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...
Not much to update, just busy with making slides and research stuff for the professor I'm working with.
Took the meds quite early this time, at about 10:15am or so.
6/14
Brunch:
last night's leftover - a bowl rice congee, congee has cabbage, carrots, celery, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, and 3 meatballs (ground beef and "Asian spice"[garlic, green onions, and ginger]).
Snack:
Japanese soft cake with red beans paste as fillings (had two of these!)
Dinner:
Store-bought microwave dinner - roasted turkey, with leftover rice congee.
2 pieces of homemade honey cake.
Weight: 168.2lbs
Side effect: maybe fatigue, I was very tired around 2 today even though I've only gone out of the house for a meeting that was no longer than 10 minutes, and about 30 minutes of grocery shopping after taking meds at Health Dept. It was very strange that I felt like I needed to "crash" my couch...
6/15
Brunch: Carl's Jr's breakfast burrito + McDonald's hash brown
Snack: Carl's Jr's breakfast burrito
Dinner: McDonald's 10pc chicken nuggets with sweet & sour sauce +coke
Side effect: red-orange pee
Side note: yes, guilty of the fast-food hunt.
6/16
Lunch: Wendy's Ciabana (? I forgot the name of it) meal with lemonade
Dinner: noodles (carrots and cucumbers with olive oil and lemon juice dressing) and dumplings (pork & veggies) at a friend's house. 1 and 1/2 piece of homemade honey cake. two scoops of vanilla ice cream.
Side effect: red-orange pee
6/17-6/20 Blurrrrrrrr
Lost track of that part of the week...been busy with research :'(
Took the meds quite early this time, at about 10:15am or so.
6/14
Brunch:
last night's leftover - a bowl rice congee, congee has cabbage, carrots, celery, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, and 3 meatballs (ground beef and "Asian spice"[garlic, green onions, and ginger]).
Snack:
Japanese soft cake with red beans paste as fillings (had two of these!)
Dinner:
Store-bought microwave dinner - roasted turkey, with leftover rice congee.
2 pieces of homemade honey cake.
Weight: 168.2lbs
Side effect: maybe fatigue, I was very tired around 2 today even though I've only gone out of the house for a meeting that was no longer than 10 minutes, and about 30 minutes of grocery shopping after taking meds at Health Dept. It was very strange that I felt like I needed to "crash" my couch...
6/15
Brunch: Carl's Jr's breakfast burrito + McDonald's hash brown
Snack: Carl's Jr's breakfast burrito
Dinner: McDonald's 10pc chicken nuggets with sweet & sour sauce +coke
Side effect: red-orange pee
Side note: yes, guilty of the fast-food hunt.
6/16
Lunch: Wendy's Ciabana (? I forgot the name of it) meal with lemonade
Dinner: noodles (carrots and cucumbers with olive oil and lemon juice dressing) and dumplings (pork & veggies) at a friend's house. 1 and 1/2 piece of homemade honey cake. two scoops of vanilla ice cream.
Side effect: red-orange pee
6/17-6/20 Blurrrrrrrr
Lost track of that part of the week...been busy with research :'(
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