Hey Terri,

Good to hear of your focus on healing, and my oh my that was quite an event, losing blood as you did.

I lose a lot of blood cells with my chemo and I can relate to feeling enervated, a lack of energy. My focus is on getting nutrition from my food to get to feeling better, faster - as your focus is, now.

From my journal, I know what my best 'steady' foods are, and I eat those. My sweet potato is soothing to the stomach and nourishes me for a good 'brown'. I eat lots of green kale, and other veggies. I put oil (olive or flax or fish oil) on my food. I eat cooked meat. Fruits too. Simple to approach, sometimes difficult to do in practice. It works though, it really does.

Self-care... so difficult to maintain, when there is so much going on! Glad you have room to breathe and take stock of how you are.

Pleasantly,
-Lea (snoozey)

: Hello Everyone!

: It has been a while since I posted.
: The summer was crazy busy but I
: managed to continue doing the
: steps. I'm still plugging away at
: step 3 with a tighten on 2 because
: I let that slide for a wee bit. My
: kids just started back to school
: last Tuesday and Wednesday I had
: an emergency visit to the hospital
: after losing 2 pints of blood. I
: had a varicose vein in my right
: leg near the ankle just burst that
: morning after showering and it
: poured out like a fountain for
: over 30 mins before medics could
: get there. It was very scary!

: I ended up getting very dehydrated as
: they wouldn't let me eat or drink
: for about 6 hours til they could
: determine the cause in case they
: needed to do a procedure. That of
: course through my food off and
: it's been a struggle to get my
: food steady again ever since. I
: have felt very weak and have a
: hard time eating the amount of
: food that is required. Prior to
: that incident, I was starting to
: feel really good and was preparing
: to move on to step 4 in a couple
: of weeks. Now I've decided to give
: it a couple more weeks to get my
: body strengthened again.

: I know I'll be back to normal soon
: but in the meantime does anyone
: know if there is anything I can
: add that would help build up the
: blood that I lost any quicker or
: is it just going to take some
: time. My energy has been very low
: this past week but feel it slowly
: starting to come back. I've been
: getting quite nauseous after
: eating lunch but then read about
: fish oils don't always agree with
: ss people. That's when I take some
: so I will experiment tomorrow and
: not take any and see if it makes a
: difference.

: It's good to be posting again.
: Summers are my busiest time of
: year so it feels good to be able
: to slow the pace down again and
: continue to get support here.

: Warm regards,
: Terri F