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21/3/13 - Family Physician - eight weeks post-op - Family doctor/nurse practitioner vist, eight weeks post-op ...   BP - 93/59 (target less than 130/80) LDL - 1.63 (target 2.0) (chole...

Tada! I am obese - I am obese and so very happy -- BMI (I know, I know...bla bla bal) but, c'mon BMI 39.44! Wheee!  

Insulin is gone, gone, gone - I had kept one insulin pen and have been using it (two units at a time) occasionally over the past eight weeks as directed by the hospital's diabetes educator.   This mo...

6/3/13 - Scale disclaimer -

Thanks!

20/2/13 - Pain gone - I think PrevAcid is a miracle drug.   I took the first dose at 5:00 yesterday and by 8:30 p.m. I was pain free. Honest to God, pain free. The constipation resolved itsel...

Dealing with my back pain ... - Spoke with Aspen/Nurse Practitioner at the WMC first thing this morning concerning my week-long back pain (from shoulders to mid back, bilateral, eased somewhat by Tylenol and h...

19/2/13 - working on the back pain - Spoke with Aspen/Nurse Practitioner at the WMC concerning my week-long back pain (from shoulders to mid back, bilateral, eased somewhat by Tylenol and heating pad, but at one po...

West End Ottawa - OptiFast Available - I have 19 packages of chocolate OptiFast left over, expiry date of January 22, 2014. Please send me a PM if you are interested. As stated, I am in the west end, near Lin...

18/2/13 - It still counts as Monday morning -   11:55 A.m.  See the "A"?   I went to bed/sleep at 7:50 last night -- yes, lights off, CPAP on, meds on board. Slept through...

18/2/13 - Sleeping post surgery - I'm almost four weeks post surgery, and am only now getting comfortable with sleeping on my side. My right side is my favourite, and I've managed to do that by propping my belly...

I'm glad it helps -- I decided to place it in my own blog, as I was...

17/2/13 - Realistic Expectations - As poor as the search function is here on OH, I found this under "realistic expectations".  "I wish I knew who posted this originally. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS While yo...

You know that 10% of your body weight "they" talk - You know, the one where they say that if you only lost 10% of your body weight, good things will happen? Well, I've just done it -- 10% of my body weight, gone, as of tonigh...

5/2/13 - Some notes on "howzitgoing" - I'm getting 15 to 30 minutes a day slow walking -- not all at once, but it all counts. My "dent" has popped out and I am moving much easier now. Next week, I should be able to g...

*laugh* Yes, I think you've got a point, there, Debra. :) I had my...

Oh, he certainly was lonely. He was not from Ottawa, but about an...

1/2/13 - Afterthoughts on the roommate from hell - Yesterday at my meeting with the nurse practitioner I said that I was so appreciative of the care I had, and it almost made up for the roommate from hell. She got a funny look a...

Thanks, hon! mmm