Feeling Like Myself Again
Well, I am perhaps jumping the gun here, but I think I am feeling a little more like myself. I can’t say what, specifically, has made the difference. I am mostly going to sleep a little earlier and getting up a little later so that may have helped with the tiredness. I am back taking a multivitamin a day AND an iron tablet. On Monday, I am going to give blood {I am AB Positive–one of the rarer groups} so we will see what happens then. The Red Cross always check the iron content and before the surgery and the trip to Italy, my iron levels were excellent and I never took a supplement. When I donated a bag of my own blood to be used on me during the surgery {If necessary–and it wasn’t} the phlebotomist suggested taking an iron supplement before the surgery so I did this.
Yesterday I put the ingredients for a raisin bread loaf into the machine and today I tried something new. I just got a packet of mixed seeds from the King Arthur flour site and they suggest adding half to three quarters of a cup to a basic white-bread recipe so that is what is being done by the bread machine right now. I added a half cup and it looks as if that is the right amount for this loaf but, of course, it has to undergo the taste test! 
We are both very fond of bread with bits of other stuff in it , so we will see.
Our company arrived yesterday evening and we went out to eat. We went to the diner just up the road from us at about 7 pm. Normally this diner closes at 9 pm but the day after Thanksgiving, it closed at 8 pm. The unfortunate result of this, which both Fred and I noticed, was that the French fries, which are usually fresh and delicious, were limp and rather unpleasant. Neither Fred nor I finished them. Anyway, the rest of the meal was fine.. We came home and Fred whipped up some cream to go with the pumpkin pie we had in the refrigerator. I was good and had only a little whipped cream. However, when I was cleaning up the kitchen, the big bowl of freshly made whipped cream was sitting there in front of me and I succumbed to its lure. It is not so much a matter of calories {although that too} but fat content. If I eat a lot of whipped cream, it has an effect on my bowels and often has me up during the night! Well, it wasn’t during the night this time, but very soon after I got up!
Most of our snow has gone. Yesterday Fred couldn’t get into his car because the locks were frozen. Today he checked it and it is fine. I must get some more of that lock defroster. I know I have some somewhere but I have no idea where the somewhere is! Yesterday Fred’s son-in-law was showing us his new toy on the car, a button to start it remotely. He pressed the button and, yes, it did start, but so did the panic alarm! I don’t know if he found the button to turn the alarm off or if it just stopped by itself. The only time I have used my panic alarm was accidentally when I somehow managed to sit on the the gadget on my keyring! I had no idea how to stop it but it did eventually stop by itself! It is a good job I wasn’t really in trouble because no one paid any attention to me!
The bread is smelling very good so I am off to check it!
QUOTATIONS:
"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."
Michael Jordan
If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
— David Viscott
I’m so glad you’re feeling better! Hugs,
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glad you are feeling better. i’m giving raymond multivitamins to help build him up. he got rundown doing that chemo and radiation. i bet your house is smelling pretty good right about now! take care,
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glad you are feeling more like yourself and I am pretty sure it will last! *huggs* and a whole bowl of whipped cream would have broken my resolve as well! mmmmmmm
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yipes! Thank you for mentioning iron supplement. I an anemic and I have forgotten to take mine for days now. I am off to take it now. thanks
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That’s the bad thing about the alarms, I think that nowadays people do just ignore them because they go off by accident so often. The only time I pay attention is in the middle of the night in our neighborhood and that scares me to death! I’m so glad you’re feeling better. (((Hugs)))
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Ah, you are a rare one! Good on you for donating blood and I’m glad to hear you are feeling better. You’re so aware of your moods and you are proactive which I think helps a lot. Enjoy the fresh bread, mmm!
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oh yum. Yes sounds good to take the vitamins. If find even just the grey days make me want to SLEEP and snuggle up. You made me laugh with your alarm but I do hope that if you needed help someone would actually move. I like to think they didn’t because you probably looked as though you were alright – trying to get the alarm to switch off. 😉
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I wonder if you weren’t chipper because of an underlying worry about your eyes. I’m glad you are perked up, at any rate.
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Glad to hear that you are feeling better. Your bread sounds delicious!!!AND the homemade whipped cream!! MMMMM!!! Hugs, M
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If I close my eyes I can almost smell that bread. Yum. Love to you! ~M
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I’m glad to read that you’re feeling better. 🙂 That’s both amusing and slightly disturbing about your panic alarm though.
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Those panic alarms are frequently going off by accidently and that’s why nobody pays any attention to them. So, what good are they? I’m glad you are feeling better.
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My two year old grandson has been purposely setting off my panic alarm for almost a year now! How do they figure that out? I still only use it when I absolutely need to (i.e. when I sit on it). Glad to hear you are feeling better!
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I’m glad you’re feeling better!
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Glad you are feeling better…low iron count can certainly be associated with fatigue. I am smelling hot bread cooking just reading this…yummmmmmm
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Glad you’re feeling a bit better. Some things taste so yummy going down but have an adverse affect later. =(
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Do you get the King Arthur catalogs? Terrible temptations they are. J and I are trying to decide to get a new bread machine — he wants a huge one, I want a small one, so we’re going back and forth about it. Glad to hear you’re feeling better.
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The bread sounds good! I don’t think you can donate blood over the age of 65 here.
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I’m happy you are feeling better, but did you have to bring up that bread you are baking? Yummm, I am hungry now!! Anna
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RYN: My grandmother used to say: ‘Houseguests, like fish, start to stink after a few days.’ 🙂
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I always wanted limp french fries for Thanksgiving. LOL
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I’m glad you are feeling more “you” now! :o) !! I’ve set off the alarm on my car too and I also don’t know how to turn it off, so thank goodness it eventually just goes off! :oO !! hugs, Weesprite
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ryn: I haven’t updated the house wishlist lately. I’ll do that this afternoon 🙂
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ryn: I think he’d love a gift card from lowes, but I’ll also tell him to update his preferences. 🙂
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I wonder if they will allow you to donate blood and you having been outside of the country. I know they wouldn’t allow me to do that for 10 years after I left Germany, but then was diagnosed with MS and no can’t because of that. Figures.
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