so... Severe Anemia. Yea... WTF!? i didn't know that you could get any worse than Anemia but noooooo iI had to go and get the SEVERE kind SERIOUSLY!? well anyways this is a food blog so lets get to the grub.
long story short i had an infection on my face a lot of antibiotics were prescribed so my mom and I assumed it lowered my red blood cells. I don't know, I don't have DR before my name but it makes sense to me since it happened after the antibiotics were prescribed. I was on 3 different ones, that I know of but they gave me a shot and some through an IV, also.
Well again back to the food that I never got to.
About a week after I finished the pill antibiotics I was getting really dizzy even blacked out once,I was sleeping all day and breathing hard and chest pains (which possibly could be angina. yea I know.) I could barely stand and my skin was looking kinda like a zombie and I was chewing alot of crushed ice, all kinds of crap. My mother thought it would go away after a while and frankly so did I. she asked her friends that sells natural organic supplements so she gave me some pills called forever bee pollen, that taste like elephant poop (im serious), I started feeling better, mom said she didn't think I was getting better quick enough, for someone that could be getting a job soon. she went into to "Mommy Mode" and started gathering products to make this weird drink that has iron super powers, she even make a "funny" she said i was going to become Iron woman (mom jokes..., *rolls eyes*) she gets calcium powder, molasses, achiote molido aka ground annatto, that's some of the stuff that i saw, there's also other stuff such as Malta India, iron powder, honey that stuff is for the weird drink, then the normal stuff like beets (which i like.) spinach, carrots, pineapple, cranberry juice that's just the stuff that we don't buy on a regular but eggs and such. but then she stopped at the butcher... and asked for liver. *cringe*
We got home from the grocery store and I whipped out my juicer, I peeled the beets and the carrots cut them small enough to fit through the mouth of the juicer. Beets have a real "earthy" flavor (dirt flavor) especially when raw. so after those are juiced i mixed it with grape juice and cranberry juice its not much better but its bearable. my cousin Jillian gave me powder supplements that are called Greens, they were berry flavored made it taste alot better. another thing i did was i boiled a whole beet with sugar and honey and render down the juice after the beet is cooked chopped the beet in cubes and use that in my spinach salad.
All of a sudden I smell blood and raw meat *gags* my mom is washing the liver with Lemon juice and water then she soaks it in lemon juice and alot of minced garlic, salt and oregano. i love garlic LOOOOVVVEE it, so I figured since I've never tried liver I can probably be the small percentage of people that like it like my mother or my cousin Jeremy also some of my friends. alot of people don't like the metallic after taste or the texture so i was hopeful that i could like it.
She started to cook it and it smelled so... gooooood, I mean I was watering at the mouth. She comes into the living room where i was on the couch feeling like a piece of Caca and she is eating a large piece and she asks "want some?" I shrug and say "sure." she gives me a small piece, about the size of a medallion and I think to myself I can do this, the metallic taste comes in but its not what bothers me, the Playdoh texture messes me up! I figure I can muscle through it. I started to get hungry and I figured there was no time like the present, to try it so I go serve myself some plantains and I grab the smallest piece of liver and cut it into smaller than bite size pieces. Deep breaths, I sit back down on the couch and stare at the plate for a minute I stab a nib of liver and a bit of the plantain and put it in my mouth..chewing...chewing and a hard swallow phew... 1 down who knows how many to go... so 2 down. sweat on my brow. 3. tears in my eyes and 4 I start to feel it repeating on me. 5 comes I tell myself "you can do it, come on this will make you better." my mom looks annoyed and says " if you cant do it then don't!." and then grumbles something under her breath. I take the plate to the kitchen and drink the largest cup of water I can get my hands on. I end up not eating anymore of the liver my mom bought. The rest of the time she tries pretty hard to get me to eat it but no cigar mom, sorry, i i manage with supplements beets and a lot of spinach. any red meat too.
