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miss_lucy21- I am exhausted, but things are going pretty okay.
- My team at work was great about offering to pick up things I absolutely need to have covered while I'm out. I have to do a bit of training, but I think all of the essentials are covered.
- Really funny thing (at least to me): I bought a new pill box last week because all my vitamins and whatnot weren't really fitting into my old one. The supplement pills are all huge. I don't mind, because I learnt to swallow pills when I was 4, so I can swallow anything in pill form, no joke (and yet, I can't manage shots. I'll choke on a full shot every time. We used to set me up with half shots back when I still drank alcohol to keep me from getting booze everywhere when I started sputtering). Well, I ordered the pill box off the internet because I couldn't find an AM/PM one at the store that was any bigger than the one I had and I really need it to have morning and night compartments that are connected in one box. I've done the separate boxes thing before and it's a pain in the ass and I can remember at least two med errors from mixing up the boxes. Yeah, the pill box I ordered? Is ginormous. I think I can fit a small travel sized bottle of like, Advil or something in one compartment. It said it was "jumbo" sized in the description, but it didn't look that large in the picture and I have no sense of size or scale, so the dimensions didn't help clue me in. So, at the moment, I can't take anything other than my prescription meds because the doctor said no supplements/vitamins/painkillers/what have you for the two weeks before surgery. All my prescription pills are itty bitty, so they're rattling around in these giant compartments and it's like, I don't know, Jack and the Beanstalk or Alice in Wonderland or something. But it's cracking me up. Well, at least I won't have any problem getting all the pills to fit when I add my supplements back in.
- I am starting to feel the effects of no supplements, though. My attention span is at about -5 and the bad headache is back (I'd beaten it more or less into submission with the application of several doses of tramadol + acetaminophen and it had stayed back down when I had upped the Omega 3s again). So I'm trying to do all this stuff at work with a brain that's only about 2/3rds functional and with a raging headache while being under some additional level of stress, even though I really and truly feel that surgery is the right thing to do and I'm honestly not concerned about the actual surgery itself. I am mildly concerned about getting the IV in (I'm a hard stick). But honestly, the idea of surgery and anesthesia is not worrying me. I keep poking at it and getting nothing back. So either I'm actually terrified and suppressing it, or I'm really...not worried.
- My team at work was great about offering to pick up things I absolutely need to have covered while I'm out. I have to do a bit of training, but I think all of the essentials are covered.
- Really funny thing (at least to me): I bought a new pill box last week because all my vitamins and whatnot weren't really fitting into my old one. The supplement pills are all huge. I don't mind, because I learnt to swallow pills when I was 4, so I can swallow anything in pill form, no joke (and yet, I can't manage shots. I'll choke on a full shot every time. We used to set me up with half shots back when I still drank alcohol to keep me from getting booze everywhere when I started sputtering). Well, I ordered the pill box off the internet because I couldn't find an AM/PM one at the store that was any bigger than the one I had and I really need it to have morning and night compartments that are connected in one box. I've done the separate boxes thing before and it's a pain in the ass and I can remember at least two med errors from mixing up the boxes. Yeah, the pill box I ordered? Is ginormous. I think I can fit a small travel sized bottle of like, Advil or something in one compartment. It said it was "jumbo" sized in the description, but it didn't look that large in the picture and I have no sense of size or scale, so the dimensions didn't help clue me in. So, at the moment, I can't take anything other than my prescription meds because the doctor said no supplements/vitamins/painkillers/what have you for the two weeks before surgery. All my prescription pills are itty bitty, so they're rattling around in these giant compartments and it's like, I don't know, Jack and the Beanstalk or Alice in Wonderland or something. But it's cracking me up. Well, at least I won't have any problem getting all the pills to fit when I add my supplements back in.
- I am starting to feel the effects of no supplements, though. My attention span is at about -5 and the bad headache is back (I'd beaten it more or less into submission with the application of several doses of tramadol + acetaminophen and it had stayed back down when I had upped the Omega 3s again). So I'm trying to do all this stuff at work with a brain that's only about 2/3rds functional and with a raging headache while being under some additional level of stress, even though I really and truly feel that surgery is the right thing to do and I'm honestly not concerned about the actual surgery itself. I am mildly concerned about getting the IV in (I'm a hard stick). But honestly, the idea of surgery and anesthesia is not worrying me. I keep poking at it and getting nothing back. So either I'm actually terrified and suppressing it, or I'm really...not worried.
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Date: 2015-02-25 06:14 am (UTC)Re:size estimation - One thing I found helps me quite a bit is that I know the length of my hand, and when I want to grasp the size of something I can go "it's [x] hand lengths", which helps visualize it much better.
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Date: 2015-02-26 12:22 am (UTC)