"Try not to think about its soul, Kate."

Today I am going to do something I haven't done in a long time. I'm going to eat salmon.

Fresh, not farmed, salmon. So that's something. However, I am not thrilled with this particular development. I am simply conducting an experiment to see if my platelet count goes up. This will placate certain family members, dieticians, and friends who insist lack of dead-animal protein is to blame for my ITP. If, in two months, this does nothing to raise my numbers, I will go back to my cruelty-free diet.

Still.

It's not that I haven't had worse things in my mouth. I did date a Republican once. Once. It's just that I feel good and healthy living a life where I do my best to do no harm.

The body though is not playing along. And I'd hate to get worse and start bleeding out everywhere without at least trying to fix it. I often say that food is medicine we put in our body every day...

So I'm going to eat salmon today. Wish me luck. (But only if you're registered because anonymous users are now banned from my site. Happy Chase? John?)