Family health notes

[mdlbear]

The big health news here is that the infection on flower_cat's right leg appears to be treatable: she's been on Keflex since last week (which didn't seem to be helping much) and was given an injection of something else yesterday that does seem to be helping. A lot, and quickly. Yay!

It's entirely possible that the night sweats she'd been having the last couple of weeks were due to fever rather than a continuation of menopause (done that -- several years ago). She's been sleeping much better the last few nights. I appreciate that, too.

On the other side of the bed, so to speak, I appear to have finally fought my weight back down to where it was two weeks ago :-(, but my knees aren't helping. I've had to scale my walking speed back to an easy amble, and skip the hills. Grump. At least I'm walking.

Fighting the weight down mainly consisted of sticking to a low-carb diet: two eggs for breakfast, beef jerky and nuts for lunch. A couple of prunes to fill in the corners at lunchtime, and a sheet of nori (yummy, crunchy, and zero calories) for the occasional snack at work. No snack when I get home, or after dinner. Tiresome, but I like the results, and I'm not losing weight when I'm not feeling hungry.

Comments

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

Where do you get your nori sheets? I should get some too--the problem with sashimi is no nori. I like the crunchy bit, too.

Glad to hear FLowercat's infection is on the wane.

[mdlbear]

Would you believe Safeway? They're in the "kosher food" section, at least in the Sharon Heights store that's a mile from work on Page Mill. Don't know about the one on W. San Carlos.

Thanks.

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

Ha! Well, I'll check it out. The nearest one to us is at Meridian and Hamilton.

[kayshapero]

Yeeps - glad they can treat it. Hope she gets better soon. Give her a hug for me. Heck, give her two hugs.

[mdlbear]

So am I -- that leg's been bothering her for a long time. Not sure that the infection is the whole problem, but it's a large part of it at the moment.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

My Angel had an encapsulated infection in her lung (not found for quite a while since her breathing sounded perfectly clear) that gave her terrible night sweats -- soaking through 3 flannel night gowns a night -- even though she didn't seem to have a fever most of the time. So I know an infection can cause night sweats. Glad they finally found an antibiotic that's working!

[filkferengi]

Yay for effective antibiotics! Also, good luck with the knees.

[mdlbear]

Thanks! The left knee is the one that always gets twisted a little when I get into the car, so it's been dicey for years. And both of them have had problems since I got tendinitis on an over-ambitious bike ride 30-odd years ago...

[filkferengi]

Maybe next time you get a car, you could look for one from the UK, with the steering wheel on the other side, to balance out the twisting.

[mdlbear]

*grin*

Or one with a swiveling front seat -- I understand some cars in Japan have that feature.