So yesterday I went to the program did my blood work and found out that I was at my target of 160. I decided to go to PFE's. I left a message for my counselor who did not call me back and does not work until 6pm Thursday night. So what to do? I decided to go to sleep. 1am my phone is on vibrate, but it wakes me. I answer it and its a Doctor from Kaiser. He was just checking my labs (AT 1 AM!) and the potassium is unusually high. Am I on supplements? Of course...you have me on supplements, why am I on supplements? Because you said I have to for my program...what program...blah blah blah...look at my damn chart! He wants me to come in and get another blood draw...Okay! I'll be there first thing in the morning OH NO! I gotta go tonight! Right now! Hubby just had 2 wisdom teeth taken out and he's on Vicodin and 2 glasses of wine. I wake him and say I have to go to the ER my potassium is 6.6 (normal is 5) He says holy shit! Yes you do! He jumps up and is thinking how did she know her potassium levels? At the ER they check my heart rate 45 (normal is 60-90) So I get an EKG and a bed. I'm on a heart monitor. They take my blood and set up an IV just in case they have to shoot me full of some potassium counter active med. Meanwhile I'm hooked to heart machine with an alarm going off constantly because my heart rate is below normal. 1 hour later the doctor comes in and says my new potassium draw was normal and I can go home after I pay my $50 co-pay.
Hubby is not at all okay with the heart rate and basically insists I begin eating today. I go to the store and carefully pick out my chicken breast. I call the PA at my program and I get dumb one, but she's with it today and agrees I should go to PFE's but reduce my shakes to 5 a day but keep the soups with soy sauce. I get a food scale and carefully measure 3 oz of chicken. I grill it, shut off the TV and begin to eat. It feels weird having food getting stuck in my teeth. Last time I did this I threw up so now I know...eat slow, small bites. It takes over a half an hour to eat my one piece of chicken no bigger than the size of a deck of cards. I dip it in cholula chili lime hot sauce and its wonderful! When I stand up I am so full I can hardly move. I force myself to clean up dinner plates and the kitchen counter. Its nearly 3 hours later and I'm still quite full, but I'm supposed to still have a soup and a shake! I don't think the soup is going to happen tonight!
Well I'm off to exercise hope I don't puke!
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