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  • Comment by hollyp83 on 5/2/09 9:43 pm
    Wow, Friday came so quickly! I hope everything went well and you'll be back on your feet in no time!!
  • Comment by Irishcoda on 5/1/09 4:35 pm
    Hi! Hope all went well and best wishes for a very speedy recovery! :)
  • Comment by heatkli on 5/1/09 8:31 am
    Good luck to you, God Bless!
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happiness :)
posted on 4/23/10 11:22 pm
I figured I would update some, it's been like a month! I have done really well on my weight loss. I'm at 233 now. lol..233...I NEVER thought that was within my reach. i like saying it over and over...233...233....233.   I take a picture of the scales every time I lose a few lbs so I can have my lowest weight on my cell phone to look at whenever I want. lol..you wouldn't believe how much that helps me! 
   I was at my mom's for Easter and was showing my boyfriend (which is going amazing so far!) my old room and a mural I had painted on the wall.  I was digging throught the closet for something and found a bag of clothes that I wore in high school.  It's like I could remember them perfectly and days I wore them. I have a photo of me sticking my tongue out wearing one of the shirts. It kinda made me giggle a little bit.  I put it on....and omg....it was HUGE!!  I had this amazing wave of happiness/sense of accomplishment come over me! I am way smaller than I was in high school. I never thought I was that big in high school m but apparently I was.  It was a size 26 shirt.  My boyfriend just started grinning when he saw how my eyes lit up when I put that huge shirt on.  He's such a sweetheart, he supports me in every way.
   The other day we were goofing off outside, walking back across the 5 acres from the house to the mailbox lol  He said, "c'mon baby, jump on my back, I'll give u a piggyback ride to the house." I laughed and blew him off, said "let me lose a couple more pounds first."  He stoppped, grabbed my shoulders, and said, "Baby, you're not nearly as big as you think you are." That kinda made me stop and think for a minute. I'm not..I'm not as big as I think I am. I'm 95 lbs lighter!!!  I guess I still have to work on accepting that my body is smaller than it used to be. Ha! I still don't know about them piggyback rides ;)  You wait til I get to about 180ish..that boy's gonna give me a piggyback ride to the mailbox!  It's the litle things that count.
     I bought an adorable summer dress. It was a size 20...such a cute dress!  My top half is a little bigger than my bottom half :( I wear a 14-16 in jeans and 18-20 in tops. Anyway...I didn't try it on because I was in a hurry.  When I got home, everywhere fit....except the boobs!!  I still have huge boobs haha they just sit a little lower than normal :( You girls know what I'm talking about!  Anyway...that dress made me look super thin...I love it. I may have to duct tape my boobs down to make it work though lol.  My feet continue to shrink. I went from a size 10 to a size 9 in heels and sneakers.  I like having smaller feet, it just sucks that I have a massive amount of shoes in a size 10 lol.  I'll be boxing them up for my mom eventually. I have to work up the courage to part with them first.
   I've been slacking on exercise at home. I know it's bad.  I run my ass off at work though and by the time the day is done, I'm pure exhausted!  Tonight's different..I'm bored out of my mind at work. It's a weekend...I have no labs to draw in the morning, and I only have 2 patients to look after in the infirmary. Nothin to it. So that's why I'm updating  with a novel ;)  I still do exercise, just not as much as I should.  They weight is still coming off rather nicely though.  My boyfriend helps keep me focused. He tells me allt he time how proud of me he is...that makes me want to keep going.  It's nice to have someone to give that support.  I can jog/run 2 miles on the treadmill in less than 30 minutes....an no..I'm not being chased either.  I like running...I like being ABLE to run.  I could never do that before...I just feel so free there...running with my eyes closed, with my iPod blasting some miley cyrus. lol...yeah...
   I actually had some difficulty with my band the bast 4 days.  It felt like It was progressively getting tighter. I didn't think anything of it and tried to chew better, eat slower, increase fluids.  Well..it kept getting worse.  For the past 2-3 days I haven't been able to keep anything down. Food nor fluids.  I coudl swallow warm tea, tiny tiny sips at a time and they would stay down.  If I tried more than 4-5 tiny sips at a time, it would all come back up. I had to go see the people at my surgeon's office this morning.  My surgeon actually quit the hospital and moved to missouri. WTF!  The hospital doesn't have anyone to replace him yet but the nurses and staff are still there. There's other doctor's in that branch of the hospital, just none for bariatrics.  Anyway...my surgeon made a deal with the hospital to come back once a month and do fills and follow ups because he wanted to continue helping the patients he started with. I liked that. I don't blame the guy for going, he said the hospital wasn't paying him for all the work he did.  We have a good relationshipa nd can talk about stuff like that. I've worked with him several times in the ER at that hospital. (I'm a nurse)  ANYWAY....the ladies in the office called him, in Missouri and told him what was going on Thursday afternoon. He said for me to come in as SOON as I got off work Friday mornnig for a barium swallow. He was afraid my stomach had slipped through the band.  I go in, there's no slip, but apparently my stomach had a spasm and got stuck in the spasm.  It tightened things up and since I couldn't swallow it induced vomiting.  They said all the vomiting irritated the stomach even more and made it swell up.  I normally watch the fluoro when I do the swallows. It was kind of scary looking this time.  The top of my stomach was severely inflamed and you could barely see the bandat all!  They immediately called my surgeon back and he ordered to have ALL the fluid removed from the band and steroid shots to reduce swelling.  His nurse stuck me 13 dang times trying to access the port. Thank God she deadened it before she went poking and prodding!  My port is easy to hit, it's right at the top. My surgeon gets it 1st time every time lol  Anyway...they had to get the radiologist to come in and access the port under fluoro.  He took out all 5.4cc of fluid and I immediately felt relief!  The pain stoppped!  It just sucks that now I'm sitting here, no fluid in the band...scared to death of eating because I won't have any restriction...and I'm blacka nd blue around my port lol  I have to be on liquids a couple days to let my stomach heal and then gradually increase to muchies and solids as tolerated.  I have an appointment in 2 weeks to get some fluid put back in. I guess I'll be hanging out in 'Bandster Hell' til then lol.  I hope I don't put any lbs back on :( 
    So anyway...this is all my updating I think.  I'm sure I'll update again on my bandiversary or a few days after.
Laterz!


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