Silver, you have an entire thread of happy birthdays waiting for you!
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Saef, how are you doing? (I know she may not have internet access, but it couldn't hurt to ask...)
Dagmar, good luck to your DH on his job search.
Andrea, thanks. On the one hand I did test positive for some antibodies so I still may have that autoimmune disease, but whatever it is isn't particularly serious apparently. It is just frustrating to not have a diagnosis though. Right now it's mostly just waiting it out until it decides to go away on its own or decides to act up and give me more symptoms.
Megan, I hope the antibiotics work quickly for your mom!
We had a CSA one year, but they didn't have much variety and we ended up getting almost nothing but lettuce and beets. Plus other stuff which we were growing on our own. We just got whatever they had, no options to choose anything. So we decided instead to just go buy veggies at the farmers markets rather than doing a CSA the past two years.
Thanks for the gluten free tips guys. It's going pretty well so far. It's actually easier than the Passover diet.
I'm probably not 100% compliant because the oats that I have been using for breakfast are probably contaminated with wheat, but I figure that since I'm just giving it a shot to see if it helps that small amount of gluten shouldn't really matter. It will still be way less gluten than I normally eat.
I've also been trying to eat more fish. Last week on vacation it was easy because we were right near Lake Michigan and all the restaurants had fresh whitefish. This week I bought a bunch of canned salmon and canned tuna. I made salmon cakes Sunday night (very easy -- ingredients: salmon, egg.). Tonight will be a tuna recipe. I'd rather try to get more fish in my diet than take fish oil supplements.
I guess at this point I am kind of in a phase where the medical establishment has failed to fix what's wrong with me, so now I'm turning to whatever alternatives there are which I can still reasonably consider safe. On the one hand I am vaguely considering going back to the acupuncturist I saw several years ago. On the other hand, the acupuncture didn't work on my wrists back then, so why should I expect it to work on my feet?