Sunday, September 18, 2011

Food Surfing

Forget buying cookbooks, I am all about the Internet cookbooks out there. There are sooooo many great recipes sites out there. I really StumbleUpon because it shows me so many different blogs and compilation site. Here are some I found today.

This one has great links to other cookings sites - AMAZING recipes :)

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Yep, not pretty, but very necessary...

Well, some of you may know that I've been suffering from terrible symptoms due to a large fibroid that grew in my uterus. It was a nasty couple months but thankfully I am over the worst part now.

I had my angels really looking after me the last few months. I had a doctor to take care of me in France, my co-workers were super empathetic and supportive, and  I got fast effective health care from a system that is extremely congested.

I am also very fortunate to work for a government that allows me to sick time with pay and covers medical expenses - thank-you!

So from the time I found out about my lovely little fiby ( as I affectionately called it) to the time it left my body - I was relieved and miserable at the same time. I had little downtime from it's notorious symptoms and I was upset about much it could ruin your good times. I am a girl on the go and absolutely have no appreciation for lally-gagging about all day. However, with a fibroid this problematic I had no choice, I was confined.

A funny thing that happened during all of this that made me realize something - I really need to keep listening to my intuition. When I was told about my surgery I was not the least bit afraid, instead, I was ecstatic. Others thought  me crazy, however, I knew this is exactly what my body needed to have in order to heal and be well. The other amazing thing was that I knew the date of the surgery that the scheduling assistant gave me was not the correct date. When she said the 26th of September, September 1 immediately jumped into my head.  I kept telling everyone that I would get in sooner than that and I was right. when September 1, 2011 arrived I got a call from the OR scheduling officer to ask me if I could come in the next day. I was bouncing off the walls, I was that excited.

Fortunately for me I had an exceptionally talented gynaecologist, superb NAET nurse, powerful laser specialist, amazing naturopath, and incredible surgery and nursing teams to look after me. I was in my surgery for about 2 hours and woke up on the way to the recovery room. I was in a lot of pain, but my terrific anaesthetist jokingly told me that everything went really well and that I really DID need that surgery. Thanks Dr. Fitzpatrick!

the nurses in Unit 4 were incredible. I felt like I was at a Spa with friends. Everyone treated me like I was special and took care of me like I was a baby. I wasn't sure I wanted to leave after three days. I was so happy, relaxed and well taken care of I thought I would be happy there for a while longer.... but alas my hubby and kitties were pulling at my heartstrings and I decided I could make it on my own.

The best part of being home is having all my creature comforts, but the worst is the urge to clean and do things I am not suppose to do...like move furniture or pick up heavy items. Like other peoples' kids - bad idea!



My life has changed dramatically since the fiby has been removed (btw  the tumour was the size of my fist and was asking my body for a lot of estrogen - nasty). I am not anaemic any more. I can go out and not worry about flooding my clothes. My pain is only in my lower abdominal region rather than tons of cramps and pains in my left leg and groin.

I can't wait to be fully recovered so I can do everything I am meant to do.