I'm slipping

It's 7:30 and I haven't eaten all day.

In my defense, Craig came over last night and we stayed up till 8am and I slept till 5pm... but still.

I'm going to make a double strength protein shake and take extra vitamins.

:(

finally :)

I finally shed those last few lbs, and some more!

TMI moment; if you don't want to read anything graphic, skip this paragraph.
Craig and I went to Savannah Friday and Saturday. I hadn't pooped in days. Over a week, actually. I was getting concerned and NOTHING was working. I remembered them saying that eating fatty foods would create dumping syndrome. It makes you really sick but also makes you go to the bathroom...a lot. After NOTHING worked. Really, I mean nothing. I tried it all. I decided to just eat something I knew was really fatty so that maybe I could go then. So I did, and it worked. I finally got rid of that nastyness in my belly.

Dumping syndrome isn't something to mess around with. I was SICK. I couldn't throw up, but I was nauseated as hell. Gas pains, sweaty, shaking....sick. I never want to do that again.

I'm eating almost normal foods now...and that makes me happy. Last night Craig and I went to watch the Jags game at BW3's and I had a blackened chicken salad. Okay...more like about 15 tiny bites but still...it was food and it made me happy.

YAY!

So I'm doing really well actually....except for the fact that I have about 5 lbs of poop that is stuck in my bum...TMI I know. I'm learning that this whole process is one whole big bundle of TMI.

Other than that, I'm down over 10 lbs from surgery...and once I finally get the chance to poop (haha) I'm sure I'll be down over 15! woot.

Nah, I'm not going to advertise this blog on Facebook right now. .... people don't need to know about my stomach issues.

6.5 lbs down!

YAY! I've lost 6.5 lbs since surgery :)

HECK YES!

Nausea

I've been nauseated for 3 days straight. Eating was easy on Tuesday but Wed, Thurs, Fri....not so much. I'm forcing myself to eat because I am not hungry anymore. (Sorry, Damon is watching Phinneas and Ferb; it distracted me, go figure)
Anyways, everything makes me sick right now and I'm tired of phenergan suppositories. TMI? I don't care today.

I know, I know....it'll get better. I just want to chew and swallow something. Feeling discouraged today.

Home :)

I got home from the hospital late last night. I was given the option of staying an additional night or they could pull out my drainage tube and send me home after 7pm. I decided to come home, huh!

The first night (monday) after surgery I kept thinking "what did I do to myself? Oh God, this is horrible, what did I do?" but luckily by last night at 5pm I was feeling much better and was able to discontinue the morphine. Thank goodness too because I HATE morphine. It makes me sick. Surgery went well. Dr. Bowers and Pfluker both said they couldn't have asked for a better surgery. No stitches even, only dermabond on my 4 incision sites. They're about 3 inches long each and are all meant to be removed when I get my tummy tuck. My surgeons were very nice and actually had a great bedside manner.

Mom came to town for my surgery and got to know Craig a little while I was getting sliced open. Score! They got along great. Even though Craig hates hospitals, he stuck with me all day and night while I was at the hospital, as did my mom. They've really been great to me and I can't ask for more.

Returning to food has been easier than I thought it would be. Today I've had cream of wheat, mashed potatoes and a peach/pear smoothie. Tomorrow I'm going to try blenderized mac and cheese! Ewww! yummy? Guess we'll see.

Cleared!

Had all of my preops this week; I had to sleep with machines on, get injected with this stuff that stresses your heart (adenosene) and I thought that stress test would kill me. Scariest 15 minutes of my life.

Met with one of the MD's in primary care and he said I'm healthy otherwise and I'm a go for surgery!

WOOHOO!!!


9:30 AM Monday I will be going under the knife and changing my life!