Good morning! I had the CATScan yesterday morning, the preliminary report didn't show any obstruction (thank goodness) and the full report should be in on Monday. The GI doctor I see is really the doctor's nurse practitioner (just easier to write doctor) and the doctor reviews her cases. Anyway, the doctor in the practice she works for is on vacation until next week so she showed my X-ray to another GI doctor in the practice who said I have to clean out or I may be in trouble. I don't know if I describes it it not but in the X-ray it looked like someone took little beach pebbles, like the kind you see in the yards at beach houses, the little round white ones, and filled my abdomen with them. That's why my stomach and colon are distended and I either had to go to the ER to be flushes out or do it at home with a combination of 64oz of Gatorade mixed with an entire bottle of miralax, plus a few other things I would rather not mention. I choose the home method, so I started treatment yesterday and now I'm hoping all be done in time for me to go to my nephews fiancé's baby shower today that is 1 1/2 hours away. Time will tell.

I was feeling really bad last night, maybe from the juice or maybe from the whole day, not sure. I only urinated once after the CATScan even though I drank 8 glasses of water and juice like they said because the she weighs heavy on the kidneys. I have very small veins and the tech blew out my good one, they had to go to the other arm and call in someone else...waited another 15 minutes for her to finish what she was doing to come help us. Both my arms are bruised and E's I still had to go to a different facility for blood work (vitamin D test) because unless I'm hospitalized my ins only covers one lab. Anyway, because of how bad my arms were they had to draw from my hand and surprisingly it didn't hurt that much.

I felt so tired last night, I kept falling asleep and I've been so tired lately, I had the chills and felt very weak too. I'm feeling a little off this morning, probably because I kept waking up running for the bathroom...I think I may have hit the 10,000 steps goal yesterday LOL. I'm trying to drink plenty of water now to flush this laxative cocktail out...I've been up since 6 and have yet to urinate even though I drank 64 oz of Gatorade yesterday and into last night, plus another 40 oz of just water last night and 20 oz of just water this morning. The good news...my back pain isn't so bad today. When I feel the fluid moving, I can actually feel it in my back on the left too...so weird to feel things moving through your body. Happy it's happening but it's weird just the same.

I just want to go to this shower, I am so excited about being a great aunt again and this is the first baby shower that was in NY making it possible for me to attend. I am so happy for my niece, she will love being a grandmother, we have always done everything together so why should being grandmothers be any different! She is the daughter of my eldest brother, he is 20 years older than me and she (my niece) is 2 yrs 3 days younger than me and more of a sister and friend. Our kids are close too and now we will be grandmothers together, I want to be there for her too.

This is going to be hard on everyone because my Mom won't be there. When we did my daughter's baby shower my MOm was in a skilled nursing rehabilitation center requiring round the clock care and couldn't come. I was ok until at the shower and it just felt so different so incomplete without her and I cried hard with my sisters but pulled it together before the guests arrives. My Mom had very close relationships with all of her grand kids, my niece even lived wih us for a few months during her rebelious teenage years and the again as an adult with her family while they were waiting for the construction on her house to finish. I talked to her two days ago and she told me how she was sad because Mom wouldn't be there I know this will hit her and want to be there for her.

I guess time will tell but I have high hopes.

So that's me for today.

Have a great day!