Long time

It has gone a long time since I wrote on this blog. A lot has happened in this five, soon six, month.

My Mom got a massive heart attack the 26th of June and did never recover from that. She died, 86 years old, the 23rd of September and after that I’ve had a lot to take care of.

I’ve been helping her with her invoices and other bank matters for some years now so it was me who took care of the paper work after her death too. Hopefully everything will be ready before the New Year is coming up. Otherwise I’ve to make her declaration two more years, 2013 and 2014.

I’ve also contacted a lawyer who is doing the inventory of her belongings and assets, and now I’m waiting for these papers to come back from the Swedish Tax Agency so I’m able to close everything after my Mom.

Mom’s apartment is emptied and clean, so now I only have to hand over the keys to the landlord one day the coming week.

It feels very strange and sad to know that this is the finally end. No more “fika” (coffee time/break) on Friday afternoons when I made her hair. I’ve done that for as long as I can remember.

When my Dad lived (he died in 2006) I used to fix his hair too, with haircut and sometimes his hair sprawled in all directions so I put some hair mousse in it so he looked more respectable.

My in-laws have also taken a lot of my time the last year actually. My mother-in-law has at last, after a lot of persuasion, a place on the elderly section in the service home they have lived at for the last six years. She has been there for a week now, and is not satisfied. She’s demented and doesn’t know/understand what’s best for her, she’s 89 years old.

I’ve also had to get some help for my father-in-law who’s 93. Now when he’s alone he needs to be looking after too. The home care service is coming daily to look after him, and that’s nice to know.

Hopefully I’ll get some time over for things I want to do for my self now when they are taken care of and my Mom (sadly) no longer is here. But that’s of cores only wishful thinking.

Bertil is getting more and more dependent on me because of his brain tumor. After four and a half years the illness is taking out the last of his strength. He has been taking/eating so much medicine (cytostatic) over these years so now it seems to knock back instead of helping him.

He has difficulties to walk, rise up from sitting to standing, is dizzy, and has got diabetes from all the cortisone, and thrombosis because of the cancer.

Most of the time I’ve hard to understand what he says and what he’s talking about. He’s fabricating own words and thinks that I’m able to understand them. According to him there’s nothing wrong with his talking, and I’m the one that is “sick” in my head. Every day is a challenge with him. Is he in a good or bad mood? Will he be able to get up from his bed today or do I have to call for help…? How long will it be like this and how long am I able to get along before I need help?! So far I’ve had the strength to keep my mind up, and that I’m grateful for.

He lies on his bed most of the day and is also sleeping a lot. His car has been standing unmoved for the last month and that is very reliving to know.

I really, really do not wish to see him “go”, but how long can a body be able to function on such low flame. It’s so very hard to see a person you have lived together with for 45 years be so helpless and most of the time very black hearted.

We met in 1966, I was 15 and he 19 years old. We were together as often as we could (read every day). He should know by now that I will do and are doing everything that I’m able to do for him, but in his eyes I’m not doing a shit.

It’s strange, I know him in and out, but after all these years he hasn’t a clew who I am in any way at all. Perhaps that’s a typical manly thing, I don't know.

On the bright side, today anyhow, is that I’ve been at a dance show. Agnes is participating in a dancing group for kids, “Funky Kids”. All the kids were dancing very good and seemed to have very fun on the stage.

Grandma's sweetheart

Agnes will be 8 years old on New Years Eve.

HAVE A NICE DAY!

KRAM EVA

Well at last!

