Ahhh Steroids

My nurse was sitting in his car waiting for me when I got home. At 6pm on the dot, he rang my doorbell. Since I had gotten home about 15 minutes earlier, I had time to clear off a spot on the coffee table (don't even get me started about the mess) and set up my supplies and wax paper and such. I even straightened up the kitchen a tad.

He went straight for the AC in my right arm (the vein in the bed of your elbow). It's my best vein but not generally the one you want to use because I end up with very limited movement in that arm. (I can't bend it while the IV is in). It doesn't matter so much for an hour or so once a month, but it becomes a problem when I get a round of 5 days, especially since I'm righty.

My plan had been to go the gym after the IV in order to burn off the energy I get from the drug, but RockStar got home 1 hour late from work and we decided to go out to dinner. (BTW, I decided to rename hubby "RockStar" because he just is one, and "hubby" is so boring.)

I was going to make my free meal today, until I realized that I was on call. Totally forgot about that. So we ended up going to a seafood place last night because that's what I was in the mood for.

I've discovered I don't/can't eat a lot anymore.

In the past we would order an appetizer, the meal and dessert. In general I would finish all that plus 2-3 drinks of some sort. I have no idea how many calories, but I'm sure it was scary.

While what we ate last night wouldn't be on any dietitian's menu, it was very tasty and satisfied all my cravings for the week. No stress, no anxiety about not being able to eat what I wanted - but in the end I still ate less than I would have in the past - go me! (BTW, breaded and deep fried vegetable do not count towards your daily serving of vegetable, in case anyone was wondering).

Dinner (free meal)

The following I totally ate:

2 cheddar cheese biscuits - 300

1 serving fried clam strips - 370

8 garlic grilled jumbo shrimp - 370

1 garden salad sans croutons

The following I had a taste of - meaning one bite/sip:

Sam Adam's Pilsner

Steak - no idea what cut is was, but I literally cut off a small piece just for a taste to decide whether to bring it home

2 bites of Lobster tail dipped in butter

*I've never had lobster and wanted to try something new - decided I didn't like lobster

2 pieces of over-steamed broccoli

2 glasses of unsweetened ice tea

We weren't up for the dessert at the place (at least, RockStar wasn't, which led me to decided eventually to not order anything), so we went to the local supermarket and picked up some items. It took a LOT longer than it had to because I was high on steroids and ended up "browsing" and bopping around the store talking waaay too fast. I'm not sure why RockStar was so patient with me but I'm glad he was.

I eventually picked out a mini chocolate cake, of which I ate 1/4 of with a glass of skim milk and he picked out fixings for a smoothie.

In all a good evening. I have no idea what my total calories were for this meal, but if I had to estimate I'd go for 1500? 1800? 2000? Oh so yummy though.