Day 20- A trip to the hospital

Aug 16, 2011

After ordering vitimins off vitalady last night, I decided to call the surgeon's office today to see if they could write me a note to get my flex spending to cover them.  While talking to the nurse about this, I asked her if she could explain why my legs are aching so bad.  I told her how they are preventing me from sleeping, and that they constantly ache.  She immediately got very concerned and told me she needed to talk to the surgeon about it.  About an hour later she called me back and said that I need to go back to United (the hospital where I had surgery) to have an ultrasound and a full metabolic panel.  Apparently this is a warning sign of blood clots.  I checked in and had the ultrasound.  Thankfully everything checked out and they didn't find any clots.  Tomorrow they should have the bloodwork back and hopefully will be able to figure out what is going on.  It is soooo painful!  

After the trip to the hospital, I headed to my first support group meeting.  It was "interesting" and I'm still processing.  I always imagined a support group would be a more intimate setting but there were about 30-40 people there.  A few people monopolized most of the time asking their questions but the answers were still helpful.  I will definitely go back again but am hoping that it's a smaller group next time. 

I did pretty good getting more calories in today.  I almost hit 800!  I'm hoping if I can keep my calories up a little I will start losing more.  We'll see how it goes!  

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