Renewed Energy

Here we go. Got some content reloaded from last year when trying to get back here. Made a first draft, over there on the left, of an updated Profile. Today's post is saying that I am, again, trying to share. (seems it takes a cooking emergency, where I need to use all my creativity, to make meals I will stick with combined with a diet I can follow for two or three weeks and satisfy the creative side of my nature...

Just to make a "today post", I will say; I had my grand daughter (5.5 months old) over to my house today which allowed her parents to watch a local professional football game. [[[Go Bills!]]] It was the first time I had been able to hang out with the baby for more than 15 mins since I went to FL to care for my 85 yr old Mom during the last month.

It was a fun afternoon! I did have to make my breakfast food for the next few days today, since tomrrow starts the going to the hospital each morning at 10 am for one procedure or another. So, did make the quick breakfast approved by LID, but also got to hold a sweet sweet baby during it. What else in life is so wonderful?

Basically ollowed the recipe for granola from page 88 of the Lo Iodine Cookbook.... This was pretty close to the original too. I LOVED one could put it in a 9 x 13" glass baking pan if turned many times during cook hour. I do not have a lot of the flat baking sheets and it seems the one I have is always needed for something else. Being in the baking dish, made it easier for me to make a new nut mix at the same time. The snack to DIE for on this LID!

Tonight... a new Spanish Rice which was actually spicy! Casa Dias that were ok, but I wanted the tortillas to be a bit crisper. Along with Foil Wrapped veggies which were good on their own, however the frozen snap peas were TOO soft and cooked for me - the disadvantage of having to put them in the foil wraps in the first place. Frozen veggies are cooked already. The fresh veggie were very good with the lemon juice, soy sauce, drips, onion salt, garlic salt, pepper. Would have liked to add some butter but leaving that out right now...

feel so good about yesterday. was a decent day. only crashed for an hour at one point and was afraid the whole afternoon would be shot again, but ended up after a short nap could do the things I wanted. actually got place vacumned, finally, and with Gopi's help later, changed my bed around so it no longer squeaks! hardly had a headache, or at least only a very small one, all day. I think was because I did not take the synthroid overdose the night before.

spent part of the morning taking out sections of my writings here that pertain to the disease and things I've written about it. copied them and dated over on artdreams the blog. am thinking of editing them a little and posting to get the blog caught up. even if it is currently only really about my health and it's progress, not my art progress per se, who cares? I have gone through this several times, start and stop and it almost seems cheating to add in posts post dated, but again, it is my blog and I can if I want too. a lot of complaining, but maybe I and fill in some items that would help others who have had thyroid cancer or knee replacements as they recover. we are all in the same boat! thought to,again, try to work forward and add more, but more about the food and diet and new cooking things I learn. perhaps can help someone who may think of becoming or staying vegetarian or just add to the many blogs and info there is currently out there. also a way for me to keep electronic files on this process of cooking and eating and taking permanent meds. not sure a, to buy, cookbook by me will happen anymore. there are a million and one veggie cookbooks now. I would rather concentrate on my memoir and get that done and published.

Back to 137 mcgs

hope today is better than yesterday. did not take the synthroid early morning at all. could not get new script for lesser amount and decided to just skip it for one day. actually slept and do not feel a headache so much. let's hope that is it. I was thinking the last couple mornings that maybe I had some strange brain cancer on top of the thyroid one! the headache was just too much, even when taking tylanol or naproxen for other pain. today I get to start the lower amount. man, I hope this works. do not need this stupid up and down shit in 4 weeks when I have knee surgery. part of me wonders if should postpone this one a few more months, but then it will go into next year and have new deductible and next year will really have a fixed income. whew, as year is going into early fall or on second half of year, now am some worried about no income next year!

just wish I could get going on the book for real. such a thing in my head and just seem to loose time every day regarding it. can not hardly get to making the bed and vacumning. hope Dr.C is right that it is the hormone and it will straighten out now. where does everyday go to? seems just fixing things here and swimming and phone talking I guess.