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

 

For those interested in my food intake.

So after I came out of the bedroom Ron asked me to peel the potatoes for supper.  I had told him before I went to take my shot that if I was to eat it needed to happen soon.  So he made one of my favorites, shaken bake chicken, smashed potatoes, and brown gravy with corn as the vegetable. I was able to eat a small chicken part, a scoop of potatoes with gravy, and half my bowl of corn.  I was shocked to get that much down.  I regret I did not finish my cartoon / meme post nor did I work on the news post.  But I ate two meals today which is a big improvement.  But now I am going to bed as I am very tired.  Hugs

An update on my not feeling well before I start replying to comments.

I have two stomach issues causing my problems right now. I have gastroparesis and a sensitive stomach that cannot take pressure.  Gastroparesis is a medical disorder of ineffective neuromuscular contractions of the stomach, resulting in food and liquid remaining in the stomach for a prolonged period. Stomach contents thus exit more slowly into the duodenum of the digestive tract, a medical sign called delayed gastric emptying.  Sometimes my stomach won’t empty for a very long time. For example last night I ate half a ham and chicken sandwich at about 4 pm.  I was unable to force more down.  I went to bed around 5 pm.

I woke at 1 am with stomach pain and nausea. At 1:30 am I lurched to the toilet to vomit.  Everything in my stomach came up, and I felt better after the pressure was relieved. I went back to bed. Then I woke at 4:15 and knew I was going to vomit again.  I was bletching a lot but it was not going to be enough pressure release.  At 4:30 am I was again voiding my stomach into the toilet. I went back to bed but got up at 5 am anyway.  

I drank a cup of water too fast and in 20 minutes it came back up. So I started slower.  I had two fiber cookies and slow sips of water. Everything stayed down, and I felt fine if very tired. So at 10 am I am having the other half of my sandwich from last night.  My stomach feels very full but I am not nauseated.  Ron is getting very worried as he thinks my stomach is getting slower at emptying and that it is becoming more sensitive taking less pressure to cause me pain and being nauseous.  Time will tell.  Hugs

 

NBC News Crew BEATEN LIVE By Israeli Settlers

I have had this ready to post for several days. But due to how hard it is to watch and the way the settlers openly abuse the Palestinians with the Israeli government’s blatant permission I was not sure if the viewers wanted to see it.  But we have to show how things are going and Israel is doing a genocide by trying to kill and drive the Palestinians from the West Bank and has decided to take all of Gaza now.  The Palestinians that survive after the killing of so many of them and the milisous shooting of children for target practice, the killing of medical personnel, and the starving of the people along with now Israel cutting off all sources of water will be forcibly removed / deported.  Any that refuse to leave will be killed.  One of the Israeli ministers posted AI videos of Palestinians in a concentration camp that implied they were abused. This is what the entire program was for: to retake all of Gaza and the West Bank for Israel like they did all other Palestinian land so there could never be a two state solution and no Palestinians left in what Israel illegally calls their country.  They are illegally taking over parts of Lebanon.  Their goal has always been the greater Israeli.  And the only reason they are getting away with these atrocities and horrors is because the US is protecting them from the retailation of those that Israel abuses and attacks.  Biden was too blinded by the past and his age to force Israelis to stop and wouldn’t even cut off the largest 2,000 pound bombs dropped on tent cities. tRump’s military protected Israel rather than US military bases resulting in the deaths and injuries of US military personnel.  Plus a large part of the US Congress is deeply in the pocket of the Israeli lobby called AIPAC.  The corporate democrats are so beholden to the large sums of money that they are helping AIPAC try to destroy the campaigns of progressive and DSA democrats even if it means not gaining control of the Congress.  Corporate Israel supporting Democrats would rather stay a minority party if it means keeping the huge sums of money given to Israel with no strings flowing.   Hugs


 

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I made supper but I can not concentrate.

Recently, Ron agreed with me to buy the entire Columbo library.  It was only $30, and yet Ron and I always check with each other on such personal things.  But Ron knows such things are more important to me than him.  

Today I made supper so he could keep installing the ceiling lights and fans in my new office.  So I was also doing posting for tomorrow.  But after I made dinner and cleaned up, I came back to the office. But I cannot concentrate at all. Ron has tried to help me.  

Every time I try to focus on the news, I get my mind blocked. Yet when I look at the other computer monitor, I see a video I am playing; it is comforting. Not sure why, but it is. I guess I will watch Columbo and then go to bed.  I hope I can sleep OK tonight.   Hugs