Bertil and I have had some kind of influenza. I think it was our grandchildren who “gave” it to us. I started and then I probably transferred it to Bertil.
Poor guy, he ended up at the infection clinic in Helsingborg for three days about two weeks ago. He had difficulties with his breathing and was really sick. He had got the flu and a mild pneumonia.
I have had a prolix coughing and also a stubborn sinusitis, and an aching tooth (probably the root canal). I went to three doctors and the third gave me – at last- antibiotics.
Yes I know, I shouldn’t take antibiotics more than necessary, but I know my self, and when the pain from my head gets unbearable it’s time for medicine!
I had used nasal spray with cortisone for nearly 14 days without any improvement, so it was time for stronger medical supplies.
Now we are getting better and better for each day, but this has been the worst cold we have had ever!
Further on I think we have to be more careful when we know the children or someone else for that matter, are sick in any way, or are having colds.
Bertil is getting more and more vulnerable for this kind of infections because of his illness and all the treatments he gets.
Well, the main thing is that we are getting better, and I’m really optimistic because the spring is on its way here in the northern parts of the world – AT LAST! We have had winter for six month, and for a short time I thought it would stay that way for ever and ever.
So, now I’m hoping for a long nice spring. That’s the time of the year that I like the most. Not to hot and not to cold, and everything is new and fresh in the nature. Mmmm!

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Kram Eva

Pain, cold and a nasty cough

Pain, cold and a nasty cough is what I have to put up with right now. Not surprising perhaps, since Agnes and Tintin have been very ill last week. Now they are on the mend (thankfully), but it was a bit dramatic last Tuesday when Tintin had a seizure due to a rapid temperature decrease. Hopefully, it was both the first and last time he should have to experience something like that. Both children and parents did see a doctor to get a helping hand. Agnes had a severe respiratory infection and had antibiotics. Tintin did not need any medicine.

Otherwise, life has been about as usual, except that my husband also has a cold and coughs a lot.
Today he was on his usual MRI screening on Ängelholm's hospital, which is made about every three months.
We will get the result from this screening next week, 6 April, when he's (we) going to Lund to visit his doctor at the neurological section.

It is equally unpleasant each time before we get to know what it looks like inside Bertil's head. It's a little more than three years now, since we got to know about his brain tumor, so he has made a several of these screenings by now. He had unfortunately one set-back about a year ago when the tumor started to grow again. Then he had to start with chemotherapy monthly for five days each time. Since then it hasn't change. So far so good! Knock on wood!

The weather is still cold here, but fortunately we haven't got more snow anyway. The sun is peeping through now and then, but not more than a day now and then.
As we use to say:
"He who waits for something good never waits too long".

Have a nice day!
Kram Eva

Long Time

Well it’s been a long time since I updated my blog, but I'm still here =). I've had a lot to do with our move to our new apartment the 13th of January.

I thought that I’d cleared out all the things that we didn’t needed, but I just fooled my self. I’ve had a lot of work to make place for all our chattels, and I think that soon I’ll have everything in its right place.

A new sofa, a chest of drawers, a dinner table, some chairs and some other things has been purchased at the new IKEA department store in Helsingborg.

More snow is falling here in Skåne right now. It’s freezing cold outside and I’m really tired of this long and cold winter. It started already in the beginning of November and has its hold on us still. The other day we had about +3 degrees C, and it almost felt like it was spring in the air.
I'm longing for some green grass and spring flowers, but it seems like we have to wait for that for a long time yet.

The main thing anyhow is that we have come in place, our house got sold and I’m not longing for the house a bit. Honestly I haven’t given it a thought since we moved out. So I now we made the right thing when we decided to sell.

Bertil is still fighting with his brain tumor. Some days are worse then the others. Right now he’s going through the annual five days/month of treatment with anti tumor therapy. The first day of this treatment is often the worst, and then it sort of flattens out.

The day before yesterday he was really sick when he woke up in the morning, and when he went out for the morning paper he fell headlong down on the ground and strike up one of his knees. Today he has taken it easy all day long, and that’s good. He needs to slow down his life, but can’t really realize that.

There aren’t many of the persons we know and meet daily, who think that he really is as sick as he is because he looks very well. He has got the characteristic “moon-face” and a big belly from all the cortisone he has to take every day. In other words, he looks like he has a good life, eating with a good appetite, but instead he’s lost a lot of muscles that has transformed into fat on his belly instead. That’s a side effect from the cortisone too.

Besides of all this, life is good to us right now. We have a new home, nice people next door, and hopefully the spring will show up again with all its beautifulness.

My favourite month of the year is May.

Ingelstorp's harbor 10 February, 2010

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Bored, bored, bored...

