I have had to throw away food because I have cut myself and didn't notice until I saw the blood on the cutting board... then on the food I had been cutting. It wasn't something I could just rinse off so in the trash it went.

I slept well last night thankfully, though I am still really tired. One night of barely sleeping and I am messed up for pretty much the whole week. I did NOT do any sort of workout yesterday and I ate horribly so it wasn't a good day all around. That is one thing I have realized about myself... if I am tired I don't make great choices. Still trying to figure out how to fix that though. At least I have the leftovers within my points for today.

I remember the days when a no sleep night could be made up for in one extra good sleep night - that was a long time ago! Hope you regain your equilibrium soon, Athijade!

That sound pretty frustrating, Yooly. Accepting limitations sucks. Surgery sucks. You've lost the weight - which usually helps. What else do THEY expect from you? All this hard work should equal some long term relief.

My IBS gave me a restless night. You cannot sleep through gas pain. It would release, I'd go back to sleep, and about forty minutes later, gas pain wakes me, and back through the whole cycle again. So I let myself sleep late today because nothing is going on that can't be shifted around to accommodate. I also have the bedroom window open to air the room. Or as much as it can be with fifteen pounds of grey tabby cat occupying the window. (sigh)

As it's supposed to drastically warm up, I got into the attic (there's a door from my bedroom) and pulled my bedroom a/c and Boyfriend's office a/c out so that it won't be a problem to put them in when the weather warms up. Also the summer curtains and the box to put the winter curtains in. I'll probably have Son actually put it in, as that's a bit of a heavy lift for me right now. Plus the reason I need a summer curtain in the bedroom is that I have a shorter curtain matching the other one that doesn't block the a/c when drawn. There's one for Son's room too, for the same reason. I need to get the downstairs summer rug out, but a 12 x 15 area rug, even rolled, is an unwieldy thing and I'll want to get Son in on the process of getting it out of the attic and out and downstairs. Then the winter rug gets rolled and wrapped and shoved in the attic. Somewhere in the process I'll be moving all the furniture and generally spring cleaning that room. Preferably a warmer day then today. 42 degrees is better than 32, but not what I'd call balmy. Neither is the breeze gentle today.

Good thing, Connie - though I have a friend who lost her nail stuffing the Christmas Turkey (not quite the same - but close enough!)....the finding of the nail during dinner has turned into a traditional story!

Alexandra - sounds like you are going to be fully ready for the season to change - if it ever does! I don't want to say that you are "cooking with gas" ... but I couldn't resist ... sorry ... I hope that is better today/tonight.

It seems to have settled down. My gut responds to emotional stuff, and yesterday was emotional.
BUT! We found a med combination that lets Boyfriend sleep! It also leaves him very very fuzzy for quite a while, which is also a problem, so we're going to try a slightly different combination tonight and see if we keep the sleep but lessen the morning fuzz.

OK: not sure if "food inspiration" or share your day is best here... but hey!

Let's get down to brass tacks... I need to figure out something for treats for the girl!

Giving her slices of bread as treats is no good for her shape, her one relatively un-hurt paw, or her teeth! Whatever weight she inadvertently lost when she couldn't keep anything down... yeah, we have successfully rebounded--plus a bit! And she has definitely slowed down lately.

Giving her home dried fillets of fish is not good for my pocketbook and I wonder if it works with the "empty the gut fast" theory the drugs are supposed to work on (reduced acid and faster transit)

She is supposed to only eat pasta (easily digestible carb), fish (novel-ish & relatively easy to digest protein), and butternut-squash (why butternut no-one has explained, esp since it has more calories than other squashes). As far as I can tell it adds fiber. Plus corn oil. plus a magic powder with doggie vitamins.

She does eat (non doctor authorized) commercial white bread toasted to charcoal levels to be crunchy and that doesn't seem to cause any issues.

The fish has been expanded from doctor authorized sacred tilapia only and nothing else to tilapia, pollock, basa, and cod with no problems or visible side effects. The occasional Wasa cracker has had no ill effects.

Cooked chicken pieces or dried pork chops... these didn't go over well. Even small quantities seem to cause stomach upset.

So I am stumped on what to do for treats?!?! Food dehydrator is available. So is relatively functional kitchen. Any ideas?????

Ah, that beautiful proud looking dog! I am afraid I have no clue as this mut will eat owt and be damed the type of poop that her poor suckers amazing and dotting owners have to clear up!

I like brownies Fish livers Laurie?!?!? I guess I can try a small bag of beef liver. I used to use them with her in the past.

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I like brownies Fish livers Laurie?!?!? I guess I can try a small bag of beef liver. I used to use them with her in the past.

Beef liver

Anyone here have panic attacks?

I am dealing with the "hangover" after having a panic attack last night. New neighbors had their music blaring. Like, it sounding as if the music was in my apartment. I went over to try and talk to them and they agreed to turn it down. Only their definition of "turning it down" was to make it so it only sounding like it was right outside my apartment instead of inside it. I dried to drown it out with a fan, a white noise app, and my bathroom fan but I could still hear it. Of course this was right before I was going to be going to bed as well.

It sent me into a full blown panic attack which then caused me to get sick.

My other neighbors had just finally stopped being jerks in the past few months and now this. I don't know if I will be able to deal with this sort of issue again.

I did email and call the apartment management this morning so hopefully they will at least give a warning. They are pretty good about that. I also found the 24 hours police dispatch number so I can call that if it happens again.

My anxiety today though it through the roof because I am so worried it will happen again tonight. I need my sleep. I deal with enough sleep issue and chronic fatigue.

Thank you @Bella_Figura and @AlexandraFindsHerself1971 for the suggestions for the girl. The noise thing does sound like a real pain in the *kitten* or worse. The noise cancelling headphone thing is not terrible. I actually seem to fall asleep wearing mine quite often... probably "old age"

Pav, I forgot to say that the pasta thing also works as treats if you cook up some small shape pasta (fusilli, penne, farfalle etc) and then, when it's cooked, coat it very lightly with homemade tomato sauce (or even just passata) and maybe stir through a teaspoon or two of grated parmesan (if her tummy can tolerate that)....then allow to cool. When cool, dry fry it over a low heat for at least 20-30 minutes until it goes really chewy (think the chewy, burned bits at the edge of a lasagne). All to cool and store in an airtight container.

This is a little slice of heaven. The only problem here is not depriving the poor doggo of her treat because you've eaten it all yourself...