10 days out...

Aug 26, 2010

 If I had known then what I know now...  each day is getting better - much better.  I thought I was going to lose everything but weight the few days I was at home immediately after the surgery.  I didn't know if I could ever eat, ever sit up, ever wipe my own ass.  WOW!  I remember thinking that I was never going to do a lot of things.
Now, here I am just shy of two weeks out, and I am getting a better handle on everything.  I can wipe my own ass!  That was exciting!  It happened at 3:33 am the other night!  I yelled out from glee and woke my family.  My five-year-old was not impressed, since she APPARENTLY has been doing this for years. Lol.  Anyway, it is getting better.
I am eating eggs, cream of wheat, a couple of chicken salad pureed to a pasty consistency, spoons of peanut butter, protein shakes, yogurt, and a couple of saltines.  It is not as bad as it was last week.  I had somewhere here that it wasn't the sweets that got them fat.  I completely agree!  Burger, french fries, crackers, bread, savory snacks... THOSE are the things that got me here.  I don't have a sweet tooth at all. If you left a bag of skittles in front of me for a week, you would come back to me the next week and there would be an unopened bag of skittles.  So, imagine my disgust when the first few things I could eat are all sweet-tasting.  Yuck!  SFpudding, SF jello, SFdrank, SF, SF, SF - for all the sugar free, it certainly left my taste buds under a sweet assault!  Last Saturday, I had my first egg - soft scrambled.  I cried with joy over the taste.  I tool 45 minutes to eat it, because I wasn't going to chance losing out to my first GOOD thing to eat.  Man, I even had another one for dinner!

So, my accomplishments are as follows:

1.  I can actually get enough liquids in because of insomnia.
2.  I can fart regularly now.  Yay!
3.  I can stand up and sit down without assistance.  I can even sit myself down without having to steady myself.  
4.  I actually look forward to my walks around my driveway.  In fact, today was my first restless day.  I have been itching to get          back to the world.
5.  I am finally watching my diabetes get more and more under control - it is even showing signs of leaving altogether.
6.  I AM WIPING MY OWN ASS WITH NO PROPS OR TOOLS! 

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