Pre-Op Diet Day 22 and emotional meltdown number two!

SW⟫ 207.7 | CW⟫ 164.7 |

Pre-op Diet⟫ Day 22

Surgery Countdown⟫ 06 days

I didn’t sleep last night – can’t even explain why because I wasn’t doing anything. I guess my mind was on the fact that I have decided on seven days of just liquid, which reinforced the idea that the countdown is getting to the nitty-gritty. I didn’t wake up until late in the afternoon which could be a blessing in terms of not having to be awake for long.

J has sent me a couple of recommendations for protein powder, which is excellent. I’m just not sure how to use them. I mean, do I just add them to the slimfast shakes? Does the protein powder replace the slimfast shakes? I have protein water, protein powder that can be made into peanut butter spread, plain protein powder – do I just add it to shakes or eggs? I guess I need to dig deeper into things. I also need to check my budget – some of this stuff might have to wait until well after the first as all of the beginning of the months are due to come out and I have so many Ubers to pay for in the next week.

Blood pressure appointment on Saturday; visiting Marmee on Sunday; blood tests on Monday; and then surgery on Thursday. Yeah, that’s gonna take a chunk of money.

I still haven’t received my order from NewYou and have heard nothing from Parcelforce. I booked a redelivery for Tuesday which didn’t turn up, so I went back onto the Parcelforce website and booked another redelivery for Friday. I am getting so pissed off – if I hadn’t made the decision to add food and waited on those soups, I would have been shit out of luck and I am not pleased. Regardless, I want my order and I want something better than a voucher to use on their site when at this point in time I don’t ever want to use it again.

We watched Independence Day (Book_grim for the first time) and I got very emotional. I don’t know if it was the drunk pilot who was going to die and just asked that they tell his kids that he loved them, but by the end I was a blubbering mess and had to ask for hugs from the girls. Which they provided and basically hugged all of the tears out of me – they are so freaking special. So emotional meltdown two I guess!! Anyway, I’ve had two shakes so far today (cookies and cream hot reminds me of the taste of the Cambridge banana tetras which were lovely), so one more and I can call it a day. The flatulence is back and my stomach feels very bubbly so I guess the diarrhoea won’t be far behind. Not a bad thing – get everything cleared out and hopefully get the scales going back down because they have been creeping up and it’s freaking me out!

Going to spend the rest of the evening working on the beanie that I’m crocheting – I want to try to get it finished so I can wear it to visit Marmee on Sunday, but either way it will get used. And it gives me something to do with my hands.

Another day over and hopefully even unmedicated, I can get to sleep. The snow that’s falling hasn’t been settling and we’re expecting rain on Saturday and Sunday. Better rain than snow since I’m going out on both of those days. Over and out!