Who am I

I am a little nervous making posts about health, but it is my blog so you have entered the world of Amy's opinion. It is not a salvation issue and I may be the last person that should be saying anything about it.

This is who I am in a Health view:
I am 33 years old. My father died at 50 of cancer. My mother is always ill. My older brother is an insulin dependent diabetic with many difficult health issues (love my family's guts). I am a registered nurse and have a bachelors in nursing. I worked at a local hospital UMC for 3 years in the emergency room, children's home, contracted with an insurance company, little time (best time) at a nurse practitioners office. I have 3 children that are 37 months from the birth of my first to the birth of the last one. (My husbands favorite joke is, We got cable so she will be our last). After the birth of my first daughter I was severely anemic and was sent to a hematologist. I also developed high thyroid and later low thyroid problems. During my third pregnancy I was tired of feeling bad. I wasn't sick but I felt so unwell. We began drastic health changes. After some time we were on a diet of mostly raw fruits and vegetables and whole grains. Our families thought we had lost it. I felt so well, it went undetected that I was severely anemic in the last weeks of my pregnancy. (H and H of 8 and 29) My midwife refused to deliver me if I wasn't eating meat. We had a healthy baby girl. I recovered and eating habits changed, we eat meat but we still have lots of fruits and vegetables. We moved to Mexico, and I had a string of illnesses. One was typhoid (which I did have a vaccine for before we left the states) . I was not really hospital sick. Just overwhelming waves of not feeling well. I was having struggles with anemia again. I couldn't seem to balance out. It seemed to take a year to kind of recover, and then I was alright but never feeling great. I want to feel great. I think I eat pretty well, but maybe I am still deceiving myself. After years of wise people telling me to try taking some good quality vitamins I have started to do that...this week (It took me a while to find one I thought was good, but that is a whole other blog).

I revealed all of that to say.... I am finding things about health that I think applies to everyone. I find these things because I am struggling to be healthier..to feel healthier. I have read things Angie and Kristi have said about being Godly stewards and issues about environment. I believe we have a responsibility to make conscious effort to take care of the Earth. I also believe God is love and has deep love for us, and if our body is 'a holy temple', then we have a responsibility to ourselves. I don't want to make anyone feel guilty ( I don't want to feel guilty). I just thought I would make a couple of posts about food....type things.
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