Low Iodine diet, Pains and A & E

First week of Low iodine diet

Through out my first week of this very boring diet all I did was crave all of the food that I could not eat. I had palpitations every so often and felt too tired to do anything useful. I did start getting a few pains in my chest that were a bit odd as I have not experienced that yet.

My meals during my first week consisted of:

• Chicken with sweet jacket potato 
• Chicken with pasta and tomatoes 
• Chicken with parsnips and sweet potato
• Fruit smoothies with nut milk
• Peppers stuffed with rice and other veg
• Beef with parsnips, carrot, sweet potato
• Home made burger with sweet potato chips.

I know what you are thinking, that is a lot of sweet potato and chicken, I agree. 

 With being so tired all the time and feeling restless I did not get out much. However I did attempt to keep myself entertained with a little help from my boyfriends Nephew, Charlie. We did face paints and I must say we looked gorgeous. Charlie painted my face so I would be a tiger so I repaid the favour. 

Scary tiger

RAWR. Don't we look beautiful.

Soon enough it was Halloween so I decided to do a little Halloween animation as well. This is now up on my youtube channel along with my other animation stuff but I have included the video here. 

Pains and A&E

During my second week I received a phone call from my advisor telling me to go to the hospital as soon as possible as the day before she rang me I text her saying my chest pains were so bad that my breath was knocked out of me and I almost fell down because of it. I was not happy with this news as she rang me at 7:30am, all I wanted to do was sleep but hey ho hey ho it was off to hospital I had to go. Me and my boyfriend got to Southport hospital at 8am and did not leave until 3pm after blood tests, checks and waiting a hell of a lot of hours to be told just to go home. They gave us no information about what was happening at all, just plonked us in one place then moved us to another. All I was told is that I did not have a blood clot. One good thing that came out of staying at the hospital for so long was helping a woman feel better. She had recently found out she had lung cancer and was in floods of tears, not eating. My boyfriend gave her hope with the story of his father surviving a non operable cancer and I was able to help by answering any questions she had and putting a smile back on her face making her eat a little bit of her sandwich as she lost her appetite  even if it was only temporary. As me and my boyfriend walked away my boyfriend heard the woman's sister say " I think you was supposed to meet that young lady today". Well being told that ended up making my day. 

When a nurse took my Christmas lights out she was making a right mess of it, everyone's faces were in shock. She looked up at me and said isn't this therapeutic? I looked back at her and with a raised voiced and replied, for who? You or me because its definitely not therapeutic for me!

Back to Preston for some real answers

The next day I had arranged to see Andrew my Cancer nurse. Luckily for me he is great at his job and had the answers I was looking for. He explained that all of my pains and tightness in my chest, electric shock type pains in my ribs, stomach and jaw, deep aches throughout my body, restlessness and lack of sleep was due to me no longer taking my Liothyronine in preparation for the radio-iodine treatment. They were all caused by no longer having the hormones I needed. I was told that these pains were only going to get worse so was prescribed pain killers. The pains have become more frequent but they are not so bad, only my chest puts me in a bit of pain. 

Second weeks list of meals

• Pork chops with butter-nut squash, courgette, parsnip
• Chicken, sweet potato, swede and carrot 
• Chicken, parsnip, baby sweet corns
• Steak, asparagus, sweet potato
• Pancakes with raspberries
• strawberries, pineapple, banana
•  Jacket potato with chicken, home made chips

This week there has been a bit of a better option of food as my mum has been looking after me. Mums always look after you the best. 

Tomorrow I will be going down to see my dad as it is his birthday. I made him a home made card which I am hoping he will like it. Then on Monday I start my treatment.

Little love heart balloons

My next blog post will include my radio iodine treatment, how it feels to feel like a prisoner locked in a small room for a week and if I manage to turn into the shehulk....