After being sick for so long, I finally have a name for my illness: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, otherwise known as P.O.T.S.

A cardiac condition that's stripped me of my health, weight (causing me to drop to anorexic weight), self confidence, friends, jobs and continuing my education.

My goals are simple: gain weight, be healthier, and get out more. Basically, get my life back!

I'm also hoping to spread some awareness on this little known condition, and to highlight the struggles of the underweight and people with "invisible illnesses."

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

radiology day- yippee *rolls eyes*

Breakfast: barium shake, barium covered marshmallows, and barium sandwich crackers...yum. not.
Lunch: rice with spices and lime, french bread. not great, but all i can taste is still the barium, so getting anything done is rough (~400 calories actually, better than i anticipated)
Snack: hershey eggs (8 pieces, 170 calories). wanted to test out how i would do with food. bad idea. still not ready- hopefully dinner will pan out though
Extra: glass of ginger ale (~150 c) desperately trying to chill my stomach out
Dinner: quesadilla and wings from pesci's, glass ginger ale - (~800 c)
Snack: glass gingerale (my stomach is not feeling this barium day) (150 c)

Exercise: done- wanted to get up early and do it before the tests; knowing i would feel too crappy afterward to do it

Total Calorie Count: 1670. just made it for the day. feeling pretty awful though- hopefully tomorrow will be better

this was a pretty bad diet day. i had a barium swallow this morning and it's horribly disgusting and really upset my (and most people's) stomachs

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