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Steelers lost! Im going to bed!

Carol Sue They have moved our wintry mix to Thursday and Friday for us, but there is one hitting Dallas/Ft Worth area north of us tomorrow through Monday. I told DH we need to go to the store Monday in case it hits here Wednesday and we can't make our dental appointment. I need eggs and have a prescription to pick up at the local store. This way we could be hunkered down all week if we have to be. We just don't take the chance of falling on ice etc now that we are at the age we are.

I'm headed to bed.

The Steelers,didnt need this win. They are still in the playoffs. Bhut DH said they played xxx terrible. There are 2 players that DH says they should get rid if and we have a new quarterback that isnt great. DH also wants the coach fired.

Sleep was good. 7+ hours. Scale is down .6 to 180.0. Something funny. Yesterday my food was 1515 and calories burned was 1550.

Yesterday DH was eating potato chips. He handed the bowl to me which I wish he would stop doing. I ate a few,then dumpedthe bowl on the floor. Accidentally, not intentionally. I picked them up and threw them out. If we had dip I would have eaten them..

Now they said our snow is going to start after 10 PM tonight. We are right at the point where the amount changes from 4-6 to 6-8, so who knows how much we will get. We have about 2 inches on the ground already in the yard that hasnt melted. The further south you are the more snow your getting. We havent had a big snowfor a couple years, just what they call "nuisance snow.". I like a big snow once in a while.

Carol Sue They still say we will have our wintry mix hit Wednesday night or Thursday and Friday. DH said if it weren't for the Cowboys game we would go to the store today. Our plan is to go tomorrow just in case we get stuck due to weather sooner; although I really hope we don't get it until Thursday or at least late Wednesday after our dental appointment.

I wish DH would go to the store when the game is over, however I think the pharmacy will be closed by then. I don't know why I am so tired after infusions. I'm sure I will start feeling better tomorrow as I want to look for some things DH won't want to look for. I slept really good last night. I only got up one time to go potty around 6 am and went back to bed and got up at my usual time just before 9 am.

I'm thinking I might need to change the way I eat so that I eat small meals throughout a 10 or 12 hr eating window instead of 2 to 3 meals within 4 to 8 hr eating window and see if I feel better. My body is already working to heal itself and by adding more protein in just 2 meals makes me tired because my body is working so hard to digest it. I read about that somewhere. The key seems to be higher protein and enough fiber while in immunotherapy. So it is seems that I need to learn how to spread that over longer eating window so I can have energy. I'm just tired of being so tired. I will figure it out.

Weight stayed the same as yesterday, but FBG was 120. "Ouch" Everything else was good. Today we are having pork chops and sauerkraut. I'm not having salad right now. I told NP I've been having a mild pain and showed her where telling her I didn't know what is there. She asked if I still have my gallbladder. I figure that is the lettuce so taking a break from it right now. I've had to do that before.

Stay warm and safe everyone and have a blessed Sunday.

DH went to the store and got potatoes. I wanted to go to look for a beef roast but didnt want to get dressed and go out in the cold. So no roast.

The chili was ok yesterday but I think i didnt put enough seasoning in it. I dont like a lot but it needed more, plus more tomato sauce. I havent made it for a long time. maybe I will make the soup tomorrow.

DH said the sink pipe is still leaking but to fix it he has to tear out the wall behind the sink cabinet to get to the leak. For now we will have a bucket in the basement to catch the drip, and use the sink as little as possible. I want a new house. In the last house we had a pipe issue and we moved out. We heard from the neighbors that the new owners had a problem and had to get the yard dug up. I think we were supposed to disclose the problem when we sold the house but we didnt know there was a problem, but when we were in the utility room we could hear water. It wasnt going through our water meter so we didnt worry about it. Maybe they heard the water and investigated. That house had no basement so any leak would be going into the ground.

I read about salad and gall bladder. It said greens dont effect it but it could be the dressing if the dressing has fat.

Good sleep,scale down .6 to 179.4. Didnt check blood sugar. I rarely check blood pressure. DH has the meter next to his chair so its inconvenient for me. DH doesnt like to take his BP pills. One is twice a day. He would take one in the morning and another one an hour or two later. That was twice a day. I told him the second one should be 12 hours later and he saird "The instructions dont say that.". I finally got him to take it in the evening. At least he checks his. He doesnt likee it too low but its good in my opinion. I wish mine would go that low. My top number is high but the bottom number is low.

We only got a couple inches of snow overnight but its still snowing, lightly.

Carol Sue Thanks for the info on the dressing being the problem for the gallbladder. There is no way I can eat lowfat dressing because of the sodium. I used to use Lite dressings, but that has sugar so easier to go with veggies.

