New High Fiber Diet

My wonderful mother went to the grocery store yesterday, and here are the foods she got for me -- many high in fiber:
-Raspberries
-Strawberries
-Pears
-Spinach leaves
-Tomatoes
-Fiber One Chocolate and Oats granola bars
-Fiber One Banana Chocolate Chip muffins
-Whole grain bagels
-Cream cheese
-Ice cream (which I will only eat in tiny amounts, though it is my favorite food!)
-Edited to add: Also microwavable soup, for when I'm sick

I also have plenty of apple juice and water. I have high-fiber oatmeal, but it's made me really nauseated lately so I don't know when I will eat it again. I do not eat most cereals (they give me stomachaches). However, I am not lactose intolerant despite the fact that milk with cereal makes me ill. I can drink glasses of milk just fine.

Today I plan on getting fiber powder (which the doctors told me to take in addition to having a high fiber diet), more Miralax (which I am supposed to take whenever the abdominal pain starts again, so I don't just need it for this attack), and more Ibuprofen (for the abdominal pain since I refuse to get my painkiller prescriptions filled).

Starved Rock and the Acrocats

Today I woke up feeling awful, as usual, and took another dose of Ibuprofen at 7:30am. I stayed up then since laying down feels worse than sitting up and I felt like I was awake for the day. By early afternoon I was feeling a lot better so Michael and I went to a state park an hour and a half south of me called Starved Rock. I had never been there before. Where I live there's mostly forest, but an hour or so south you start getting into total prairie. We stopped by Michael's house on the way and I gave his sister a "Get Well" card since she'd just had back surgery. She has very bad scoliosis. The drive there didn't take as long as I'd expected, though I did need to take a Klonopin because I've spent weeks imagining we'd die in a car crash on the way to Starved Rock. We walked on a couple nature trails and my knee got twisted a little. It still hurts. The nature trails were nice, though, and we took good pictures which I hope to post later. My face was beet red from the heat and I had some minor digestive problems, but mostly I was okay. Then Michael and I went to eat at a small restaurant/ice cream shop in the tiny town next to Starved Rock. Then we returned because it was time for the Acrocats and Rock Cats show. It's a performance of cats and other animals doing tricks and it helped to support a local cat shelter. There were cats in the lodge waiting to be adopted, including a bunch of kittens. I saw the friendly calico cat get adopted:) I found the show really cute. There was a cuddly groundhog that wore a 4th of July hat and drove a car (it was electronic and he pressed on something to make it go forward) and he raised a flag. A chicken beat a cat at bowling and a contest to see who could ring a bell the most. There were other cute animals and the cats did all kinds of neat things. It was fun to see. I'm glad I was well enough to go. I have a headache now, but I'm trying to only take pain medication for my abdominal pain. I may go to bed soon.

5 Gratitudes

1. My stomach being good enough for me to go out today.
2. Going on the nature trails of Starved Rock.
3. Seeing the Acrocats and Rock Cats.
4. Michael buying me lunch/dinner.
5. Getting a new library book.