Can You Keep A Secret?

Hello Friends!

I suppose it was presumptuous of me to hope that the pre~Christmas events would continue with their momentum, and true to form things have come to a grinding halt. I feel as if I'm almost back at Square One. I am not surprised, but at least some people have sat up and paid a bit of attention and I do now have a useful list of contacts and telephone numbers who I can hopefully turn to in the future. No point in dwelling on it, there are others far worse off than I am so moving swiftly on...

On January 31st a DN came to the house to take blood. She did not know who had requested it, but I do know three or four of the people who saw me before Christmas had suggested I get my vitamin B complex tested. The results were back on 2nd January and I was told I’d get the results the following Monday, but Monday came and went with no phone call, then today over a week later I finally got them. My vitamin B complex is very low and I am anaemic so, heigh ho! more tests to follow. Oh! joy bliss rapture!  I have had a predisposition ever since I was a child to being anaemic, when the doctor prescribed that I take a glass of Mackeson stout with warm milk as a tonic. You certainly wouldn't find that prescribed for anyone today, much less a child, would you! In fact the only time I have not been anaemic is when I was taking Centrum multivitamins in the 1980s and 90s. 

Have you seen the new comedy show starring Dawn French called Can You Keep A Secret? It’s one of the funniest comedies I’ve seen in a very long time. It is about a woman whose husband has Parkinson's and through an error of judgement overdoses on his medication and is pronounced dead by the local doctor. Of course, he is not dead but the insurance policy gets cashed in, and of course I don't have to tell you the way this is going to pan out. I have laughed out loud while binge watching it last weekend on iPlayer.  I don’t know why Parkinson’s was the medical condition selected but I am glad it was and sincerely hope and pray that it brings some much needed publicity to the illness.

Can You Keep A Secret?

Well, I can’t say I’m looking forward to more tests, but if they can do anything to help me regain some of my lost energy and mojo, I will go along with it.  As of today, I had already started to work on my diet and the doctor who called seemed pleased with what I am doing.  I have bought a new Ninja nutribullet and stocked up my fridge with a good variety of nutrient dense low fat foods such as spinach, kale, tofu, oat milk, a variety of fruit juices, apples, pears, Bananas, kefir yoghurt, frozen berries and more. It is my intention to have a out based fruit smoothie for my breakfast, an egg or tofu based lunchtime meal{I do like avocado and also samphire} And then I'm going to make a homemade low salt soup for my supper. I'm cutting out all sweets and cakes etc and taking my diet back to what it used to be. Of course one of the desired side effects should be that I will also ditch some of this weight that I have gained over the past three years as well as helping me to be better prepared to cope with the Parkinson's. I have also been researching foods that are higher in dopamine than others so I will be incorporating those as well.

Smashed Avocado, Butterbean and Spring Onion Tacos

I hope the weather improves for all of us and I'm looking forward to some better days in the near future that with my increasing energy I'll be able to get out and start enjoying the countryside a little bit again.

Until next time

Debbie  xx