more of a YAY moment :D
Other Stuff:
One of my friends said to me over the weekend, "You know, I found a picture of you and (another co-worker) from when we went to Hinckley(girls' weekend) and I said 'That doesn't even look like Sara!' because your face is so thin now. Totally unrecognizable."
!!!!
I want to see this picture, because I wasn't aware I had changed that much since February of this year! But YAY it was such a nice compliment to recieve!
OH! GET THIS! I'm also down another clothing size! On top anyways. Yes, I now can say I wear a size SIXTEEN!!! Pre-op I was a THIRTY-TWO. So, in all actuality, I am half of me! YAY!
Now a not-so yay moment... I'm having major problems with my left knee again. It all started because I simply went for a walk around the block. Not a power walk, just leisurely, you know? Well I came home, and about three to four hours later, the whole knee blew up. Swollen, painful, the whole bit.
I went to my orthopedist down at the U of M Medical Center. He took an x-ray and (thankfully) nothing is wrong as far as a tumor recurrence(been tumor free for five years WOOT) and the artificial implant is still stable and in good alignment. So he sent me home with a script for vicodin and told me to call him next week(which would be THIS week) if I wasn't seeing an improvement.
Well, the knee is still very swollen although not nearly as painful as last week, so I talked to the triage nurse at the ortho clinic, and she paged Dr. T. She calls back a half hour later and says that Dr. T wants me to come in on Wednesday at 2pm.
I'm also feeling achey, all of my joints just HURT, and I feel hot and cold all the time. It's not normal, and frankly I'm scared as to what the heck is going on in my body. I work in healthcare. I've seen patients who have illnesses and afflictions, and most of them aren't good. ARGH. I thought I was finally on the way to get back to exercising and losing more of my batwings and excess skin... guess not. For now. I'll keep y'all posted.
One of my friends said to me over the weekend, "You know, I found a picture of you and (another co-worker) from when we went to Hinckley(girls' weekend) and I said 'That doesn't even look like Sara!' because your face is so thin now. Totally unrecognizable."
!!!!
I want to see this picture, because I wasn't aware I had changed that much since February of this year! But YAY it was such a nice compliment to recieve!
OH! GET THIS! I'm also down another clothing size! On top anyways. Yes, I now can say I wear a size SIXTEEN!!! Pre-op I was a THIRTY-TWO. So, in all actuality, I am half of me! YAY!
Now a not-so yay moment... I'm having major problems with my left knee again. It all started because I simply went for a walk around the block. Not a power walk, just leisurely, you know? Well I came home, and about three to four hours later, the whole knee blew up. Swollen, painful, the whole bit.
I went to my orthopedist down at the U of M Medical Center. He took an x-ray and (thankfully) nothing is wrong as far as a tumor recurrence(been tumor free for five years WOOT) and the artificial implant is still stable and in good alignment. So he sent me home with a script for vicodin and told me to call him next week(which would be THIS week) if I wasn't seeing an improvement.
Well, the knee is still very swollen although not nearly as painful as last week, so I talked to the triage nurse at the ortho clinic, and she paged Dr. T. She calls back a half hour later and says that Dr. T wants me to come in on Wednesday at 2pm.
I'm also feeling achey, all of my joints just HURT, and I feel hot and cold all the time. It's not normal, and frankly I'm scared as to what the heck is going on in my body. I work in healthcare. I've seen patients who have illnesses and afflictions, and most of them aren't good. ARGH. I thought I was finally on the way to get back to exercising and losing more of my batwings and excess skin... guess not. For now. I'll keep y'all posted.
HW / SW / CW / GW -- 386 / 347 / 205 / 215
I'm not familiar with your history, but I'll share with you a wee bit of mine.
I've had major issues with pain in my back, that eventually worked it's way down into my left knee, following a car accident in 12/96. Chronic. So of COURSE I assumed that when I lost a mess of weight, the pain would go away, or at least be a lot less severe. Well, I learned otherwise. And we actually devoted a portion of a PNC support group meeting to this issue in the past year.
When we lose a lot of weight, our bodies have to re-adjust and re-align to a new center of gravity, of balance. And we're also likely to be a lot more physically ACTIVE than we had been before WLS. So our joints can actually hurt MORE for a time, and that was certainly true for me. I'd go to Valleyfair for a 12 hour day, and come home wanting to have my left leg AMPUTATED! It is getting a little better further out and down, but one of the PNC nurses also pointed out to me that some of the fat that used to actually CUSHION my knee joint is no longer there, so it's a double whammy ! Losing some fat cushion and using the joint more = PAIN!
I don't know if this applies to your own situation or not, but it is something to think about. Let us know what happens with your ortho tomorrow!!! Sending up a prayer that it's nothing serious...
I've had major issues with pain in my back, that eventually worked it's way down into my left knee, following a car accident in 12/96. Chronic. So of COURSE I assumed that when I lost a mess of weight, the pain would go away, or at least be a lot less severe. Well, I learned otherwise. And we actually devoted a portion of a PNC support group meeting to this issue in the past year.
When we lose a lot of weight, our bodies have to re-adjust and re-align to a new center of gravity, of balance. And we're also likely to be a lot more physically ACTIVE than we had been before WLS. So our joints can actually hurt MORE for a time, and that was certainly true for me. I'd go to Valleyfair for a 12 hour day, and come home wanting to have my left leg AMPUTATED! It is getting a little better further out and down, but one of the PNC nurses also pointed out to me that some of the fat that used to actually CUSHION my knee joint is no longer there, so it's a double whammy ! Losing some fat cushion and using the joint more = PAIN!
I don't know if this applies to your own situation or not, but it is something to think about. Let us know what happens with your ortho tomorrow!!! Sending up a prayer that it's nothing serious...
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