Monday moans

Not much going on today for a Monday. Did a little cleaning up first thing this morning after Rising. I washed some dishes, made some flavored water drinks- I do this now to encourage myself to just more liquids during the day. I buy the flavoring from the dollar store across the street from where I live. Of course there isn't anything in the dollar store a dollar anymore so each of the flavor boxes is $1.25 but that's still a deal and I like the flavors of the of the water bottles I mix. This idea kind of works I still need to ingest a lot more liquid in my daily diet it's just hard. I know I need to drink more water but I just can't do it. And I've done the popsicle thing so I'm working on that but that's a lot of popsicles to adjust in a Day Too for it to make any significant difference. I remember though in the last visit/ in-person stay I did it a rehab unit at the University Hospital they pushed popsicles all day long. Just made your encouragement every time they caught you with a two stick popsicle in your mouth. There's also the ubiquitous ice cream treat I know that's a double-edged sword. Yes, ice cream is basically Frozen liquid this also full of sugar and fat so any options what might get from the Popsicles I think outweighed by the sugar content and the propensity for being more overweight. I think my favorite liquid flavoring is either cherry, strawberry or raspberry something that's red. The color of the beverage I'm having seems to make a big deal with me. I think I've labored this point before but I think the biggest reason that I don't ingest more liquids is that liquid in always equals liquid out- I hope! If it wasn't such an ordeal to try to catheterize myself during the day I'm sure I would try to ingest more liquids. It's just I hate taking 15 minutes to try to catheterize myself for 400 cc's and more if I'm lucky. Lately however it's been less 300 sometimes 400 but something inside me thinks I probably should be downloading way more than that during the day however, I've lived with a lot of quads it seems like and a few pairs who are always ingesting some kind of liquid. They all carry those Hospital mugs they give you when you transition out of the stay in the hospital. This is perfect for not only ingesting liquids but to keep a record of how much you are consuming so when you do the other end of the body and you produce x amount of CC's you can see some kind of relevant relationship liquid in to liquid out. I don't know this information fascinates me so much but it does. I like keeping track of this kind of stuff kind of amazes me. I really like to see how much I ingest versus eliminate. It's not important I know that but kind of makes me feel like it's important especially as I ingest more liquids during the day the color of my urine gets lighter and becomes seemingly more clear.

I received a text message from one of my oldest friends the other day. We used to be inseparable in grade school but that all changed at Junior High as many things do. His older brother and my brother hung out together with us and we did a lot of things on the weekends and after school. Now his brother is probably dying from MS. His brother was a lineman for the local Power Company and I'm sure that's where he got it. John, the other brother my age, I'm getting the sense looks after these folks. Oh yeah there was another brother who's got Parkinson's. It seems like a large portion of the families begin to disintegrate and which is too bad. I also think my friend is really the only able-bodied kind of looking after his brothers. I of course admire that then wish him the best of luck but also maybe I need to make myself more available to him in case he needs to vent. He even informed me that now his days are spent reading and napping and sometimes a little conversation. I was quite amazed because that's sort of what my schedule looks like more often than not these days.