That sounded very negative, but that's how I feel right now. Every day seems to be the same at the moment.
Making breakfast, reading the morning paper, do the washing-up, make the beds, remind Bertil to take all his medicine, answer all his questions about the medicine, what they are good for, how do they work. (Same questions and answers every day). Why do I take this pill, and this one, and this one...
Same, same and same over and over again! On top of it all it has been snowing all day long today! I hate when the snow comes this early in the wintertime. Hopefully it will be gone until tomorrow morning because I haven't got the winter tyres on my car yet.

Bertil is in a new five days (cycle - 23 days without cytostatic and five whit) of cytostatic so he's not feeling 100% at the moment. He feels nauseous, dizzy and is tired early in the morning during these cycles, and sadly it seems that it gets worse and worse for every new cycle. Poor guy, and here I'm complaining of being bored. Sigh!
The thing is, I think, that I feel that life is running away from me. Hard to explain, but it fells like our lives are in a stage of waiting. Waiting for something that we don't know what it is. Well we do know that we are going to move to a new home after New Year, but what will come after that.
For how long is Bertil able to go on with his medication. Is there a limit, and if there is, when has he reached that limit?
Only time can give us the answer to all these questions, and this "time" that we do not know anything about, is corrosive for one's mental health. Nerve-wracking and close to impossible to take into your mind. It's plainly an unreal situation and feeling. Sometimes it feels like I'm "going in to the wall", and are not able to take any more.
Then a new day is breaking through, and that day comes and goes like the days before that, and so on, and so on...

Hugs Eva!

My Enemy # 1 at the moment

This time of the year is a really agonize for me, and especially for my eyes. They are itching and running from early morning to late evening. I'm taking eye dropps and other drugs but now is the time of the year that's the most irritating for me because of my grass allregy.

I'm allergic up on all kind of grass, so I can't escape from it. This is the time of the year that you want to be outside as much as possible, but I stay inside as much as possible. Buhu!

Well that's life. I love spring and autumn, so I try to be out a lot then instead.

My enemy # 1!

The Elder flowers is blooming right now. So get out and pick the flowers and make some good nice elder blossom juice. The juice is nice to mix in a cold drink. I use to mix about 1 liter of cold (home made) club soda with 1 deciliter elder blossom juice and then about 1-1½ dl Baccardi Rum. Of course you can exclude the rum if you just want something cold to drink in summer heat.

Elder flower juice
about 2 1 / 2 liters
Ingredients:
40 flower bunches
3 lemons
2 liters of boiling water
1 1/2 kg Sugar (a lot of sugar!!!).
50 g of citric acid

Rinse the flower bunches and place them on a towel to drain.
Place the flowers in a bucket or large bowl.
Wash the lemons thoroughly and slice them thinly.
Add lemon slices on the flowers.
Boil water and pour over the flowers and lemons.
Add the sugar and stir until it dissolves. Stir in the citric acid.
Cover the bucket/bowl and let stand for 3 days.
Strain!
Pour into well-cleaned bottles.

Store in refrigerator or freeze the juice. You can also add a cinnamon stick or 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger to get a taste of the juice extraction.

The Elder flowers can be replaced by lilac flowers or black currant leaves.

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Kram Eva

Feeling better =)

The sinusitis is almost gone now, but I still need to use the steroid nasal spray twice a day. I'm not happy about that, but I rather take the spray then having sinusitis.

The snow is melting down day by day, but here's still plenty. The sun has showed up now and then too. The other day I washed my car. Haven't been able to do that since October last year!!!!!!! The temps has been below zero almost every day since then. I've always washed my cars "by hand". Only once I have used a car wash, but I didn't liked the result, so never again!

Now I'm longing for the spring, and these small lovely beatuties. Perhaps they are under the snow cover, who knows?

 Snowdrops from last year.

Tintin and Bertil.

These two guys are doing their best to help the snow to melt in the sun ;-)

HAVE A NICE DAY!

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Headache, dizzy and nausea!

I've had headache, nausea and been dizzy for about a month now. Phoned my doctor yesterday but I don't think she took me seriously when I told her that I didn't felt good at all. I got an apointment the 15th of March!!!!

