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Let me see. So far so good. I went to my OBGYN and found out that I will be going in to get an ovary out. Will be getting the date soon. When she gave me the dreaded exam she kindly asked if I had been having constipation problems. I actually was feeling OK and told her not that I know of. I did happen to take some herbal Lax just that morning. I was getting concerned because I was on my 3rd day of not going.  By that afternoon it kicked in and I was feeling bad. So here I take some more herbal lax and nothing. Then I remember that I bought some tea that is suppose to be a big help. It says that it would work in 30 minutes. AH no help. I drink another nasty cup of tea. Still nothing. So I get a small rabbit pellet to come out and then the pain hits me. So I wait until the next morning and take more herbal Lax with no help. So on the way to the gym I stop at Wal-Greens and get some of the stuff you clean yourself out with for the colonoscapy. I think, I will just stop and put it in the frig and let it get cold and drink it when I get back from the gym. I get this feeling on the way back to my house that tells me that I just might have to hang out for awhile. Needless to say no big surprise. So I go to the gym and think I will go and work out. I do my work out and come back home. I start drinking the magnesium drink remembering how quick it worked last time. So I'm thinking I better just drink half. I do not want to over do it so half it is. I wait very nicely and I feel like my stomach is just getting heavier. I read the bottle and think 30 minutes and it will kick in. It is about 12 pm so here comes 2 pm and nothing is happening but very uncomfortable. So I continue drinking my so delicious drink and finish the bottle. Finally about three hours later I start feeling things move. It finally happened relief. I would never of thought that I could go so much . I know that I can not eat that much food so where did all that crap come from. Now I'm getting concerned again because I have not gone since I had that drink. So I have taken some more herbal lax.

Now for the good news and some bad.  When I went in to the doctors of course you have to be weighed in. She tells me to get on the scales and I do. She is like checking the scales trying to see if something is wrong. Then she shows me my weight from the last visit (not sure on the date) 230 lbs. she shows me that the scales is on 194. She asks me if I'm trying to loose weight. Then I tell her about my procedure. She doesn't ask any thing else. She was surprised. This was the nurse. Then the doctor comes in and I tell her about the procedure do to the fact that I will be having my ovary removed and thought she should know. She did not ask any questions or comment one way or the other. So I do not know if she is for or against the sleeve.

Now for some of the bad news. I do not know if I'm on a stall or not. I haven't really learned this process yet. I got down to 191 lbs and then started the constipation thing. Went back up to 194 lbs. After my ordeal I went back down to my low weight of 191. So I'm thinking cool I can handle that. But when I weighed in this morning my official weigh in day I was back up to 194.2. It is 8 weeks for me so I could be in my first stall. So that was the bad news. LOL I'm not giving up I will still keep on trucking and moving forward. I'm walking 45 minutes on the treadmill a day and working out with some weights trying to keep up with the wings, I can see a difference with my muscles but not the wings. But Lori gives me hope. I will keep up with the work outs. and see where it takes me. I can see my levels on glucose is slowly dropping even lower. I have been off of my Glyburide since I left the hospital. So the Metformin is keeping my sugar in control. It has been between 85 and 180. I'm off the HBP meds. This is great considering I could not get it below 200 before the sleeve. So who knows I just might get off the Metformin soon. When I have a date for the ovary I will let you know. Can't wait to lose that so that way I can do more abs work. Now it is to painful.

It has been 9 days since I have been sleeved. I was thinking of my drive to TX to get my sleeve. After being in the truck for 25 hrs (Drove straight through) I could hardly walk. My ankles were so swollen and my feet hurt so bad. We had plans to go to San Antonino on Tuesday after getting there in Houston on Sunday. I was worried that I would not be able to walk. We did go and I did walk around not very fast but I made it. Chased after my 2 grandsons. Was hot. Anyway I had my surgery on the following Monday. Slept most of the day used the pain pump. I had surgery at 7:30 am and was up walking at 11 am. I used the pain pump before I went walking because I was afraid I would start hurting. Went back and rested or I guess you could say that I went back to sleep. I got up about every 2/3 hrs to walk. I was not in to much pain after getting up and moving around. It was weird. I was in pain before walking but after I would walk the pain would get better. I got to chew ice and drink water until 12 am then it was NPO until the leak test the following morning. Boy did that ice taste good and was refreshing.  I was scared to take the first swallow because of all the pain I read about here on OH. I was shocked how easy it went down. No pain at all. I got into trouble for taking in to much ice to fast. I was told to slow down.  The next morning they came and got me about 9:30 am for the leak test. They give me this cup of clear liquid. I was thinking to myself why would they give me water for a leak test. Guess what it was not water.  I have no idea what was in that glass but I can tell you it was nasty. After the clear liquid I was given the milky liquid and it was great compared to the other. Shortly after getting back to my room I was told that I could go home. I did not have any pain meds since the night before. So the nurse came in and asked if I wanted something for pain for the drive home. I was going to Houston after surgery in Victoria for recovery with my DD. So I said yea that would probably be a good idea. She came back with a pain pill and I swallowed it down and then about 11: 30 am we were off to Houston. Stopped at a Wall Greens to get my meds filled that they gave me. They said that it would take 1 1/2 hrs before getting it filled. So we decided to go get them filled in Houston instead of waiting. We get into Houston still not in pain but worried about the night to come. So I send my DH ans DD to get the pain meds for the night to come. After 2 places not having it they finally find one that had it (Target), the problem is it was in the ghetto  so they would not fill the meds without talking to the doctor that wrote the prescription . So now we are trying to call surgeon so that way he can talk to the pharmacy. Needless to say we did finally get the pills and then guess what I did not even take them after all that. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones and have not had any troubles with the liquids going down. I have been worried that something was going to creep up on me and go wrong.  I had it so easy. I actually worry that I did not have the surgery that is until I start drinking the full liquids. Then I can tell the difference. I can take about 2/3 swallows with out pain. I actually stop because I'm scared of drinking to much. At this time I have not had any acid problems.  I was released to full liquids for 2 weeks. I'm suppose to call him for a 2 week conference to give him my update. So I will  be calling him next Wed. He said that I should call that day so that way I would actually get to talk to him.  So I will give an update after talking to my surgeon.