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Finally!  After taking care of myself and getting plenty of liquids this past week, the doctor moved me onto soft foods. Talk about being excited!  I was nervous about eating, but then it's like riding a bike!! I savored every little pea-sized morsal and could identify some of the ingredients. I also found myself closing my eyes on occassion just to appreciate real food again!  NO MORE PRE-CHEWED FOOD!!!

I was so excited to see if the doctor would progress me to soft foods, but instead, I was regressed back to liquids/purees. I have not been drinking enough liquids and so the doctor sent me over to the hospital to get 3 units of IV fluid. OMG!  I was devistated!  I honestly did not realize how important it was to keep track of my fluid intake until today.

It was a hard lesson to learn, and I hope that I don't make that mistake ever again. 

Okay, time to move forward and change my patterns.

I finally tried some mushies on Thursday night. I had some mushy crackers in my tomato soup and it was wonderful! I have to try to be creative before I get sick of my devilled ham and refried beans with cheese and guac.

Thank goodness that my tummy FINALLY settled down. I still can't stomach the lunch that my coworker brings in. I don't know what the hell his wife make for leftovers, but it smells gross! The first two weeks were horrible with the constant nausia. I am feeling so much better. Just still some incision pain. 

I'm going to try to make the right food choices. But for right now, I'm going to eat whatever I can just to get some nutrition inside of me. I'm feeling BETTER, but not all the way to having an appetite. So I'm just not going to worry about whether or not my food choice is low-fat, high protein, blah, blah, blah because I have to at least get something in my tummy!

I am 5 days out of surgery and I still feel nausious. I can't figure out what my tummy wants. If I sit for a while and then stand up, I feel pressure in my upper part of my stomach. I might be eating too think of soup, even though it's runny. I can't hardly gag down my protein shakes any more. They are grossing me out. I don't know if I have gas, or I'm hungry. I can't tell if I'm hungry or full.

I have my first post-op appointment with the surgeon and hopefully he'll tell me that "this is nornal". 

I had my surgery this morning and everything went really well. Loved the doctor, loved the nurses, and loved the rest of the staff. I'm so excited to start this new journey and to have my family behind me in all of this.

Update: May 3rd: Wow!  Still pretty sore around the larger incision and still working through the gas issues.  Bless my husband for being so good to me and supportive. He's 1 in a million!

Oh I'm nervous but really excited to be a bander in about 16 hours!

Pre-op appointment went really well and the doc said that everything looks really good for tomorrow morning.  I cannot wait until I can say, "This was the best thing that I ever did for myself!" 

God bless!

Oh I'm so excited! I have my surgery scheduled for May 1.

March 19th: Had my nutritionist appointment on 3/19 and still am struggling with the pre-op diet. Wished that I could follow it exactly everyday. I still won't give up.

April 2nd: Had my appointment with the Pulmanary Clinic today. Looks like I have to do a few breathing tests since I smoked for so long. Hopefully, this all turns out fine and I won't have to go through the sleep study. I have my 2nd doctor's appointment on 4/7 and I'm hoping that I get my "date".

Today was my birthday and I got to go to the doctor's! Yeah. I had my cardiologist appointment today and it went much differently than I expected. I thought that the doctor would ask me a bunch of questions (which is did), listen to my heart (which he did) and check my history and blood pressure, which he did. So no surprises there. 

Then I had an EKG that lasted, oh, about 30 seconds. Okay, I thought that I was finished but then learned that I needed to go through a stress test. Never been through this so I just followed the nurse's lead. Well, she used sand paper to rough up my skin, stuck a bunch of gooey probe things on me, and made me go on the treadmill. Not a big deal because I'm used to a treadmill. The problem for me was that the speed was close to me having to jog and I they didn't let me wear my bra!  I'm fairly heavy chested and this was NOT a pretty sight. My capelet that they gave me to wear opened in the front and I couldn't keep the damn thing closed. AND I had to have to door opened because there wasn't an emergency button in the room.  
The things I put myself through!  I kept thinking to myself that this was better than having to have a bunch of probes stuck somewhere else or having my big fat hiney bouncing around while I was on the treadmill. So I finished up at about 7+ minutes and decided that I was done!

So here it is, my birthday evening, and I have sand-paper scratch marks all over my torso and they burn, and my boobs hurt from floppying all over the place. But I've at least been cleared from the cardio for surgery. 

I wonder what I have to do for the pulmanary folks! LOL

I had my first appointment today with Dr. Korn. Although his staff seemed a little disorganized since they just moved to another office, I felt very comfortable with Dr. Korn. He just "gets it". I didn't have get all of my "pre-op" stuff done before I could meet with him. He talked to me, educated me, and I left feeling very good about my decision to move forward.

Oh I started with my weighing in. Okay. I knew what to expect and thought, whatever. But then I found out that I've shrunk in my height. That bothered me more that finding out my true weight (which is so different from my driver's license!)

I could have surgery very very soon, but I decided to take Dr. Korn's recommendations to have my ticker checked out by cardio since there's heart problems in my extended family and I smoked for 27 years and just quit last year. I also decided that I'm going to go to a pulminary doctor just to make sure that I don't have sleep apnea.

I'm going to the seminar and support group session in the next 2 weeks and should have all of my other appointments completed. My next appointment with Korn in April 7, so I'm hoping that I get a date at that time.