It is still early in the day, but I think that I have things under control much better now and a lot of my vomiting was due to lingering effects of radiation treatment. I have the routine down on what I need to do and I think I am beginning to understand the new normal for my body. There seems to be a lot more gas build up in my stomach and Mel says that I am like a baby that needs to be burped. I need to make sure that I have enough room in my stomach for this expansion as there is not enough room when mucuous enters to digest food. I think that is what was leading to my vomiting. Any gas that formed had no release which resulted in me vomiting. As long as the food is not too heavy I think that it will be manageable. Last night when I had my pre-bedtime meal I made sure that I stood by one of the heating vents without moving for a while and I was ok. When I eat I make sure that I stand for a bit and since I am not a baby and have someone pat my back I need to make sure that I can burp a couple of times and things are ok. I still feel a bit of nausea but it is manageable and I have not taken any of my pills as I seem to be ok.
My energy levels have been surprisingly fine as well lately and i have not really been too fatigued when i do things in the day. Mel of course tries and limits what i do and monitors me a lot to make sure that I do not push myself. As she has abandoned me for 3 days and 2 nights she told the kids that they need to carry their own weight. Olivier has certain things he has to do for his routine for his eczema and Mel told him to not rely on me to remind him. She is right, I probably would not remember all of the things he has to do. I apparently also forget to tell him to go to bed. He will stay up until someone tells him to go to bed but the issue is that I think that I go to bed before everyone else, so it is difficult. I rely on him to go to sleep at the appropriate time. Xavier goes to bed when he is tired and if he does not have hockey he tends to go to bed earlier.
Mel’s birthday is coming up next week on Monday and I asked her what she wanted to do for her birthday. We are having our immediate family over on Saturday for a meal. The meal of choice are tapas/pintxos. She likes to have small plates of food for variety. My preference would be to make everything so that the theme is cohesive, but she thinks that it will be too much work for me. We will end up doing some sort of a potluck which I do not mind. Having 3 ovens will also help with this if people have different temperatures that they want to cook their food at. I know of some of the things that Mel wants me to cook for this meal but I still need to figure out how much I can get away with making and what she likes to eat. She will limit how much I do in order to not get too tired. I like to push the limits and sometimes it is a bit too much. We have hockey the night before and the next day on Sunday we need to travel to North Bay for a hockey game as well. I think that i why Mel does not want me to push myself too much as we already have a bit of a busy schedule as it is.
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