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| Dec 20, 2000 I went for a physical today - since I must stay healthy to take care of my baby. And they tell me that my thyroid and Estrogen are all at the right levels. My cholesterol is not. Neither is my weight. I discussed the persistent and getting-worse pain in my hips. Shoots down my legs. Wakes me up. I can't sleep on my sides - I have to turn constantly. I use two foam pads on the bench at the hospital. I limp when I get out of the car. I stagger out of the chair at work. I wake up crabby and stumble over the dog. I still walk fine (once warmed up) and leg-lift the weights when warmed up. However, it (the pain) has been pretty bad on occasion. I live on Aleive. So I asked. And I am probably a candidate for dual hip replacement surgery. Oh, I did not need to hear that! They X-rayed me today - so I will know for sure tomorrow. John is still puking and they have no answer - so we are trying another medication for him and still slipping him 60 cc unit of drink. He wants food. Wait child. We are trying to get there! He did not want to get up a second time today. We need to change that. We need to get him to rehab. Now I HAVE to lose 40-50 lbs - go to 125-130lbs. (I refused to be weighed. And they let me get away with it. (I don't need the scale - I look like a blimp. It came on fast - those candy bars and cracker evenings in the ICU.) I gained what my son lost. Time for him to take it back. I HAVE to be on MEDIFAST or AITKINS DIET. Now!!!!!! I have a booklet on Meridia and Xenical. Cholesteral over 300 - ooops! Was 220. Still high. Remember they told me two glasses of wine a day? Well, that was why.... Meridia controls the urge to eat everything in sight - especially chocolate. Sometimes I want to just eat anything I see - what's really bad is the desire to pick up cookies off the floor, eat candy in the bottom of my purse that is slightly unwrapped, foraging for change for the vending machine in the basement of the hospital. That spoon in the non-reduced-fat peanut butter at 2AM. Handfuls of crackers put in otherwise low-calorie soup.) Xenical is for when you do eat - it blocks 1/3 of the fat from being absorbed - and gives you the runs - this is called negative reinforcement - eat and you will regret it! Or wear Depends. You only take this pill when you know you have been bad. Or are planing to be...... So, with good intensions, I had a Lean Pocket (230 cal) for lunch and 2 envelopes of Medifast (200) (breakfast and lunch) - two to go (200 more) (6PM and 10PM today), a can of tuna (220 calories) and then home and a glass of wine. (whatever)....~800 calories a day, not counting the wine. Tomorrow it's tuna and 1 cup of salad or green beans. UGH! The pain in my hips is because of the arthritis and so I now have a prescription anti-inflammatory - stronger than Aleive. They want to wait to do the surgery as long as possible because the hips only last 7 years (mine would last less) - UGH! And then you get to do it again. Horrifying thought! The weight loss will take the pressure off (it had started right when I ballooned up). Perhaps even extend my use of my own hips. It will also lower the cholesterol - else I will also get a pill for that (my father had those). I also have a new Xanax prescription - so I won't care if I am hungry or am in pain. Should not mix that and the wine however..... And last but not least a prescription for a new vitamin tablet so I don't have so many pill bottles - except that I would still need the Calcium pills (2000 units a day). Right now I have one for iron, one for stress B, one for minerals, one for E, etc. Of course they just added all these other pills.......... I have a whole bunch of pills to go get at Longs Drug Store tomorrow. The nurse also called in an anti-fungal nail polish - the Doctor doesn't want to treat the nail fungus that I have had for years - too toxic to the liver. Now, doesn't that sound familiar? _____________________ The X-ray shows I can go awhile before considering
surgery. The Celebrex cut the pain to a dull roar. The Doctor said 2 Aleive
twice a day would work - except I tried that, got an upset stomach and
managed to get so dehyrated that my son's doctor sent me to the ER! (I
was pale, the room was whirling, and they really didn't think I should
drive home. I didn't either! (Went home at 4AM) |
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