Well, my dad’s surgery went without a hitch on Monday. He ended up staying home and thus I congratulated him. I congratulate him whenever he doesn’t do anything, stressful person that he is… Everyone minus my second brother remembered to check in on him and wish him luck it seems since my mom is only angry with him. He has skipped Sunday dinner as well.
Well, Tuesday was pretty much normal for me. Dad meanwhile slept with some sort of metal patch over his eye, the same he wore all day yesterday. He’ll have to do that for a week. My dad came home for lunch and my second brother had driven him. Just with one eye fixed, he is utterly surprised by all the things he missed visually. He realized how dirty his computer screen was for the first time even.
It really settled after my mom and I came back from getting a bunch of distilled water and a few food items this afternoon. When we got back home my dad told us how he never realized just how blind he was. He cleans the bathroom every weekend. Going in there he realized it wasn’t as clean as he thought it was. So, while mom and I were doing errands, he was cleaning the bathroom again.
I’m afraid now. I never thought my cleaning capabilities were amazing. I am leery of him coming to conclude I suck at it. You see, when he cleaned the bathroom each weekend, I thought it was fine. I thought he did better than me. Now, I doubt he’ll criticize me for not being amazing… but… There will be the uncertainty. Oi.
My stomach/chest has had a setback also. I overslept yesterday and thus skipped a meal and all possible snacking. So, now the inflammation or whatever has perked up some again. I still feel it today. I slept most of the day yesterday, hence skipping lunch. Today, I slept a lot during the day time as well, but fortunately woke around noon to eat. It has been one whole week.
I doubted I’d be able to keep up such a structure. I was right. I can do the diet, sure. It is keeping the times consistent that is the issue. My sleeping changes always. Thus, now there are difficulties in keeping the steady “keep every meal spaced evenly and snack on things in between” part difficult. Sigh.
The only things I really miss on this diet are drinks that have flavor. I have up normal soda for my teeth. I then stopped even drinking diet soda. I drank tea instead. Well now I can’t even have tea! All of it is replaced with milk. Heck, I still have a full pack of tea in here with me but cannot have any. I’d put it elsewhere, but I don’t know where to stick it. It mocks me… I doubt I’ll even be able to go back to it once the second week of this is done. Sigh. If anything though, I feel I’ll do fine in the area of forbidding myself. I don’t think food has ever been a huge temptation for me.
Well, I just figured I’d write these two topics. For this month I see them as small milestones or something. Anyway, I’ll be going to get a haircut on Friday. My mom and I picked up some “supplies” for me to bring. Since I will still have to deal with this diet and usually cannot eat lunch until around three on our haircut expeditions. I’ll be bringing a lot of cheese sticks, water crackers and some peanut butter along. Another thing is that next Monday my father will have surgery on his other eye. We aren’t so worried this time based on the results of this passed Monday. ‘Still though… luck to him for that day.