To say that Gary, my husband, is a healthy eater would not be referring to the quality of the food he eats. He can chow down. Gary has decided that it is time to go on a diet again. Now, I know that I am not the only one who has to deal with how child like men can be. I mean, the most awful time in the world is when he gets a cold or flu. My sons can be the same way. Not that I do not appreciate the situation and want to help but come on, if I acted like that I certainly would hear about it. I thought that way back when Gary and I first got together the quitting smoking thing was bad. Man, he was miserable.

The diet he has decided he responds best to is the low carb diet. So, yesterday we had to go to the store and stock up on “snacks” for the week. Well, just so you know, if I ate what he considers dieting snacks I would gain 30 pounds. But, he usually does well on this diet. It’s anyone around him that suffers. To say, “He can be grumpy” would be putting it very lightly.
Gary’s doctor suggested this low carb diet when he ended up in the hospital with heart attack symptoms a few years ago and they found his cholesterol was sky high. His doctor told him that he would get a faster response to lowering his cholesterol on this diet than on medications that have serious side effects. I was so scared. I thought this would kill him for sure, but, the doctor was right. His cholesterol went down and he lost weight. The doctor did not however have any advise on how to deal with him during this time.

While we were at the store I purchased along with his “snacks” a very large cast iron skilllet (they don’t dent so easy). Just kidding (one can dream though, right?).
Personally, I do better with the standard cut down on portions, low fat, healthy foods type diet. It doesn’t matter it seems we both just gain it all back sooner or later.

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Well, I went to work which at that time was about an hour away.  As the day went on I felt more numbness and my eye lids got worse.  I went to the main office up the street from my office to do a mail run and to met with my boss.  After the meeting, she asked me about my eyes.  I told her what I was feeling and she sent me home to get it checked out by the doctor.
That was the last day of work for me, 5 years ago.  I had the worse drive home in my life.  I went to the doctor the next day and saw a great nurse practitioner.  I told her my problems and she sent me to get some x-rays.  I told her I thought it was a bad sinus infection.  Well apparently she know better because I had the x-rays done that afternoon.   She said she did not see any signs of infection and wanted it checked out further.  She referred me to a Neurologist.
My neurologist set up a bunch of tests and soon got the diagnosis of “acute myasthenia gravis”.  This is a rare disease that affects the involuntary muscles usually starting with ocular.  So, I was started on medications and the rest is history.  The medications did put the disease in remission but apparently the damage was done for the eyes.  The severe blurred vision, double vision and sensitivity of light leaves me legally blind.  This disease is not curable but medication can put it into remission, as long as you take the medication.
Not all myastheniacs are affected this way.  It can really start a multitude of different areas of the body.  You can read more on it   http://www.myasthenia.org   The Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America MFGA.
You can find a ton of information on the internet to help explain it further.  My neurologist recommended that I search it out and read all I can on it to understand it better.
I do have some eye sight left and when sitting still I can read with the help of magnifiers.  But the double vision, blurred vision and the paralyzed muscles that make it so the eyes don’t move together make it hard on doing daily tasks.
People are funny, they understand complete blindness but not so much vision impaired.  I finally got a white cane to help with walking, shopping and all because I have so much difficulty with navigating uneven ground or even seeing at all in bright light.  But, for the most part I can take care of myself still and that really matters… to me.

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