I've been reading about fermented foods and how healthy they are for our bodies. I already eat some, but I love dill pickles and some other things that are protein foods. I know you like pickled eggs. I will have to learn how to make those. In the meantime there are so many others that I eat now and will continue to eat.

Weight is down .6 lbs today and FBG is back down to 103. DH said his FBG was the lowest his has been since he started keeping up with it. It was in the 90s.

It was 29 degrees when I got up. I think I saw the high is going to be 38. We are going to the local store to get whatever my medication is ready and get enough food to get us through the weekend. However, if the weather is okay Wednesday when we go to get our teeth cleaned, DH will go to Sam's after he gets his teeth cleaned while I'm getting my teeth cleaned.

I had oatmeal with a Premier Protein shake and will have my eggs for supper with the other Protein shake. I have decided to eat it everyday for breakfast in order to keep my cholesterol healthy. This also gets my fiber where doctor wants it along with the amount of protein I need. I figure if it works with a McDs Double Cheeseburger and half serving of fries, then it will work with any combo of dinner we have.

Stay warm and safe. Hope everyone keeps their power.

I dont like many fermented foods except sauerkraut. I dont like pickles. DH likes pickled vegetables like cauliflower, but when i buy a jar he eats a few pieces and the rest goes bad,so I stopped buying it. I dont consider pickled eggs to be fermented but there are various ways to make them. I have a couple tall thin jars I get when i buy olives. I pour beet juice in it from a can of sliced beets then i can fit 3 peeled boiled eggs in it. T. Its healthy.he juice doesnt come to the top. I add vinegar and water if necessary to fill the jar. The juice and vinegar soaks into the egg white and makes them purple. If I eat one egg I add another. I do that for a couple days. Some people use pickle juice instead of beet juice. I tried that once but didnt like it. Luckily we both like beets so we eat the beets from the can I use to get the juice. I put vinegar on the beets, too.

I mad vegetable soup. Its good, but not my best. I use canned vegetables and 5 bullion cubes but it still needs salt. Its better for us without it but tastes better with it. DH went to the local store and got Italian bread and Cabbage. I like a lot of cabbage in it. One time I wanted to know who had the best canned mixed vegetables. I bought 5 different kinds, some store brands, Veg all,Delmonte, and put each one in a little bowl. The Great Value brand had the best mixture of vegetables. Most others had too many carrots,very little corn,very little peas etc. Sio now I always use Great Value. My mother always used VegAll. It was not the best according to my test. One time I used frozen vegetables but DH didnt like it. I didnt waste those vegetables when i tested them. I put them all in a big pot of soup. I made a lot more when the kids were still here.

I always forget about my protein shakes. I could drink one in the evening to increase my protein. I will have to keep that in mind.

I'm bad about using too much sodium when I cook beans or soup, but then I'm taking 40 mg Lasix so I hope it won't be too bad. Temp will be high in low 40s tomorrow and then will be in in 30s for at least a week. It is definitely time for winter foods such as beans and soups and I've got soups and chili planned during this time.

Today went well, but I ate a little more than I should have especially sodium. We ended up getting tacos from Taco Bell. I will have to take it easy as I eat differently and still try to get the protein in my woe. I'm not sure it is going to bad weather here, but it will be cold. They now show that we are going to have a wintry mix on Thursday but not Friday. Being TX, I'll be surprised if we have any bad weather at all.

Goodnight.

Trish,Im surprised that your temps get that low. Why are you taking so much Lasix? Im afraid to start taking mine again and dont know if I need it. I dont want to start peeing my pants so much .Why doesnt it raise your blood sugar like it does mine?

Scale up .4 . 179.8. Sleep good,8 hours even.

I think we are going to the casino today. Unusual to go on Tuesday but DH got a ticket from the day he had the hand pay for a drawing tonight. If he wants to go we will go,as long as its not going to snow.

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DH said he doesnt want to go today because he would rather go on Friday. I told him I dont want to go twice so he has to decide. Then if Friday comes and its snowy I wont want to go. I dont think its supposed to snow today but who knows what it will be like coming home tonight.

Carol Sue when we get a good hard winter we get lows in low 20s. I don't know how low it got during the night in the high 20s, but it was 31 by the time I got up this morning. We have many nights this week that will be in the low to middle 20s. They show us having a wintry mix again for both Thursday and Friday.

I take that much Lasix to keep fluid from building up in lower abdomen which has something to do with very small possible tumors called ascites. Not sure about what those are but we don't want them growing. I guess I need to research that.

Weight was down .4 to 162 lbs. FBG was high so too much of something. I am amazed at how good my bp is now. So things are good. I'm still in the process of getting my fiber in the correct range for me.

