RAI - Day 2, hour 4

My throat, especially the left side, is starting to feel sore, like I'm coming down with a cold. I was sucking on sour Jolly Ranchers until I accidentally swallowed one, whole. I may give them another go later this evening, or perhaps try a fresh lemon. Rubbing my neck seems to help, temporarily. Earlier this afternoon the area around my scar was red, but I'm not rubbing that area, so not sure what is going on there.

Food. I was tired of eating at 11am this morning, so I was bound to get sick of something today. I've been eating basmati rice with stir fried veggies and portobella mushrooms for lunch and dinner since Sunday night, so I think I'm finally sick of it because the smell of said concoction is starting to make me nauseous. My mom made it for my lunch, but I didn't take a few bites until around 3pm, so it's been sitting there, covered with another paper plate, but the smell was just getting to me. I don't supposed three hours of sucking on Jolly Ranchers helped either. She gave me a ziplock baggie to put it in. I feel bad wasting food, but I think I would've puked if I didn't put it away. I have to keep all my trash, even food waste, in my room until I'm out of isolation, so I couldn't just ask for it to be taken away. So I'm having a fruit plate for dinner - mango, honey dew, strawberries, and raspberries. Only 20 more hours of this crappy low-iodine diet. Judy said she'd bring me some sushi tomorrow. What a treat that would be! Uh-oh...my stomach is starting to feel a little upset now, so that could be bad news for me.

Water intake. I think I've been doing pretty good with the water. I'm supposed to pee at least once an hour to help move the radiation out of my body. Was a little bummed that my pee wasn't glowing bright green yesterday - it would have been a good indicator of how much radiation was coming out of me each time I used the toilet. I guess the glowing radiation stuff is part of Hollywood's portrayal of radioactive substances. Oh well.

Energy level. Tired. Not exhausted, just tired. I've taken a couple of naps today, updated my blog, watched some videos from Kristin's blog, did my laundry, and did a little reading. One of my co-workers, Lottie, sent me a book to read. That was very thoughtful of her. It's called "The Shack". I started to read it, and I like it so far. Sleep sounds good right now.....