannot help, rots with too much or gets moldy, and too little it will still keel over... notice I do not like to use the word, "dies" for any living thing, squeamish I suppose, nah I guess I just have that issue with plants, how odd. On this latest interesting idea, allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!
 
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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