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MARCH WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE - DAY #20
Totals:  Friday, March 20, 2009

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Eileen - Day #257 - Friday
 Daily intake goals::  20-35g carbs / 64+ oz. water
Total net carb grams yesterday:  waaaay over
Total net carb crams today: waaaay over again
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Well it’s 1:00 in the morning and I’m just now getting to post.  I’m tired!

Mom is doing well.  No one actually knows specifically what caused her to have such severe pain in her leg, but the cardiologist gave us an “educated guess” and said it was probably a blood clot which caused internal pressure on the nerves.  Actually, “blood clot” is not the actual term because it wasn’t actually a clot, it was actually the opposite of a clot. 

My mom has a pacemaker and has been on a low dosage of coumadin (a drug that thins the blood) for years.  Her doctor usually keeps a close eye on her I&R levels (how thick/thin her blood is) but for some reason lately she hadn’t been checked.  When she was admitted to the hospital Thursday morning, her I&R was over eleven - it’s supposed to be between 2 and 3.  Because her blood was so thin, the slightest bump to her flesh made her bleed - not open bleeding, I mean under the skin.  She had bruises all up and down her arms and legs, small ones which she swore she could not remember any trauma related to them.

The doctor thinks she bumped her shin and bled, deep down within the tissue.  The pressure of the blood in such a constricted area (there isn’t a whole lot of flesh between your bone and skin on your shin) caused pressure on the nerves resulting in the sensation of severe pain and cramping. 

She was very lucky to have had this happen.  The damage to her was minimal and she will likely recover fully.  The damage to her could have been quite severe if she had not come in when she did.  She was already starting to go into kidney failure - and could have bled to death internally from just about anywhere in her body.  Had she had a severe cut, she would have bled out in minutes, her blood was so thin.

There’s a reason for everything.  It definitely wasn’t her time to go.  I’ll tell ya why.

My brother wasn’t going to take her to the hospital.  My mom has recurring gout and when it happens she has severe pain in her legs, very similar to what she’d been experiencing.  I called my brother (who lives 5 minutes from her) to tell him that Mom was really in pain and wanted to go to the hospital and he actually kinda yelled at me for overreacting.  “Yes, I talked to her, it’s gout, it’s no different from any other time, she doesn’t need to go to the hospital!”  He told me to call her and I said I was planning to.

Well, I didn’t call her right away.  Brother said it was gout so I wasn’t worried anymore.  It was getting kinda late so I thought, “I’ll call her back in the morning.”

In the meantime, my mom called him and said, “I think I need to go to the hospital.”  Brother ASSUMED that I had spoken to Mom and told her Brother’s position on that subject and that I told Mom to call him and say she wanted to go to the hospital ANYWAY.  So he came right over (at 10:30 at night) and took her to the ER.

He called me from the ER and said, “Well?  Are you coming here?”  I said sure, but why are you all pissed at me?  He said, “It’s your fault we’re here, you told Mom to call me.”  I’m like - Uhhh I didn’t even speak to Mom!

So anyway, she ended up at the ER because of a misunderstanding.  I don’t believe in coincidence!

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Ack, for the first time this month, in fact, the first time since our vacation back in January - I went off plan!  OMG WAY off plan!  Now I have the lovely challenge of getting back into ketosis and past the carb cravings!  ARRGGGHH!  I’m supposed to weigh in tomorrow and between the last two days of eating hospital cafeteria food AND not exercising since my bike ride on Tuesday (!!!) I can just IMAGINE what my weight is gonna look like tomorrow!  Yikes!

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Also, thank you to everybody for all your warm and thoughtful comments!  Your wishes and prayers are all wonderful and appreciated!!  (And they helped a LOT!!) 

((((((((BIG HUGS)))))))))

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