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Tag Archives: food
The Lace of Life
I was thinking, while we were in Asheville, about Dresden lace figurines. They’re porcelain figurines decorated with very realistic-looking lace, which is created by dipping cotton lace in porcelain and applying it to the figurine. The cloth burns off in … Continue reading
Posted in ME/CFS
Tagged Asheville, bath, bedridden, books, Chimp, Christmas, constraints, crash, dancing, dining out, Dresden lace, exercise, family, fashion, figurines, food, fresno, history, love, makeup, Mom, music, nature, outdoors, parties, Post-Exertional Malaise, pressure sensitivity, travel, vegetarianism, walking, wildflowers
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Histamine Sensitivity and ME/CFS: A Plan of Attack
[Note added 3/31/22: This is a complex post with a long series of exchanges, but it doesn’t include some factors we didn’t know at the time. Because of improperly installed drywall, our house had a mold problem behind the walls … Continue reading
Posted in ME/CFS
Tagged 23andMe, alpha lipoic acid, antihistamines, B12, Brazil nuts, Cheney, colostrum, DAO, doxepin, fennel, folapro, food, Gabapentin, gels, glutamate, glutathione, hawthorn, headache, Histame, histamine, ImmunoPro, LDN, magnesium, MAO, mirtazapine, olive oil, P5P, quercetin, Sam-e, Seroquel, sleep, turmeric, VIP, wormwood
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Prandial Problems
I hated my mother’s bunny jello mold. She bought it before my brother or I were born, thinking that when she had kids, it would be fun to make them bunny-shaped jello. And it probably would have been, for most … Continue reading
Posted in Life Before, ME/CFS, Uncategorized
Tagged beef, bunny, chicken, childhood, Chimp, Dad, fish, food, histamine, jello, lamb, meat, Mom, sleep, vegetarianism, Wahls protocol
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Inch by Inch
Even though my vocation for more than a dozen years was food, I’m a relative latecomer to vegetable gardening. It wasn’t something my parents did – I remember tomatoes a couple times, I think, and an excellent accidental watermelon one … Continue reading
Posted in ME/CFS
Tagged Chimp, daily routine, food, garden, herbs, house & home, vegetables
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Losing My Edge
(Lyrics here.) One day about three years into my illness, when I was still well enough to be working but sick enough to be doing so from home, I met my departing boss – let’s call him Brad – for … Continue reading
Posted in Life Before, ME/CFS
Tagged Chimp, confidence, crash, dizziness, food, sleep, work
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