Work & Post Op Appointment

Mar 21, 2010

I went back to work on the 15th.  I was feeling good and thought I had actually had too much time off, until about noon.  All of a sudden I didn't feel so well anymore.  Tuesday was even harder,  The nausea returned with a vengeance.  Thankfully I had some anti-nausea left from my trip to the ER, so I took it on Wed and I felt much better.  

I had my post-op appointment on Thursday. Everything is going well.  I have to work a little harder on my fluid intake, but otherwise things are going well.  I didn't realize that I could start eating meat again, so that has made the variety in my diet much better.  Thank goodness.  Fish and chicken sure help with the protein intake.  

The most interesting number they gave me was that I had lost 23% of my excess weight already.  I guess for me that is pretty easy to calculate because I have right around 100 lbs to lose.  But I like thinking of it that way.  I've already lost almost 1/4 of what I need to lose to get to goal.  Even though right now only a couple of people have said they could tell I've lost weight, and I'm not really into any of my "smaller" clothes yet, it puts things into perspective.  Hearing 23% helped me realize what real progress has already been made.

But my absolute favorite part of the appointment has to be when I learned to give myself my B12 injection!  Hilarious.  I was the kid that needed 3 nurses to hold me down when they gave me my kindergarten shots.  I was actually kicking the nurses.  So, I felt the need to warn my nurse, Judy, who was just sitting there expecting me to give myself a shot.  She was great. Her response to my story was simply, "that's ok, you'll do it."  She was very patient.  I sat there staring back and forth between the needle and my stomach for about 15 minutes.  I was starting to sweat.  When I finally did it, my exact words were "gees, that didn't even hurt!"  I walked out feeling like I could do it again without any trouble.  But I can see a potential problem, once a month seems to be enough time to loose that confidence, and end up staring at the dang needle for 15 minutes again.  I know SL B12 is an option, but the injections are only once a month and cheaper, so I'm going to give it a try for a while and see how it goes.

That's all for now - oh, I need to post some pictures.  I will try to do that in the next week or so.

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