Post #3 – Documenting a Day

A day in the life of Carolann

I picked a crappy day to track my daily routine, but as of late this is how a lot of my days end up. I woke up at 5:40am to get ready for work, but laying in bed for 20mins, checking my emails, Facebook and then logging on to PokemonGO while I grabbed my clothes. At 6:15 I was dressed and putting on my make-up and then my husband woke up to see me off to work. I decided it would be nice to leave a bit early and get coffee and breakfast for my husband and the kids. At 6:40am I left my house to stop at McDonalds, which didn’t take long at all, as I was back home and handing off food by 7am, I then left again to drive to work. I got to the highway at 7:08am, and I realized there was no way I was going to make it into work, I didn’t realize when I first started drink my coffee, but my body knew in just less than 15mins I had cream and sugar in there. Some things to note:

·         I used to drink the sugar filled coffee from there and Starbucks all the time, and I have only recently eliminated sugar from my diet.

·         I had gastric bypass in December, and I can no longer process more than 3g of sugar at a time.

·         I’ve lost 130lbs since December 21^st, 2017, and I feel awesome about that, but a lot of my day I spend sleeping because I got sick from food.

·         Once I get dumping syndrome I am pretty much only able to drink water for 72hrs while my body resets.

·          I’m still getting used to this, as I never know if a food or drink is going to make me sick.

Before I turned on the highway, I had already gotten sick, and felt like I was going to die. This was dumping syndrome, joy. I parked my car on a side street until I could chug a bottle of water to flush my system, since I cannot hold more than 4oz of anything at a time, it generally just makes me sick, but I needed to get the coffee out of my system. I pulled back in my drive way at 7:30am, and started writing an email to my boss, to let her know I could not sit in on class today, but I would work remote from home to finish the PowerPoint for the other instructors. I went inside, changed my clothes, cried until my stomach pills and pain pill kicked in, and passed out by 8am. I woke up at 1pm, with a horrible migraine, most likely from throwing up and also taking the pain medication, so I took a migraine pill which unfortunately also makes me sleep, and I slept from 1:30pm until 5pm. I must have woken up a few times here and there, as I drank 3 bottles of water while sleeping, but I don’t remember. At 5pm I started making dinner, which my husband ended up finishing, as just sampling the noodles to see if they were done made me sick. At 6pm I sat down with my family while they ate dinner, we watched the original Jurassic Park, and my two-year-old kept trying to keep the dinosaurs his dinner so they wouldn’t eat him, he also offered his sister Aerith to them as a snack but told them not to eat Zoey because she gives him string cheese, it was adorable. Around 8pm I started and finished my PowerPoint for work and emailed it at 10pm. At 10:15, I started thinking back on the day, and realized, I really picked a dreadful day to write about, however tomorrow and Sunday will be more of the same. Normally I play my PokemonGo game with my husband and kids Saturday and Sunday as we go out with others, walk around hang out at the Zoo or a park or two, but this weekend I will spend it bed, staying hydrated and not passing out like last time.