The Great Pre-Puree Experimentation

Well apparently I was tired! I vaguely remember the cats being fed but that was all she wrote. I settled down without additional pillows around 8.30 pm and the next thing I know, it’s 6.30 in the morning! I didn’t post to the blog yesterday – had it all written out but then did nothing with it! So I’ll just add it on to this one.

Yesterday, I began the great pre-puree experimentation. I put a Muller Greek coconut yoghurt in with some pineapples and some milk and blitzed it in my bullet. It tasted kind of like a virgin pina colada, a very different flavour to what I’ve been consuming lately. It made a nice change – everything was beginning to just taste of bone broth! So today for breakfast, I had the same but with a strawberry yoghurt instead of coconut.

We were meant to be having the bathroom deep cleaned but the person who accepted the job can’t make it today. We’ve postponed until Friday but if they try to reschedule again then I think we’ll ask them to cancel so we can offer the job to someone else. So instead of the bathroom getting a deep clean, I have a few things I wouldn’t mind getting started on.

* getting all of the shakes together, listing them all and figuring out the best place to sell them;

* unpacking my parcel from SimplyBe so that everything is laid out and I know what fits and what I want to shrink into;

* I wrote some things into the family manifesto but we haven’t had the chance to discuss them as yet. With the deep clean of the bathroom postponed, maybe aim for next week with looking at the points I raised?

Vee and Shar are talking about visiting this weekend, although to be fair they have been talking about visiting since before I went into the hospital. I don’t mind either way to be honest – maybe they’re right and I just don’t like visitors? Or maybe I just don’t want to feel judged in my own space. Ohh, zing, apparently catching up on sleep makes me snarky and a little bit sassy!

Stripes is out at a Carer’s thing and Book_grim is asleep, so I think I’m going to grab a book and snuggle down to read.I’ve already done the Home Bargains order so we should have cat litter by next week. I think I’ve finalised the last of Stripes’ presents (Book_grim and the Oldest are already all bought and wrapped). So another industrious day of reading and sleeping then! This sneezing thing is still hanging around and sometimes, my incisions look like they’re on the verge of popping open which freaks me out. On the other hand, the two on my right side seem to be pretty much closed and done with. It’s the other three that are really scabby, look a bit oozy and the whole ‘tugging from inside’ sensation is one I would happily never feel again!

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SW⟫ 207.7 | CW⟫ 160.1 |

Post Surgery Diet⟫ Week 2 of Liquids

I managed to read two ARCs and get the reviews up, so feeling rather industrious. I vaped my weed last night and I think I crashed out around 10pm. So when I woke up just before 3 am, I was less than pleased to realise that I was awake-awake. Sigh.

Today I decided to try to get down a SlimFast shake. It seemed like things were okay, but before I’d finished the last sip, I had to make my way to the bathroom and spent about 30 minutes in there. And as a way of showing just how flipping exhausted it made me feel, I didn’t even bother getting onto the scales to see if I lost some weight!

I think I’m going to gather up all of the protein shakes, slimfast and sachets and try to figure out how to sell them. It just doesn’t seem worth it to keep trying with them when I was having such little success pre-surgery, so why continue to put myself through that now. I’m on my last bottle of protein water and trying to decide if I should buy some more. When I like the flavour, it’s all good, but I think there have been far too many days where I’ve ended up throwing a lot of it away, especially as you’re meant to consume it within 24 hours of opening.

I was catching up with Jay and talking about how cold I feel all the damned time and she confirmed that it doesn’t actually get better! So I think it might be time to lean in to the whole thing – brushed cotton fitted sheets, brushed cotton pillow cases along with one of my velvet duvet sets and the heated blanket should stop me feeling like my limbs are blocks of ice! Stripes has her ED Counselling session today but she said she’s happy to change my bedding when she gets back.

And tomorrow is the day for the bathroom deep clean, which I am weirdly excited for! We’ve done stuff in the bathroom before (especially over the summers when we had the flies infestation – YUCK!) but it would be lovely to see what someone could achieve without the ‘sentimental’ attachment to the stuff that’s there. I think we all need to make sure things we definitely don’t want thrown away are either in an appropriate basket, or put away on top of the window ledge, so basically it’s a case of taking everything down, wiping it clean, etc, then putting everything back I know Book_grim said that there was a bag of stuff in the kitchen from the Airtasker that completed that but I don’t know what’s in there or if either she or Stripes have had a chance to go through it yet.

I think I want to risk having something to eat (maybe a mushroom cup-a-soup) but I don’t know if Book_grim is awake yet and the kitchen is so damned cold, I’m not sure I’m “hungry” enough to make me face that cold! I might write more later, but in the meantime I think I’m going to snuggle down under the duvet and see if I can regain the sensation in my fingertips!