TL;DR: injured my entire body falling down stairs. 3 days in the hospital, still waiting to see a neurologist, very owwie. Eating like a bird, Gatorade is gross, had to cancel lots of long planned event celebrations. Give me all the eggs and bacon you have
Well, I've gone from being sorta active here (at least lurking if not commenting lol), to not at all, and now I really need to kick this into gear. It's been a really rough, well... year for me so far because I fell back in January on the steps that lead down from my house and into the garage. I don't know what happened exactly, but I felt my ankle roll and down I went. I hit just about every part of my body on those stairs except for my head and maybe neck -- though the doctors have all been skeptical of that, they think I probably did and don't remember, so I've been poked and proded and given every scan they can give me. It turned into from me just going to urgent care to get some meds for the pain, to the urgent care calling the hospital to come get me and admit me. Part of the problem is that the pain reached beyond what my tolerance is (pretty high) and was causing something called tachycardia which is an extremely rapid heart rate. Urgent care couldn't get my heart rate below ~145bpm and that was scary for them. I couldn't feel like anything was wrong except that I was in extreme pain. The pain was raising my heart rate (but not my blood pressure oddly enough) and they said the heart rate could be contributing to my pain.
So, off I go feeling like a loser with these 2 hunky paramedics. They admitted me for 3 days. Mind you, the first day was my husband's birthday, the next day was nothing, and the third day was super bowl Sunday! I felt like a terrible wife and an even worse 'Merican.
The issues didn't stop just because the hospital let me go. Oh no. I am still dealing with the pain because the pain management plan I'm on doesn't seem aggressive enough. I've been out on short term disability leave and I feel awful because one of my coworkers is leaving to go to another department. I almost missed my best friend's baby turning 1 (I went and just sucked it up the best I could. She knew I was in pain so she cried when she saw me get there). Her birthday was 10 days after that and we'd made plans months ago. My 8th wedding anniversary was on 4/19 and my husband had to also cancel those plans. And tomorrow is my birthday and you guessed it, canceled plans.
Now the reason why I need to get back into keto so badly is that it's been hard for me to eat. Hard to drink. Hard to move around. I have lost a huge amount of weight waaaayyyyyy too fast. I mean yay, I weigh like 40lbs less than I did at new years. But looking at my ankles and calves or my wrists, I've obviously lost some muscle mass. I can't really sit down to a full meal just yet, so I'm sort of grazing with keto friendly stuff (except for a couple Gatorades here and there) and keeping as hydrated as possible.