Intentional Glutening: Day 12

Breakfast: (9:45am)

• challah french toast
  

Physical:

• ache - every single part of me - so bad that i had to let him cook breakfast - just slicing the bread was really really painful
• slept hard
• difficulty waking
• i am told i look less like the 'dying' person i looked last night
  

Mental:

• feel clear headed
• anxious
• per Philip i am having emotional issues - he says this because i was crying because i am in too much pain to be of much use today and it seems like there is a lot to get done - maybe normally i wouldn't cry about it
  

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Lunch: (12pm)

• (11:30) peanut butter captain crunch
  
• greek food leftovers
  

Physical:

• still in a lot of pain, everywhere
• spent about an hour only being able to smell "old fish" and nothing else (point of fact: we have no fish in the house at present) didn't exactly help with the nausea...
  
• unable to really function and be helpful
• a little easy baking (had to have help)
• wrapped two gifts (very very slowly)
  

Mental:

• ok, so i'm an emotional wreck...
  

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Dinner: (5pm)

• Hannukah at FMIL's house
• cranberry juice and 7up
  
• latkes with applesauce and/or sour cream
  
• fried chicken
• roasted veggies
• hot cranberry sauce
• fresh fruit
• red zinger tea
  
• lemon cake
• peaches in puff pastry

To get to sleep

• 3-4 cups of warm water with 2 shots of vodka and peppermint extract
  

Physical:

• constant nausea but no vomiting
  
• i was already in a lot of pain (bones, joints, gut, head, muscles, etc) by the time we got there about 4
• helping with dinner was a good distraction but by 5 i had to lie down a couple of minutes on the couch before i was ok
• by the time we left at 8:45 i was a wreck and in lots of pain. really really bloated.
• Philip got me home and put me in bed with water(etc) and some light reading in the hopes that i would be able to get to sleep
• finally got to sleep around 10:30
• woke about a dozen times throughout the night in pain
  

Mental:

• definitely off, emotionally - prone to fits of crying and paranoia
  
• mental's a little fuzzy but not bad - still having difficulties finding words
• hoping this was all worth it
• soooooooooo glad this will all be over in a few days