Orange you glad you didn’t say wheatgrass?

Bleck, bleck, bleck. Yuckity, yuckity. Have you ever done shots of wheatgrass? I’m trying to get back into super-healthy mode and today was the first day I forwent my latte in place of wheatgrass. Wow, is there no comparison. Of course, I know this, but it’s been a while since my days of double-wheatgrass-shots-no-chaser. I just had my flax meal/protein/calcium drink and now the wheatgrass is reminding me that although I’m healthy, I’m WAY far away from where I was. There’s a good reason though: orange bones.

That’s right. When I was in the hospital after surgery one of the assisting surgeons told me that my bones were ORANGE. I said, Where the tumor was? And he said, No, everywhere we could see. (Which include the entire femur, knee, top of my tibia and hip bone.) I asked Dr. Healey about it and he said they thought it was from too many antioxidants. WHAT?! I thought antioxidants were good for you? He said they were and that it might be the reason my tumor was slow-growing, but on the flip side--something to do with my type of tumor—might mean it could have metastasized to other parts of my body sooner. I was shocked. I was TOO healthy?

I asked what I could do to make my bones not-orange and he said, Nothing, just don’t eat big plates of carrots. I was fine giving up carrots (don’t like ‘em) but it made me question my whole outlook on health and diet, and I kind of gave up on a lot of what I learned had made me feel good.

Frankly, it wasn’t hard to bring cookies and dairy back into my diet and cut down on the wheatgrass and sprouts. I thought I was “living in balance,” which everyone always raves about but rarely attains, but recently I’ve just been thinking how much better I felt when I was a health nut. I don’t really know why I had/have orange bones or what that means, and I don’t think the doctors really know either. But I do know I felt more energetic and focused. So I’m going to try going back to what the rest of body likes, and hope my bones catch on. (My nails/skin/teeth were never orange! It’s SO weird! Such a mystery, these bodies of ours.)

But man, wheatgrass, maybe I don’t have to bring that one back just yet. (YUCK!)