MONDAY MOMENTS

As you can tell by the number of posts, this is going to a be a Monday through Friday Blog. I thought I might try to do it seven days a week but trying to get a free moment to myself on weekends is down right impossible. So thinking on Friday that I would have time to blog a few words, I started to think of ideas. BUT do you think that I had time, Ha-Ha, very funny.

It seems that for some strange reason I can get more done, get more accomplished and yes even (GASP) take some time for myself during the week. Weekends come around and forget it. I think it is because my husband is home and 1. I want to spend some time with him, 2. He wants to spend time with me, 3. I just want someone to chauffeur me around or 4. all the little projects I save for him, I also end up helping with. Just pick one of the above and you will probably be right.

So with that said, I will only be doing a Monday through Friday Blog. And even though I feel that I have a lot to say, it may be a fact that there aren't a lot of you out there that really want to read what I blog about. (As astounding as that may seem).

I do want to say a few words about fibromyalgia and food. In this case, my body's reaction to pork. I LOVE pork. There really isn't a more perfect food than pork. It is simply delicious. But my body doesn't like pork, and has a very nasty reaction to it when I eat it. I didn't really make the connection between pork and my body aches until I was complaining to my rhumatologist. She asked me what I was eating, specifically how much pork. I told her we ate a lot of pork, because it was cheap and I loved it. She informed me that people with fibromyalgia and arthritis have trouble with pork because it causes swelling in joints, aching joints and body aches. She didn't really have a scientific reason for this occurrence but it seems to be happening to a lot of us out there.

Well you know me....the doubting Tomas. I decided to experiment. I didn't eat pork for 2 weeks and my body aches were less severe. But being the idiot I am, after the 2 weeks were up, I didn't try just a little piece of pork, but went whole hog and had 2 HUGE pork chops. Well to make a long story short, Pork 10, Kandis 0. Man, did I hurt. For me this was a hard lesson. Doctors do know what they are talking about, and just maybe I should take what they say at face value. So for anyone out there that has fibormyalgia or arthritis, you just might want to try to cut back, or stop eating pork just to see if it helps decrease your aching. Have a great night, blog at you tomorrow.