Yes, counting the weekend before and the weekend after, I have nine days of Spring Break from work. Not that I'm counting, but if I don't say which number day it is, it will get all muddled together and I won't have any idea where I was/am in the grand scheme of my vacation.
I haven't, in all honestly, done a whole heck of a lot while on break, but that's because I don't have to. Yes, I've helped make dinner, washed dishes, done laundry and played with my 8 year old, but not much beyond that.
I don't change out of my sweats and I wear my robe all day. If I go out, I do change my clothes, of course, but if I'm not going anywhere, I see no reason to put myself into clothes I'll just have to end up washing - this way my clothes stay clean.
Thanks to my pain medications, not only am I not in as much pain, but I also have little to no appetite. I'm not complaining, mind you and some people seem worried that I have a suppressed appetite. I am not worried. Ever since I first got sick back in September, I think I have steadily lost weight anyway. And, I promise, I do eat when I get hungry. When I'm not hungry, however, I don't eat just to eat.
It didn't happen right away, I had up until recently, pretty much weighed what I have for quite awhile now and until about a week ago or so, when I finally let the nurse weigh me, discovered I am finally under 150 pounds. Which works for me as I would like to be about 135 or so. My husband would probably like for me to weigh less - but what husband wouldn't want his wife to look and feel good?!
The only good thing about being sick is that I have had to cut down on certain types of foods I love to eat - cheese, red meat and junk food. I still eat these foods, just in lower quantities and not as often. I've also had to stop eating altogether, granola. Which is awful, but my fistula can't output the roughage and I don't need the fiber as much.
I had been thinking about having surgery in early June to have the fistula removed and the abscess taken care of, but have since changed my mind due to the fact that the possibility of losing the remaining 3' of my small intestine and perhaps some of my large too, which I don't want to have happen and have the quality of my life go from what it is now - which is wonderful - to less than wonderful because the likelihood of having to go on TPN - (a liquid diet which is fed through a major vein either in the arm or under the collarbone) which could quite likely cause me to become diabetic. Something I am NOT willing to have possibly happen.
No, I think I'll continue down the rosy path I am currently heading and not change things for now.
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