Journey of my health

I am that person, my health is good and it will never happen to me, sure the questions had cross my mind, how do you know? Know what, if or how it feels to have cancer, how does it feel to have a heart attack, how does it feel to have a stroke, the questions that you ponder but nobody has ever told after going through these things. 

Let me be specific from my experience with at least two of those, there are some signs but are confused with everyday tiredness from work, family and making sure you include the base of your life that comes first, Jesus Christ and church family. 

Here I am a year two months later, I survived a widow maker heart attack, most of you do not even know that the survival rate for this according to American Heart Association is about 12 percent. This is a total blockage of the Left Anterior Descending Artery (LAD).  The morning of this event I was waken up around 4:45 am by a tiny kitten my husband rescued, this little fella was tapping me on the forehead.

I had no true symptoms that books tell you about, I got up made myself a cup of coffee and I felt like I had a virus, the beginning when you first feel queasy and some of those cold sweats. I took some nausea medicine along with a big gulp of coffee, I thought maybe some of the sweats were hot flashes, lets face it ladies we have hot flashes and we have tired feelings, knowing what is happening was just me knowing that these sweats were really intense. That was my first clue and only one besides the queasy feeling,  I thank God for my mother she taught me to listen and know your body. Taking no chances I woke my husband up called an ambulance because you only have a very short time to respond. One of the greatest, next to my kids, I have ever made. I called out to Jesus to help me and I do believe that is the reason I was calm and did not panic. 

So my next post will be about the changes and how I am today.

Thank you my friends for being here as we walk through my life

 

 

 

 

Baking

First things first, research, clean out cabinets, this are some of the stuff I did to change my life and the life of my family. My first thought was cardboard, lol that is everyone's thought. I had to reprogram my brain to understand, that 60-70 hours a week at work, eating out or throwing just anything in the oven was not for us. I was not this way before, cultural made me this way, going with the flow. 

I took a step back pulled out my great grandmother, grandmother and mom's cookbooks and recipes. What I realized is that each generation changed the way they prepared food and I looked at photos to see the differences in our lives.

Here we go back to basics, boy has this changed me, realizing that all the best and better for you takes time. I started with sourdough, what a journey, well let me tell you using the fresh milled grains, WOW what a difference.