Today it is Mel’s birthday and I did not get her anything. Normally I plan something or get her something memorable, but this year I was a bit more preoccupied. I think I will plan something once I see how much money we have left in our accounts after I pay for the latest credit card payments. This should be the last major expense for our kitchen renovations and I will see what happens after that. There is not much that we need at this point in the house and we bought what she had wanted.
Yesterday I thought that things were going to be fantastic. I managed my eating fairly well and for most of the day it went well. On our way home we stopped and bought some wood oven pizzas and I ate 1 slice and was ok. I had a bite of another pizza about 20 minutes later and everything was fine. I knew what my limits were and I had thought that I had stayed within it. I calculate it really by seeing how much food Mel would eat. I can normally eat about 25% of what she does and that is my absolute limit. I had wanted another slice of pizza but Mel said that she was going to eat 3 slices, so clearly 1 was my limit. About 45 minutes later I started to not feel as awesome and this persisted for the rest of the drive home. I did not end of vomiting at all and by the time we arrived home it all subsided. I figured after that incident that I had it all under control. I ate a bit during the evening and everything seemed fine. Right before bed I normally have my snack and i had some kimchi 10 minutes before bed. I did not have all that much and only had a couple of bites as I had a craving. Everything was fine and i was lounging in bed for about 30 minutes or so before I decided to go to sleep. As I was lying down I did not feel so great and after about 15 minutes or so I ended up rushing to the bathroom and vacated the contents of my stomach. The lesson is that the impact of the food takes some time before I know. There is a lot of mucous in my stomach and I think I need to make sure I have enough time before I lie down and go to bed. That position makes digestion difficult and the likelihood of me vomiting increases significantly. The amount of food that I am eating daily seems to be increasing and I do not seem to have much of an issue with that. It is the aftermath that I need to watch out with.
Prior to the game, Mel had mentioned that she was worried that Xavier was going to have a tough time with comparison on how the other goalie played on Friday when we won. She had the mindset that the game was going to be tough. The team had a rough start to the game. I expect that my son stops all of the shots and when he lets in goals it annoys me. I told Mel to stop with her negative energy and as soon as that happened we scored a goal. Once she started thinking more positive than our team began to play much better. She was giving more positive energy instead of worrying if our son was not going to do well. He settled down and he did not let any more goals for the rest of the game. If you go in with the mindset that things are going to be tough and you are going to lose, it is the wrong mindset. Normally when Xavier lets in a goal he recovers quickly, but this time when he let in a goal he looked annoyed with himself and I could tell by his body language. He also thinks to make sure that he does a good play and right after he let in a goal he played the puck and cleared it. It seems that is his go to move when he needs to reset. Be more aggressive and play the puck.
Every time I throw up I know that Mel is concerned and I get a bit concerned if things are ok or not. That is why I tend to make sure that I document everything so I can evaluate afterwards what caused the issue. So far it seems that it is more likely due to stomach content and eating as opposed to other things. The concern is that the cancer may have spread and it is causing issues. At this point I think it is ok, but it is hard to tell because the tests tend to not show anything. As time progresses as long as I can keep food down I will be happy enough.
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