July 4, 2010

Jul 04, 2010

How awesome is this!!I am 5 days post surgery!! I thought the day would never come.  I am doing okay.  Doing a lot of walking and sipping. My husband is really coddling me and making sure that I get in my protein each day.  Sometimes I think I am going to barf if I have to even smell another one of those!!
The surgery experience was okay, I guess. I wasn't terrified, but I was a little nervous. Especially on the morning of when the nurse called my house at 6 am and said that I was supposed to have surgery at 7:15 am. I had been told to be at the hospital at 8:15 am because my surgery was going to be at 10 am.  I live 45 minutes away from the hospital (driving 60+mph) and I was really afraid that I would not arrive on time to have it done. But, I guess because of the error, I was still on schedule. I was rushed in and two nurses worked on me to get me ready because the team was already waiting. I remember kissing my husband and then it was lights out!!
The GI test that I had to take the day after surgery was no walk in the park either.  I had to drink this awful tasting stuff while laying down on my side. Yuck! I took big swigs because I thought I would throw up! Why did it have to taste like that? The nurse said that it tastes like a chalk board.(How would she know what a chalkboard tastes like?)
I know that it is really still too soon to tell, but I have already lost weight.  My surgery weight was 258 and today I am 247 pounds. When I saw those numbers on the scale, I could have done cart wheels(not really though)
I even feel lighter.  My nails are growing! Must be from all the vitamins I am taking in.
I have had some visitors. But I do welcome my special friends.  My best friend went in the hospital a couple days ago with a bacterial infection.  Please pray for her recovery. 
I was at the Walmart the other day and I smelled the most wonderful smells. The smell of fried chicken. The bakery. Know what? I just started to laugh and say that I don't have to be held captive by you anymore.  I can appreciate the smell of good food and not feel like I have to devour it.  I am learning to eat to live and not live to eat.
It is a journey and I know that the road will not be easy.  But I have to take it one step at a time. One day at a time.

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