Mc_Loser

Send Message

Block

Add Friend

Well I have finally reached my sweet spot. As I continue to lose weight I notice that my confidence levels are going up. I actually did something quite brave. I left my job of over 3 years. I loved my job but my boss was not very supportive of me. Not that I expect everyone to jump on board with my weight loss journey. It is afterall my journey and not anyone elses. She was just making horrible negative comments everyday and it was wearing me down. I did not leave solely on that reason. I had other issues with her too. Well I made the leap and fell flat on my face. The job I had lined up fell through and now I am out looking again. Yikes!!! I have to have a job. I do not regret leaving but maybe I left a bit hastily. This is a mistake I will not repeat in the future (should it ever come up again). 

Ok, well I am off for an interview. Wish me luck!

Ok, so I think I am finally on my way. Maybe one or two small fills and I will be at my sweet spot! Finally! I went and saw my doctor last night and I have lost 8 lbs in the last 5 weeks. Still a little under the 2 lbs I wanted BUT way better than where I have been. I am finally getting there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I think I am inching closer to my sweet spot. I have lost 6 lbs in one month and I am definitely not complaining. My goal is 8 lbs in a month but let me tell you 6 lbs right now IS feeling like 8. I have just been through so much with the fill nurse not doing her job and wasting so much of my time. I am happy to finally be where I am .

I went to the Doctor on Friday and there is no leak. It is exactly what I suspected. My fill nurse has been missing my port! I am mad that I have wasted all of this time, but at the same time completely elated that I do not have a leak! I even had this other nurse take a little out because I was too tight, if you can believe it! 

I am so happy to finally be on the right track. This has been a long time coming and now it is finally here! Yea!

I went to see a different fill nurse and she suspects that I have a leak in my band. Personally, I think the other nurse is missing my port. This nurse gave me a fill up to 7 cc's and I can finally feel the restriction. Of course I am miserable because I think I may be a little too tight. I have another appointment this Friday to see if there is in fact a leak. I will probably know by then if there is since I can feel the tightness. I have the shoulder pain and heartburn pretty bad. I am going to tough it out though since my appointment is only 4 days away. In the mean time I plan to make my families life a living hell until I feel better. Ok, maybe not the children but definitely my husband!

My doctors office scheduling department can be so frustrating! My 6 year old could do a better job with it! 

I made an appointment yesterday to see my doctor this Saturday. I rearranged my schedule and made sure to squeeze this appointment in between my children's basketball games (round trip drive will be about 4 1/2 hours) so this was no small feat. Anyway, I get on line today to check my e-mail messages and there is one from the office stating their new hours beginning January 26th!!! What in the world???? My appointment is on the 19th???? So I call the office and the scheduler giggles and says "yeah I was going to call you and tell you that I messed up"! Are you kidding me? Grrrrr. 
Anyway, it's inconvenient yes, and I am disappointed that I have to wait another week, but in the long run, it is just a week. Now I am off to reschedule that day's schedule (kids basketball again) and hopefully I can get it all worked out.

Just had to vent!

Ok, so I was supposed to go in on the 22nd for my next fill (which I deperately need) but called the docs office instead and told them what had been going on. They said to come in ASAP and that they would take care of me. Well they are 2 hours away (otherwise I would have done that to begin with). Good news, they just added Saturday hours. So now I can go to the doctor (and not the nurse) to get my fill this Saturday. I hope that this will finally be it for me. This will be my 12th fill and frankly it has just been too long.I know I should have called sooner but honestly until I got onto OH I thought this was how living with the band was supposed to be. Now after reading post after post I realize that I could have been a lot further along if only I had gotten the fills done properly from the start. I feel like every time I left work early to go get a fill that I was just wasting my time. Honestly I WAS wasting my time. 

Well, now it is time to move on. If I have to go on Saturdays than that is what I am going to do!

I have had 11 fills so far and am frustrated as heck. The nurse that does my fills is a wonderful woman but honestly I think she has been missing my port. In December when I went for my 10th fill I should have had 6.5 cc's in my band and she was only able to draw out 3. She acted kind of flip about it. She said no wonder you have had no restriction. Ya think???? She put 5 cc's back in that day. Well I went in for my fill last week and asked her to pull out the fluid first and then add the fill so that way I would know she was in there. Luckily I still had the 5 cc's and so now I have 6 cc's. I still don't have restriction but am happy that maybe I am finally on the right track. The stinker of it all is that I feel like I have lost a good 6 months of time on fills that were never taking. 

Anyway, I go for my next fill on the 22nd. Hopefully I will be one step closer.