DAY 15 (day 6 meds)

OOOH BOY.  Truth time.  I'm NOT looking forward to this next battle.  Tomorrow, I finish the first wave of treatment.  The next day, I start the pills that remove the slime that acts as a protector for the bad bacteria that is currently partying in my gut.  Basically, I'm the DEA, busting down the door of a smooth operation, leaking toxic substances into my nice neighborhood of a body.  So, once the door is broken down, all of the bad elements scatter to the 4 winds and wreak havoc.  From my understanding, I may undergo a few days when alot of my symptoms come back.  And bad.  Because instead of a little bit of bacteria causing problems, it's gonna be 2 billion freshman frat girls rushing a sorority inside my intestines.  Talk about party time...  

But, I've had bad days.  Really bad days.  Days where I tried every trick in the book.  Epsom salt bath, massage chair, TENS unit, prescription medications.  Almost to the point of waking up the husband to go ahead and take me to urgent care. Or the ER.  The doctor says describe your pain from 1 to 10.  My 10 is when my appendix almost burst, and I passed out from the pain in the foyer of the ER. Worse than childbirth.  Yea, on my bad days, it's a 9.  

So, I'm ready.  I'll prep the family.  Make some meals ahead of time.  Put everyone on alert for possibly walking to school, or from school.  Charge up my back-up batteries for the phone so I don't have to get up to charge it.  Maybe make another batch of those yummy muffins and granola (TO DO: buy stuff for granola)

BREAKFAST Today, I did the muffin, coffee thing again.  So far, so good!  No adverse reactions to coffee or eggs. Yay me!

LUNCH  I had a late morning smoothie, and a small leftover piece of salmon from last night.

DINNER  I felt guilty that I hadn't been making very kid friendly dinners for the kids, so I made spaghetti.  It was funny, my son asked "which kind of noodles?"  I said the green soy noodles.  He says "WHEW!! At least we don't have to eat the zucchini noodles again!"  MOM:1 KID:0  Sorry kid, the edamame organic noodles are good for you too!!!

I took the tomato sauce from the other day, and poured it on some of the ground turkey that I made into spaghetti sauce for the kids.  (our usual sauce has some sugar in it, so I separated my meat out.)  I ate it without any noodles.  Just a bowl of meat and tomatoes.  Filling and yummy.  Had a quarter of  cantaloupe for dessert! yum!