My Ass Hurts

Warning: Way, way TMI Alert!

Oh. My. God. Usually when I say my ass hurts, it's usually about the decreasing amount of padding in that region, but today is about the much dreaded "H" word ... hemorrhoids. So incredibly painful. I'd felt a little ... "aggravation" down there for the past couple of days, but I just figured it was due to all the wiping from the previous few days, but then Friday through last night, I'd been really constipated and then 'rhoids made their existence known with a vengeance. Thankfully I ran out to the grocery store to get some Preparation H (stuff is expensive, but worth it). My first poop was firm and nearly brought me to tears, the other 10 or so have been liquidy and were initially not as painful, but the last couple were. Ugh. Ugh. I guess I've earned another DS badge. Not too happy about that. I took a long hot shower and then went to bed and it took me about an hour for the pain to subside so that I could fall asleep. All I can hope for is this to get progressively better. Ouch. At least this morning I can sit down like a normal person.

Anyway while I was at the store, I also picked up two packs of turkey drumsticks to be slow cooked at some point this week. Yum. I will probably cook them Wednesday so that I can have plenty over the weekend through to Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is more about the ham for me than turkey. Speaking of, I think I will opt for the baked macaroni & cheese and then make a couple of mama's sweet potato pies.

I weighed in this morning only because I wanted to see what the progress was given all the pooping I did yesterday and the scale said 274.4 lbs. Cool, not bad. I had a few pickles last night...every now and then I just have a craving for them, don't know why so I probably had too much and am retaining water. Oh well, it will resolve itself soon enough.

Well, I have a lunch meeting this afternoon at Chili's so I gotta scope out their menu online to see what I can eat, then I have to try to find something good for my dad for his birthday. He's a tough guy to shop for, but you know dads and their daughters, he'll love anything I get him.

Random

Lots of random little things today:

1. I just got home a couple of hours ago. I spent the night at BP's house. Her husband left for France to visit his daughter earlier in the day and she felt uncomfortable being by herself in that giant house of hers. We talked til close to midnight and it was nice to have a conversation with her without me wanting to throttle her.

2. It's cold here in Atlanta and I do NOT like it.

3. As usual, support group meeting was pretty good last night. The organizers have added two other meetings so last night's group was about 1/2 of what it normally is, but great nonetheless. I was pretty anxious for this meeting as I really wanted to talk to the nutritionist about my diet. As a quick sidenote, I love how there is a nutritionist always there! Anyway, I told her how much protein I was eating and she looked at me like I was crazy. She said I was eating way too much. I'm confused. She said I should be getting in around 90 grams. I'm not sure what to do. I think I will follow her advice for this upcoming week and see how it goes. Maybe it was the addition of the probiotics that was doing the trick for me. I guess we'll see. BTW, I won two tickets that night as well! Lucky me, I finally won something.

4. I start my job Monday and I haven't finished my shopping. This sucks for at least one reason. It means I have to go shopping tomorrow and the area where all the shops are is always crowded. Boooo! The other thing that sucks is the pants I just bought a freaking week ago are too big, I think I mentioned this, but I can't believe it!

5. If my hair keeps falling out at it's current rate, I may have to go the short route, which isn't so bad since I had short hair for a good 3-4 years. I kinda miss it actually, makes grooming much easier.

6. Good God, my ass hurts! Time to go lay down.