Surprised at the Culprit

Doing a bit better by 3 PM. After several hours of intense heating-pad application, drinking small amounts of very hot tea, and a lot of cramps and painful gurgling down below, jpouch finally began dumping the offending substance: coconut macaroons.

I had narrowed my guessing down to this culprit mainly because everything else I ate in the past 48 hours was familiar safe stuff. It's surprising to find out that my jpouch absolutely could not deal with the macaroons. I know I ate them last year without problem. Is it just due to a different brand? The high fat content? I can't imagine either of these being the cause -- how different could these be? And although I generally avoid huge portions of fat, these were no worse than some other things I eat safely (cheese, occasional potato chips, etc.) I didn't even eat very many! It's a mystery.

My view on shredded coconut has just done a 180: as of Friday coconut was nothing I'd worry about, it seemed perfectly innocuous. As of today I will not be touching it with a 10-foot pole, no matter if it's the only non-chocolate dessert in evidence for the whole of Passover! (Which starts tomorrow night and lasts for eight days.)

Meanwhile, I've lost a whole night and day. I had a million tasks and chores to get done today, in these final intense hours before the holiday begins. I'm too weak and tired to accomplish much of my To-Do list. I hate when this happens!

I guess I should just be grateful that it's been FIVE MONTHS since the last time this happened. And I've succeeded in eluding the ER and its dreaded NG-tube yet again.

More immediately, I'm grateful that the excruciating pain has mostly subsided. I'm now dealing with extreme dehydration instead. As long as I drink a few gallons of liquid over the next few hours I think I'll probably be okay.

Gut Attack - always inconvenient

Good news on the knee front overshadowed today, unfortunately, by major gut attack. A really bad bowel-blockage situation, excruciating. Have been suffering since about 8 PM last night. If heating pad doesn't solve it by 5 PM or so, I agree to let ER try to help. Not what I'd planned for the last 36 hours before Passover!