Back In the Nest

     It's been awhile since I've posted.  It wasn't really a conscious choice.

     I started out my Thanksgiving day, Nov. 2011 in the emergency room at 1 a.m.  It was not a pleasant experience at all.  But possibly something that may happen again.  You see, at 1 a.m. I suffered what is called atrial fibrillation.  A-fib for short.  They never did figure out why.  I don't know that they really spent too much time trying to figure it out.  Basically, an emergency room just works to stabilize a patient.  So, I had to lay there most of the night, being injected with unknown substances while they waited for my body to go into normal sinus rhythm on it's own.  I guess there are other horrible ways to stop A-fib, but they for some reason wanted to see if my body would revert back on it's own.  So, the drugs basically were lowering my blood pressure to the extreme to help my body along.  Oh, there were some high points there.  The first that I got to chew up a baby aspirin, loved those things when I was a kid.  The second high point is that I didn't pee on the table, since they finally found a bedside commode, after I acted like a wild women and yelled out the door that I was very desperate.  Okay, I didn't word it quite like that, nor will I repeat what I said, it had something to do with wetting on myself. 
 
     Yeah, really, those were the high points.  What else did you expect me to say? 
I was admitted by morning, and of course I had to submit to a lot of pokes and prods from a few needles.  Okay, another high point, those lab techs do not miss veins in a hospital.  Despite all that, both my arms we're quite a festive sight for the next month, going from black to purple to blue and mixtures of all of those. 
So, I've yet to find out why this happend, but I have a new doctor who will be working on this issue.  In the meantime, of course, she had to do a fasting blood panel.  And that's where it gets interesting. Or horrible, depending on how you look at it.
  What she found is that I'm dangerously low in vitamin D3.  That totally took me by surprise.  I don't suppose any of the other drs. checked for that, so I'm glad she did.  The surprise is that I've been reading about how many Americans are low in Vitamin D3, but I assumed that couldn't be anyone in California.  How would that be possible?  I mean, sunshine most of the year, and we live near an ocean so eating fish shouldn't be an issue either should it?  That's why I was surprised. 
 
     I'll be doing a bit of research on Vitamin D3 since I really didn't know all that much, or didn't remember what I used to know.   I've heard of some say that their body doesn't absorb it properly, and have no idea if that is the case for me.  Although, the dr. has put me on 5,000 IU of vitamin D3. 

    I hope you join me as I work to learn more about what some have called the "vitamin D" epidemic in America. 
   
  

One Dollar Lunches on Groupon Now

Groupon Now will be offering $1 lunches.  This will be on Friday only so be sure to check it out at this link or google it.   Groupon Dollar Lunch

Groupon will be partnering up with Feeding America to provide half-a-million meals for families that are in need.

I'll be checking it out and I have no idea what restaurants will be making the offerings.  I hope someone can benefit from this, and hopefully I can too. 

  We don't eat out too often, unless we have a coupon or some special deal that we find.  Okay, we have had a few moments of desperation and ended up at Taco Tuesday or picked up a Five dollar pizza.  But we really do try to avoid that when possible. 

   I'm especially disgusted at the fact that I actually ate at a McDonald's this week.  Yes, yes I did.  As I bit into that delicious addictive hamburger along with the fries I forced my mind not to dwell on what I already know the ingredients are.  I'd probably get more nutrition from my leather shoe.  But well, the leather shoe was costly and I know it wouldn't taste near as good.

   So, back to the dollar lunch, do check it out.  It's always best to eat organic and healthy unprocessed foods.  But when you can't, or just get a serious craving, it's nice to at least get it at a discount.

A Case of Chicken From Zaycon Foods

     My zaycon foods boneless, skinless chicken breasts arrived on Tuesday, November 1st and the pickup was really easy.  In fact, it was so easy that we thought something must not be right.  So, we pulled off and opened the box and discovered.........boneless, skinless, chicken breasts.  All we had to do is  pull into the church parking lot, follow the cones to the refrigerated truck, they put it in the car for us after asking our name and that was it.  Done!
 
      After arriving back at my daughters house we labeled our plastic bags and proceeded to repack them.  I used both quart and gallon size  I used two entire breasts in the gallon size bag with plans to make my chicken nuggets/strips the following day.  The rest I put into the freezer.  My daughter chose to put a marinade on hers before she put them in her freezer. 
   
We were already of course thinking of what we were going to cook.  The first thing I wanted to make were the chicken nuggets or rather more like  chicken strips. 

I've decided this was a decent deal on the chicken, and I am quite sure I'll purchase again.  The only bad thing about it that I could see is that I should have ordered two cases.  I didn't do my "homework" with the math, which would have told me how much I would be getting.  We tend to worry that we won't have freezer space, but as you can see, I had enough for one more case.