3 Times a Charm?? :-S

Hey folks! I cannot believe that it’s Thursday already! This week flew by! I felt like a busy little bee all week, so that must be why.

I had yet another doctor’s appointment today because I am still sick. Yes that’s right for 3 solid months! I’ve had a chronic sinus infection and bronchitis and I’ve already been on 2 rounds of antibiotic. I was sure this time she would send me for an x-ray or something, but she didn’t. Instead she pulled out the big guns and gave me yet another prescription of “super duper” antibiotics. I don’t know exactly what they are, but she pulled out a book to look it up in and the pharmacy didn’t even end up having it so I have to wait to get it tomorrow after work rather than today. She’s from Scotland so I don’t know if it’s because we have different drugs here or not, but apparently this stuff’s getting “ordered in special” pour moi :-D I have to take it 3 times a day for two weeks and then see her again to see if I need to go on the third week of it. I also have some kind of Nasonex stuff too. She said no more neti pot too. She said the saline isn’t doing the trick so to stop using it.

Here’s my beef about this whole situation: It’s a catch 22. There are plenty of articles out there warning people not to be over-using antibiotics and anti-bacterial soaps and wipes etc. The reason for this is that because antibiotics are being overprescribed and because our population has become germaphobes, all of the bacteria is becoming resistant to our antibiotics and anti-washes. It doesn’t even matter if YOU haven’t had antibiotics in years, it still affects you the same because it’s the bacteria that’s coming back stronger and not your immunity that’s becoming resistant. So answer me this you fine folks…..what is a sick girl to do in that situation? This is my third round of antibiotics that I obviously need to kill this mother of an infection and if you’re sick with a bacterial infection you need to take them, right? She said if it was caused by a virus it would have cleared up by now. Patients are presenting with these kinds of symptoms and doctors are prescribing and prescribing. Are they wrong? Apparently it’s the doctors who are overprescribing antibiotics and the most common reason is for bronchitis = ME!

So here I am still sick 3 months later having taken antibiotics and about to go on a third round. I almost feel kind of guilty for it because now I’m one of those people in the population taking all of these antibiotics! Am I being socially irresponsible? I don’t believe that it’s the patient that should be making these calls and I’m not saying that it is. So who needs to be the ones informed about this: doctors or the patients? I’m not even sure that doctors are really doing anything wrong, just that it’s a worrisome consequence to the all great antibiotic.

Anyhoo, that’s my little rant for today on a subject I really know nothing about! Feel free to pipe up if you’re informed on this topic and if there’s something I should aware of :-D

So I suppose that it’s time for me to tell you all about my eats for the day!

I was feeling like a crazy woman this morning and ventured away from my all mighty oatmeal and had an egg on top of two slices of this potato & scallion bread loaf, toasted, with light mayo, fresh spinach and sliced tomato. (This is one egg cut into two btw). I had my coffee this morning in my Santa mug - I’m having a hard time letting go of that little guy for some reason :-D:

I did have a morning Snack today shortly before my doc appointment and it was such a delicious pink grapefruit. I remember the days when I felt the need to sprinkle sugar on top of a grapefruit before eating it. Now there’s no need whatsoever! I just love the way it tastes all on it’s own. That goes to show you how our tastes can be evolved according to the lifestyle we lead, right? It was a bit of a juicy and sticky mess, but I loved it:

And since I was out of Starbucks sugar free syrups, I made it a point to plan a skinny latte into my day and stopped by on my way back to the office from the doc. I got a tall skinny cinnamon dolce latte along with a new bottle of syrup and….a new morning coffee mug :-) I might just retire the ol’ Santa mug after all ;-). So for Lunch today I had some leftovers from last night’s southwest bulgur casserole type concoction:

I even had an afternoon Snack today too. I had the leftover blackberries from yesterday and a cheese string. Don’t those berries look scrumptious??:

There was another Snack in the mix today too. I bought a bag of these baked rice krisps when I was at Shopper’s Drug Mart and I had about 150 cals worth throughout the day. They were pretty good, I must say:

Supper this evening was a spin on a beef & broccoli stir fry. I used one grocery store prepared tub of oriental stir fry mix from the produce section, added some extra broccoli and onion so it was much more than beef & broccoli. I also discovered a trick for making it extra flavourful – I marinated the beef sirloin strips in a ziplock baggie in the fridge over night in soy sauce, garlic, ginger, crushed red pepper, S&P. It made a big difference in flavour. I also added some orange juice and orange zest into the juices and it worked really well:

Oh YEAH and there’s beet greens in this mix too! Told yas that “I aint ‘fraid a no veggie!” I couldn’t even tell it was in there! How could I not have been eating these leafy good-for-you greens like collards, swiss chard and bok choy all of these years!

And since it’s been a while since I had my little sweet after dinner something, I had two little mini Toblerone chunks for only 60 calories:

So all in all it was a good day food-wise.

I’m really looking forward to get a really good sweat on this weekend. It’s been farrrrrr toooooo long for me. This illness has supremely kicked my butt for the last three months and I’m ready to just fight back with a vengeance! The hot yoga didn’t help me last time, but I’m hoping it will this time. I am really looking forward to it very much. I loved it last time even though I was miserably sick. You just feel so incredible afterwards. I am anxious to see the difference between Moksha and Breathing spaces!

Oh and I was changing the spare bedrooms around and I had one of them all up in shambles with the foam all upset on the bed. It is the room that I use in the morning to blow dry my hair etc. Normally Lucy sleeps either in her crate or on the bed with us (yes I know tsk tsk:-P), but I discovered when I went in there to get ready for work that she found a new place to sleep for the night:

Damn she’s cute!

Night night everyone!