1st Week of May
Well it’s been over a week since I posted any news so I though I better say something so people know I am still alive.
Well I finally got approved for the Livingston County Health Plan; it’s a limited medical plan. I’m just waiting for my insurance card to show up in the mail. From May on my blood tests will be covered, only $5 co-pay office visits, $5 co-pay generic, $10 co-pay on brand name prescriptions. Hospitalizations, surgery, some specialist services are not covered but the weekly blood work, office visits and medicine are what’s costing me so much so I’m glad there covered.
I was naughty and skipped my blood test last Monday May 1st, the Dr. office called and scolded me but I figured I didn’t have my insurance card yet and didn’t want to deal with the hassle of back billing, I was feeling ok and my last test showed my platelets were fine.
I spent most of this past week with Rob. I went to see him Monday evening, hung out with our friend Melissa. I made drinks and they both got drunk. I was the designated driver and took us on a run to White Castle for munchies and to 7-11 for slurpees. (I had a diet strawberry banana slurpee) I can’t even remember the last time I had White Castle, prior to that night/morn. I’ve only eaten it like 3 times in my life but Rob insisted he had to have it. Ugh, I don’t ever need nor want to eat that crap again, 
Tuesday we went shopping. Rob bought me some wire bending/sculpting stuff for jewelry making, we stopped at a small Asian market near him they didn’t have much but I did pick up a few Macrobiotic friendly food items. Also we went to a pet store where I bought my cat Phattie kibble that is gentler on the stomach, special treats and “medicine” gel, to help her have a healthy happy bowel. 
Her tummy is still quite bloated, but not hard or painful (she will let me squeeze her without protesting) and she is “going” regularly again. I am still a little worried over her, but so far so good. She doesn’t need surgery.
Wednesday We hung out with Rob’s Friend Terry at a coffee shop and played “real” Chinese Mahjong. Terry will go berserk on anyone, 
over the debate that the “computer tile matching game” is not real Mahjong. Real Mahjong is a lot like bridge; you match tiles in suits and pairs and have to do so in certain patterns so you have the right amount of tiles to go out. It actually kind of complicated and I’m just learning it.
Rob’s Mom has been quite sick all week and after missing 2 days of work she finally decided to have Danielle (Rob’s Sister) take her to the doctor on Thursday. Which meant Rob didn’t have a ride to and from work since he car pools with his sister. So I drove him to Dearborn Thursday morning and then spent the day out there looking for jobs, checking out the huge Borders Book Store and almost finished reading my book on Macrobiotics I bought from Borders. Macrobiotics cooking is basically vegetarian Japanese food. There’s also a whole philosophy and daily ritual part to it.
Saturday I did a day of grocery shopping with my Mom. We went to Whole Foods, Meijer’s and Randazo’s a farmer’s market type place. We picked up a couple types of brown rice, 3 types of beans, 2 types lentils, and barley. So I am pretty set on whole grains and beans but I was disappointed because the number one bean, the Adzuki bean that the macrobiotic book recommends was only sold at Whole foods and they were sold out. We also got a lot of good fresh veggies at Randazo’s, but all the weird seaweeds, sea vegetables and other Japanese stuff I will have to find at a major Asian market.
So I am going to try and wean myself off meat & dairy and hopefully work my diet to the 50-60% grains, 25-30% veggies, 10% beans and occasional fruits, nuts, seeds, fish that macrobiotics recommends. Even if I can’t get myself to go full Macro I figure at least reducing some of the “immune irritating” foods will do me good. I also have to be careful because I have to limit my servings of Soy a day and not eat it within 3 hours of taking my levothroid because Soy interferes with thyroid function and thyroid medicine. 
‘Isoflavones, the key components of soy that make them so potent as a possible substitute for hormone replacement, mean that soy products, while touted as foods and nutritional products—often are used and act like a hormonal drug.
If you have a diagnosed or undiagnosed thyroid problem, or a history of autoimmune disease, over consumption of soy isoflavones can potentially trigger a thyroid condition. Soy foods can worsen an existing diagnosed thyroid problem in many people.
Isoflavones belong to the flavonoid or bioflavonoid family of chemicals, and are considered endocrine disruptors—plants or other products that act as hormones, disrupting the endocrine system, and in some cases, this disruption involves acting as an anti-thyroid agent. (The grain millet, for example, contains high levels of flavonoids, and is commonly known as problematic for thyroid function). Flavonoids inhibit thyroid peroxidase (TPO), which disturbs proper thyroid function.
According to the Soy Online Service, for infants, any soy is too much. For adults, just 30 mg of soy isoflavones per day is the amount found to have a negative impact on thyroid function. This amount of soy isoflavones is found in just 5-8 ounces of soy milk, or 1.5 ounces of miso.
Hydrolyzed Commercial Soy Sauces 0.10 mg soy isoflavones /100g serving and soybean oil 0.0mg/100g have had most/all isoflavones removed in processing so they are ok for frequent use.’
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