Over the years, I've learned a lot about how guns work, how ecosystems work, how wildlife works, how camouflage works, and how hunting in general works, and began to become an expert. I also began to learn a lot more about my own health, and today I understand why wild game is the best thing for me. Wild game is great for everyone, but it's an essential part of my diet.
Wild game is one of the few things I can eat without feeling sick. I'll eat pretty much anything since I don't have allergies and I love the taste of almost everything, but many foods come with consequences. I can only digest 50% of a normal meal with pills, and most of that 50% goes into fighting a disease that currently can't be beat. Because of this, I eat up to five meals a day to keep a healthy weight, and I don't always feel great. But, that's just life with Cystic Fibrosis. I love organic, all natural foods, and the only processed sugar I like comes from Mountain Dew. Otherwise, I've lost my sweet-tooth, in exchange for an addiction to wild game and organic everything.
Doug was actually the first guy to introduce me to wild game. When I was a little girl, I didn't eat very much because it made me sick. But, Doug's wild game was easily digestible and I loved every bite! So, he'd come back from hunting, and roll up to our front porch in his wheelchair with a cooler full of game on his lap. My mom reluctantly cooked it for me, but was pleased to see me eat all of it. A few years later, when my doctors were threatening to put me on insulin, my mom asked her best friend, a Harvard educated dietitian, for help. She recommended I went on an entirely paleo diet, that was mainly wild game. So, my mom passed this onto everyone she knew. Doug would only keep a few steaks and sent the rest of his kills to my doorstep, and my "stepdad" Clarke had a few oil rig buddies who would hunt for the trophy and send me the meats. I was doing really good until Doug died and Clarke's buddies moved to a different rig, but at that point, I was ready to go hunting for myself.
