Wednesday, November 20, 2013

A Rooster on my Head and a Flower on my Skirt




































Hey Everyone, while searching for gluten/wheat/dairy free breakfast this morning I stopped to get a quick Hump Day Skirt Pic and instead of the expected camel, I instead ended up with a Rooster on my head LOL

Oh, the Skirt???, it's from Sofistafunk and is called
"One Winter Bloom"

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Colitis and the Fashion Designer

Until then I had never heard of Ulcerative Colitis.  The road to discovery started one morning on my way to the fabric markets,  that morning I was experiencing some lower back and right side back pain, by the time I reached NY I was in so much pain that I was weak and sweating.

I went into a pharmacy and purchased advil thinking that would stop or lessen this never-felt-before monster in my back.  fast forward >>> later that evening I had to visit a client, on my way there and the rest of the 6 hr. appointment I was miserable but I never said anything even when she asked me if I were ok, This insane urgency came for me to use the rest room and what I delivered into it was like a horror flick, red yellow and white was all I saw and I was petrified.

Back track a minute, about a month prior I had lunch with a dear friend.  Later that evening I started feeling this aweful abdominal and back pain that sent me to the ER, after the morphine and ultrasound they told me they didn't see really see anything that would warrant this kind of pain and that I should see my doctor.  The next afternoon I had to make an urgent trip to the restroom where what I put in the toilet looked like something Stephen King would have written about.

Back to the ER with stool photo in Iphone, 3 hours later I was being scheduled for a colonoscopy indoscopy and food allergy blood work.

Colitis with wheat, shrimp, milk and others allergy.  This is where my new life begins...
to be continued...

More information on Colitis

Friday, November 15, 2013

It's My Birthday...

So I turned 56, re-launched this here Blog, and Introduced a fun little collection of Skirts designed especially for Celebration and Color-blocked For the FUNK of IT.  See it here: Sofistafunk

Wednesday, November 13, 2013




































Ready for the day in my extra long hand crochet "Commuter Scarf" with chilly thoughts of the Holidays to come.

1st stop Breakfast, not at Tiffany's




















Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Works for Me

 My morning started out with a quickie photo shoot and on return to the studio I made one of my morning mixes that I like to call "Mega Shots"

Bananas are one of our best sources of potassium, an essential mineral for maintaining normal blood pressure and heart function. Since the average banana contains a whopping 467 mg of potassium and only 1 mg of sodium, a banana a day may help to prevent high blood pressure and protect against atherosclerosis. http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=7#healthbenefits

Prep:
Nutra-Bullet
2 banana's
4 oz. of GoodBelly Probiotic Coconut water
Puree' 2 seconds and I'm a happy camper:)