jana11
Greetings from the great white north...
Sep 24, 2009
Hi Everybody. I thought with having two weeks off after this surgery that I would have time to relax and be online but that hasn't been so. I've been home with my two little ones, out shopping for a new truck and catching up on some household stuff around here and also...sleeping, healing, acclimating and praying. I'm doing okay. Two weeks post op and I'm already down 28 lbs though I know most of that is water weight. I'm a little dehydrated and I've taken myself from pureed to soft, mushy food...mostly oatmeal, scrambled eggs, potatos, jello and low fat refried beans and some fruit and cottage cheese as I can stand it. I should have stuck to the pureed diet...I know but I just couldn't handle the soupiness of non-soup food. Soup is okay...some. Stay away from cream soups...one lesson I learned. I also keep forgetting to take that little purple pill so I need to step it up a little. I can only eat a smidge at a time about 3 times a day except for the jello. That seems to go down easy enough, and stay down. My back has stopped hurting though and my little surgical points of entry seem to be healing really well. I can already tell a difference in my low back pain when standing for any length of time...its more tolerable and my clothes are loose and roomier. All so cool. I feel better. I've been back to see the doc. Still a pin head but he did a good job. I expect that he doesn't expect me to listen to him but I would...more...if I could trust that he actually cared but he was the one that announced to me...when I declared my excitement at my loss of 28 lbs that..."It's mostly water..." I felt like dropping him with a swift kick to the nuts but I can't lift my leg that high...yet. Hahaha. My husband hasn't been well either but he's had some sort of chest cold thing for a couple of weeks now and just is useless when he's not 100%. You all know the type. Anyway, it's all good. God built me strong, able and willing to do whatever it takes to reverse this and be a good wife and mother and a better employee. I go back to work Saturday. By the way how do we adjust our weight goal banner thingy's to reflect our progress? Lemme know. Thanks and God bless all of you. Love in Christ, ~J~
