Exhausted with Pleasure Thursday

For weeks I have spent nights tossing and turning, wracked with pain in my stomach and reflux. For the last two days, I have taken my med for reflux. I have tried not to take it because it is implicated in dementia. I finally gave in. When we went to Cullman yesterday, I had had maybe four hours sleep. Last night, I slept ten hours, making up slightly for weeks of sleep deprivation.

I usually eat before I go to bed. I am very erratic in what I eat at night and when. Last night and the night before, I ate two pieces of bread and milk. I dip the bread in the milk. As a child, that is what I ate as bedtime snack. You know how kids are always hungry for something at bedtime. It may seem like a heavy snack. I am going to cut down to half the milk and one slice of bread.

It worked. Other nights, I had real food not bread and milk. Last night, I had NO reflux after going to bed. I went to sleep fairly easily after I quit wondering what the noise was. I woke once to go to the bathroom and slept until 10 am. Oh, I had taken Melatonin as I do every night. Because of the pain, I just lay there sleepy and unable to lie still.

Just now, about noon on Thursday, we saw a Roto Rooter commercial. I asked Tommy if he had managed to call a plumber. He did not become angry or show any negative emotions. He just reached for the phone book. This is new, not negative emotions about the tub problem and solution.

Last night, I put the sweet potatoes in a bedroom, the one nearest to kitchen door for ease. This morning, I went into the room. There was a corded phone on the floor in a corner. I carried it back in the living room and asked him if it worked. He said no. He watched me drop it in the trash and did not say a word. !!! He is now talking to a plumber.

The plumber on the phone said he would be here in a few minutes as he was at BK, just a short distance. I feared this was a plumber who could not keep work and was not very good. No, he arrived in a huge box truck. He had been "at the lake" giving an estimate." They pointed out the woman two doors down worked in their office. And, he said he had dated the daughter of the guy across the street, a friend of Tommy's. So, I guess we are in good hands. They are now trying to plunge out the tub and will replace the commode that is broken, to the tune of almost $900.

They asked if he wanted a taller commode. YES! And, he wish aloud it were even higher. So, I will show him the riser things for commode tops. I might not even be able to climb on top of it. He did not care if it is a round or elongated bowl, so I asked for round. Elongated bowls are a pain to me.

I am tall with long legs, but it seems that my lower legs are shorter than normal for a person my height. My feet will not hit the floor in some chairs and all booths. It is strange to me and other people, yet my legs do not look strange or misshapen because I am shorter from the knees down. At any rate, the round bowl will be better for me and makes no difference to him. They could not get the drain fully draining. They have left to get the commode and will be back.

Okay, the total is $1094.00. Now, the tub can be cleaned. I told Tommy, he needs to get a cleaning service to do the job of cleaning the bathroom. The floor is disgusting. Today, I asked him if the black spots were poop. He nodded. My back and body cannot clean a dirty floor, much less a floor of tiny tiles that are going to need lots of scrubbing. There are large tiles, abut 6" in shower and half way up the bathroom walls. The tiny tiles cover the vanity top. I hate tiles. Anyway, progress! I always wore shoes into the bathroom!!!

A banana and glass of milk was my breakfast an hour after I took my reflux medicine. For lunch I had one breaded chicken tender. Tommy had one breaded tender on a pita. He did not stick the chicken in the pita. He had it wrapped up like a gift. I asked and he knew it was pita, but he could not find the slit, so he just wrapped it.

Usually I have to pee often, sometimes every fifteen to thirty minutes. But, get a new, clean commode installed, and I have no urge at all. I started to just go sit to feel it. When I did go, it was so easy to get up without having to hold onto the nasty tile vanity.

Dinner is frozen fried chicken, Romaine, carrots and tomatoes. I forgot to put any sweet potatoes into the oven. sigh

We went grocery shopping and I found sales. That is for tomorrow.