Today I had even more headache and it hurt behind my nose as well, so I went to emergency room at the medical center in Båstad this evening at 18.00. Fortunately they have open reception between 18.00 and 20.00.

There was a very nice doctor and I was advised to use steroid nasal spray for one week and then come back for a check out. It's just until 15 March so it suits me well.

Because I'm allergic to all kinds of grass, I fortunately already had such nasal spray at home =). I used it as soon as I came home (silly me that didn't tought about that spray before), and now I already feel much better. Well, you'd better not shout hello before it has gone a few days maybe more, before I can say that I'm ok again. The doctor thought that I have sinusitis, and that was what I also suspected this morning when I got such a pain behind my nose.

Well, I probably have to go to bed by now so I can sleep on it, and maybe I feel even better tomorrow.

HAVE NICE DAY!

Teeth

Had an appointment to my dentist today, and I always feel a bit nervous before I get to know if there’s any caries or something worth.
Last time, six month ago, I had to pull one tooth out because it was totally destroyed under the crown. Fortunately it was located farthest back in my mouth, but nevertheless, I get sad and frustrated when it goes like that.
That’s not what you want to do or hear when you are doing everything to keep your teeth and mouth clean and fresh.
Today he “only” had to repair a minor cavity. It only took seconds, so it must have been smaller then the smallest pin head.

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Not the flue!

I've been a bit shoddy the last week with a strange cold. Every other day I'm just fine and every other day I feel sick with pain behind my nose, headache, cough and a runny nose. it's not much only a bit difusely.
Sooo...I don't think I've the "swine flue" anyhow. But it's beginning to be a little bit irritating now.
I wash down my nose every day with my Nasaline, and that actually helps a lot, but I want to be 100% healthy again, because this is wearisomely now!

I HOPE YOU ALL ARE WELL!

I'm still here ;-)

I haven't been feeling so very good the last eight days. My stomach has been "out of order" so to say. I had to be near the loo 24 hours a day, but now I'm feeling fine again. I have no idea what kind of "bug" I got, but it was a very long-drawn thing anyhow.

HOPE YOU ALL WELL!

Mummified Food!!

I saw this on the new web site LCHF.se. What do you think when you see a film clip like this?

NEVER EAT AT MC DONALDS AGAIN!!!!!!!

That was my first thought! Not that I'm a regular custumor at that place, but it happens now and then when Bertil wants to have a 'burger'. The thing is that he loves their French fries, and I just hate it. I use to eat a small Chicken burger when we go there, but NEVER AGAIN!

In this film from March 2008 a lady is showing a four years old Happy Meal. It is remarkable that the food not been aged in a natural way. It has instead more become mummified. The bread has not mould, just been hard. The cheese and meat is not rotten or mould. The meat is just shrunk slightly, while the cheese solidified. The French fries principle looked fresh. Unless it’s not smuggled to the truth in this film it gives you a thought about what fast food can contain. The film contains some advertising which we do not need to worry about.

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Old and Toothless =(

This day didn’t become as I thought it would. A couple of days ago I felt that a jacket crown at a back tooth in the left upper jaw was loose, so I phoned my dentist and got an appointment today at 9.00 am. At home it felt like the tooth would fall out at any second, but alas how wrong I was.
The dentist had to carry out a lot of strength to get it out, and if that wasn’t enough, what was left of my real tooth was a total disaster.
“Sorry, but I have to pull out the whole tooth”, he said. My answer, with all that things you have in your mouth when you’re at the dentist, was: “Mmhh!?”
I wasn’t prepared for this at all, so my pulse probably went up to a very high level, my hands became damped with sweat and a lot of thoughts twizzled around in my head. Suddenly I felt very feeble.
“Shall we pull it out today or do you want to do it another day”, he asked. “Do it today”, I said. There’s nothing to wait for even though I was terrified to death. I didn’t want to pass through this feeling once again another day further on.
The anaesthesia was rapidly done, and now the real work had begun. The dentist had a real battle to fight with that one I can tell you, but after about three quarters, a lot of drilling, cutting in my gum, sewing and a little bit irritation at the dentist nurse my dentist finished his work. He’s a very competent man, so I didn’t felt any pain at all, but after some hours half my head was aching like h…!!! Two pain killers and I felt as “new” again.
When something like this happens, I feel like I’m in some kind of total ageing break down. I’m only (soon) 58. Hopefully I’ve many years left of my life, so I do not want to pull out any teeth at all actually. Buhuuuu!!!

