Feeling Better

2 days without mayonase with Soy oil, and I am already feeling better and thinking faster. Damn, I am so mad at myself for letting this happen. I wasn't using that much - nor was I using it every day (probably 2 out of 3 days - and the amount for a chicken salad or to spread on a sandwich. I should have known better. I know how toxic Chocolate is to me - 1 Reeses PB cup and I am sick for 3 days - completely unable to do anything - stuck on the toilet mostly. And Tofu was the only thing in the blood test the rated as allergic as Chocolate. What the hell did I expect? 2 months of misery - DAMN IT ALL!

Soy

I am very allergic to 2 things: Chocolate and Tofu. I should consider these things toxic to me. This was determined by blood test. In the same test, raw soy beans were OK - no reaction at all. But to be safe, I am avoiding all products containing processed soy - like soy oil.

About 2 months ago, once Emily got here - I made a diet change. I started eating artificial mayonase. I didn't look at the ingredients. I miseed Tuesday, Wed, Thursday at work 2 weeks in a row, THEN had surgery on 22 may - AND HAVE BEEN ILL EVER SINCE. I haven't worked much in 7 weeks - not at all the last 5 weeks.

Maybe it is the soy - I stop using it today. I have purchased an organic ketchup to replace it. No soy, no HFCS, no corn syrup.

Not on Top Today

I just give one example from today. When I go to bed at night, I plug my cell phone in to recharge. I kept forgetting to turn the phone in silent so that if I had insomnia, I wouldn't be woken up by someone calling at 9 AM. Toi help me remember to put the phone on silent, I put a piece of tape on the charge line, and wrote the word - SILENT. This has worked for several weeks, until today.

I forgot to put the phone on "ring" when I put it in my holster today. I missed 2 calls.

Sunday

I was able to attend all 3 hours this sunday at Church - without falling asleep.

My friend Kofi is in serious trouble. His roommate/cousin moved out secretly when it was his turn to pay the rent, so Kofi is stuck. He has no money. He has come to the Church to often to ask for help, and this time it is not forthcoming. The manager of his apartment complex has lost patience with him and will not give him more time. They want new tenets in that apartment. Kofi will have to move on Thursday, and he has no idea where he is going to go.

I am trying hard to keep my spirits high. I hope to have a sleep study done soon, and hopefully that will improve my health (altering the CPAP machine settings...)

My channel in YouTube, AccidentalLyrics, is starting to get popular. I have about 20 subscribers now, and I get about 100 views a day.

I entered my cartoon, Once THere Were Some Snowmen, into a Holiday Animation contest at aniboom. First prize is 35k$ and a contract deal with the Fox network.

Worse Shape Than I Thought

Monday, I was told that the tissdues looked healed in my nose. I explained that I was still not breathing freely. We decided to discontinue Claritin (because it causes a higher production of mucus) and to begin nasal steroids - to shrink the tissues behind the nose.

I think it is starting to work.

I had 2 doctor's appointments Monday, went to work for 2 hours, went shopping, and did multiple chores at home as well as paid my bills online.

Tuesday, I was in very bad shape. I had an anxiety attack and diarhea. All I did was sleep all day. I forced myself to get up a few times, but all I could manage to do was watch shows. I couldn't even play games. I was totally wiped out. It hurt my abdomen to sit up for 90 minutes to watch a movie. The anxiety I experienced was different. In my mind - I was not anxious. I had hope that changing the meds would improve my breathing, and my health would get better. It took me hours to figure out that my physical symptoms were anxiety.

It is Wednesday. I am doing better. No signs of anxiety. I built a website for Emily today. It is not available online - she needs to provide me with some text and images before I can upload it. It took me all day to make it. I would work an hour, then have to rest for an hour. I got a bad headache. IMHO, it took me 10 times longer than it should have if I was wealthy. The most disturbing thing was early on - I had a programming error - a simple one, a missing bracket. It took me 2 hours to figure out what was wrong, and it was something I normally would see right away, at the instant I make the error or shortly thereafter.

So I probably am not ready to go back to work. What I did today was easier and more fun than what I do at work.

We are going to do another sleep study soon.