I am so happy to be writing this post. I definitely did not know how my day was going to do today.
I left work yesterday around noon and went to pick up my car. It cost right around what we expected, so no real surprise there. Then I decide I was just going to work from home for the afternoon instead of driving back into work (takes about 40 minutes).
At work that morning, I drank the Dan Active and ate the trail mix. On the way to getting the car, I ate the turkey pita that I had packed but that is about the only things from my post yesterday that stayed true.
When I got home, I was craving something warm (not my salad), so I decided to warm up some skim milk (about 3/4 cup) and pour it on some frosted mini wheats.
Pretty soon after eating, my stomach was acting up (and once again, I won’t go into details) but I knew I needed to go to the doctor. So I called and got an appointment at the same doctor that saw me last week for the cold.
And this is where things started getting stressful. The symptoms that I have been experiencing were pretty alarming to the doctor and she wanted to admit me last night. She went and called the hospital to see what gastroenterologist was on call. Apparently she didn’t know who it was, so I asked that I not have to be admitted. (I am not dying, so I didn’t see the point of paying to stay in the hospital.) She agreed and got me an emergency appointment with a gastroenterologist this morning. She told me they would probably admit me today and do a colonoscopy tomorrow.
I left her office and headed home, believing that I wouldn’t be eating for a few days due to the prep and all other sorts of things I have learned out of experience. I knew they would probably put me onto a liquid diet, etc.
So when I got home (fyi–Justin had a work function last night, so I was on my own.) I took a bath to just relax and try to calm down. I was going to do some yoga but my body just wasn’t having it. It wanted warm water, bubbles, a book and some wine. So yes, I did have a few glasses of wine (and maybe a beer later on….what can I say, I drink away my sorrows.) while in the tub.
When I was ready for dinner, I decided I was having something I could enjoy. Something I never eat either.
(sorry, should have used a flash!) I made french toast. And I had another serving after the one shown here. I was eating like it was my last supper.
For the recipe I used 9 grain bread, 1 egg, some milk, a few drops of vanilla extract and some fresh ground cinnamon. Dipped the bread in the liquid, cooked it on a griddle until each side was nice and toasted. Ate with some light syrup and powdered sugar. So I ended up actually eating 4 pieces of bread. It was amazing.
And then Justin came home with the best news of the day. He got a promotion!!! (WAY TO GO BABE!!!!) Which was SO SO SO exciting. I knew there was a possibility yesterday, so I had already decided that if the doctor’s did admit me, that I wasn’t going to tell him until after his work function. (He told me if I had done that, that he would have killed me.)
And then the most incredible part (this just shows the character of my husband), he had stopped on his way home to get me a surprise….because “I support him so much with his career”.
An ipod nano!!! I was BEYOND surprised and felt like the world’s most spoiled wife. Last week my mp3 player broke and I spent a few hours on Saturday looking at used ipod’s on EBAY because I just didn’t want to spend the money (when I am leaving for Japan in a few weeks) on a new Ipod. Throughout the whole day Justin kept telling me to wait and to just use the (ancient!) Ipod mini that we have. I think he had this idea up his sleeve the whole time.
I am just thrilled. I have never had a new ipod and I have really gotten addicted to podcast so I will be happy I can listen and watch podcast video on my new little ipod.
I am such a kept woman!
Anyway, back to the crisis at hand. So I was scheduled to see the gastro. this morning at 10:30. I worked from home and then went to my appointment. I ate the Nectar bar that I was supposed to eat yesterday on the car ride over.
I loved this bar!!! The texture was both sticky and crunchy. And the flavor of the lemon was really slight, not overbearing at all. I will definitely eat this again!
Got to the doctor’s office, which I really liked. Everyone was so nice and the waiting room had a nice flat screen TV playing a whole CBS segment on the founder of Facebook. It helped pass the time…and it was very clean and comfy. Anyway, I met with the doctor who I actually REALLY liked. I have a tough time with new gastroenterologist because I have had the same one since I was 15 that I really like. He diagnosed me with the Crohn’s, he diagnosed my brother with his Crohn’s, and he was the doctor that diagnosed my father with his colon cancer. He knows my family history. And the other doctor in the practice (they own it together), is a close family friend who spends holidays with my family.
So he talked to me for awhile and determined that I needed to wait for the colonoscopy because they couldn’t do it right away with fears of a intestinal tear. So he put me on a ton of medicine (prednisone for 20 days, always fun!, a probiotic, and Lialda, which I have never heard of, and I think he is planning on keeping me on it for basically forever….it came with 7 refills.) and scheduled my colonoscopy for the 23rd of February.
I was so happy to walk out of that office and head to work! So much better than being admitted. It did make me feel quite guilty about eating all the french toast and drinking that wine last night, seeing it wasn’t my last supper! I had packed my car with an emergency ‘just in case I’m admitted bag’, but I failed to pack myself any food if I did go to work. So I stopped at Trader Joe’s on the way into work and grabbed these few things.
(these pictures were taken in my car.)
A greek yogurt–honey, and a peanut butter flavor & fiber bar–which I have never tried. It does make me laugh that it says “for regularity” on the outside…is that really a marketing topic?
I also decided to try this:
Carrot, lentil and onion soup. I have a feeling this stuff is going to be fabulous!
And then as a little treat (and because I hadn’t had any caffeine yet today.)
Is it kind of sad that I went and looked up the side effects for the Lialda that the dr. prescribed and I was a bit let down when it didn’t list “weight loss”? At least it didn’t list weight gain! But the prednisone will do that. ugh!
I will go to the gym after work today. So glad I at least had the foresite to pack my gym bag.
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