I think I have to take a couple of painkillers again before I go to bed tonight =(

HOPE YOU WILL HAVE A PAINLESS NIGHT!

Äkta vara!!!!

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Rädda våra barns hjärnor!
Öppet brev till kostansvariga i Örnsköldsviks kommun.

(Min egen kommentar till det här brevet är att innehållet i det borde gälla ALLA kommuner i det här landet).

Valet av skolmat är ett mycket viktigt val, ty maten vi serverar barnen, är byggmaterial för deras kroppar.
Allt fler kommuner väljer lättprodukter, i form av lättmargariner och mjölk med låg fetthalt, till sina skolor och förskolor. Nu är turen kommen till Örnsköldsviks kommun.
Men det är en felaktig och farlig utveckling. Barnen bör få fet mjölk och smör med naturliga animaliska fettsyror. I många studier är det just mjölkfettet som visats leda till minskad fetma och sjukdomsrisk.
Fett verkar aptitreglerande; det påverkar hormonsystemen så att det totala energiintaget blir mindre. De senaste studierna visar också att feta barns kost innehåller mindre fett, medan barn som äter mer fett i större utsträckning är normalviktiga!
Margariner består av omestrade eller delvis härdade fetter med industriella transfettsyror. Dessa kemiskt framställda fetter ersätter de naturliga fetter som egentligen ska ingå i t.ex. cellmembranen. När barnens kroppar byggs med undermåligt margarinfett, fullt av kemikalier, blir de sjuka:

o Barn som äter margarin blir lättare allergiska än barn som äter smör. Barnen med lägst intag av totalfett blir allra mest allergiska.
o Industriella transfetter och omestrade fetter ger inflammationer, ett tillstånd som ligger till grund för hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar och leder till försämrad insulinkänslighet, vilket är första steget mot diabetes och fetma.
o Margarinernas höga innehåll av fleromättade omega6-fetter skadar den känsliga balansen mellan omega3-fett och omega6-fett, vilket dramatiskt försämrar immunförsvaret och ger fel fett i barnens hjärnor.
Studier visar, att de s.k. bokstavsbarnen, dvs. de som fått diagnosen ADHD, DAMP, dyslexi, dyspraxi, autism o.s.v., har underskott på omega3-fett (som finns mest i fisk och fiskolja, men även i kött från gräsbetande djur).
Människan har under årmiljoner anpassats till en i huvudsak animalisk föda. Den nuvarande trenden att tvinga barnen att äta undermåliga vegetabiliska fetter och proteiner och dessutom stora mängder kolhydrater, skadar hela deras utveckling, både den kroppsliga och den intellektuella.
Vill man minska risken för barnfetma är det framförallt sockret och stärkelsen som man bör reducera. Stärkelse höjer utsöndringen av fettlagringshormonet insulin, som lagrar överskottet av blodsocker som fett. Om man byter ut en del av kolhydraterna mot animaliskt fett, blir barnen mätta och slipper sötsuget. Fett och protein mättar bäst i längden.
Föräldrar, protestera mot införandet av lättmargarin och lättmjölk i skolmaten! Kräv att barnen får tillgång till smör och fullmjölk!

Frank Nilsson, naturvetare, Husum.

Annika Dahlqvist, läkare, Njurunda.

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Bojkott av Unilever!!!!

Kostdoktorn manar till uppror mot Becel/Unilever.

