dysfunctional leg update

well, the pains in my lame limb subsided quite a bit today so i was able to get myself to the urgent care center and have an ultrasound of my femoral vein performed to determine if there were any blood clots. NONE present, thank god! so the next stage in diagnosis were blood tests to check the levels of uric acid in my system. yep, they think it was a gout attack that struck me in the ankle.

makes sense to me. i looked up what gout is and what causes it. two things on the list jumped out at me. sardines and sudden weight loss. don’t laugh! i really do LIKE sardines. and the omega 3 fatty oils they supply are supposed to help fight depression. i was eating about 3 cans of them (in spring oil) a week. and the other change recently came about from replacing coffee in my diet with green tea.

i can only handle drinking one or two cups of coffee a day. it’s too strong for me. but green tea, man-o-man, i can drink 8-12 cups of that stuff a day! it’s smooth and subtle and gives me a much mellower caffeine buzz. the surprise added benefit is that it curbs your appetite.

i decided a couple of weeks ago that it would be nice if i lost some weight before my next trip to L.A., so this coincidental discovery was very timely. in the past 14 days i’ve lost over 10 pounds. but it was not smart dieting. it was basically that i just stopped eating. an extreme practice, i know, but chalk it up to my manic disorder i guess. don’t call me ocd or i’ll punch you out. i don’t need anymore labels.

onto another topic, i don’t know if it’s this time in history (Jupiter conjuncts Uranus this month) or if it’s just me. i don’t have a good history of making lasting friendships on the internet. that is not to say that i don’t have some really good, long lasting friendships with people that i’ve met on the internet, but for the most part, they do not work. case in point, i had to ban two people from my Facebook friends list in just the past two weeks. 2 very good natured people in their own rights, i am sure, but where they were going with me was sapping a lot of energy from my heart and via internet communication, there was no easy solution to solving our disagreements in my sight. for now, this is all i care to say about this.

on the other hand, if you and i have made friendship on the physical plane, i think it’s going to be pretty hard to either really piss me off, or get rid of me. :)  i don’t think i mentioned this but last Friday i had coffee with my oldest living friend; a woman that i went to kindergarten with. and we are really, really good friends still!

as for dieting? i really have no clue what to do next. i am lousy at feeding myself.