5mg

Haven't heard back yet on the HIDA scan. Doc didn't call me on Friday. I may have missed a call from them Sat morning per the 'Restricted' flashing under missed calls on my cell phone, and no call backs, so I'm SOL until next week, after the holiday.

The 5 mg helped. Slowly. I suspect it was so slow because a)I maybe needed more than 5mg and b)I should've gone to bed for the day (yes, it was that bad) and instead I kept going.

Sitting outside in 90F heat is not really going to help you when your adrenal system has gone haywire. I supervised the toddler at the pool for 2 hours, laying on the concrete during each 15 minute swim break, scrabbling for every little bit of rest I could find.

Then we went swimming again later that day. Basically, I just plowed forward (well, not so much plowed as lurched unevenly). Went to bed early. Slept in a wee bit today. Got up and felt like I was trying to move through Jello, but decided to forgo any more steroids.

Sat morning was rough, but I caught the low blood sugar early, fed it a Godiva truffle (at the mall), and spent the day shopping with my parental unit. It was mildly embarrassing to insist that we stop to eat at 2pm as all I'd had was a flax/almond muffin and that truffle and the blood sugar was NOT happy about it.

Everyone else that has a body that works, they just go without worry of interference. I have to cater to the stupid things my physiology does and it can be awkward because no one understands. I had to get kind of forceful about "I need to eat. I'm going to be sick if I don't eat" and people looked at me weird when I said it. I wanted to melt into the floor.

The good news? I was hungry today. Really hungry. The Jello fog lifted by noon and I felt pretty okay. Like it was a good decision to not take steroids again.