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No, seriously. She swears she knows more than any doctor. And comes up with these hairbrained ideas.

So, I'm still having hives. The elimination diet is working! But there are hiccups. Like the munchkin drinking my water after eating popcorn. Or the salad at a theme park that should have been perfectly safe. Only it wasn't. Most of it is my fault because I have to adjust my way of thinking. "Oh, #3 left grapes behind. I'll eat those." Only, if he was also eating a corndog, then those grapes are now contaminated with sausage, corn, and eggs, none of which we have eliminated yet.

We have eliminated milk and tomatoes as the cause. Corn starch also seems fine, though corn and corn syrup do not. And right now I am an itchy mess due to eating out. Yes, yes, I know...

Anyway, the elimination diet is obviously having an effect. I'm not having huge outbreaks. So, yay.

Only... My MiL keeps looking for alternative reasons for why I could be having hives. I have thyroid issues. I mentioned to her that thyroid issues can cause hives (after proof positive that it is something I eat because I had just gone 3 days without any). And obviously I should march down to my family doc and have him do a complete work up!

The latest one was because DH and Eldest also had a spot of hives. Both on their hands and DH on his forearm as well. We think they got into some poison ivy. The area of hives did not change in any way. Just stuck around for a bit. DH finally remembered to take some benadryl and his are now gone. He told me this in front of MiL, who had not known about his or Eldest's hives. Suddenly we needed to explore the possibility that it was a parasite.

We both looked at her like she was crazy. Both times she tried to push the issue.

She's looking for zebras when she can SEE the horses.

But my legitimate medical issue is inconvenient for her, so she tries to find another explanation. And she tries to rush adding things back in. Like the corn starch/syrup/solids. She's the one who told me that they are all different and had me ask the NP if they needed to be excluded as well. And yet, we missed something with starch, therefore we should be good to add all 3 back in. Literally, we were talking about it at dinner one night and she completely ignored the fact that I had JUST said I wanted to wait a few days to be sure before adding corn back in, even though we were using corn starch already. I had to do that thing where you stop, look a person dead in the eye, and speak slowly and clearly so that there is no mistake.

She's gonna get her head bitten off.

On a good note, no junk food equals healthier eating and I have lost around 15#. So, yay.

 Eventually I will stop doing this.  Really.  Going from walking pneumonia straight to bronchitis was not my best plan.  I'm feeling much better, but I keep waking up in the middle of the night, coughing my head off.  It is not fun.

Updates from recent posts:  

Back in May there was the whole shit storm about throwing her things away and moving fabric.  We finally have all the fabric washed and folded.  Not quite 2 seven foot bookcases worth of fabric, once it was folded neatly.  Or, neatish.  And it is not sorted very well.  But I can now at least touch all of it without gagging.  And, yes, I threw some away.  Anything smaller than my hand (and not an obvious quilting project), mouse eaten, or piss stained was snuck out and burned.  Because EW! My MiL every once in awhile will make a "subtle" comment to see if I threw something out.  Will mention a large piece of green cloth that used to be in the sewing room, or large safety pins, but she doesn't know where they are now.

DH LOVES his job.  He is basically the problem solver for a company that prints off bank documents.  So, tax forms, notices that they are not going to penalize you for a late payment due to the hurricane and flooding, that sort of thing.  And his bosses love him, so that's good.

He is currently on a low dose antidepressant.  He's been on one before, right after he got out of the Army.  It did not work then, but that was before his knee pain was effectively treated.  This time,since he is not in constant pain, it is working much better.  He doesn't feel as short tempered and doesn't feel like a shoe is about to drop.  So, that's all good.  The psychology appointments have not worked out so well, though.  He's supposed to be doing Skype type appointments, only the doctor he was assigned to can't get her system to work...

The House was appraised today.  (And Now My Kindle It Capitalizing Every Word.  Why?)  It went well, I think.  The appraiser basically said that we would easily appraise for the refinance amount.  So, yay.  

And the, Eldest put his foot through the ceiling while putting Christmas boxes away.  Again.  He did it 2 years ago as well.  Youngest did it last year.  So...  I have a hole in my ceiling, because I could not deal tonight. I'm going to make him fix it, because skillz.

Oh, the other thing that happened (and now my Kindle is not capitalizing things, but if I type too fast it adds letters and won't take them away.  Kindle and the DW dialog box do not get along.) is that the fridge downstairs has possibly bit the dust.  I'm honestly not sure.  It's only 2 ish years old.  But the freezer portion is not getting cold enough and the fridge is freezing things.  We are defrosting it tonight and I will try again tomorrow.  This is after the water filter in it cracked and flooded the basement kitchen.  So...  Yeah.

Oh!  Insulation is up in the basement room we are remodeling.  The difference in temperature is amazing!  Once the sheetrock is up, we plan on shuffling the boys into that room while we do the same to their bedroom.  Because it makes that significant of a difference.  

(And now the Kindle is not auto capitalizing after periods and the autocorrect feature is just the options of s, d, and this...  Every time I switch to a different tab for a moment, to check to see what needs an infodump update, the quirk between Kindle and the DW dialog changes. Or Possibly When I Click OutSide Of The Dialog Box.  Seriously?!?!?! 

now im going to play with it.  this is one click outside the box.  obviously autotcorrect has failed.

Next, What Is It Going TO Do?

ThirD Time?  This Thing Is So.Weird.


Forth.  Wonder What Will Happen If I Go To A Didifferent Tabout For A Moment.

Let's See, Shall We?

Yeah, kindle And Ew Have Issues.)

Oh!  The cat that had kittens.  We ended up keeping 2 of them.  This means we have 6 cats in the house, which is way too much.  Good thing we have a 5,000.square foot house...  We kept the black girl, who is Luci Furr and the boy, who is Loki.  Both have been fixed already.  After the holidays I will get their mom fixed.  

Also, sorry for tbe crazy spellings, capitalizations, and randomness.  I blame it all on the quirk.


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Anyone who has been unable to sleep lately has probably run across the infomercials for the Insanity workout.  60 minutes a day to a new you, with really in shape people testifying that they could not finish the first day, or even the first week, but that they stuck with it and lost a bazillion pounds.  $120, plus another $25 for shipping and handling.

No.  Just no. 

No way can I spend 60 minutes a day working out unless I'm going to a gym and paying someone to watch my baby.  And I'm not paying $150 for workout videos.  Not happening.  I don't care about the results they promise.

Enter yesterday's Dr. Oz.  He had the guy on the show and has posted a 15 minute workout on his website.  For free.  Win.

So, I just did it.  Or, a modified version of it.  All that jumping around is not made for large chests.  

And, yeah, I'm gonna die.  I feel pretty good, mind you, but I'm also still out of breath 15 minutes later.  I can't image doing it for 60 minutes!

*sigh*  We'll see how long I can stick with it.  It's only 15 minutes, including the warm up, and is actually kinda fun.  I can also feel the soreness already.  Because I am just that out of shape.

It's...  Been an interesting couple of weeks.

( DH, Rose, MiL )
So...  Yeah.  Life has been interesting...