Two Surgeries and felling great

Jun 07, 2011

119 Pounds
That is up from my low of 110 pounds. I now wear boys size pants and a 29 inch belt along with small shirts. That is quite a change from 52 inch waist and XXXL shirts which I couldn't fit into.

I have had two surgeries withing a month. One to put in a feeding tube to try to gain weight, that didn't work because I was in pain all the time from the tube. The tube fell out three weeks later and I told my wife and the doctor that it was not going back in. A week later, I had the most severe pain twenty minutes after eating. I was put into the hospital again and had so much blood drawn that I thought they were going to give me a unit back. The doctor was ready to discharge me the next morning as the pain was gone but suggested that I have breakfast prior to leaving for home, after being npo for a day.

After eating the pain was back and the morphine was being pumped into my IV. Two days later I had surgery and the found a couple of hernias which the intestines were being caught in. This was corrected, and the pain started going away after a week.

I now feel like my old self, have gained six pounds and am holding around 119  after my morning shower. I weigh in at 125 with street clothes on which makes almost everyone happy. That is everyone except my wife. She wants me up around 140 but that is not going to happen. All my tests show that I am healthy and that is where I want to stay.

Did you know that boys pants are about four dollars cheaper than men's. See, I am saving money. Boys belts are two for eight dollars at Wall-Mart. What a savings.

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