OMG I'm LEONARD!

Apr 02, 2012

 Well yesterday was a difficult day.  Up at 6am for daughter to get ready for school, and husband wanted to go into work for am.  They left @ 7am.  I went into the living room and found the outfit I was going to wear today (husband did laundry last night so..).  I went ahead and folded the two loads that were up on the couch (cant lift etc) and then took my outfit to my room.  Son woke up on his own and got ready for school, then played me a few songs on piano.  So nice to hear him play in the am when its just him and I.  He is so talented.

Anyway - I jumped in shower, got dressed & am sorted.  Then I called the surgeons office to find out about the gas issues still there full on as well as the liquid potassium being too gross to handle anymore.  By then it was time for son to leave for school.  I got him off and went and got my make-up started.  YES! I am doing make up again.  I have let things go so much due to physically feeling so yuk the last yr or so - that I figured if I am gonna get better - I need to make it an internal/emotional/mental kinda thing as well as physical!

After a short while, the Drs nurse called me and informed me he was going to call me in a potassium rx in pill form.  However - they would be low dose so as to get the smaller version of the pill - so I would have to take it twice a day.  No problem!  2 times NO taste vs 1 times REALLY bad taste .. hands down I take the no taste lol.

We then discussed this gas issue that just isnt going away and guess what!?!?   I'm LEONARD!!! (from Big Bang Theory lol)  AND they called ME "COMMON"!!!  Believe that!?!?!? lol  Apparently it is VERY "common" for Gastric Bypass pts to become lactose intolerant.  And that is what is causing my gas, bloating etc now.  (Lovely huh!? lol)  So .. I have a few choices.  a) Give up milk and start taking calcium pills the rest of my life; 2) start drinking lactaid milk; or c) take lactase enzyme meds to "block" the lactose from "me".  I actually like milk - so dont want to give it up .. so #1 option is out, went to Walmart last night to buy a small container of the lactaid 1% - but they didnt have it in stock so... I bought the Lactase enzyme chewable.  I will try these today and see how it goes.

Through out my busy day (CVS for RXs, appt with therapist, "lunch" w/ husband, Murphy's market, pick up daughter, pick up son, brighthouse, walmart) I didnt rest / lay down once!  Totally unusual for me - even BEFORE the surgery.  By the end of dinner (which went uneventfully - thank God!), I was EXHAUSTED!  I layed down to let food settle (about 6:30P) and feel asleep.  Woke up at 11p for about 30 min and then fall back to sleep again.  And slept till 5:20a this am! 

Then - I finally got the slap in the face the Dr warned me about from the scale for getting on it daily - it showed I GAINED 1/2 pound since yesterday am!   Ok - we are officially NOT weighing now but once a week.  I will do it on Sundays - so check on those blogs for weight updates :-).  

Well - its time to get started here .. so till next time xoxox

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spring hill, FL
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26.2
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RNY
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03/20/2012
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Nov 15, 2011
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