tonight's blog...

Tonight's blog has been secretly replaced by Folger's Crystals. Let's see if you notice...

Yeah, you probably noticed. Very well, then.

Tonight's blog is pre-empted because a Certain Young Lady who normally writes This Very Blog decided to have two (2) sugar-free Oreos. I had enjoyed these in the past with no ill effects. Tonight, this was not the case. Apparently the sugar-free Oreos are sweetened with the dreaded sugar alcohols. I had never had a problem with them before so I figured I was immune to the ill effects of the dreaded sugar alcohols. Oh contraire!

When those of us who've had the RNY variety of slicing-and-dicing of the innards ingest too much sugar, we can get something called Dumping Syndrome. NB: this does not mean what usually comes to mind when the word "dumping" is involved. Don't worry, I'm not giving you the TMI. I had heard that sugar alcohols could also do this, but honestly thought I was immune. The "dumping" that happened was because a huge amount of sugar is "dumped" right into the intestines and thus the bloodstream and the body goes a little crazy trying to rectify that. It gave me the cold sweats, a pounding heartbeat, I turned an attractive shade of greenish-white, felt exhausted, and was overcome by a feeling of Nothing Will Ever Be Good. It all passed in under an hour but people, it was So. Not. Worth. It. I mean, seriously? I did this to myself because of a sugar-free Oreo? What kind of a cookie ho am I???

And now, after all that, I must sleep. Tomorrow is another day, and hopefully one I can survive while avoiding any and all sugar alcohols.