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Follow-up Doc Appointment

February 21st, 2009 · 7 Comments

I met with the NP this week for all my results and it was quite interesting. My total cholesterol was 159 which I thought was excellent considering I was in the 200ish range 5 years ago. She said she likes it a little higher because cholesterol protects the brain and immune system. Yeah, I’ll work on raising that right now – eggs and bacon anyone?

An for the fun part, the food allergy tests came back saying I was highly allergic to wheat, dairy, gluten, rye, lima beans (YAY!!!), eggs, egg yolks and almonds. So basically, I can’t eat anymore. I told her to pick one of those to start with and she said wheat. I am also going to take the blood tests for Celiac disease and see what we find there.

In other news, I have been busy planning a wedding. I are getting married in July. I have a site for the ceremony and reception. I have a photographer. I have a beautiful wedding dress that will be here on June 10th. I have flowers. And today we are going to the cake tasting! Sweet!

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  • 1 Lisa Emrich // Feb 21, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    Oh boy, wedding plans. :-) I wondered where you’ve been lately.

    As far as the allergies go, I’d be devastated if I were told not to eat eggs. Eggs make up a large proportion of my protein choices.

    BTW, I just got back some Vitamin D results. I’m at 44 ng/mL now, when I was at 7.8 ng/mL in September. I’d say we’re on the right track. Yippee.

    Be well, my friend.

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    nina reply on March 2nd, 2009 1:29 pm

    Hey Lisa,

    I am glad you finally got your vitamin D levels up there. The hard part for me was keeping them up there. Good luck. I miss you!

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    Lisa Emrich reply on March 2nd, 2009 4:19 pm

    I’m gonna do my best to keep those levels up (and maybe even get higher.) Missed you too. I’m still ‘here’ just not going ‘there.’

    Hey there’s a comment below from Terri who sounds like she’s seen the gown. Did I miss a photo someplace? Would love to get a peek…..

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    nina reply on March 2nd, 2009 5:33 pm

    I think my mother spilled the beans to Terri. :) Here is a link to the dress: http://watters.com/product.php?coll=wtoobrides&showid=908

    I love it. Wedding planning is taking up a lot of time though. We are getting married in July so not a lot of time left. Right now I am in NY visiting Tom’s kids. Good time for a snow storm.

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  • 2 Nadja Tizer // Feb 22, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    Congrats on the wedding.

    I am afraid that when I get the allergy testing that I too will learn I am allergic to everything. I’m glad to use lack of funds as an excuse to put off learning more. I hated it when I tried cutting out wheat and diary since I’m vegetarian. I hope you have better luck.

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  • 3 Terri Pollock // Feb 27, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    Nina
    I’m so happy for you. It’s a wonderful thing to find a life mate . The dress is beautiful and the style very flattering!

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    nina reply on March 2nd, 2009 1:29 pm

    Thanks Terri!

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