Posted on Friday, 28th April 2006 by Maritzia
Woohoo…my hemoglobin is in the normal range for the first time in my adult life (and I’m 44 *rolls eyes*). Just barely in the normal range, so it’s still got a little ways to go. I’ve got 4 more infusions scheduled, and then I should finally be done. The doc said that I might require a yearly infusion if I don’t get enough iron from food, since I seem incapable of taking even tiny amounts of oral iron. I tried to go back to the multi-vitamins with iron, and within a week my stomach was eaten out again. I eat a pretty high iron diet, though. We love pinto beans, and we eat red meat at least a couple of times a week. All in all, I don’t anticipate it being a problem. I guess that shows all those ob/gyns who didn’t want to do a hysterectomy. I should have had it done 10 years ago!
The weather has been really nice here the last few weeks. A couple of rainy days, but overall just gorgeous. The highs are hitting the 60s (we had on day at 70 last week), and Mark and I are back to taking the dogs to the off-leash park most evenings after work. I’ve lost about 15 pounds since the surgery, which is really good. Another 5 or 10 pounds and I’ll be able to go off of the CPAP again, which I’m looking forward to. And, my PCP happily agreed to HRT, which means the hot flashes should soon be a thing of the past (woohoo!). I had about 5 hot flashes last night, and every time the puppy was just plastered up against me. Every time I’d pull away from her, she’d just snuggle closer *laughs*. Poor thing is always so cold, she just loves my hot flashes. Hopefully the estrogen will also help my sleep quality, which has been quite poor for the last month or so.
Mark is working hard on a project that might actually bring some money into the house. He has a friend at Canadian National that he’s working on a project for (something about tracking the trains going in and out of their yard). He’s hoping to be able to sell the project to the different rail yards at CN when it’s done. He’s happy to be working on something, and whether or not he sells it to them, it’s a good project to put on his resume using .net and xml.
I’ve really had a hankering for potato soup recently. I need to find a really good recipe and make a big batch for the freezer. That way I can have it whenever I want. Oh, and cornbread! I really need to make some cornbread. Maybe I’ll pick up some buttermilk on the way home this evening. I could make some this weekend. I even brought some cornmeal from back home when I was there in November. I don’t like the cornmeal you get up here. The grind is way too fine. The cornbread has kind of a cakey texture. I like it a bit coarser.
I’ve been reading The Twelve Wild Swans again. I’ve got a bit to say about that, but I need to think on it some more before I post. Maybe I’ll do that this weekend if I’m not too tired.
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