Utdrag från Kostdoktorns blogg:

Får företag ta till vilka knep som helst för att sälja mer av sina produkter?
Lura friska människor att tro de är sjuka? Att de riskerar dö om de inte äter onaturliga kemikaliefyllda lightprodukter?
Gömma varningstexten för barn, ammande och gravida som inte får äta dem?
Dölja köpt reklam i tidningar som redaktionellt material?
Via PR-företag “utbilda” journalister i att naturligt fett är farligt, och de egna konstgjorda fetterna är nyttiga?
Att försöka sälja mer till priset av människors hälsa bör inte vara acceptabelt. Unilevers marknadsföring är därför djupt oetisk. Hjälp till att förbättra världen. Bojkotta Becel och tillverkaren Unilever.

BOJKOTTA UNILEVER!

One year since...

Idag är det precis ett år sedan vi fick veta att Bertil hade/har en tumör på vänster sida av hans hjärna strax ovanför örat. Varför jag skriver hade/har är för att vid operationen den 24 februari 2008 i Lund, kunde de ta bort det mesta av tumören, men inte till 100%. Vid den här sortens hjärntumörer, Glioblastoma Multiforme, sitter det liksom trådar kvar (ungefär som en spindel) som inte går att få bort helt utan att kanske skada hjärnan. Utifrån dessa trådar växer det ut en ny tumör, men ingen kan säga när detta kommer att ske. Det kan gå snabbt och det kan ta ett till kanske tio år. Mycket frustrerande och nervpåfrestande för psyket, men ändå på samma gång ganska så överkomligt när man väl har accepterat situationen. Det bästa är att försöka leva så mycket som man brukar att göra.
Naturligtvis blir det mycket frågor, diskussioner och snack runt hans sjukdom, behandlingar, mediciner m.m. här hemma mellan oss två. Ibland kan jag bli riktigt irriterad eftersom han inte kommer ihåg från den ena stunden till den andra vilka mediciner han tar och vad de är bra för o.s.v.
Hans närminne är inte som det har varit, men däremot allt som hände för många år tillbaka kommer han ihåg mycket bättre än vad jag gör. Jag är jätte dålig på att komma ihåg vad som skedde för 10, 20, 30 år sedan. Däremot har jag ganska bra koll på nuet.
Även Bertils personlighet har ändrats ganska mycket de senaste åren. Han är envis till tusen och allt som han säger och gör är rätt, och alla vi andra kan ingenting enligt honom!!
Trots allt det som han har fått gå igenom det senaste året, så mår han ”oförskämt” bra. Det framgår kanske lite grann av bilderna här nedan. Det bästa han vet är barnbarnen, att få jobba med kroppen och att få vara ute i friska luften. Att ”ligga på soffan” är absolut inte hans grej. Det gör han bara om han är absolut tvungen, som vid en kraftig förkylningsinfluensa eller en maginfluensa, och naturligtvis när han låg nere i Lund och hade blivit opererad för sin tumör.
De flesta som genomgått både strålning och cellgiftsbehandling är nog ganska så dåliga både fysiskt och psykisk, men inte Bertil. Han tyckte till och med att han mådde bättre när han tog dessa giftpiller.
Vad Bertil än säger så har han ändå tacklat av en del det här senaste året, men det är ju inte så konstigt. Så nu får vi verkligen hoppas att det kommande året inte kommer att innehålla några komplikationer eller andra tråkigheter. Varje MR undersökning utan några som helst förändringar av tumören blir en enorm lättnad.

