Wednesday Morning

Good morning all!  You all must be sleeping in this morning.  Trying to stay warm and cozy in bed....not fair! Not much going on with me today.  I weighed in this morning and I have lost 74 lbs.  My partner that I am working with today came in and said you look like you have lost more weight.  He is always praising me.  He is just a sweet guy.   Well everyone have a great day.

Uggh, it is my Monday at work........fun, fun, fun! LOL  Maybe we won't be too busy with all the snow and ice we got yesterday.  School is out again today, so Jimmy gets to stay home with the terrors again! LOL hehe! Just kidding!  At least they will probably be going tomorrow.  Their Valentines day party is tomorrow, and I have to make 20 goodie bags when I get home from work tonight...........yippie! Have a great day all. Have to hop in the shower and get on the go. It is only 4 miles to the casino, but with all the ice, I am leaving almost 1 HOUR early......I am not taking any chances at all! TTYL

Good Morning fellow Hoosiers, I am up, anyway! I didn't sleep very well last night, my hubby and son are both sick!!!UUGGHH!! Hopefully they will be better soon, two males in the same household sick ISN'T good! LOL! Anyway, I am starting a new position today. I am looking forward to it! I will be heading out for it shortly. Hopefully things will start smoothing out again and I can once again begin to have a smoother journey! It has been a wild run, this last year, but we have made it thus far! Yesterday, was 1 year for the loss of my grandfather. It was not too bad of a day for me. I know that he is resting now and no longer in pain. However, I did speak with my grandmoother yesterday, that was tough! She is trying to be so strong, but the weepies found her many times throughout the day! I told her, that was ok, we all understood, she cried harder!  Have to get off of here and get a shower and get off to work- hope everyone has a great day! Try and stay warm, and safe! Hugz Dawn

Wow..I might have been asleep at the wheel..but it seems like you found another job fast..and for that I am so happy for you. It can be so scary being unemployed..gosh I bet you weren't even unemployed long enough to even file? Anyway..congratulations I feel for you all dealing with the anniversary of your grandfather's death..especially your grandma..I bet she is so thankful though that she has her family to lean on and cry.. Have a good day..stay warm! Kathleen

Good morning! I'm about to head for the med lab. I hope there's a good sticker in there this morning!! I have to get blood drawn for 2 different doctors (with different tests for each of them) so I hope my veins behave themself today! That, and picking up some scripts is my big woo-hoo of the day. lol. Oh..I did get 15 CD's downloaded yesterday. I have about 50 more yet! Yes, this is definately a several day job! I want to get it all done and the songs all set up on my MP3 before I have my surgery though..so...if I can only do 15 a day, that will be that much closer to being done! I have to get me another CD rack. I wanted to get some shelves for my craft room. When I do, I'll probably get an extra one for my CD's. I got an email from Ellen that her grandson Aiden (the 4 month old twin boy with RSV) was taken to the hospital with a 103.6 temp. The hospital admitted him and are giving him fluids (IV) and are monitoring him for pnumonia.  Please keep him, his twin sister Bethany, and their parents in your prayers. I hope you all have a terrific day today! Sherri

Hi Sherri.. Sounds like you really love music..me too! I love my little iPod shuffle..anyway..bring me up to speed..what surgery are you having? I hope for you too that you get a good sticker..poker..don't you just love these technical terms???!!LOL Good luck with your labs. Hoping and praying for Ellen's family! Kathleen