We are having chicken and dumplings today. I am trying a different way of making it using one of DH#2s DGM way of making dumplings. I really like making them from scratch, but not these day. I took 3 plain chicken tenders and cooked them in chicken stock and cut them in small pieces. Then I added a can of cream of chicken soup and taking Mom's way of cutting up a can of biscuits into it for the dumplings except that I used a small can of five biscuits for just the 2 of us rather than a regular can she used for a family of us.

Have a good day and hope everyone stays warm and safe.

I want to make chicken and dumplings but I want to make the dumplings the way my mother did,with Bisquick. I just dont tryst myself to dobit right.

He decided we are going today, and he probably thinks come Friday he will talk me into going again. I dont like to tell him no after all he does for me. I dread going out in the cold. Ita just a few steps to the car. He drops me off at the casino and picks me up so its not too bad. I just hope the roads stay dry.

In the past couple days I twice read that we should not eat less than 130 gm of carb. That doesnt sound right to me. When i was diagnosed in the hospital they told me to have 45 gm at each of 3 meals and 15 at each of 2 snacks. I think thats 165 per day and this was a 1800 cal per day diet. I lost weight on that but I dont know if they were really giving me 1800 calories. They were giving me pudding that I know was not sugar free. The dietician told me it was ok because it only had 15 gm of carb. That wasnt ok with me.

Guess we areleaving now.

Carol Sue I always made my dumplings with Bisquick too, but I buy a box and it goes bad. That is why I ended up trying it with the biscuits. I will say the texture just isn't the same as with Bisquick. I've been thinking of other things I could make with Bisquick if I bought it. There are sweets I could make and use Stevia or Monkfruit which I've heard is healthier.

I also wanted to tell you that the main thing I do now that I am taking 40 g of Lasix is that I am careful to take more magnesium and I watch to be sure the reading is normal on my lab tests. I have always believed the reason DH#2 died was that a new doctor took the place of our doctor who had figured out how to help DH live with CHF. When he moved DH#2 begged new doc not to change anything, but he did anyway. He put him on so much Lasix but never put the magnesium back which the old doctor would have done. It wasn't long until DH #2 gave up and stopped going to him and died just 2 weeks later.

Hope your trip to the casino goes well. Be safe Friend.

Trish,DH used to use Bisquick to make pancakes so we always had it on hand. Now he uses complete pancake mix. I did see generic bisquicck somewhere,it might have been Aldi, it was just called Baking Mix and was a lot cheaper. I also saw a very small box of Bisquick somewhere, maybe Walmart. But I cant imagine that biscuit dumplings would turn out the same.

The casino was terrible. DH got a very good machine but it just would not hit. It wasnt crowded and we didnt see anyone hitting. The woman next to DH was cussing and swearing because her machine wasnt hitting. We have seen her there before,swearing because her machine wouldnt hit. Also,They called 31 names for the drawing but not DH. The drawing was for free play,not cash.

DH got McDonalds on the way home but I just ate a few fries. I came home and ate soup. It wwas very good the second day. I will eat more today.

Sleep was ok once i fell asleep. DH didnt feel good. He said he had chest pains so i was worried. It might have been indigestion because eventually he was snoring. Now he says hes fine.

How old was DH 2 when he died? I dont know if i still have CHF because the cardiologist said rhe new heart valve would improve the CHF. I dont get swelling of the feet and ankles. I have a puffy belly but i dont know if its fluid or just fat. I cut my Lasix in half because he had me on 20, but I was still peeing my pants and getting leg cramps.. So i just stopped taking it. I still get the rx filled. Some day I might start taking it, again. I take magnesium on my own. I started taking it for sleep,and it does help with leg cramps.

Come to think of it I didnt have swelling before they put me on Lasix. Occasionally my right foot will swell, but not my left. I thought it was from too much sitting and I cross my left leg over my right. I keep them elevated as much as I can. When I was in the hospital they gave me IV Lasix. My calves got so skinny they looked like toothpicks. I never saw them look like that. I started doing exercises to increase the muscle. My legs have always been thin compared to my upper body. I carry my weight in my upper body. DH says Im like a Weeble.😃Or an Ooopaloopa. So even though I dont take the Lasix I dont get any symptoms of CHF. What was your DHs,cause of death?

We have run out of several things. I guess Im going to have to go to the store.



Your DH could have stayed on the lower dose of Lasix or taken more magnesium if he wanted. I dont take my full dose of Statin. I take less than half because Im afraid to take the full dose. Right before I get Labs done I up the dose so my cholesterol is good. My PCP wanted to switch my statin to a newer one and I told him I wont take it. I have no side effects from the one I take. I always figure that I am the boss of my medical care,but I pay the doctor to advise me.