FINALLY!

Oh what a difference a day makes!  I spent another night in pain and decided I was going to do something about it today if it killed me.  SOMEBODY was going to listen to me and get me something to help me.  So I woke up, Bill loaded laundry in the van, and I headed to Grandma Trones.  I began by bawling my eyes out to mom and Gma about how miserable I was.  Okay, once the pitty party was over I decided to call Shawna and see what she thought was going on.  She and I both came to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe I am lactose intolerant.  This is one MAJOR side effect of this surgery, however, I am running on lack of brain cells at the moment.  I have sleep deprivation, total exhaustion, and fuzzy surgery brain, or fuzzy malnourished brain?  I can't decide which.  I never put two and two together, but here's what my diet has consisted of... Protein shakes (with milk), cottage cheese, pudding, yogurt.  Ummm yep, looks like it's all dairy!  Oops.   So new change number uno is to eliminate my dairy.  Check.

Change number two was to call Jeff and see about changing my medications for blood pressure down to one or two medicines.  Soooo I called and got right in to see him.  Grandma kept Brody and I headed to Bowen.  He decided that the lactose idea was fantastic, stay away from the dairy and see how I do.  He also checked my bp which was 143/86 which for me on NO MEDS is LOW!  He told me to continue to take one of my meds, added another and then discontinued all my other meds.  Now I am down to 2 pills a day instead of 5 in the morning and 3 at night.  This will help me out soooo much.  He also prescribed me some solu-tabs for heartburn that are working wonderfully!  I am shocked at how well they work.  For the price they BETTER work, but I am truly amazed that they work this well.  I took one and within 10 minutes my burning pain was gone and it's been gone all day!  YES!

I am soooo sleepy!  Lack of vitamins, and nutrition does that to ya.  I tried to nap today a couple hours, and did some.  Brody was being a stinker so it made it kinda hard to deep sleep like I wanted to. 

I am really really missing the "crunch" of food.  I miss hearing that sound in my head when I eat something crisp.  I really want to go grab a carrot and just chow down!  I want to hear that crisp, crunch in my head.  All this soft foods has me craving some noise in my mouth.  I don't miss food.  I don't miss anything but that noise.  It's the strangest thing for me to say that.  I miss the sounds of food in my head.  I'd kill for some salad to crunch on.  A couple more weeks and I can have that! 

I have baked some chicken boobs for supper.  I am also making baked sweet taters (Cole's request) and green beans.  I plan on trying to actually eat tonight.  I haven't even tried for days cause I have been soooo sick from the heartburn.  What's the point if I'm going to throw it up anyhow?  Tonight I shall fill my belly with some protein!  I hope tomorrow I have some added energy from it!

Mom's coming out tomorrow.  Hopefully we can get a few things done around here.  I just need a little help.  I love my family for all their love, support and help they have given me.  Words just can't express how much I truly appreciate all the help I've been given.  I am so blessed.