2 August 2024
Happy Labor Day!
My day started without any breakfast except for the two cups of coffee that finally got me awake. From then on, it was a liquid diet or at least semi-solid one with lime Jello. I opted for the pre-made Jello from the refrigerated case. Later, I did a cup of Better than Bouillon, beef flavored, and then another cup of Jello. That stuff is addicting.
I sat at the computer reading e-papers for a while and then heard from Barbara who suggested I might be hungry after the procedure and would meet up with me and Joel for a late lunch. By then, it was pretty much 2 pm and time to start the prep.
I mixed one 328 g container of MiraLAX into 48 ounces of Gatorade last night and let it chill in the fridge. In case you are wondering, that’s 6 glasses of Gatorade. It made the Gatorade taste a little chalky but otherwise it was OK going down. By 3 pm I had finished the MiraLAX/Gatorade combination and decided to take a nap.
I realized something urgent was about to happen and jumped out of bed and made it to the bathroom just in time at 5 pm and stayed there for the next 35 minutes. You can play a lot of Solitaire on your iPad in that amount of time.
I hope they know what they are doing. I had not fully recovered from the last bout of diarrhea and here they are giving me diarrhea. Can I assume the Gatorade is hydrating with the amount of discharge I’m having?
I have no plans of getting any sleep tonight, particularly with the second dose scheduled at 10 pm. This time, it’s Crystal Lite. At least my back seems to be a little better.
The next 24 hours is censored.
Stay tuned!