Dear Diary: I Can At Least Control My Fluid Intake Because I Do Not Eat Salty Foods

In the early days years before my kidneys failed my mother trained me to eat food basically without salt believing that it will do me good. If only I can turn back time I would not have followed/obeyed my Mother in that regard because I missed a lot of instances where I could have enjoyed foods.

It is because my mother would cook some foods with no salt in it and after portioning me my share she would then season theirs. So my food was made bland and tasteless plus I was forced to drink a lot of water and some boiled leaf concoction. I even drank lot of coconut roots and some wild grass roots especially in the times that I would get a fever.

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I Drank Liters At A Time In Those Years Not In Cups

When I get a fever because of the recurring infection that is originating from my Kidneys my mother would scold me for that although of course it is not my fault in having fever and after that she will drown me in drinking those roots, leaves, and stem material believing that it will somewhat heal me.

Sometimes my fever was caused by not eating foods with salt and this is with conjunction of drinking lots of water. And so what I would do is to eat some bread because it has salt in it with a guilt feeling because I broke the diet of "no salt" then after that I would feel a bit better because some salt had entered my body.

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So imagine drinking loads of fluids, herbal preparations, plus having a diet of super low sodium had programmed my taste bud in not preferring salty foods. In fact I cannot stand eating potato chip snacks or even adding salt to my foods.

It was the only good thing that benefited me from my low sodium diet that had spanned for many years, having to not prefer high sodium foods. But the torture it brought me is just a thing that I do not want to remember and if only there was an Internet from those days I could have not believed that a saltless diet along with "water therapy" as they call it, and drinking unknown herbal concoction will do me any good, it just made my sick life miserable in those years.