I survived!

Apr 16, 2007

     Well I survived the liquid diet and the surgery!  I finaly got my staples out today and that is the greatest feeling I tell you.  They were starting to get VERY irritated and itched like crazy.
     I am on liquids until the 8th of May and that isn't so bad now that I have had my insides reorganized, but I can say there are certain tastes I am craving.  I do not feel hungry just kind of empty some of the time, but nothing I can't deal with.  I can not wait until my protein powder gets here, because the crap I have available to me right now is making me ill.  I found ONE and only one that I like and can drink on a regular basis.  I swear I don't know what some of those companies are thinking that they can call their product "delicious" when it smells like something that I forgot about in the back of my fridge.  What I really want is some pickled sausage and cheese, and I have no idea where that is coming from because those are two things that I have never craved in my life, but I will just have to wait and see if I will even like it once I can eat it.
     Of course the dog wigged out at the vet appointment just like I knew she would, so now I have to wait until I can actualy hold her in case she struggles again and dope her up, then we shall try to clip her nails again.  Brat.

I would like some sleep!

Apr 01, 2007

     Well tomorrow I have to run around like a chicken with it's head cut off so I can get everything done I need to do.  God forbid anything in Germany should operate on the weekends!  I babysat my friends children yesterday and I think that was all the birth control I need for the next 10 years.  I do not mind kids but these are a "special breed", you know the type, you know you do!
     My head is spinning thinking of all the chores I need to do before Tuesday morning.  The one thing I am most dreading is taking the dog to get her nails cut.  My husband and I have tried to do it ourselves and it is impossible, I do not want to have to get my hands sewn back together.  I warned the vet's office about her being vicious and impossible and then they asked me what kind of dog she was.  I have never gotten such a stupid look from someone!  She is half rat terrier and half chiuaua and they just laughed at me when I said she needed to be muzzled and possibly given a sedative.  I use to work at a dog grooming place as the "dog bather" (most disgusting job in the world by the way, unless expressing a dog's anal glands is your kind of thing) and there are some dogs that you are just not going to do stuff too.  She was very abused before we got her from a rescue and she is quite screwed up in the brain department, if anything could ever benefit from some Xanax it's her.  She is sweet to me and my husband, and my neighbor she stayed with, beyond that you can forget about it though.  She is so cute and small and everyone thinks they can pet her and then she acts like Kujo, it's quite humiliating but not her fault.
     I am getting more and more nervous for the surgery and just can not sleep a wink hardly.  This has been the longest two weeks I have had in a long time.  Why couldn't Christmas vacation in school ever go this slow?  That's life!
    

Woe is me!

Mar 24, 2007

Hello All!
     I am 5 days into this liquid diet and today has by far been the worst!  Thank God I have all but isolated myself from people (minuse the internet and phone) because I am feeling VERY cranky, and I have had a migrane for the entire day, which I am certain is from the liquid diet.  The last two nights I have been having dreams about food, this is so very strange.  I do not think it's that I am hungry it's just that I am craving the sensation of chewing food.  Also smells have become much more pungent to me.  My German neighbor cooks this one kind of cabage that REALLY stinks up the hallway and normaly I can take it in stride, but when I went to take my dog out this afternoon I literaly started dry heaving.
     I am also fighting off a cold.  I am really worried about this as I know they will delay my surgery if I am sick, so I have been taking zinc and extra vitamin C and am also trying that Zicam crap.  I hope this doesn't turn in to a full blown cold because I will be so mad.
     I have met a lot of very cool people on here and that has been a great comfort to me, I would realy be at a loss without the wealth of information and friendly people I have found on this website.  I am just counting down the days until I get admitted (wich seems like is dragging on) because that will just mean less days until my husband comes home!  This second half of the deployments after they go back after R&R is always the worst I think.  They are around just long enough to get back into the swing of things and then they have to leave again:(  It really stinks!  Things could always be worse though, so I should just count my blessings!

:( Boo-hoo

Mar 18, 2007

     Well I took my hubby back to the airport last night so he could go back to Iraq.  Of course I am sad, but at the same time that just means that he is closer to coming home in July I guess.  At least in the states the airlines give spouses gate passes so we could seel them off at the gate since you have to spend so much time waiting there for your plane to board, but of course not in Germany.  I never thought I would miss home, wherever the hell that may be (where the Army sends us I guess) but I can say that I miss a lot from the states and have a greater appreciation for a lot of things now.  I just hope that these deployments slow down, we have been married 3 years and he has been deployed for 2 of them.
     Well I am a day closer to my surgery and I couldn't be more excited.  One thing I am none to thrilled about is the pre-surgery diet I have to go on.  Just liquids and veg mash....sounds exciting doesn't it.  I know you are jealous!  I am having my "Last Supper" tonight so that should be good.

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Mar 14, 2007

Hello All!!

     I am so glad to have found this site!  I am living in Germany as my husband is in the Army and this is where they sent us in April of 06.  My husband is home on leave from Iraq right now and has to go back on Friday so that stinks but he will be home in 4 months so I guess it's not to much longer.  My only fear is that I am going to be alone for this, and I desperatly wish that he could be here with me when I check into the hospital on the 3rd of April but it's not really up to me or him for that matter.  This website has made me feel a little less alone though.  I live off of post and have made some friends here but I still feel very much alone a lot of the time.
     I just hope and pray that everything goes well and that I make it through just fine.  I lit a candle and said a prayer today when we visited the cathedral in Cologne, f.y.i. if you ever come to Germany make the trip to Cologne, that cathedral is mind blowing!  I am no architecture nut but the photographs of this place do not do it justice and can not even begin to give you an idea of just how enormous this structure is, and it is SO beautiful!  So hopefuly God hears my prayers and keeps me safe and my husband safe while he is in Iraq.
     I just keep thinking how lovely it will be to be waiting for my husband when his unit returns and he doesn't even recognize me!

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:( Boo-hoo
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