Today it’s exactly one year ago we got to know that Bertil had/has a tumor at the left side of his brain just above the ear. Why I write have/had is because at the surgery February 24, 2008 in Lund, they couldn’t remove the whole tumor at 100%. With this kind of brain tumors, Glioblastoma Multiforme, there are like threads left (like a spider) that can not be removed completely without perhaps damaging the brain. From these threads there will grow a new tumor, but no one can say when this will happen. It can go quickly and it may take one to perhaps ten years.
It's very frustrating and nerve-racking for the mind, but at the same time quite surmountable once you have accepted the situation. The main thing is to live as normal as possible. Of course, it has been many questions, discussions and talks about his disease, treatments, medicines, etc. here at home between us two. Sometimes I get really irritated because he doesn’t remember from one moment to the next which medications he takes and what they are good for, etc. His short-term memory is not what it has been, but everything that happened many years ago he remember much better than I do. I am really bad at remembering what happened 10, 20, 30 years ago. However, I have pretty good eye on the present.
Even Bertil’s personality has changed quite a lot in this recent year. He is very stubborn and everything he says and does is the right thing to do, and we, all others don’t understand a thing! Despite all that he has gone through this last year, he is doing "remarkably" well. It maybe appears a bit at the pictures above. The best thing he knows is the grandchildren, to work with his body and be in the open air. To "lie on the couch" is definitely not his thing. That he does only if he is absolutely compelled to do so, as if he has a severe cold or if he has stomach flu, and of course when he got the surgery in Lund a year ago.
Most people who have gone through both radiation and chemotherapy are probably quite poor both physically and mentally, but not Bertil. He said that he felt better when he took the “poison pills”. Whatever Bertil says, he has tackled off a bit this past year, but that’s not surprisingly at all.
So, we are now hoping for a new whole year without any complications or other bad things. Every MRI screening he’s doing without any grows of the tumor will be very relieving.

HOPE YOU WILL HAVE A NICE LIFE!

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Här är några bra webbsidor med mycket läsvärt om LCHF, LCHF mat - recept och hälsa.

http://www.kostdoktorn.se/

http://www.metrobloggen.se/jsp/public/permalink.jsp?article=19.711548 Vägen från 137 kg

http://blogg.passagen.se/dahlqvistannika/

http://airamsmat.webblogg.se/

http://blogg.passagen.se/fettbramat/

http://www.pagina.se/filer/A-LCHF.pdf

http://www.lowcarbkost.com/index.php

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_%C3%B6ver_E-nummer

http://www.aktavara.org/default.aspx

Gör gärna ett besök på dessa sidor så lär du dig mycket om LCHF.

HA EN BRA DAG!

Two good things!

This morning at about 7.00 am Bertil and I went to Ängelholm’s hospital. It was time for a new MRI examination for him today at 7.55 am. It is three month since the last one.
It’s always a nerve-racking time before we get to know the answer from these MRI’s. It use to take about 1-3 weeks, but today the doctor that Bertil has in Lund called him at 17.30 pm and reported that the MRI looked very good. No change on the tumor at all.
What a relief – for this time anyhow! Now there’s three whole month to the next MRI. Physically he’s feeling just fine. Mentally he’s quite ok too, but of course not all the time. I think he’s thinking about his illness (GBM rate 4) more than he’s telling me. His memory is very bad sometimes, especially when it comes to people and names.
Now we are able to “breathe out” for some weeks.

The second good thing is that I’ve now lost 20 kilograms (44,09 pounds) in nearly exact one year. I keep on eating my LCHF diet and am feeling better than I’ve done in many, many years ;-)
This is the best thing that I’ve ever have done in my whole life, except for having my three lovely kids of cores =)
Hopefully I will lose another 20 kilograms the following year. Then I will have about the same weight as I had 25 years ago. If I don’t lose another 20 kg I have to be more than satisfied anyhow.
A year ago I didn’t thought that this was possible for me. Of cores I won’t LOOK the same as I did 25 years ago if I lose more weight, but hopefully I will feel a little bit younger.

HOPE YOU HAVE HAD A VERY GOOD DAY!
MINE HAVE BEEN FANTASTIC!

Sunday evening and my nose is running.

Yesterday afternoon when I’d finished cleaning the whole house, I got some tickling in my left nostril, and it hasn’t stopped yet (24 hours later). That nostril is also running all the time. Don’t know what it is, but I guess that it’s some kind of cold I’ve got, but it feels more like something allergic. It’s very irritating anyhow!

Otherwise my day has been calm, at least in the morning. In the afternoon Agnes, Tintin and Anna came by at about 15 pm, and then there became “live in the hatch” for a couple of hours ;-) =) :)

The weather has been very sunny and cold today, about -4 °C (24,80 °F ). Yesterday it was +4 °C (39,20 °F), and snowing for a short while in the morning, and then it started to rain. That’s typical winter Scania (Skåne) weather.

Lilac buds with white frost.

I HOPE YOU HAVE HAD A NICE DAY!