Strange Cravings...

I have no idea if my IBS and the dehydration I suffered or what it is, but I have developed a strange craving for salt for some reason.  Not just any salt....but coarse sea salt.  Perhaps it's more the minerals in it than the salt itself but I have the need to pick out big rock pieces and crunch them in my teeth.  I know, I know...weird.  It's not for lack of food, lord knows.  p

The Beast came home from his *movie* at church tonight with more food than we can eat in two days or more.  He brought us each steak and cheese sandwiches from our favorite Italian restaurant PLUS two small pizzas.  They have a *buy one, get one* deal on the pizzas but those alone would have done us for two days.  Neither one of us can manage a whole steak and cheese sandwich so I have no idea what was going on in his mind.  He had to have been absolutely famished when he got there.

Every time I think the craving is done with, it starts back up.  I doubled up on my vitamins to see if that helped and I cut down on my water intake, thinking that perhaps I am drinking too much.  But, alas...nothing seems to work.  I am hoping I get over this because I know too much salt intake is NOT a good thing.  I am keeping it down to one big grain of the salt about every half hour and hoping that works.  We shall see.  The longer I can crunch the grain, the better it seems.  Cross your fingers for me.  I know this is not a good thing.

I discovered a small sore under one breast today.  I think that is from the sweating I did when I was so sick.  I'm keeping it dry and powdered so that it heals up.  One thing that happened while I was sick was I lost a lot of the fat in my chest area (you know where I mean...) and now feel like a joke from the comics.  I won't go into details but I sure don't have the filling for some of my bras now....LOL!

Time to get back to bed for the night.  I'm getting kind of used to the only being up to go to the bathroom (and then do my blog if I have the energy).  Love you all.  Stay warm.  I hear we are going to be hit by an arctic blast on Monday.....brrr!  ***Hugs***