Are Eggs Dairy?

Just a brief entry so you know I'm not dead, although I probably wouldn't feel all that much worse if I were.

The doctor is checking to see if what I have is viral or not, which prompted me to stay home today to ... uh ... prepare the kit of samples for testing. He gave me some ointment to use on my sore spots, and told me to eliminate dairy, fruit, vegetables, and fiber from my diet, and see him next Thursday. Oh, and take donnatal three times a day.

I feel absolutely like a wrung out, stepped on, used up dishrag. I got my samples done and took them back to the lab this morning, and spent of the rest of the day on the couch. And it is not a nice day, snow, slush, frozen rain, you name it. They had actually called an early dismissal this morning, before school even started, not that it mattered to me. Other than the pain of what I've got, the donnatal knocks me flat on my ass. I just stood in the kitchen, slack-jawed, looking at nothing, waiting for my toast to toast.

At first, I had no idea what I could eat, but I'm pretty much having toast and eggs, with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch. (Which fell on the floor so I didn't get to finish it, and didn't have the energy to make another one.) When I told the Sibs and also the Colleague on the phone last night about my doctor visit and what I had to eat, they both asked, Aren't eggs dairy?

Interesting question. In the Kosher sense, I believe eggs can be served with either dairy or meat, but I'm not sure. In my family's sense of having "a dairy meal" for dinner, it usually meant that Jack was making us some of his incredible omelettes. But are eggs dairy? No, of course not. Dairy means "it comes from a cow." (Or, I suppose, a goat, but you know what I mean.) So I had soft-boiled eggs, a childhood favorite, with toast both last night and tonight, but I hadn't made them in so long that I had to look up exactly how. And I salted, them, dammit, because that's how I like them. And clearly, I am not on any kind of diet or other healthy eating plan just now.

So after I post, I'm going to call in sick for tomorrow, so I can let the donntal take me away, which I think is not as much fine as Calgon taking me away, but hey. I don't have the gut spasms when I take it, just a low-level steady soreness, which I guess is better, huh? Isn't is fun reading my diary?

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