Mangoes and Blueberries Oh My!

Last week I went to sams club with my mom to look for Figi water. It seems to be the only water that makes my bladder feel good. Well they didn't have any, but they did have some amazing looking fruit!
With IC you can only eat certain fruits that are non-acidic. I do well with blueberries, which is good cuz I love them! I got a huge container of the giant blue beauties.  I mean they were freaking HUGE!!!  I can't take pictures of them...I ate 1/2 of the container that night!  And its safe to say its completely gone now.  I had plans to make vegan muffins, but the berries never last that long for me.  I was putting them in green salads even!

The mangoes are giant as well and oh so yummy!

They are so juicy and ripe, almost melting in your mouth!  So far I have eaten them straight up and in smoothies with vanilla kefir and rice milk.  Out of a box of 9, I have 3 left!  Not bad for a weeks time!  I will have to hit up Sams Club more often for my fruit shopping I think!

Chinese food is O U T out!!!

This past Wednesday was the first day of my CSA.  YAY I was so excited!!  We went and gathered up all the yummy veggies.
Poc Choi
Lettuce
Tomato (which the BF will eat)
Garlic scallions
spinach
salad turnips
and a Lemon Basil plant

By the time we collected the children and got home there was no time to cook dinner.  So we decided to order out for Chinese.  I took 2 prelief tablets but that was not enough!  After eating I felt like I had rocks in my lower abdomen and had to pee a lot the rest of the night.  And since then I have looked about 5 months preggers!  Never ever again I say!!  Never!!!

So what I have Interstitial Cystitis

Yep I was diagnosed with IC first in March.  After I had a cystoscopy and CT scan in January.  The cystoscopy showed that my bladder was looking like a person who had undergone chemo...nice huh.  My CT scan showed that I was a tad backed up...I have IBS too like most ICers.  My urologist tried to blame everything on that.  I pointed out that wouldn't make me pee blood and clots so I was put on vesicare.  Which I took for a month and stopped, do you know what that does to a person with IBS?
Then in March I went back and I was still having problems.  This was my diagnosis..."yep I guess you have it if drinking ginger ale at work gives you pain and frequency.  Stop drinking it.  I'll see you back in the end of June".  Great...what was I supposed to do with that.  I was still having pain, urgency, bloating to the point where my clothes didn't fit, and microscopic blood in my urine.

So I made an appointment with a urogynocologist for May.  I was really hoping he would say "nope surely you do not have IC".  But really he said "yep you definitely do have IC".  And here is what we are going to do about it.
Zantac 150mg twice a day
Bladder instills once a week for 6 weeks...the Whitmore protocol
The IC diet...blah
Prelief before meals
Glucosamine
and Physical Therapy...Yippy!

I've had my 5th instill and on week 4 I had no blood in my urine!!!  YAY!!  First time in about 5 years!  So something is all that is working!
Its summer so I don't look crazy wearing skirts and dresses all the time.  But I bought myself some great warm boots for winter to solve that problem.
Now we just have to tackle this diet issue.  How to make a bland diet taste good.....Hmmmm