My housemate returned while I was away and he just left today… The kitchen will be mine again 🙂

That’s one glorious haul of veg and fruit Laurie- and organic too! 🥗 Of course you had to rescue and turn it into fine meals. I’m sure it will last in the freezer. Are those parsnips? We rarely see those down here. And you’re back to owning your kitchen again. Woohoo.

We’re coming out of our 🥶deep freeze. It’s about 15F now but heading to about 50F in the afternoon. I can finally shut off the slow drip in the bathtub. It’s to prevent freezing water pipes as our plumbing is quite shallow and we have no basements.

I think you might have a frozen water pipe to your kitchen Mr. PAV? Hope it defrosts naturally without bursting! 🤞.
Don’t go to Costco hungry PAV. I say this as hubby is off to the grocery store (s) unsupervised. Who knows what will show up? He’s a maniac when it comes to sales.

I’ve been making slow progress but have to bake gift cookies Friday. And going to a Chinese restaurant for birthday party on Saturday. Is it too much to hope I can hang on to the little loss?

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I would not check my weight on Monday, other than for the fun mirror experience. Probably Wednesday till full damage assessment!🤷‍♂️ Gift 🍪 cookies. That's a tough one. Depends on who gets most of the gift! 😅😘

Costco was a zoo, as expected.

The cookies will be given away except for a few for hubby to knosh on at home. They’re basically coconut flakes, almonds, chocolate chips and condensed milk. Super easy little baked fat 💣 bombs.

I know the Chinese food on Saturday will cause an uptick due to the inevitable salt content. I’m hoping to get by with a big bowl of hot n sour soup and a spring roll. But still more salt than I’m used to. I’ll be drinking lots of water later to flush that out.

In any case, I will be weighing daily because that’s just what I’ve done for the last five years.

Were the sample ladies out in full force at Costco?

Sweet and salty and Costco are not your friends PAV!

“Mature” bodies don’t recover as quickly as Scouts teenagers 😤

Kirkland choco covered almonds! Used to buy them all the time first couple of years on MFP! Handle carefully due to fast calories and easy milk choco almond combo!!!🤪

That's one, slightly problematic, way to handle them!!!!🤣😱

Goodness Nic! Hope this can get resolved soon. Please keep us updated and get well ❤️‍🩹

Thinking of you, Nic. Holy schmoly. That is a pretty frightening drop in less than 5 months. Hope you are feeling better and keep feeling better!

Well I'm hoping you guys are coming up with a plan and that you see good improvements PDQ!

Wondering how our girl Laurie is getting along? She’s been quiet lately…. Hope it’s time spent with plenty of self care and rest. Time to adjust and gather strength to move forward?

So a positive update. The picc line was placed Tuesday. I received 2 liters of Lactated Ringers outpatient that day, over 4 hrs. My labs from Tuesday were off (potassium was 3.0, norm is 3.5-5), so instead of starting TPN in Wednesday I had to go get IV potassium and redraw my labs instead. Finally got the nutrition startred at about 4:30pm Thursday. It runs for about 20hrs a dose, and I have to add IV multivitamin and IV thiamine to it before starting each dose. By my calculations I'm getting about 1400 calories a day in the form of 100g dextrose, 120g protein and 50g lipids, plus all my electrolytes, minerals and vitamins.

I've finished the third bag about 30 minutes ago and today is the first day in weeks I am not really dizzy. I'm still definiteky weak and I am still taking nothing by mouth at all except meds (right now 40mg nexium BID and Carafate 1mg/10ml BID). But I purposefully walked a very slow mile in laps around my house this morning, vs alternating between the recliner, the sofa and my bed. I stopped taking antiemetics, which I don't think were helping anyway, and this is my third day in a row with no retching (so far).

I am literally fantasizing about ice cold water at this point, which I rinse and spit with multiple times a day, and I have had 2 or 3 dreams about fruit, lol.

I see my surgeon tomorrow, I am thinking it may be back to trying clear liquids and seeing how that goes while I continue to receive I nutrition.

PAV8888 wrote: »

Well if you look at Minnesota having food related thoughts is not uncommon in the circumstances.

Also, and on this you certainly know better, Is there not still a degree of internal healing that has to take place? How long does it take for everything to heal?

In any case, very glad to hear about improvements!

There is a degree of internal healing that has to happen. That's why I said that I maybe will get to try clear liquids starting tomorrow. I have been 100% NPO except oral medications for 7 full days now and have not had any retching or dry heaving since Thursday (x2 that day).

My clear liquids would be plain water, plain ice.

So another update. No clearance for liquids today. Got the go ahead to try clear liquids Wednesday and if it goes well, I can try liquid proteins starting Saturday. If I tolerate those well, he will stop my TPN Tuesday as of my follow-up appointment.

I feel about 90% of normal, I ended up getting 7500 steps in yesterday and looking at like 10k today, yay!

Take care of yourself Nic. Please.

Sipping a 7up this morning cause I am nauseated. Been trying to kick drinking soda, but 7up always has worked in settling my stomach. So I am giving myself some grace.

Yesterday was rough. Work was horrible and super busy, especially for a Monday. So I was already stressed out. Then I had my yearly physical and had to do the WHOLE thing. Problem is, one of the exams they do is very painful and triggering for me (yay medical trauma). So I ended up spending most of the evening fighting off panic attacks and break downs. Took my good meds and went to bed at like 8pm. Today I feel foggy and sick though.