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...
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.
Here's to the second week of food tracking/diary with latent TB.
5/3
Breakfast-
A bowl of cereal with 2% milk
Lunch-
leftover baked chicken from the night before (chicken, basil, black pepper, "Asian seasoning," and rosemary) on a bed of salad (iceberg lettuce, carrots, and red onions), dressingless. One Fuji apple.
Dinner-
Smith's store bought roasted whole chicken ("savory"), I had a leg and a wing of it, and one of its' breasts. A bowl of salad (iceberg lettuce, carrots, and red onions), dressingless again.
Weight: 172.2
Exercise: none
Side effect: tingling in left palm and just below left index knuckle, pee started to darken just before I went to bed.
5/4
Breakfast-
Two homemade spring rolls (store bought spring roll sheets, carrots, celery, egg, cabbage, chicken [leftover baked chicken with celery and basil, rosemary, "Asian seasoning," and black pepper from Thursday])
Lunch-
Cafe Rio's Salad without dressing (lettuce, cilantro, pulled chicken breast, seasoned brown rice, and lime juice) and a cup of water.
Afternoon snack-
Drank a litter of lemonade.
Dinner-
Corn chowder with pulled chicken (from store bought roasted chicken the night before) with black pepper and celery, no flour added, just one can of creamy corn and some water, and two homemade spring rolls (same from breakfast).
Weight: 172.4
Exercise: walked about 30 minutes during the "green festival" this afternoon..
Side effect: tingling in both hands' knuckles and grapefruit-color pee, the color of a reddish-orange all day but started to lighten a bit by 7pm. Noticed myself cough a lot with shorter breathing this afternoon but it might be allergy.
Side note: got really hungry but could not eat anything because nothing was edible for me due to food interaction so I just kept on drinking lemonade...think having drank this much of lemonade might also helped with the lightening of my pee...?
5/5
Brunch-
Yakisoba udon without sauce (pretty much just stir-fry udon with sweet peppers, green beans, eggs, and onions), 15 chicken nuggets (bwahaha I was so happy with these :))
Dinner-
Bulgogi chicken with cucumber and asparagus (chicken breast, cucumber, asparagus, 2 tablespoons of bulgogi sauce with pear puree). White rice. Two homemade spring rolls (carrots, celery, egg, cabbage, chicken, rosemary, basil and "Asian seasoning") with sweet sauce (soy sauce, sugar, and flour).
Snack-
Taiwanese fish snack made with "fish paste" and spice, one orange, and 1 liter of lemonade.
Weight: 173.0
Exercise: 30 minutes of cardio dance at home, mostly focusing on abs.
Side effect: a little bit of red left in my orange pee by evening
Side note 1: been coughing since evening, since I woke up from coughing. Took a nap around 6 - the fatigue feeling seems to attack me the most on Sundays as I also found myself super tired last Sunday, took a nap that evening as well. It's like a pattern? Tingling in left side of the body on Friday and Saturday, very-red-orange-pee on Saturday morning (which lasts until Sunday evening or Monday morning), and feel super tired by Sunday afternoon & urge for a nap before actual bed time.
Side note 2: I ate chicken with Bulgogi on purpose - trying out soy sauce with pear puree. Also, same with the Taiwanese fish snack and the sweet sauce on my spring rolls.
5/6
Breakfast-
One Fuji apple.
Lunch-
Lunch box: leftover food from last night (bulgogi chicken with cucumber and asparagus, spring roll x1)
Dinner-
Copper Bowl (Indian Restaurant): Chicken in spinach onion paste (I skipped the tomato bites, so wanted to have those, I miss tomatoes...), a bit of Chicken masala, lots of butter rice.
Dessert-
Indian dessert made by Vikas's mom: one cookie, one "sugar ball," and some snack made with cashews. Everything had no yeast, it was like specially made for me yay! I had half of everything!
Weight: 173.0
Exercise: none - planning on staying home and rest all day today
Side effect: none - just really tired
Side note 1: still coughed a bit this morning, itchy throat and sore throat at the same time really sucks. I'm hoping it's my allergy but it could possibly be a cold too because I did go out a lot just last weekend. Whatever it is, I do not plan on taking any medicine for because I'm too chicken about any additional side effect I might get from cold meds and/or allergy pills. The combination of some kickass antibiotics and over-the-counter cold tabs & allergy tabs most likely won't kill me but I'm still too chicken to try. Ugh!
