Health- sick and tired of being sick and tired
After giving up on trying to get more fluids in every day and no longer monitoring my fluid intake I got a rude awakening that I cannot stop forcing fluids... my kidneys (both) are putting up a protest by making sure that they are too painful to allow sleep while at the same time I am so exhausted that all I want to do is sleep... the result... napping off and on constantly and having no realistic sleep schedule.
I just do not understand why liquids are so much harder for me to move than thicker things (soft foods), not that they move very well either.
Unlike many with Gastroparesis, vomiting is not an issue with me anymore... I used to vomit all the time (and destroyed most of my teeth in the process) but I have lost the ability to vomit so now things simply stay in my stomach and continue to ferment and rot. This means that nausea, burning, distension and bloating are non-stop. There are times I would give anything to be able to vomit and empty my stomach of the torturous acidic pain, many times... but it just will not be. My gag reflex is a thing of the past... perhaps from continued damage from decades of vomiting, perhaps from spreading nerve damage. No clue...
I have so many things to get done and am trying to battle through it all because I have yet to find an indoor location for the canned food drive (part of G-PACT's Awareness Week activities) and I have to get the word spread about the Caldwells (see yesterday's post), I have to get new material into my online stores, I have to promote the book idea, I have crochet projects that need finishing and so much more...
Just because I am bed-bound does not mean I am not constantly busy... and I have more ideas in the background simply awaiting their time to come forward and happen...
If Gastroparesis would be so kind as to take a vacation I would not mind in the least.
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