Unforeseen problem with my plan to switch to liquid diet: drinking a protein shake hurts just as badly as eating a small meal.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
Not that this is going to stop me from following through on this course of action - I certainly need the calories and nutrients, and the shakes I've made are delicious, and I'm sure my body will enjoy the surge in fuel - it's just not going to do anything about the painful reaction I get from putting something highly-caloric into my stomach.
I stopped after about the third gulp as I was driving down the highway this afternoon, thinking I could enjoy my freshly-prepared shake and have a surge of energy to tackle writing and soccer tonight. I could feel the hiatal hernia starting to ache, a knot formed in my left side, my stomach began to bloat, pain surged through my system and I felt light-headed. I pushed on through and drank half the shake. By this time I was at my Mom's house to drop off the kids so I could go to soccer.
I had to sit down on her front porch brick steps and just stare at the water sprinkler arcing back and forth, trying to breathe. The waves of ringing pain and lethargy made my ears ring and made me see stars. I tried not to move and smiled when Mom walked over, so perhaps she wouldn't notice. But her first reaction was, 'Oh, you're hurting.'
(Funny how you think that just because you're an adult that your Mom has suddenly lost her instinctive abilities to read you. Ha!)
Right now I feel like I have the biggest knot in my left side - I want to take one of those small wooden baseball bats they used to hand out as souvenirs at KC Royals games and whack myself in the ribs on that spot over and over to make the pain go away.
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