2 Weeks Home

Feb 24, 2017

Things are still pretty difficult for me, I feel really weak all the time. On my second day home I tried whey protein mixed in my food for the first time and had a horrible allergic reaction, swollen eyelids and lips, hives, and it lasted 5 days. Now I am having problems getting enough protein in my diet.

I'm also finding that being forced to sleep on my back is causing muscle problems in my chest. I've started having to sleep in a bra or else in the morning the pain is excruciating.

The rate of weight loss is also scary, I feel like Stphen King's Thinner is my current existence, like I went and insulted a vindictive gypsy and this is my punishment. I kind of feel like bits of me are being subsumed beneath the weight loss, like people aren't really seeing me, they are seeing the pounds I have lost. I'm certainly not looking forward to the comments I am going to receive (and have already started receiving) on my physical appearance over the next couple of years.

I'm really hoping things get better soon when I finish healing up and move on to the regular bariatric diet, at least for now I can rejoice in the fact that the excess fluid and air trapped around my left lung has finally worked itself out. That was a pain I wouldn't wish on anyone.

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