… a week makes.

This morning I woke up at the regular time.  Having only been woken by a spectacular thunderstorm in the middle of the night.  There was no pain in my mid-section.  I did not feel like clawing my body in half.  And I had slept all night.  This was in marked difference to last Thursday night.

I am on the mend.  It’s very slow going and that makes me a little crabby.  I don’t recuperate well.  I may have mentioned a time or two in the past that patience is not one of my gifts.  Nor do I want it.  I understand that it’s a fruit of the spirit.  But as far as I’m concerned it’s the grapefruit of the spirit.  You need to add a lot of sugar to make it palatable.

My doctor told me to add foods as I felt able and to keep them low fat.  Oh bother.  It seems this sludge in my gall bladder will respond to low fat.  So I’m calling this my sludge free eating.  It sounds less mean and stingy.  The very last thing I’m to add back is dairy.  This is presenting a problem because dairy foods are my comfort foods.  I love milk, cheese and yogurt.  LightHusband teases me that I’d make a great Middle Ages woman … just give me bread and cheese and I’m happy.  Soy is out because I’m allergic to it.  So that leaves fish (yuck), chicken and beans for sources of protein.  I guess I’m going to learn to like fish.  I’ve rediscovered Jello.  I love red Jello and forgotten it.  And LightHusband found an organic applesauce that comes very, very close to a replacement for ice cream.  Now, if you knew how much I love, love, love ice cream you’d know how astonishing that statement is.  I’m still going to “need” ice cream once in a while, but this applesauce is darn good.  I see a gastroenterologist in early October to begin the process of figuring out why this happened.
In other news, LightGirl had a followup with her orthopedist yesterday, and he gave her the green light to start skating again.  NO PLAYING HOCKEY.  She can skate, but she can’t play.  She can practice, but she can’t play.  He was very specific about her boundaries.  But he was also very, very pleased with the progress she’s made.  She’s doing a lot of walking now without her brace or crutches.  She still can’t completely flex her leg straight, but she’s very close and she’s much stronger now than she was three weeks ago.  However, I do think she may have lost some of that tone in the last 24 hours because she’s just been floating around the house and not using her leg at all 😀 she’s been so happy.

Sooo … all in all we’ve been given the green light to return to Vermont for the last week of the summer.  This is good because my brothers and their families will be gathered at camp the last weekend of August.  So we’ll be having a mini-family reunion then.  I’m looking forward to seeing all the nieces and the nephews together.  Laughing with my brothers in the way that we only do when we’re together.  Teasing my mom and dad.  Watching my brothers be uncles and getting to be the auntie to their kiddos.  Life is good.