Side note 2: "gaining weight" o.o?! noooooo. I think I need to be more strict with myself about no more snack after dinner...even though I always feel hungry.. T_T!
5/7
first meal was at 5:45pm- cereal with 2% milk
Dinner-
Fried chicken drumstick (2), seasoned with white pepper powder and salt.
veggie omelette (carrots, celery, green beans, corn, and peas), seasoned with leaf oregano and parsley)
Snack-
(10:30pm)Mr. L brought home a large bowl of chili soup from Wendy's, no cheese, just extra onions! ahhh how could I say noooo!? and a few sips of sprite...
Weight: 172.0
Exercise: none
Side effect: a few minor tinglings in my left palm and index finger.
Side note: woke up at 2:40pm. period came, now my normal fatigue from my period plus the drug-induced fatigue, I'm super tired. period.
5/8
Brunch-
cereal w/2% milk
Dinner-
potato stew (lean pork, yukon potatoes, celery, creamy corn, salt, and black pepper) on white rice, and lettuce wraps (romaine lettuce, lean pork, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, and olive oil)
Snack-
chocolate waffle bites...
Weight: 171.8
Exercise: none
Side effect: none
Side note 1: I'm grateful that my late night chili soup from last night did not bump up a pound on the scale today. Didn't have three meals again because, again, I woke up at 2ish in the afternoon...
Side note 2: ahhhh chocolate! I blame on my cramps..no exercise also goes to my cramps...
5/9
Brunch-
cereal w/2% milk
Dinner-
lettuce wraps (leaf lettuce, lean pork, seasoned with soy sauce with mushroom extracts)
Wendy's large chili soup.
Weight: 172.0
Exercise: none
Side note: cramps cramps cramps. they're more painful than before. not sure if its cuz I haven't been eating as much as I used to before or because my body is in lack of vitamins due to the meds, or maybe they're just more stubborn this month? Also, very glad Wendy's chili soup gave me no upset stomach or anything unusual. I was a bit skeptical because chili soup has "a lot of flavor" and being on an INH diet is like you need to eat fewer flavor as possible (or so I felt). I'm glad I found one "outside food/fast food" my body can tolerate. Just an option for the next 64 days!
Here's to the second week of food tracking/diary with latent TB.
5/3
Breakfast-
A bowl of cereal with 2% milk
Lunch-
leftover baked chicken from the night before (chicken, basil, black pepper, "Asian seasoning," and rosemary) on a bed of salad (iceberg lettuce, carrots, and red onions), dressingless. One Fuji apple.
Dinner-
Smith's store bought roasted whole chicken ("savory"), I had a leg and a wing of it, and one of its' breasts. A bowl of salad (iceberg lettuce, carrots, and red onions), dressingless again.
Weight: 172.2
Exercise: none
Side effect: tingling in left palm and just below left index knuckle, pee started to darken just before I went to bed.
5/4
Breakfast-
Two homemade spring rolls (store bought spring roll sheets, carrots, celery, egg, cabbage, chicken [leftover baked chicken with celery and basil, rosemary, "Asian seasoning," and black pepper from Thursday])
Lunch-
Cafe Rio's Salad without dressing (lettuce, cilantro, pulled chicken breast, seasoned brown rice, and lime juice) and a cup of water.
Afternoon snack-
Drank a litter of lemonade.
Dinner-
Corn chowder with pulled chicken (from store bought roasted chicken the night before) with black pepper and celery, no flour added, just one can of creamy corn and some water, and two homemade spring rolls (same from breakfast).
Weight: 172.4
Exercise: walked about 30 minutes during the "green festival" this afternoon..
Side effect: tingling in both hands' knuckles and grapefruit-color pee, the color of a reddish-orange all day but started to lighten a bit by 7pm. Noticed myself cough a lot with shorter breathing this afternoon but it might be allergy.
Side note: got really hungry but could not eat anything because nothing was edible for me due to food interaction so I just kept on drinking lemonade...think having drank this much of lemonade might also helped with the lightening of my pee...?
5/5
Brunch-
Yakisoba udon without sauce (pretty much just stir-fry udon with sweet peppers, green beans, eggs, and onions), 15 chicken nuggets (bwahaha I was so happy with these :))
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| even BeiBei and LuLu wanted some haha (they just wanted the chicken nuggets I bet!) |
Dinner-
Bulgogi chicken with cucumber and asparagus (chicken breast, cucumber, asparagus, 2 tablespoons of bulgogi sauce with pear puree). White rice. Two homemade spring rolls (carrots, celery, egg, cabbage, chicken, rosemary, basil and "Asian seasoning") with sweet sauce (soy sauce, sugar, and flour).
