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So my diabetes has finally hit my kidneys.
I don't seem to be anywhere near dialysis (yet) and while I am certainly not saying "Death before Dialysis" I would love to stave it off for as long as possible.
Unless Dr. McCoy wanders past.
Chocolate chip cookies to anybody who gets the reference.
The specialist my doctor sent me to wasn't exactly a fount of information. On the other hand, I don't have to go back for eight months so ... again, doesn't sound exactly critical.
So I'm doing research online about what I should eat and what I should avoid, keeping in mind that "online" is full of inaccuracies.
Biggest thing so far: avoid cow's milk and all products made from it (some soft cheeses are okay; hard cheeses, no, so there goes old cheddar
).
So I bought a carton of oat milk and have been having that with my cereal.
Only to learn that the stuff I'm buying has either tri- or dicalcium phosphate in it (can't remember and am too lazy to go look).
And according to online, that stuff is AS BAD or possibly WORSE THAN cows' milk!!
Well, shit.
So the remainder of the carton is now in the freezer; it will go in the trash, much as I hate food wastage. I've looked online for appropriate replacements and where I can buy them here. Luckily I have several options.
Still have some cow's milk and half-and-half cream in the fridge; the former will go in my orange pekoe tea and the latter in my homemade coffee. Once the latter is gone, I'll switch to whatever replacement I've bought (most likely carefully-checked-out almond milk or rice milk) for my coffee.
As for the orange pekoe tea ... I've been drinking that for as long as I can remember and for that reason it will continue to get cow's milk. It's *maybe* a teaspoonful of milk and it's the ONLY tea in which I put any milk at all. Even other black teas get nothing added to them.
Overall, it's quite interesting to see which foods I thought were healthy turn out to be ... not quite so healthy. Winter squashes, for instance ... acorn squashes, pumpkin, etc.
I'm even getting mixed messages about green peas, for heaven's sakes!
I don't seem to be anywhere near dialysis (yet) and while I am certainly not saying "Death before Dialysis" I would love to stave it off for as long as possible.
Unless Dr. McCoy wanders past.
Chocolate chip cookies to anybody who gets the reference.The specialist my doctor sent me to wasn't exactly a fount of information. On the other hand, I don't have to go back for eight months so ... again, doesn't sound exactly critical.
So I'm doing research online about what I should eat and what I should avoid, keeping in mind that "online" is full of inaccuracies.
Biggest thing so far: avoid cow's milk and all products made from it (some soft cheeses are okay; hard cheeses, no, so there goes old cheddar
).So I bought a carton of oat milk and have been having that with my cereal.
Only to learn that the stuff I'm buying has either tri- or dicalcium phosphate in it (can't remember and am too lazy to go look).
And according to online, that stuff is AS BAD or possibly WORSE THAN cows' milk!!
Well, shit.
So the remainder of the carton is now in the freezer; it will go in the trash, much as I hate food wastage. I've looked online for appropriate replacements and where I can buy them here. Luckily I have several options.
Still have some cow's milk and half-and-half cream in the fridge; the former will go in my orange pekoe tea and the latter in my homemade coffee. Once the latter is gone, I'll switch to whatever replacement I've bought (most likely carefully-checked-out almond milk or rice milk) for my coffee.
As for the orange pekoe tea ... I've been drinking that for as long as I can remember and for that reason it will continue to get cow's milk. It's *maybe* a teaspoonful of milk and it's the ONLY tea in which I put any milk at all. Even other black teas get nothing added to them.
Overall, it's quite interesting to see which foods I thought were healthy turn out to be ... not quite so healthy. Winter squashes, for instance ... acorn squashes, pumpkin, etc.
I'm even getting mixed messages about green peas, for heaven's sakes!
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