Two Year Surgiversary

Sep 03, 2011

Today is my two year surgiversary!  I can't believe that it's been two years since I had the surgery that both physically and mentally changed my life forever.  I am happy to report that I have maintained my weight loss.  I checked this morning just be sure, but I still weigh in at 149.  I pretty much hover around 150 give or take 2 pounds.  I would start to be concerned if I exceeded 153.  I'd say that my tool still works - I have difficulty eating sweets and still have intake restrictions preventing me from overeating.  I think that those two preventions are key in my maintenance.  If I were to not have the nausea with sweets or the limits on intake, I would not have been able to maintain this extraordinary weight loss on my own.  I do have to improve on my vitamins, though.  I was lazy with keeping up on my vitamins and had both an iron and vitamin e deficiency.  I hope to get more diligent with those now.  Also, I'd like to get in some exercise as well.   haven't had a lot of time to devote to it and I think it would help both my muscle tone (or lack thereof) as well as mental clarity.  I did have a physical situation regarding my WLS.  In November, I got the flu.  Pretty standard stomach virus.  But, with throwing up, etc. I irritated my stomach lining quite badly.  I wound up suffering back bad pain that I couldn't correlate to anything.  But, it was symptoms similar to ulcered colitis.  They didn't know how to treat me in the hospital.  So, even though I was still in a lot of pain, I left.  I went home on some ulcer medication and followed up with a gastric specialist.  I had a scope and an MRI done.  They couldn't find anything.  Which is good of course, but frustrating that no one can diagnose you.  So, we treated it as an ulcer and I continue to take Prilosec and Carafate as a precaution.

My personal life has been crazy for the past year.  I moved out on my own with the boys.  We rent half of a double about 4 miles from my Mom's.  I had the illness in November that decimated my Thanksgiving holiday.  My boys were with their father for Christmas.  I almost lost my job in January.  I had several financial setbacks in March and May especially. The summer was busy - trying to keep the boys active/entertained.  We did a few trips to Sesame Place, Knoebels, and Wildwood Crest, NJ.  We did lots of park and pool days and even attempted camping once.  And they started school this past week.  My oldest is a kindergarten-er now!  My divorce is almost final.  All the terms have been agreed to finally and we are just working on the court to execute the divorce decree.  I won't lie - it's been an uphill battle.  But. I think I'm finally starting to see the light at the end of the very long, dark, lonely tunnel. I can't wait for my post next year.  Hopefully, it'll be way more optimistic and progressive!  But, as long as I'm on the right road, I don't care if it's a bit windy and desolate.  Take care!

Kelly

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