Sunday, December 27, 2009

Curried Shrimp For Christmas



Eating curried shrimp at my sister's house last night was very obviously different than the diet I've been on for the last three weeks. I enjoyed myself gathering with the family. Nobody got shot. They never have, but family killings seems popular on the six o'clock news, and always seem to come unexpected at the holiday gatherings, so you never know.

My youngest brother called me just when I was getting ready to go. His wife was under the weather and didn't wanna go, so he wanted to know if we could ride together. I drove over to his shop, and then from there we took his truck to my sister's house. My oldest sister was the only one who didn't show up. They went to Atlanta to their oldest son's house.

I juiced up some wheatgrass this morning. It's kind of a messy thing to do. I'm drinking what came out of the juicer now. My sinuses are already beginning to clear up. This aspect of doing the raw food diet was unknown to me, but it certainly is appealing. Some fruits or vegetables have the opposite affect. I think it may be the carrots, but I haven't nailed the exact vegetable that's swelling my sinuses. When I do figure it out it will help me to know what to avoid.

Allergies and what causes them to happen in me is a subject I've never explored much. I don't know that I've suffered from them any more than anybody else. I'm not immune to the seasonal allergies that show up. The pollen that happens in the Spring affects me like it appears to affect the people around me, but some of it could be from my diet.

The allergy problems I have is something I wanna explore because any discomfort I have do to experiencing something I can avoid by just not exposing myself to it makes practical sense to me. I wouldn't mind going to a specialist who could put me through the various tests designed to find out if a person is allergic to something specific.

I don't know if I can my family doctor at the VA clinic I go to order up some tests for me. She takes care of me pretty good from my perspective. The problem I have at the VA is that nobody has ever told me what medical treatments I can get and how to make those arrangements. I've had to take chances and bullshit my way through procedures that I could have just as easily received instruction for and saved everybody a lot of trouble.