tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169684662284981168.post8570735533227382304..comments2015-03-21T18:25:34.569-07:00Comments on A Whole New Raw World: Follow-upAmy Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08392623538831400126noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169684662284981168.post-54063109993409351652010-01-30T20:11:28.962-08:002010-01-30T20:11:28.962-08:00Hi Amy!
Thank you so very much for noting my comm...Hi Amy!<br /><br />Thank you so very much for noting my comment, and posting about my little website honoring my donor... It means an awful lot to me. At the end of February -- I get to hang with #15, 12, 8, 7, 4 & 2... Kari was #13 on her high school volleyball team -- she was a star middle hitter. Six of her teammates are coming to Chicago from Iowa & Minnesota just to climb with me... They're like precious surrogate daughters to me... About the most special thing in the world to me is telling other people about Kari -- keeping her smile and her spirit alive. Thanks for helping me do that!<br /><br />And I actually wish I had the patience and discipline to eat as you are -- the knowledge one develops eating like you do -- learning how to get the appropriate amounts of protein and other nutrients from a raw plant based diet is quite a wonderful thing... Maybe you'll inspire me to bring a little more of that into my diet...<br /><br />The funny thing is that before transplant, with my cystic fibrosis and the raging infections in my lungs -- I needed to eat a very high calorie diet -- I needed to pound down 3,500 or more calories daily to put on some pounds gradually -- I was 5'6" and 110 pounds... The last thing in the world I wanted was salad -- if I bothered with a vegetable, it was just wasting space in my stomach unless it was smothered in cheese or butter... Post transplant -- I LOVE salads -- but the first few years we were very careful about washing the lettuce and other raw veggies... We actually had to soak them in a lemon juice solution and take a vegetable brush to every, freakin' leaf -- salads were a little labor intensive. Now, we pretty much just soak them for 5 minutes in a bowl with, maybe 1-2 quarts water and 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice... That's how we deal with most of the raw fruits & veggies I would eat... Ironically -- since starting to do that before we store them in the fridge, they tend to last substantially longer...<br /><br />Thank you again for noting my response and website...<br /><br />Love, SteveSteve Ferkauhttp://www.climbingforkari.org/noreply@blogger.com