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hospital free so far plus other things

well guess it's time for a long overdo update. I've been out of the
hospital since about june 19 and so far things are looking good. the
rest of may was farely rough and the beginning of june as well. Things
are fine now though so that's good.

Chris and i switched back to gentoo for our olinux installs a bit agao.
We did this for a few reasons and so far i'm happy with things. Chris
is doing development stuff for gentoo again, and I'm in the process of
setting up as an arch tester so that I can help out as well.

Medically things are going farely well. I'm kind of waiting till next
month to see what my new naturopath wants to do next in terms of medical
things. Also waiting to see GI here so that i can see what they want to
do next. Don't see GI till september though.

medical update

We had a phone conversation with my naturopath, and things are looking
good. we did add calcium to my suppliments, but that doesn't surprise me
much. my bp meds have been dropped drasticly since my last hospital
visit and that's a good thing. the doctor lowered my bp meds because of
my body starting to cooperate.

my angziety seems to be more under control though the vagus nerve
problems still need dealing with. So all and all things look good, it's
just waiting for my body to get back in line.

updates, updates

Well a lot has happened since i posted. For several reasons i wont go
into, chris left google. We ended up moving to oregon and are now in salem.

The weather is wonderful here. Our apartment is a bit smaller then our
last one but we also got rid of extra furnature when we moved so the
lack of space while annoying for some reasons isn't really a huge problem.

Bella has been doing farely well, she's got a blog of her own now,
though it's not been updated recently. I'm looking to move my blogs off
blogger and into an easier to use blog setup but we'll see if that
actually happens. The new blogger setup is kind of horrible and isn't
useable by folks with text browsers so i kind of just think it's not
worth using blogger any more if i can avoid it.

good bye savannah

It seems another chapter of my life has in it's way come to a close. My
last guide dog, my wonderful girl savannah died on the 11th of this
month. Apparrently she had cancer and there was fluid building up
around her lungs and heart.

The email i got from peggy said that she was happy and hyper till the
last, she loved to play ball and have fun.

I've always missed her since she left, but in some ways i miss her more.
A large part of me wishes i'd kept her after retirement because i never
was able to get another dog, but at the same time, i know they took care
of her in a way i never could. They have a dog for her to play with, and
she'll be missed greatly by their dog willow and bob and peggy.

I'll always miss her and i hope one day maybe I'll have another shephard
again, guide dog or pet. No dog can replace her, but shephards are
wonderful dogs.:)

bella says feed me.

Bella has really opened up since she's been here. she's starting to stay
out when the doorbell rings and i think this is incredible progress on
her part. I almost dread the day we move out of here.:P

We had a bit of fun with her earlier this week.

http://deedra.the-brannons.com/podcasts/bella-says-feed-me.mp3

new naturopath, there might be hope after all.

Well, I saw a naturopath last week. she took an extensive medical
history, i think i was able to tell her more of what was going on then
i was able to tell the homeopath. She really took the time to listen to
me, she had a great deal to say, and she said i was right on track with
the suppliments i was taking. She had some questions about my probiotics
and suggested i increase the s boulardii more. I explained the
probiotics to her. Essentially to high of a dose of probiotic tends to
make me queezey though the s boulardii and the scd probiotics dont do that.

Tuesday we had our follow up apointment and she layed out her treatment
plan. Essentially it involves a great deal of detoxing, combine with
trying to reawaken my vagus nerve and try to get control over the
stomach acid problems, and also try to balance my hormones. It's been an
expensive trip so to speak, but i've got a great deal of hope that it
will actually work.

Jennifer is nice open and honest. She thinks she can help and we truely
hope she can.

Well, it's been almost a week since my origional backslide on scd last
week and my body is just now starting to completely bounce back. I felt
pretty crappy for a couple of days but i'm starting to feel decent
again, so we'll see how things go. I've found replacement foods to deal
with those insane cravings, so guess we need to overstock on dates.:P