I was up all night with stomach distress.

Last  night I ate what I felt was a large meal for supper at 4 pm.  Ron made me a steak  with a small soup bowl salad along with three slices of buttered bread.  I ate all the salad, ate 2/3rd of the steak and two slices of bread.  I felt I did great.  Ron felt I did not eat much or enough and should eat more. Ron also eats everything I don’t finish and has his own hunger issues.  Ron is always hungry, especially at night.

I was so tired after eating that I was falling asleep at my desk, so I with Ron’s urging went to bed.  I slept until about 11 p.m..  Ron had stayed up until then watching a show.  So he came to bed and we chatted a bit. We decided to cuddle later.  But by midnight I was having stomach distress. It got worse as the night wore on. I got up about 1 a.m. and took medication and sipped on a deit caffeine free cola to help me burb releasing the pressure. I was careful not to add too much liquid which would cause my stomach to void as soon as possible.  I went back to bed a couple of hours later.  As I layed in bed I felt my stomach release and start to empty at 4:46 a.m., and at the same time I felt the morning bowel movement need coming on.    Related … I don’t know as I always do a morning BM minutes after getting up between 4 and 5 a.m..

I was still quessy as I got up then as I had a soda and a couple of fiber cookies. Ron and I talked about the probiotic suggestions and the suggestions on priorities.  As you see I have not stressed over being late on posts. MDavis and others have made a good point that my putting pressure on myself when I am not feeling well to do more is only making me feel worse and doing damage to the healing myself.  I will continue to do my best as I love doing this, but I won’t hurt myself or get so upset that I push myself harmfully to make the posts.  Thank you to the readers of this blog for giving me that space and letting me take the time to heal or at least not drive myself to being more sick.  

At 8:30 a.m. I ate a small piece of lazanna that I had made and frozen a month ago. It was great but while Ron had eaten the majority of it but the small piece he left was almost more than I could finish.  But it tasted and felt great as I ate it. 

At 1 p.m. Ron wanted me to have lunch. There was no way.  Now it is getting past 3:30 p.m.  And Ron wants me to eat supper.   I can’t!  So I guess I will negotiate a small sub or sandwich as there is no way I can eat a real meal.  I might do a small salad which I also would love.  

It is thundering and raining so the cat is terrified. Ron is going to make me a sandwich of ham, chicken, turkey, and lettuce, and he wants me to eat half of it, drink a nutrition shake, and wait to eat the other half for at least half an hour.  He doesn’t want the issues I had last night. I have my allergy appointment tomorrow at 10 a.m.  So I will be posting news from my iPad.  

OK I had the 1/2 sandwich and the nutrition shake. I have to admit I am full.  Entirely stuffed.  So I am glad I did as Ron wanted me to do. There is a reason he has like 27 years of medical experience.  If I had eaten more I might suffer as I did last night. Thinking of adding a few more things to the cartoons / memes post and then go to bed.  Hugs