My life with gastroparesis poses quite a few issues for me. One of them is learning to work around it. There are things that I still don’t get to do; however I feel that through my diet, and exercise routines I am starting to where I can get back to enjoying life. It has been a rough few days, but I know like all pain – it is temporary and will pass. I just keep reminding myself to breathe. It is funny that I compare the pain to labor pains, cause I can still hear my Mid-wife – Dr. Delrose whisper to me, just breathe through the pain, something she said to me as my daughter was ripping my lower half of my body apart to make her grand arrival 🙂 It very much feels like that – but more stabby.
Bad episodes are pretty trying – and I have learnt to be forthcoming in the fact that I have this condition – because honestly, unless you have seen an episode, or know anything about it – it probably doesn’t sound so bad, but if you have ever had food poisoning, then you understand at least that part of it. If you take the pain and ripping apart cramps from labor pain and combine that with a dose of food poisioing – then you might be close to a bad episode.
Now for me bad episodes don’t come near as often as they used to. I have to contribute that to the keto, working out, and diet modifications. I mean, you only have to become violently ill so many times before you really deep dive into your condition.
This week’s episode, brought on by broccoli, well I was really thinking for a minute I was going to have to go to the hospital. Not that they are able to do anything really, other than Zofran – which I have, maybe some more pills, that will make me feel sick. So really there is nothing that can be done. You deal, and you keep it moving.
Luckily I am feeling a little better today. But I am weak, tired, and ready for this episode to subside.
But heyy – I had peanut butter and whipped cream for dinner so like it ain’t all bad 🙂
Happy days y’all.
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