I Can Eat What I Want...Yeah NOT Anymore!

My daddy (God rest his soul) had all kinds of sayings and anecdotes he would give to my sister and me. For example, he told us "Don't marry any liabilities. Get you an asset" or "Be careful watching those movies, they play on your intelligence". The major saying he had for us and he said it until the day he died was, "Do your research!" He said it about any and everything. In my hometown of Fort Worth, TX, there's an exit off of 820 called Trinity Blvd going towards the mid-cities. They've been doing construction over there mainly building houses. In the 70s, Trinity Blvd was well-known for being a floodplain. Every time we would get a decent storm, it would flood in that area up and down that street; yet in the mid-2000s housing developments bought the land and started building subdivisions. One day, my dad and I were driving in the area. He looked in the direction of where they were building and started shaking his head. Then he would commence to say, "I don't understand it. Those folks buying houses in that floodplain. They gonna be watching TV during one of those storms and the next thing they know they gonna be floating away from they house in they recliner. That's why you gotta do your research Nad." I still laugh over that memory.

I said all of that to say that I have been doing my research. I've seen all types of literature talking about my specific type of cancer. The fact that it's treatable. The fact that it's hard to treat because it doesn't respond to certain treatments. The fact it was better we caught it early. Yada Yada Yada... What I came across was that I had to change my diet. Ummm, wait, what?!? I have to change the way I eat??

C'mon man! I don't want to give up the fact that I love to eat everything!! In portions mind you. Still...I have to start being mindful of what I put down this cakehole. I also learned that it's what I was putting there in the first place that could have contributed to the growth of this invasive tumor felon in the first place.

So like my daddy told me, I started looking at the stuff I eat. Corn Syrup is not anyone's friend. It's found in all of our candy and sweets. Monosodium glutamate or MSG is in lots of foreign foods but still isn't good for our health. There are a bunch of other chemicals and additives that we need to be mindful of when we eat. If it says, "all natural", 9 times out of ten it probably isn't. Don't trust the Organic label either. The best thing for people who are experiencing a disease like this will need to learn to cook because that's the only way you know what is in your food and how it should taste.

It isn't that I can't cook. I just don't like to. Geez man...I have enough stuff to worry about than to try to figure out what I can or cannot eat. Thank God my sister will be coming to help. I don't think I will have the stomach or the chest for it. LOL!!! I will say this though...to be able to eat is the goal. I'd much rather alter my diet than become food for worms and maggots.