lifestyle changin...

[kismet09]

So I didn't eat much for a week (no fried foods, no coffee, barely any sweets), and it didn't kill me, so I'm going to try to cut down/pay more attention to what I eat. I've started a food journal which will also work as an appointment book, now that I've realized that I don't leave my office enough to make carrying my Franklin planner worthwhile. It's a pretty little journal with the kanji character for Health on the front. I'm not sure what sort of changes in eating I'll make, besides eating healthier snacks, and perhaps not three bowls of popcorn a week (at least it's stove popped and not microwave). I also hope to start using my ellipse machine more now that it isn't quite as cold in the basement.

Pretty soon I'll also be able to plant the garden in the backyard. Squash, cucumbers, greenbeans, peppers (even if I don't eat them), garlic, strawberries, maybe a fruit tree... any Marylanders out there have advice on what should/shouldn't go in a garden? It's going to be my project for the few days after my conference and before registration starts and I'm constantly busy.

I think there was an Into Bio test this week, because there is a huge herd of freshmen now hanging out in the hallway outside my office, which is a door away from the intro prof's office. Loud.

Oh yeah, supposedly my doctor is in the process of fixing me...


Went in to my appointment at 8:30 yesterday morning, and two hours later, (hours that included stirrups, blood and urine tests, and a shot of antibiotics in my hip), I was at Target, filling my many prescriptions. I'm on Flagyl for a week, and some other penicillin thing for
ten days. Bah. The doc still isn't positive what it is, but thinks it's probably Pelvic Inflammatory Disease that got out of control and sent pain to random other parts of my body. Aside from the placement of the pain, though, I don't really have the symptoms, so I hope that the diagnosis is close enough that the meds will help... I'd guess that 2000+ milligrams of antibiotics should kill just about anything, right?


I'm just happy that I know what's going on... now if I can remember to take the drugs when I'm supposed to...

Comments

[circumspectly.livejournal.com]

yikes!! with all of those antibiotics, you'd better get a script for diflucan...i always get yeasties with antibiotics. i'm glad that you have a probable diagnosis, anyway...and your garden sounds delightful!!

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[kismet09.livejournal.com]

teehee - yep, i proactively got the lovely pink pill to take once the antibiotics are over. apparently i've had these enough that i remembered to ask for one of those.