Well Well Well

Aug 05, 2017

Hi it's me MJ!  SO yesterday was a tough day for me.  MY patience and my positivity were definately challenged! It was my day 1 of the Liquid diet.  If you saw the list of things I was supposed to drink - it was amazing.  First issue was not remembering to stop drinking water before my "meal" which was LIQUIDS - I JUST had my shake but in between the shake I was drinking my medicine cup of water - NOT RECOMMENDED!  I have to treat my liquid diet as my meal and stop drinking my water a 1/2 hour before and after. I will not make this mistake again.  The pain the richter scale was a high 10.  That happened around 8am and pretty much put me off for anything the rest of the day.  I found my couragae at 1:00 pm when my darling BF bought me some F/free cream of chicken soup. I gotta say I would have turned my nose at it pre-op but it was DEVINE!  loved every minute of that "meal"  I had it with applesauce 1/4 cup each. I continued to sip water through out the day, had my afternoon protien shake 1/2 cup  and had dinner at about 7 which consisted of low sodium V8 juice and cottage cheese.  I don't think I was ready for cottage cheese but I didn't have much of a reaction.  I am thinking that today will go pretty much the same "food" wise.  I know that we should look for variety but we are using so little amounts I would want to use up what I opened.  Unless I look at freezing left overs.....

The day was nice. I putzed around did little projects. Watch AGT with my daughter, continued to walk every hour and then watched Bad Boys - love that movie. My company sent me a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Had some nice calls, my BF's daughter came for the weekend from Ottawa.  My family DR. was nice enough to call to check in on me and book my follow-up appointment for next week. I had my first shower (amazing) most of my steri strips came off and one of my incisioins is really bruised on my left side near my belly button.  I was told that my left side would be more sensitive because that is where most of the work is done. I had a hard time falling asleep.  It is hard for me to sleep on my back as I am a stomach sleeper - now I try to sleep on my side mostly.

Moral of the story is I was uncomfortable most of the day. Really uneasy.  THERE A LOT OF COORDINATION - with regards to timing and measurments. YOU GOTTA PAY ATTENTION AND RESPECT YOUR POUCH.  I checked in with my bari-friends via text to see how they were doing and posted a few posts of my miserable day on FB groups - I was reassured I GOT THIS and went to bed early knowing that tomorrow will be another day to figure this out.  I WILL GET BETTER!

Thank you for being here for me.  I hope you have a better day today too!

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