Snack-
Taiwanese fish snack made with "fish paste" and spice, one orange, and 1 liter of lemonade.
Weight: 173.0
Exercise: 30 minutes of cardio dance at home, mostly focusing on abs.
Side effect: a little bit of red left in my orange pee by evening
Side note 1: been coughing since evening, since I woke up from coughing. Took a nap around 6 - the fatigue feeling seems to attack me the most on Sundays as I also found myself super tired last Sunday, took a nap that evening as well. It's like a pattern? Tingling in left side of the body on Friday and Saturday, very-red-orange-pee on Saturday morning (which lasts until Sunday evening or Monday morning), and feel super tired by Sunday afternoon & urge for a nap before actual bed time.
Side note 2: I ate chicken with Bulgogi on purpose - trying out soy sauce with pear puree. Also, same with the Taiwanese fish snack and the sweet sauce on my spring rolls.
5/6
Breakfast-
One Fuji apple.
Lunch-
Lunch box: leftover food from last night (bulgogi chicken with cucumber and asparagus, spring roll x1)
Dinner-
Copper Bowl (Indian Restaurant): Chicken in spinach onion paste (I skipped the tomato bites, so wanted to have those, I miss tomatoes...), a bit of Chicken masala, lots of butter rice.
Dessert-
Indian dessert made by Vikas's mom: one cookie, one "sugar ball," and some snack made with cashews. Everything had no yeast, it was like specially made for me yay! I had half of everything!
Weight: 173.0
Exercise: none - planning on staying home and rest all day today
Side effect: none - just really tired
Side note 1: still coughed a bit this morning, itchy throat and sore throat at the same time really sucks. I'm hoping it's my allergy but it could possibly be a cold too because I did go out a lot just last weekend. Whatever it is, I do not plan on taking any medicine for because I'm too chicken about any additional side effect I might get from cold meds and/or allergy pills. The combination of some kickass antibiotics and over-the-counter cold tabs & allergy tabs most likely won't kill me but I'm still too chicken to try. Ugh!
Side note 2: "gaining weight" o.o?! noooooo. I think I need to be more strict with myself about no more snack after dinner...even though I always feel hungry.. T_T!
5/7
first meal was at 5:45pm- cereal with 2% milk
Dinner-
Fried chicken drumstick (2), seasoned with white pepper powder and salt.
veggie omelette (carrots, celery, green beans, corn, and peas), seasoned with leaf oregano and parsley)
Snack-
(10:30pm)Mr. L brought home a large bowl of chili soup from Wendy's, no cheese, just extra onions! ahhh how could I say noooo!? and a few sips of sprite...
Weight: 172.0
Exercise: none
Side effect: a few minor tinglings in my left palm and index finger.
Side note: woke up at 2:40pm. period came, now my normal fatigue from my period plus the drug-induced fatigue, I'm super tired. period.
5/8
Brunch-
cereal w/2% milk
Dinner-
potato stew (lean pork, yukon potatoes, celery, creamy corn, salt, and black pepper) on white rice, and lettuce wraps (romaine lettuce, lean pork, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, and olive oil)
wish I had the bigger red bowl, I had the miso-bowl :( it was still yummy :)
Snack-
chocolate waffle bites...
Weight: 171.8
Exercise: none
Side effect: none
Side note 1: I'm grateful that my late night chili soup from last night did not bump up a pound on the scale today. Didn't have three meals again because, again, I woke up at 2ish in the afternoon...
Side note 2: ahhhh chocolate! I blame on my cramps..no exercise also goes to my cramps...
5/9
Brunch-
cereal w/2% milk
Dinner-
lettuce wraps (leaf lettuce, lean pork, seasoned with soy sauce with mushroom extracts)
Wendy's large chili soup.
Weight: 172.0
Exercise: none
Side note: cramps cramps cramps. they're more painful than before. not sure if its cuz I haven't been eating as much as I used to before or because my body is in lack of vitamins due to the meds, or maybe they're just more stubborn this month? Also, very glad Wendy's chili soup gave me no upset stomach or anything unusual. I was a bit skeptical because chili soup has "a lot of flavor" and being on an INH diet is like you need to eat fewer flavor as possible (or so I felt). I'm glad I found one "outside food/fast food" my body can tolerate. Just an option for the next 64 days!
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