{"id":44,"date":"2006-11-14T23:09:38","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T05:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2006-12-31T17:10:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T23:10:19","slug":"fun-with-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Fun with steroids"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThis is one of Lily’s favorite outfits.
\nShe picks it out herself, and she dresses herself.
\nAt the tender age of two, she is already showing
\nan incredibly fun sense of style.
\nI hope it doesn’t disappear when the sensitive,
\nawkward, self-conscious female teenage years hit.
\nOr if it does disappear, I hope she rediscovers it
\nin her 20s and plays with color and self-expression again.
\n(Those are my socks, by the way.
\nI don’t look half as cute in them though.)
\n10\u00c2\u00a0November 2006<\/div>\n

I’m on steroids. My platelet count was 10 today (a normal person’s count is between 150 and 300), so my hematologist put me on a pulse pack of 40mg of steroids for four days.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s why I’m doing another journal update today and at 11pm at night.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s also why Matt took Lily for a drive.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s been crawling on me all night like I’m a jungle gym, and I couldn’t take it anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 He took her for a drive for two reasons: 1) to give me a break, and 2) to get her to fall asleep.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently, she’s having insomnia too.<\/p>\n

Sarah and her friend, Mika, brought me hot chocolate tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 They were grocery shopping at Walmart, and they phoned and asked if we needed anything.\u00c2\u00a0 I told them that Matt and I were faking winter (the high was 81 today….. 81… in November….. eighty-one…. global warming is a myth, my ass<\/small>), so Matt was wearing his flannel pajamas and I wanted hot chocolate and Cool Whip.<\/p>\n

They are such sweeties.\u00c2\u00a0 I need to post a picture of Mika so everyone\u00c2\u00a0can put a face to the name.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyways, on their way home, they detoured by our house and dropped off the hot chocolate and Cool Whip.<\/p>\n

I was being silly while I was making my hot chocolate, reading the ingredients aloud to Matt\u00c2\u00a0because the amount of sugar was just so phenomenal it was funny.\u00c2\u00a0 The first ingredient on the hot chocolate packet was “sugar” and the sixth ingredient was “corn syrup solids.”\u00c2\u00a0 And I said to Matt, “And then you add sugar by topping it off with Cool Whip,” and I began reading the Cool Whip ingredients.<\/p>\n

The Cool Whip ingredient list wasn’t as funny though; it was more disturbing.\u00c2\u00a0 Every ingredient, with the exception of “water,” was really bad for your body.\u00c2\u00a0 At least the hot chocolate used real sugar, not the scary “high fructose corn syrup.”<\/p>\n

The ingredient list for Cool Whip: “water, corn syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil, high fructose corn syrup.”\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t list the unpronouceable “contains less than 2% of the following” ingredients.<\/p>\n

Geez, the garbage we feed ourselves and our children.\u00c2\u00a0 The “obesity problem” of Americans seems straight-forward to me: garbage in, garbage out.<\/p>\n

I wonder when — or if — I’ll go to sleep tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 Steroids are a lot like amphetamines as far as being unable to sleep goes.\u00c2\u00a0 (I wonder if steroids are amphetamines.)\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe that’s why people get so irritated on them — they’re just so tired but can’t go to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one of Lily’s favorite outfits. She picks it out herself, and she dresses herself. At the tender age of two, she is already showing an incredibly fun sense of style. I hope it doesn’t disappear when the sensitive, awkward, self-conscious female teenage years hit. Or if it does disappear, I hope she rediscovers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}