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Yikes!
Aug 05, 2009
Man, have these past two months since my surgery been insane! I've been working like crazy; it feels like this summer has flown by!
I'm just over two months out from my surgery, and I've lost 38.2 pounds. YIKES! I still don't feel like I look very different, but my mom says when she's talking to me it's like staring at someone else's face. I have also noticed that clothes are fitting differently, but I'm still just waiting for the sizes to go down :)
Overall I've been doing great; I really can't complain. I'm excited to be back up in Oklahoma and at school again, as I feel like I'll be exercising a lot more up there. I can't wait for bike rides in the fall... I've never been so excited about getting out and being active.
What I'm looking forward to the most, though, is coming home from school at Thanksgiving, with everyone I work with-as well as my family-not having seen me in four months. I'm hoping to get some jaw drops, haha!
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I'm just over two months out from my surgery, and I've lost 38.2 pounds. YIKES! I still don't feel like I look very different, but my mom says when she's talking to me it's like staring at someone else's face. I have also noticed that clothes are fitting differently, but I'm still just waiting for the sizes to go down :)
Overall I've been doing great; I really can't complain. I'm excited to be back up in Oklahoma and at school again, as I feel like I'll be exercising a lot more up there. I can't wait for bike rides in the fall... I've never been so excited about getting out and being active.
What I'm looking forward to the most, though, is coming home from school at Thanksgiving, with everyone I work with-as well as my family-not having seen me in four months. I'm hoping to get some jaw drops, haha!
First two weeks post-op!
Jun 14, 2009
I had my sleeve done on June 3rd - I can't believe it's only been a week and a half!
The surgery itself went great. The day I had my surgery I was apparently in excruciating pain, but I can't remember the pain itself. I do remember waking up every so often, bursting into tears and telling my mom it hurt so bad. My bariatric nurse changed my medicine to something a bit stronger, and it went away almost instantly. Later on when my aunt came to visit, we discovered that apparently morphine isn't the drug of choice for my dad's side of the family! It never works, weird, I know.
Once I got home I had absolutely no pain. I had a bit of nausea and definitely had some heartburn, but the medicine I was prescribed really helped. This isn't a surprise to me though; I have an extremely high tolerance for pain.
The full liquid diet is killing me! It's so ironic to me - I have wls partially because food has always been a problem for me, and they have me thinking about food every fifteen minutes for two weeks. I'm just sick of the lack of variety. Good news is, I get to start puree tomorrow! Yay! (I never thought a sentence like that would excite me
)
Yesterday I had my first day back at work. I work at Starbucks, so thankfully it's not too hard to get in my ounce of fluids every fifteen minutes, as all the partners constantly have a drink near them anyway. I do have to say that yesterday was pure hell! I'm still not quite myself yet as far as my energy level goes, so it just made the night reeealllllllly long. It didn't help that for about 6 hours of my 8 hour shift I consumed nothing but water. Not a good choice at all, but it was too much of a pain to try and get something different in me every time. It took me long enough to finish a drink as it was, it would have been even weirder to take one or two sips of a drink and then throw it away and get a new one.
Of course, it doesn't help that no one at work (other than my amazing manager, whose mom actually had lap band - which makes her extra understanding of this whole situation!) knows I even had surgery. I'll tell them one day, I'm just not ready yet.
I've typed enough for tonight! I could go on for hours... I always have way too much to say!
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The surgery itself went great. The day I had my surgery I was apparently in excruciating pain, but I can't remember the pain itself. I do remember waking up every so often, bursting into tears and telling my mom it hurt so bad. My bariatric nurse changed my medicine to something a bit stronger, and it went away almost instantly. Later on when my aunt came to visit, we discovered that apparently morphine isn't the drug of choice for my dad's side of the family! It never works, weird, I know.
Once I got home I had absolutely no pain. I had a bit of nausea and definitely had some heartburn, but the medicine I was prescribed really helped. This isn't a surprise to me though; I have an extremely high tolerance for pain.
The full liquid diet is killing me! It's so ironic to me - I have wls partially because food has always been a problem for me, and they have me thinking about food every fifteen minutes for two weeks. I'm just sick of the lack of variety. Good news is, I get to start puree tomorrow! Yay! (I never thought a sentence like that would excite me
)Yesterday I had my first day back at work. I work at Starbucks, so thankfully it's not too hard to get in my ounce of fluids every fifteen minutes, as all the partners constantly have a drink near them anyway. I do have to say that yesterday was pure hell! I'm still not quite myself yet as far as my energy level goes, so it just made the night reeealllllllly long. It didn't help that for about 6 hours of my 8 hour shift I consumed nothing but water. Not a good choice at all, but it was too much of a pain to try and get something different in me every time. It took me long enough to finish a drink as it was, it would have been even weirder to take one or two sips of a drink and then throw it away and get a new one.
Of course, it doesn't help that no one at work (other than my amazing manager, whose mom actually had lap band - which makes her extra understanding of this whole situation!) knows I even had surgery. I'll tell them one day, I'm just not ready yet.
I've typed enough for tonight! I could go on for hours... I always have way too much to say!
About Me
Norman, OK
Location
44.3
BMI
Surgery
06/03/2009
Surgery Date
Dec 19, 2008
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