01/20/11: Such weirdness

Well...I was right.  I didn't need an unfill.  Such weirdness!  Why do hormones have to matter so danged much?  What's even weirder still is that my stomach seems to get the message about changing hormones before the rest of my body...and my stomach is the last to know that the rest of my body has moved on.

Grrr.

Oh well.  I was able to eat last night.  Like my appetite was back and all.  That's something that I haven't had for a little over a week...I still took it easy, ate "soupy" stuff like chili and very very very mushy mashed potatoes.  Very mushy.  Almost potato soup.  It all went down fine and then beast said "give me more".  So I did.  And beast and Lady and stoma all said "thank you very much!"

I guess that's what I get for essentially not being able to eat for nearly 3 days.  Making up for lost time...

Anywho.  One of the things that I did yesterday was literally drink my way through the day.  If beast was starting to be interested in something, I'd stifle him with bouillon.  I was mixing a cube in 12oz of water instead of the normal 8 and flavorwise, that was all fine.  I wound up drinking 68oz of water and 3 cups of bouillon, each with 12oz of water.  So, after my normal smoothie, from noon to 6:30 pm, I drank and drank and drank.  68 + 36...now what's that...hang on, I can do this...104oz of water.  And a shitton of salt.  Cause bouillon is like all salt and a little fat and essentially no calories (10 in each cube).

Yeah.  So the scale took away my 199 today.  Took it away last night, in fact.  After literally only drinking yesterday, I managed to gain 3.8 pounds through the day.  How can you not laugh at that?  I mean...that's just funny!

I'ma drink me lots of plain and simple water today to get this salt flushed back out.

Meanwhile, I am very confident that the swelling is either gone or so reduced that I will be fine. 

What else.  I'm catching up on blogs.  I keep saying that but I really mean it.  I made lots of good headway yesterday and dangit but I have missed so much.  I wish I could go back and make comments on some of what I'm reading...I seriously hate when I am not part of the active cheering squad! 

What else.  We booked our vacations for the year.  We are doing another trip to Las Vegas with some buddies in May.  And a trip to North Carolina to visit my cousin in July.  Probably a few more little weekends, too.  I am so excited about it all!  Now I just gotta drudge through a couple of months of work to get there.

I have some stuff working in my brain for some real reading.  I'll get there....there's a few realizations going on that are changing how I think about life, not just banded life.  All tied to the band and moving through my journey...but much deeper than "just the band".