Oh, what a little change can do to alter your mood. Yesterday, was Thanksgiving. My husband and I were fortunate enough to be be invited to our friends' home for dinner. This removed a lot of pressure on me to cook a meal when I wasn't feeling my best, and now we don't have those leftovers constantly tempting me to break my elimination diet. Let's face it, I was told to try new things with food, and I was going to eat about everything available (in small amounts) on this day. I knew I would go beyond cheating on the diet, and then wait to see if catastrophe occurred. I decided my punishment would be that I would have to detail every single stinking ingredient in this blog. I admit it; I have been putting it off. To make things today even weirder, my husband took enough pity on me to take accompany me to midnight Black Friday. Yeah, it started at 10pm at Wal-Mart, and it ended at 5am somewhere between J.C. Penny's and Anna's Linens. At around 3am, we found groups of women tearing through a shoe display at Belk, which was when my husband made the above quote. Somehow, I only used the restroom once this entire trip. I'm not saying that I felt comfortable, but no accidents and I could walk/stand around large crowds for hours and be ok. I think I should note that I feel proud of this ( as this was something I could not do in August, when I trip through the Harrah's casino ended with me sitting in tears). Anyway, so this morning was actually around 12:30 pm today. I joined the National Vulvodynia Association. Well, I better stop procrastinating and run the numbers.
Josie
http://www.nva.org/
The Numbers: November 24, 2011. Food: Breakfast: oatmeal, pear (I think. Yuck! I hate it when I'm not sure). Lunch: venison, olive oil, sweet potato, sea salt, carrots, celery. Snack: Wheat roll from bread maker (regular bleached (evil) white flour, whole grain Whole Foods wheat flour, milk, sugar, regular salt, and yeast). Thanksgiving dinner: Turkey - injected unknown spices although it did not seem overwhelming, butter (probably margarine), garlic, salt pepper. Sweet potato (ironic) with marshmellow creme, cinnamon, and sugar. White rice. Green bean casserole (Paula Dean's recipe, and it was awesome!) fresh green beans, creme of mushroom soup, onion, chicken broth, garlic. Mac and cheese: whole wheat noodles, mozzarella cheese, cheddar cheese, eggs, butter, milk. Collards (not sure on the recipe, as my friend's grandmother makes it, and it is awesome. I'm not even a true southerner, and I loved it.) with ham hock and vinegar. Trader Joe's rolls (I love Trader Joe's!). My friend's mother's pumpkin bread (love it, love it love it!) - canned pumpkin, sugar, eggs, flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, oil, vanilla extract, pecans. Her mother's carrot cake (to die for!) - but don't know the recipe, but I'm sure there are carrots (duh!), cream cheese frosting, and possibly dried fruit. My own blueberry pie (flour, salt, crisco, blue berries (duh, again), lemon, sugar, margarine). Also, the peppermint cheese cake: cream cheese, sugar, peppermint, Land o Lakes margarine, eggs, flour, sour cream, vanilla extract, Ducan Hines white cake, vegetable oil, Garabaldi white chocolate, whipping cream. 3am snack - pumpkin bread.
Medications: Prosed DS TID, amitriptyline SID, flexeril around 1pm, 2 Advil around 5pm, Zyrtec SID.
Pain: I would state definite urethral pain throughout the day, about a 4-5. Vaginal burning. Did not get worse at night; maybe even a little better.
November 25, 2011: (this should be easier) Breakfast: oatmeal and pears (of this, I am sure!) Lunch: umm, yeah , the peppermint cheesecake and wheat roll from yesterday. Snack: Carrots. Dinner: sweet potato, venison, olive oil, sea salt, carrots, celery, wheat roll. Dessert will be blue berry pie.
Medications: Prosed DS TID, amitriptyline SID, Zyrtec SID. Likely a flexeril tonight.
Pain: Off and on urethral pain, worst was a 4. I can pretend it got worse after the cheesecake, but I was also sorting bills at the time, and we know stress can do it.
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