Kathlene, Yep, I'm a big music fan..especially country & older rock. I'm gaining quite a collection really. My main form of exercise is walking..and nothing helps a walk better than something with a good beat! I did luck out and have a good sticker! If they can get my blood with 2 or less sticks, I'm happy..she got it in one. I've had them have to stick me 4 times just to get a small tube! Shoot..with surgeries, it is the IV I dread..just them getting it started!  And speaking of surgeries...I can't really explain what this next one is for without giving you a little bit of history. On Sept. 25th, I had plastics done..tummy tuck with full abdo and a thigh lift (I was going to get the girls done but couldn't..long story short...the pre-op mammagram showed some deposits that they want to be sure is just calcium before I can have them done. I have the next follow-up mammagram next week for that..however, it'll be at least next year before I can get them done now). A few days later, I was admitted through the ER for 'pnumonia'. I was at St. V's for 4 days, released, and then had an ambulance ride back to there 5 days later. I was doubled up with pain in my stomach. After a cat scan was done, Dr. Cucucci rushed me into surgery. My intestines weren't getting blood to them at all. So..she induced a coma and spread the intestines out on the outside of my body to get blood (hopefully). The next day, she took me back into surgery and checked every inch of the intestines. They had all regained their color & was getting blood back into them. After 2 more surgeries (4 total within 5 days), she & then Dr. Gupta, were able to get the intestines back into my body..sorta. They protruded out but had a wound-vac covering them. I was woken from the coma after 9 days of being in it. My stomach was swollen and I looked like I had a football attached to it. I learned that I came very close to dying. There was the intestinal thing...serious enough, but also my BP dropped to 50/30 and I started hemoraging (had to get 7.5 pints of blood). I was then transferred to Seton Rehab hospital to relearn how to walk, eat, pretty much everything except think. There, I learned that I had also had a blood clot in my lung & one in my leg (so...did I ever REALLY have pnumonia?? Who knows!). I ended up in the hospital a total of 4 weeks. I came home to having the wound-vac as a constant companion up until a few weeks ago. The opening (wound) is now about 6" x 2" and is pretty much level with my skin. I just do a guaze bandaging on it twice a day. The surgery coming up on March 3rd is because I now have a hernia from where the abdominal wall was cut into to get to the intestines. When I lay down, my tummy is nice & flat. As soon as I sit up, my intestines spill out of that opening in the abdominal wall. It literally feels like they are trying to escape and I can feel & see them pushing & moving under the skin surface. REALLY strange looking! The right side of my stomack looks like I'm at least 6 months pregnant. The skin wound that the wound vac was on is more toward the center of my stomach..and my belly button is to the left of it (about even with the center of my left breast). Up until a few weeks ago, all the intestinal movement was seen on the right side. Now, I can see it moving on the left side of my belly button at times too. It is also going lower into the pelvic area (which really pushes down on the bladder). I don't know if that means the opening in the abdominal wall has gotten larger or if the intestines are just doing a better job at 'escaping'.  So..Dr. Gupta will be closing up the abdominal wall opening. She'll be pulling the two sides together as much as she can and then attaching the two sides by sewing mesh in the gap. As time goes on, scar tissue will grow over the mesh and will strengthen it. Because of it being pulled, tugged, and stitched into, there is some concern about pain management...so Dr. Gupta is planning on me being a 'guest' at St. V's for a few days. In addition to that part of the surgery, Dr. Bergman (my plastics surgeon) will be excising the scar from the surface wound, pull together the skin and give me one nice thin incision line going from my sternum to my pelvis instead of the 2"x6" opening with the 5"x10" scarring around it. She will also be pulling my belly button back over to where it belongs...and give me back my flat tummy that the TT/abdo gave me for all of 1 week in September. Many people who lose 300-400 lbs end up having skin removed by having the TT & abdo with the hip to hip incision line plus the sturnum to pelvic incision line to remove even more skin. I'll look like they do, that's all. The entire surgery is suppose to take less than 4 hours.  So..if/when you see me on March 1st at Paragon (or if you see me before then), I'm NOT pregnant (thank the lord for that!!). LOL! It's just the result of one of many, many complications that I've had along the way. If you see posts from me stressing to newbies that they should be very aware of possible complications before they go into surgery, I am speaking from very personal experience. I dont' regret having my RNY (had several complications from it too) and I don't regret having my plastics...but I can definately scream from the rooftop that complications do not just happen to the 'other guy'.  People should not have this or any other surgery unless they are fully aware of the risks and can mentally accept the fact that these risks could happen to them. I don't know what I would have done without my friends here on this board. Linda V. drove up from Terre Haute to see me at St. V's. Cindy  & Ellen came to see me at Seton. Floyd & Brenda, Gail, Marianne all called me. I came home to several cards, ecards, and emails. Everyone was terrific..and not just for me, but for my daughter Tiffany and my husband Bill as well. Bill is legally blind and it was terrific that people offered to take him to the store or to the hospital to see me. It really helps to take some of the stress off of Tiffany. Anyway, I am looking forward to March 3rd and getting a normal body back! I haven't been allowed to do ANY kind of exercise at all. And really, even just walking is difficult with the intestines pushing forward (they really push on the incision line from the TT & that is ouchie). I'm hoping the surgery also takes care of the constant diahrea that I've had every since they woke me from the coma. At least with it, my hypoglycemia hasn't been an issue..lol. Also, instead of losing ~15 lbs since plastics, I've lost 30. I am NOT complaining about that! I'm on injections right now of Arixtra (kinda like lovenox) and will be until a few weeks post-op. The surgery was originally suppose to be the end of January but was rescheduled because the coumadin (for the blood clots) caused my white bood cell count to drop....and you need them as close to normal as you can get to heal good. I was suppose to be off of work for 7 weeks for the plastics. They have me down now as returning April 21st....7 months instead. I think that pretty much catches you up on everything...Sherri medical-wise anyway! LOL! Sherri

I am so relieved he is admitted atleast, and being watched closely during this. Tell her they're in my prayers.

GOOD MORNING HOOSIERS!! (hahah i spelled hoosiers wrong at first)

well lets see, 2 day no school, kid still sick, ermm.. 2nd day this week hubby woke up late (dumbass forgot how to set the alarm i guess i dunno, oh then had the audascity (?) to yell at me this morning at 5:30 am, waking me up during my beauty sleep for not setting the alarm clock) hmmpppf. so i calmly got his stuff together because he was literally walking and sleeping lol, and said "now go get dressed and get the hell out of here!!!"
ugh then i made me a cup of coffee and laughed at him as he drove off in the ice covered streets, as i waved bye honey all the while flipping him off. ugh i hate being woken up like that. i can handle kids coming in to the room screaming because they hurt something, had a bad dream or something, but NEVER and i mean NEVER had i been woken up like that!!
oh btw Terry works at Toyota, and they have an intolerance for being late, you can be fired on the spot for that, ugh.

Eiregirl... I know you were probably serious, but I couldn't help but giggle at your post! How many times has my dh recieved the birdie and never knew it???? LOL! There are times when it is good that he can't really see my hand gestures or my mouth! LOL! I hope the rest of your day went better than how it started! Sherri