I had my last doctor's appointment with the surgeon yesterday. After many, many, many tests, they officially cleared me of all the cancers they were checking me for. Honestly I thought that I had been cleared of that before when they told me the tumours looked benign, so I didn't even know I was being checked for cancer still. I am of course happy with that diagnosis, but why aren't they looking for something else other than that? I've done a lot of research on my own and what seems to me to be the problem is my digestive tract. I seem to have 95% of the symptoms and based on what I've read, there's a lot I can do myself to help. Most of it is diet. Now here's where I am stuck. I have nut allergies and allergies to most citrus. I can only stand most vegetables with cheese on them and it looks like I will need to cut out the dairy...So what on earth is left??? I tried Soy milk...yuck! I tried Almond milk...yuck! Now that I have what I think is wrong with me nailed down, I am going to go back to the doctor AGAIN and see what I can do. I have noticed a link between when I get a majority of pain to not long after I eat.
Now to my kung fu. Well, quite frankly I'm not doing well, not the first time I've said this. I haven't even been watching my classes because I hate explaining why I'm not participating because I'm just frustrated. I thought I could at least keep up with my acts of kindness, but I'm not even logging those anymore. I'm exhausted a lot and don't get off my couch very much. I need to change this. I've thought quite frequently of quitting, but I know I'd be mad at myself if I did. I just need to struggle through the next little while and get over this hump. I don't want to use my exhaustion as an excuse to be lazy but I feel sometimes I am. I just gotta keep going, and not give up. It's not too late to start over.
Try coconut milk, I was the same as you and don't like soy or almond, coconut I like! I manage veggies I don't like my putting them with the ones that I like. I love carrots so I cook them with broccoli (yuck) and manage to eat them or I put the broccoli in my smoothie and drown them with raspberries and strawberries :)
ReplyDeleteI hated almond milk too at the beginning. Now it tastes just fine. It took me a good 6 months though till the cravings for REAL milk left me.
ReplyDeleteSmoothies, like Robyn said, are great for getting all that stuff.
It can't be easy what you are going through. And it is great that you are sharing it. We are all cheering for you and sending happy thoughts your way! Keep fighting Lindsay!!!