laynekulwin
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OK - I'm back at that Ponderosa! After 11 days in room 2200 at the medical facility, I am now back at home. "Be it ever so humble (aka - mortgaged to the hilt) there's no place like home!
My legs still look like they belong to someone else... some rotund persona that doesn't resemble the adorable little man in the bow tie. Yes, they are still moving lasix in me... although much less aggressively this time. Soon I will be changing my name to I.P. Freely!
Stephen cooked a superb coming home dinner following strict ADA and AHA guidelines for low carbs, low fat and LOW SODIUM. For those of you that actually read food labels (I know - we all think we do...) try making three fabulous meals a day and stay under 2000 mg of salt. No easy feat, I assure you! In fact, it's near impossible!
After dinner, he managed - out of frustration and desperation, to go through our entire pantry and freezer setting aside oodles of goodies that are strictly "verboten" due to the high levels of sodium. The food bank will be getting an assortment of canned and frozen goods in short order.
One of my anomalies since my surgery is the inability to sleep for long periods - like through the night. For instance, I went to bed at 11 pm and woke up at 3:15 am bright eyed and bushy tailed. Now - what's up with that? Admittedly, the lasix had kicked in (who came up with the idea of taking a diuretic at bedtime - that's just insane) and I had to take care of business... but afterwards I couldn't even think of falling back to sleep - ain't gonna happen. Something to discuss with the doctors next week. BTW - even sleeping pills seemed to be ineffective on this, as I was given them in the hospital. Besides, every morning at 4 am (I kid you not) Dracula's daughter would appear in my room to take four vials of blood. Well, maybe with this new habit I'll be more productive?
Anyway - as noted, I am now home and would love to visit with anyone brave enough to stop by and spend some time. I promise not to talk your ear off... (my friends know that an economy of words is not my specialty) but I'd would just love to see you all.
Enough for now... have a great Memorial Day weekend celebration!!
LK
http://laynekulwin.blogspot.com/
My legs still look like they belong to someone else... some rotund persona that doesn't resemble the adorable little man in the bow tie. Yes, they are still moving lasix in me... although much less aggressively this time. Soon I will be changing my name to I.P. Freely!
Stephen cooked a superb coming home dinner following strict ADA and AHA guidelines for low carbs, low fat and LOW SODIUM. For those of you that actually read food labels (I know - we all think we do...) try making three fabulous meals a day and stay under 2000 mg of salt. No easy feat, I assure you! In fact, it's near impossible!
After dinner, he managed - out of frustration and desperation, to go through our entire pantry and freezer setting aside oodles of goodies that are strictly "verboten" due to the high levels of sodium. The food bank will be getting an assortment of canned and frozen goods in short order.
One of my anomalies since my surgery is the inability to sleep for long periods - like through the night. For instance, I went to bed at 11 pm and woke up at 3:15 am bright eyed and bushy tailed. Now - what's up with that? Admittedly, the lasix had kicked in (who came up with the idea of taking a diuretic at bedtime - that's just insane) and I had to take care of business... but afterwards I couldn't even think of falling back to sleep - ain't gonna happen. Something to discuss with the doctors next week. BTW - even sleeping pills seemed to be ineffective on this, as I was given them in the hospital. Besides, every morning at 4 am (I kid you not) Dracula's daughter would appear in my room to take four vials of blood. Well, maybe with this new habit I'll be more productive?
Anyway - as noted, I am now home and would love to visit with anyone brave enough to stop by and spend some time. I promise not to talk your ear off... (my friends know that an economy of words is not my specialty) but I'd would just love to see you all.
Enough for now... have a great Memorial Day weekend celebration!!
LK
http://laynekulwin.blogspot.com/
