Weeks 33 & 34

May 20, 2012

Where does the time go?  I've been a bad blogger lately, but I've just been so busy with life.  I've been going back and forth between here and my best friend's house, babysitting, and had oodles of doctor appointments over the last couple weeks. 

I had my 6 month follow up with the surgeon.  He is thrilled with my progress!  Dietician and NP both are as well.  I won't see them again for another 6 months.  I have a visit with my endocrinologist this week, had the bloodwork done last week.  I expect that to be good news as well.  I saw an allergist, since taking allergy pills isn't really doing anything for me since surgery.  I'll be starting allergy shots at some point in the near future.

I haven't seen a drop on the scale in a couple weeks, but at this point I really don't get too bent out of shape about it.  I've figured out the way my weight loss cycles, and I take comfort in that.  I know I won't stay 260 lbs so long as I keep on keeping on.  The gym has been hard to get to, we've only been making it for 2 sessions a week, but we've also been doing a lot more around the house and in the yard, and with the dogs, and with me babysitting, I'm not worried about any lack of exercise, either.  

My hubby and I are essentially the same size now!  How weird it is.  We both fluctuate up and down a few pounds so there have been fleeting moments when I've actually weighed less than him LoL  I am looking forward to the day when I always weigh less than him!  He's got another 35 lbs to go before he hits his goal, and I have 85 lbs, so do the math LoL  I WILL be smaller than my husband, dammit!  It's good motivation.  

Oh, I was diagnosed with hidradentitis suppurativa.  Big long name for blocked sweat glands.  I started getting these boils when I was around 12, and they are horrendous, and viciously recurring.  I was told it was a food sensitivity, and was deemed allergic to coconuts, blueberries, and nuts.  Then I was told I have MRSA.  Well, I'm not allergic to those things, and it's not MRSA.  The bad news?  It will not ever go away with medication; the disease actually spreads inwards before it opens outside your skin, so I've got dozens of these infection tunnels throughout my body.  The infection festers, comes to a boil, opens and drains, then starts all over again.  I have them on my thighs, pannus, arms, and breasts.  The good news?  Yes, there is good news!  It's not a "fat person thing," like I always thought it was, it happens to thin folk as well.  The even better news?  You can get rid of it.  With surgery.  And it's medically neccessary.  So...that means plastics for my pannus, thighs, breasts, and arms will be covered as reconstructive and not cosmetic!  Still a ways to go before then, and I'll have to suffer through it long enough to get pregnant and have a baby, since there's no point in nipping and tucking just to get pregnant and stretch it all out again, but knowing that I will get to have plastics and all this hard work will result in a better looking body certainly makes it a little more bearable!  

Well, we're off to the grocery then to the dog park.  Have a great week everyone!  

Gina :~)

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