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Welcome, Baby A.

  On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
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Week 6, half way done

Got my pills at 1:45. I can now swallow 3 pills at a time! Cuts down my pill-taking time about 1/3 lol. This week will be great as I know I'll be eating a lot more other stuff, since my friend and I are flying to Atlanta on Saturday. I won't be coming home until Wednesday which gives me plenty of "opportunity" to explore the food market in Atlanta....we'll also be playing at Six Flags (both parks!) for two whole days and I probably will have something like fried chicken while there...not sure what I could eat there that's INH/Pre-diabetes friendly. I won't be bringing my laptop or any computer device this time. Think my Galaxy Note will suffice my need for Facebook & e-mails and take care of the occasional urge for web surfing.
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Week 5, def guilty of comfort food!

So Friday was the start of my week 5 on the pills. So far, the only side effect that's bothering me is the occasional tingling that usually happens occur in my left side of body. Seeing the red-orange pee isn't that weird to me anymore. I just hate the random tinglings because sometimes they do hurt (shooting pain that lasts no more than 5 seconds) and it happens without any signs...it just happens...I've noticed it usually happens on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Friday's the day I take those pills. Since my red-orange pee goes away by Sunday evening, I'm guessing whatever's in the pills are mostly out of my system by Monday. Also, I find the double-diet* not too hard anymore, good sign? yeah :) *double-diet=(1) INH diet, and (2)pre-diabetic diet.
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New job! Hurray!

So my daily life now not only includes cooking, internet-surfing, gaming (League of Legends, anyone playing on the US server??), couch-potatoing, but also typing and making slides. I'm technically working 15 hours a week for one person at the Business School (at the university I'm going to attend starting this Fall). I'm still just in day 3, and practically done with all the assignments of the week (worked my butt off so I can leave SLC this weekend with no worries). The readings and "highlights" (highlighting things) I have been assigned with have taken about 14-15 hours yesterday and today, and the slides took about 4 hours the day before. The best thing about this job is I can work whereever I want. I have been doing most of the work at home, with today being the exception for which I worked at Mr L's office because I didn't have any highlighters at the moment and Mr. L's colleague offered me his. There's no clock-in clock-out system and no se...
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Food Diary, Week 4

Took my 4th packet of meds in the morning. Drank down the whole bottle of water before noon (I hate water :( so this was an accomplishment for me). Ryan the nurse told me he'll be out of town next Friday so I'll be taking these meds from someone else. He thinks there won't be a problem. I believe that too, but I'm anticipating it'll take a while for whoever that'll be there to find my packet, as it did for each time I've been there and they always ended up having to call Ryan out to get my packet...
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Week 3 - 1/4 through!

Took another 10 pills from Ryan. Each time I go in, I tell myself to swallow those pills like they're just vitamins, but ewwww, they taste gross - very very bitter. 9 more weeks left. I can do this!
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Last Weekend -> Great Weekend!

Last weekend was great. Words cannot express how happy I was. I think I have been a hermit for way too long and forgot how much happiness little hangout could bring. Mr. L and I attended Vikas's graduation last  Friday. Technically, Vikas isn't a graduate yet because he graduates in the summer, but his family flew in and we all cheered for him on the university's convocation day like he really has done it! Well, I'm sure we'll have a grand finale in cheering again later this summer when he's done it done it :)
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Week 2, more tinglings!

Went to Health Department yesterday at about 2:40pm. Took the same 10 tablets and headed back home to change, and then to a friend's graduation. I wasn't feeling dizzy or nauseous, but I kept feeling a bit...off? I think it was just a mind thing (that my mind knew I just took some strong meds so the body started to feel funny even though the meds probably haven't even kicked in yet). I think the meds were making me anxious because I haven never felt the urge to "do something" in the middle of the night before. It felt awful. I feel like I wanted to do something so bad but of course, midnight in Salt Lake City has nothing to offer sleepless people. I made spring rolls instead.
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Food Diary, Week 1 of INH & RPT

Today (4/26/2013) I started my first week treatment with INH & RPT. I arrived at Health Department at around 3:30 this afternoon. The nurse at the reception desk could not find my meds so she went to get my nurse. Ryan, my assigned nurse, was very nice and called me to go to him after a few minutes of waiting. Ryan took out a sealed orange envelope and opened it in front of me. While my nurse did his best in explaining how many mgs each pill consisted and went on some side effects that are likely to occur today and tomorrow, I was in my silent shock mode because I had never seen that many pills in one pouch in my life, and they were all for me. There were 10, I think. Six tabs of 150mg INH and one tab for Vitamin B6 for sure, and I think there were three 300mg of RPT. Again, I was just shocked to see that many pills in one little pouch and for one second I just thought back to my time with my ex-work environment where one of my daily tasks involved giving out pills to kids in subs...
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