Almost one month

I can't believe it's been almost a month since my surgery. Overall things are going well. My biggest complaint is my tiredness and lack of energy. This is probably at least partially caused by me not getting enough fluids in. I'm still working on getting that 64 oz daily in, I've never made it yet but am getting closer.

Eating is going better as well. At first I could only take tiny sips of things, and if I forgot and took a bigger swallow, my stomach pain quickly reminded me! I'm in the pureed phase of foods which is appropriate because denser forms of protein do not sit well at all. Some things that have gone down well are refried beans with some shredded cheese melted in and a little bit of sour cream; soups (had some chicken tortilla soup from Costco that was yummy, it took me about 5 days to finish the 1.5 cup container haha); yogurt; ricotta fluff stuff; and slices of cheddar cheese. I'm having a lot of weird food aversions in that some things that are probably good for me to eat just sound vile and disgusting. I've been getting in a protein shake every other day because the in between days, I can't stomach it. The other days they taste good initially but by the time I'm done with it, I'm having to force it down like it's medicine. I guess I need 48 hours to recover from it.

Vitamin-wise, I'm only taking a limited amount so far. Anything in capsules is going down fine, D, A and the sublingual B12. After not being able to get down the calcium horse sized pills I bought originally (2 giant bottles of them, naturally) I bought another bottle of the Citrical petites. I can get down a couple a day, with some difficulty, but they seem to sit in my stomach forever. I saw that Vitalady has calcium capsules so I may get some of those eventually. I just hate to spend yet more money when I have some already that are the right formulation. Bah.
This week, I'm really going to focus on ramping up the vitamin regimen, even if it's hard to do.