@Musicman If he hears my voice on the phone he starts chirping like crazy. Calling me to come into the living room to visit him. He did that the other night.
@Musicman yeah I am trying to go into the living room more and sit next to him and talk to him. He likes for me to interact with him. He’ll make some noises like a high-pitched EEP-EEP sound for attention and I tell him he’s a cute bird, he seems to enjoy that. He seems to get excited when I feel good enough to do some chores and walk back and forth. He’ll watch me and start saying in a sing-song voice “Working, Working” like it makes him happy for him to see me do that. I ordered a little singing redbird to show the birds too. It’s too cold to put them out in the sunroom where they could listen to the wild birds.
@Musicman I have periods of good days and other periods of not so good. Trying to learn what triggers the worst days. I think one thing is that I need to have more salt in my diet.Every time they do lab tests my sodium level is lower than it should be. I don’t eat much processed foods and not even half of what I used to eat. I got up this morning and remembered that I didn’t have any salt yesterday at all, drank three cups of decaf black tea to try to get my digestive system settled down.I woke up about 5 this morning and got about a half teaspoon of salt and drank water with it and it seems to be helping. I need sodium for an electrolyte plus it seems that it may alkalize the digestive tract. I don’t know for sure but it’s worth a try. I am going to have some chicken broth with herbs in it for breakfast and see what happens. I lose a couple pounds with every episode and it needs to stop.
@Musicman I had one potato chip last week when I was doing treatment. They give us free food but all of it has either sugar, gluten or fried like chips. Ray got a bag of chips to snack on and I asked him for just one chip to taste it. It’s been a long time since I had any kind of chips…too much fat in them.
@Musicman not sugar though. There are other carbs like potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans and rice that I can eat though. And some sugar free treats that I like to make. Wanting to make some cranberry nut biscottis, they keep quite a well and are good to have with tea. I need to make more snacks, have recipes for rice crackers that are simple and also cheese-almond flour crackers. If I can have those for snacks between meals it will help, along with some type of meat spread to put on them.
@Musicman Walked into the kitchen to make my broth and Boo-Boo changed his tune quickly to “Take Care Of Me” and “Play Music”…he wants me to stay there with him.
