I'm back!

Oct 15, 2010

It has been a rough couple of months!  September 5, I fell asleep while driving and was air lifted to Rochester, MN.  Luckily, I had few injuries, most notably a concussion which left me with a poor short term memory for a couple of weeks.  After meeting with the surgical team, we decided to go ahead with surgery, a decission I'm glad I made!  I did end up with an obstruction when they advanced me to the pureed diet, but it was easily solved by avoiding anything by mouth for 24 hours.  I was not happy with my surgeon, who concluded my vomiting was due to my history of bulimia.  I have been in recovery for more than 3 years.  If he thought I was anywhere close to relapsing he had no business doing the surgery!  I was in the hospital for 1 week, went back for 3 bags of fluids a week later, but since then things are going great!  I am still on full liquid/pureed diet, not all pureed foods have been working for me.  I am back at work and finding it hard to remember to eat and to drink.  I really have to work hard on that!  I have lost 25 pounds so far, but I'm convinced a lot of that is water because I'm really dry!  At just over 3 weeks out, I can honestly say I haven't felt this good in years!  It's very encouraging to see the scale moving again, it gives me more motivation everytime I use it! 

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