Ever since my surgery last fall, my various health issues have been in a flare. The stress of the holidays didn't help, but honestly, it's really been the awful so-called winter weather we have had this year here in Michigan. My body is very attuned to barometric pressure, wind, and temperature changes, and we have had a plethora of those this winter. Temps swinging wildly from the teens to the fifties in just a day or two, massive storms rolling through with very short periods of high pressure, and lots of wind.
I've gotten to the point that I've even started a trial of the Autoimmune Protocol, a dietary and lifestyle change designed to find my food and lifestyle triggers for my various health issues (the autoimmune ones, in particular). Now, I've done elimination diets before, and I already know I have several food allergies, but I'd been "cheating" and eating those almost daily, so I'm doing a modified version of the AIP in order to see if I'm allergic to other things in those food families and a few other things. The biggest issue has been breakfast, to be honest, with the second biggest issue being just how much cooking and meal prep I have to do with so little energy. Still, it's important to see what I really need to cut from my diet to make sure I have the energy and low pain levels I will need this spring to put the garden in. One of the foods I'm testing is duck eggs. I know I'm good with duck meat (tried it, actually felt better for a day or so), so we are planning to do meat ducks this spring and summer. I'm not looking forward to butchering ducks (they're so cute!), but this way, we will know what they've eaten and that they have been cared for well so they should be safe for me to eat. I don't think I'm allergic or have bad reactions to duck eggs, though Robert thinks he might, but if I'm going to make them a more frequent protein (I need to up my protein levels to keep my kidney happy), I can't take the chance. So, no duck eggs for all of Lent, and then we'll see how I handle the reintroduction. Same with chicken eggs, to be honest, just to see. Eggs are such a common allergen that it seems silly not to double check. I've already started some seeds with more to do this week and every week from here through May. We ended up with three new ducks (rescues--a friend of Robert's is moving and can't move with the ducks), and they are just lovely, wonderful ducks. Here's a video:
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