Carol Kroll

Sluggish Start

Happy new year and such! Mine has been a little slow going and sluggish, but January is much better than December was.

I have had a few setbacks due to some new medicines I have to take for PCOS and had to get used to and it totally has consumed my life.

I am trying to make it less consuming now, although random things still make me want to wretch. And these things can be things I have favorited my whole life, that now suddenly are the devil’s work. It is a very odd medicine.

Like take my chocolate Santa incident. I decided I NEEDED two Russell Stover’s chocolate Santas while at the hardware store. No reason. Totally random. That night, after dinner, I remembered I bought them and had both of them in 2.0 seconds. THAT my friends was a HUGE mistake. In exactly one hour I had a mind numbing headache and I was throwing up everything I owned in a violent revolt. Now I can’t even look at Russell Stover’s chocolate. Such a shame as my favorite whipped eggs are right around the corner.

(oof)

And this is how it went down day after day while “getting used” to the new medicines (and I still use that term loosely and with caution). I spent most of the time (November and December specifically) on the couch sleeping, moaning wishing death to take me and throwing up while watching really bad reality TV shows.

By the way The Bad Girls Club is incredibly gut wrenching and hilarious in case anyone wants to know. I saw a girl throw a fit because her dress split “at the club” and then she proceeded to strip completely naked in her limo afterwards in some twisted self retaliation while screaming, I AM SO SICK OF THE SPOTLIGHT ALWAYS ON ME!

Uh………

Oh, I get it. That must be the punch-line.

But I’ll bite and try to help a gal out, like, maybe one or two items of clothing might help that. Or possibly using your inside voice. No wait, how about NOT being on a TV show? Crazy suggestions from someone throwing up from her couch.

Anyway, so I have been taking baby steps here and there trying to get back to my usual life. Lost a total of 22Lbs (and counting down rapidly) thanks to this evil/helpful drug! I also took Lu to the dogpark last week and THAT was quite the experience. It was a GLACIER! And it was high on a hill so I had some crazy times trying to navigate.

And get this! As I was trying to make my way to where she was “making her potty” (which I did in slo-mo because of the ice) some guy is asking people passing by on the ice:

“Who’s black dog is that with the green collar??”

So I shout out:

“MINE! Why is she being naughty?”

(seriously doubting she was as I had my eye on her)

He answers with “Oh, no. Just wondering because she is pooping ALL over the place!”

1. No she wasn’t. She made one pile. Away from everyone else in fact.

2. It’s a dogpark. That’s what they do here. It’s allowed Mr. Policeman of Poop.

3. Thank you Captain Obvious? Nice cape.

So I shouted back quite irritated-ly,

“YEAH, I KNOW. That’s why I’m over here. It’s just really icy!” to which he said nothing and walked away.

And why did I want to leave my couch and bucket again? I would rather see an insane person strip naked and scream “why is everyone looking at me!?”