Hermiones Mom's Journal, 20 May 2016

So I assumed the hospital stay would drop my weight -- but guess what? -- they filled me so full of fluid trying to get the stupid kidney stone to move, that I GAINED SEVEN POUNDS IN 48 HOURS! Can you imagine? By this afternoon the gain was down to 3 pounds, and I suppose it will keep dropping, but it's kind of amazing given that I barely ate anything, that just all that fluid they were pumping into me added 7 pounds. And this whole situation is going to go on for days most likely. I probably can't get the stone broken up until after Memorial Day, so I'm stuck with this until then. If I feel OK tomorrow morning, I'm going to go ahead and take my skating lesson. I can't sit around and do nothing for two weeks. I really, really want this to be over.

P.S. I forgot to tell this wonderful story. Yesterday a.m., the xray tech came to my room to do another picture of my kidney stone and its pathway to freedom. The room I was in was the size of a postage stamp, and they had a lot of trouble getting the xray machine into the room, and then faced the challenge that they had to take a picture of the part of me on the opposite side of the bed from the machine. The tech came around to that side of the bed with the giant xray plate and I raised myself up on my elbows so he could slide the plate under me, and then he sort of lifted me and repositioned me on the plate. And then he said: Oh I just love thin patients. Thin! He called me thin! No one in my entire life has ever called me thin. It was a big moment for me.

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1467 kcal

Fat: 66.10g | Prot: 96.55g | Carb: 126.75g.   Breakfast: Grapefruit (Pink and Red), Smucker's Natural Creamy Peanut Butter, Acme Smoked Fish Herring in Dill Marinade, Finlandia Reduced Fat Swiss Cheese. Lunch: Parmesan Cheese (Shredded), Ghirardelli Intense Dark Sea Salt Soiree (1), Lime-Aid with Mint, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Cherry Tomatoes, fresh basil leaves, Perkins Restaurant Sauteed Spinach, Isernio's Italian Chicken Sausage, Finlandia Reduced Fat Swiss Cheese, Egg Yolk, Cooked Egg White. Dinner: Frieda's Cara Cara Oranges, Cream Cheese, Le Pain des Fleurs Buckwheat Crispbread, Nature's Promise Organic Grape Tomatoes, fresh basil leaves, Lasco Wild Caught Nova Salmon. Snacks/Other: Banana Oat Blueberry Walnut Muffins, Equal Exchange 70% cacao bittersweet chocolate chips, Natural Grocers Organic Raw Pumpkin Seeds, Raspberries, Strawberries. more...