Cottage Cheese, Applesauce, Mashed Potatoes....mmmmmmmmm good!!!

Well today was my first day of eating some real food. I had a teaspoon of cottage cheese for breakfast, a teaspoon of applesauce for lunch and 1.5 teaspoons of mashed potatoes. I'm not sure that I've ever been happier having food before in my life!!! I need to work up to 2 tablespoons per meal by the end of the week so I figure that if I add a teaspoon per meal per day I'll be at 2 tablespoons by Thursday which coincidentally is the first day I plan on going into work. I'm thinking that I might talk to my husband and see what he thinks of me working a couple of half days this week prior to going back full time the week after. I'll see what he thinks!!

I made homemade mashed potatoes for dinner. I got a large baking potato and boiled it and then put it in the blender and add 2% milk (as that is what my husband had in the house) and some fudder (fake butter spray) and they didn't come out half bad, if I don't say so myself. Tomorrow I'll probably add some yogurt and maybe some oatmeal. I do have to say that I could probably live on cottage cheese and mashed potatoes, so I don't think that the next week will be too tough :)

So the other thing that has been going on is that I had an allergic reaction to the Dermabond (glue) that they used to seal my incisions. For the past 4 days they ahve been red, puffy and really itchy. After calling Dr. Graber's office and speaking with a nurse she told me to take Benadryl orally or use a Benadryl topical ointment to sooth the irritation. I had Benadryl Gel in the house and I tried that first. That really didn't cut the mustard... I then started taking 25mg of Benadryl every 4 hours until and that seemed to help. The next day I made another trip to Walmart and picked up Benadryl Cream to try that. Well I have to say the cream was the cats meow. It contained the same amount of the active anti-itch ingredient as the gel, but the cream had a skin protectant. That skin protectant helped out a great deal. I am now on my way not having an itchy stomach.... yeah!!!

I also went out by myself for a while today to visit my friends at the local quilt shop. I love to quilt and have developed many great friendships with my fellow quilters. It was just what I needed after being cooped up at home for a solid week by myself.