Broken Resolution Already!

I have been quite faithful to keep my New Year's Resolution of drinking an ounce of pasteurized carrot juice every morning. I have almost come to look forward to the sweet thinness of the orange ambrosia. But alas! Yesterday I began to feel the effects along the lines of frequent bathroom visits and sore bottom cheeks.

Today I have true cramping and quite hefty pain in my left side that begins in the back around the kidney area and proceeds directly through my abdomen and out the front just beneath my ovary. I know its not kidney stone pain because its positional - I can get into comfortable positions and the pain is barely noticeable. Heat also helps. Its become a recognizable symptom. I know when fiber is stuck in my innerds I will feel this way until things pass. Mostly I wait it out.

Phooey. I thought for sure that since the juice is cooked the fiber would be mushy and more easily digested. Guess not. So I am modifying my New Year's Resolution already. Instead of drinking this faithfully every day, I will try drinking every other day and see if I can tolerate that. If not, I might try drinking some twice a week. There surely must be some way to ingest something that promises so much in the lines of stoking your immune system, preventing cancer, building up your intestines (not to mention the eye thing).

I was given permission to get an appointment with the new nutritionist at Wilmot Cancer Center, and they were supposed to call me once she got established. She arrived in November. I have an appointment in two weeks, following a PET scan next week. I will do my best to get booked. Perhaps she has a solution to the fiber intolerance that will help. Meanwhile, flush, grease, flush, grease, -yuck.