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Sunday, April 21, 2013

My last day

Today is my last day of work. Hopefully I have all of my hours in for my FMLA and HR does not find some sneaky way to screw me out of it. I am also 5 days into this low iodine diet, and frankly I am not fairing well on it. I am sure there are people out there who do wonderful on it, I however am not one. I guess under the right, less stressful circumstances I could be. I started out making 3 quarts of homemade low iodine spaghetti sauce which I use on my gluten free spaghetti or cook with a piece of chicken and I did make a very tasty salad dressing consisting of balsamic vinegar, honey, and fresh squeezed orange juice. Simple yet it worked. Other than that I have survived on unsalted nuts, some fruit, and a veggie here and there. Sadly I've been averaging only about 700 to 800 calories a day. Between working all the time and the stress I just haven't ate. I know this isn't good for a body in healing, but hopefully I will rest this coming week when I'm in isolation since I have nothing else to do.
So I have to be up in Pittsburgh tomorrow morning, first for labs, a pregnancy test then my first thyrogen injection. Tuesday it's back up to Pittsburgh for another thyrogen injection then my full body scan. Sigh, I only hope I can ingest my contrast for it and not have to be injected. Then back up to Pittsburgh on Wednesday for more lab work and my treatment. Thursday I can resume a normal diet. I am exhausted just thinking about all of that! I hope my body scan doesn't show anything since my initial cancer was so advanced and I can't wait to just rest. I will miss my children during this time, I will try to post each day up in Pittsburgh, usually they are all day events. Hopefully the weather will be nice enough for me to enjoy the outside while I'm up there. Wish me luck!

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