Whew! What a day!
Up early this morning - got the husband to wrap up my arm before he headed out for work. Finished getting ready and then it was off to work for me as well.
Now I thought I got a lot of sideways looks while out running errands - today took it to a whole other level. There are a couple of thousand people that work where I do - and the majority of the ones that I encountered were staring me down. I did my best to hide my tubing, but it's got to eventually leave my side and run into the bag.
I tried to eat twice today. This morning I got some scrambled eggs - figuring they are high on the protein count and should be easy enough to get down. I was wrong, my stomach despised the eggs and made sure it let me know it too. This afternoon I got some french onion soup, but just consumed the broth, my stomach did better with this than the eggs - but it still wasn't happy that I was eating. So, I decided not to push it for the rest of the day.
Heard from the home nurse dietitian - she was checking in on me and asking a bunch of questions. This way she knows whether my bag is the right mix or if she needs to up something - like my calorie intake. I also heard from Tess, my home nurse. Her and I will meet tomorrow morning before I head to work, so she can change my dressing and also draw some blood. The blood draw is done every week - as this will let them know what levels of the additives I need included in my next week's order.
Well - it's time for me to go get some sleep. I have pushed this body to its limits today and now it's time to let it rest. This includes my brain :)
As my daughter says - Sweet Dreams!
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