Even A Colonoscopy Can’t Get Me Out of Shopping

If Vince is in the car, it doesn’t matter what condition we’re in . . we’re going shopping!

The prep went ok yesterday until the end. I was taking the SuTabs pills – 12 giant pills at 3 p.m. then 12 more at 10 p.m. with lots of water, then more water an hour after finishing each round of pills, then more water 30 minutes after finishing the second 16 oz. of water. After the first round and 48 oz. of water, I wasn’t feeling so good so I took a nap. Then when it got time for the second round, I took all the pills but they didn’t stay down and I didn’t even attempt to drink all 48 oz. of water. After my tummy forgave me for swallowing all those nasty pills, I was able to keep a bit of water down but not nearly all I was supposed to drink.

I guess enough cleaning out happened because the colonoscopy went well .. according to what Vince said the doctor said. I did have more polyps and one was large (12 mm) so now we wait for the lab report but that bad boy got me scheduled for another colonoscopy in three years. The nurse told me “Don’t complain. Some people have to have them annually?” WHAT??

By the time we left the hospital it had been 43 hours since I had taken a bite of food or had a sip of Dr. Pepper. The hospital did have soda but no Dr. Pepper. I accepted a Pepsi and must say, it was the best Pepsi I’ve ever had! So, Vince and I had decided that we would go eat at my favorite hamburger place. We got there and they were out of Dr. Pepper. A drink comes with the combo and they have some kind of cream soda from a small “brewing” company and I love it so I drank that. Before we left home, I had filled my insulated up with ice and put two cans of DP in the cooler so I had some with me but never did drink one. Have now!

I needed to pick up a few things from the grocery store so we stopped by Aldi. I had wanted to go to Walmart because I knew Aldi wasn’t going to have everything on my list, but I wasn’t driving! From there, we had to go right by the pallet store. Ughh!! The only thing I found were three boxes of Nitrile 4 MiL gloves. They’re anywhere from $8 to $10 at Amazon and they were $3/box at the pallet store so I got all three boxes of those. I use those when doing anything with hot peppers, when making meatballs or meat loaf – generally, any time I’m dealing with something mess that I don’t want under my nails. I think having those kinds of gloves around is a must. We always keep them but we have to pay way more for them so $3 was a good deal.

I don’t know what all Vince got. He had his cart and I had mine. I met him, put my three things in his cart and I went to the car. From there, we went to Walmart, got what I needed there . . nothing more . . and came home and then . . bliss . . I had my Dr. Pepper! 🙂

Aldi had two of the larger packages of boneless, skinless chicken breasts with a use by date of 2/24 and they had 30% off stickers so I got both of them and paid $1.72 per pound. Not bad but I had to divide them up and vacuum seal them. I put three breasts in each bag (there were 12 breasts total). When I cook them, I’ll slice them in half so it looks like six thinner breasts and that will give us enough for two meals. Vince will eat two pieces, which is the equivalent of one chicken breast, and I’ll eat one, which is half a chicken breast. The breasts are so thick and I don’t like them that thick so it all works out well for us.

I had to rinse four jars of sprouting seeds, then put the carrots from the freeze dryer into jars. The freeze dryer would have been done about 10 this morning but I gave it more time so it would just keep drying til we got home. Otherwise, it would have gone into freezer mode and everything would have been cold and I didn’t want to put cold carrots in jars and risk having them sweat a little.

Chicken is vacuum sealed in bags and in the freezer, except what I kept out to cook tomorrow. Carrots are vacuum sealed in jars and put away. Now it’s cross stitch time!