Tuesday, October 12, 2010
missing my husband
Okay so back to the story....when I came home I was in pain....luckily they equipped me with some good painkiller meds. I slept and by the first day fully home I was up and doing housework! Then starts the real fun....living off of liquids...whey protein isolate....can you just say GROSS!!!! It smells so bad...and tastes worse!! Finally I found a drink I could tolerate and have been drinking that ever since. Its expensive but as long as im not getting sick im happy!!! So anyways today marks 21 days...Im officially 21 lbs down!! My start weight was 305 lbs and I am now down to 284!!! I have a goal for when my husband comes home on R and R to lose 60 to 80 lbs by February. 20 lbs a month..hopefully I can endure and push through so when he comes home..he walks by me...looking for his "fluffy" wife...not his new "hot mama of a wife" HEHE!! :0)....
Monday, October 11, 2010
My first blog entry ever....
October 11, 2010
Tomorrow will be exactly 21 days post operative from my gastric bypass surgery. Getting this far seemed impossible. It has definately been a struggle, but, with faith in my Lord I am surviving each day. My journey started in February of this year, when I had heard about the surgery from an aquaintance. I was intrigued and decided to see if I had qualified for it. To my surprise I did! I went to Syracuse for the initial introductory session and recieved a bunch of information and paperwork. Within 1 month of filling out the ppwrk I recieved my first appt. to see Dr. Howard Simon at Upstate Medical in Syracuse. He was such a facinating and pleasant Dr. I continued for the next 4 months going back and forth to appointments and getting all the necessary tests done. Finally I had a surgery date...July 6, 2010. However, thats not the way it ended up. I pushed my surgery farther ahead due to my husband deploying. I wanted to spend every last minute I could with him and not while I was laying in a hospital bed or at home unable to function. So I was rescheduled for September 21st, 2010. I went on about my summer enjoying traveling and eating like we always do....which means we were always eating out since we were always traveling. I gained weight during this time, 15 lbs to be exact. I thought for sure I would never get it off before the last weigh in prior to surgery. I started to get nervous, and I had quit smoking on top of that! Then in August my husband came down on his orders...that was it...he was leaving in 2 weeks to go overseas for the 3rd time in our 5 yr marriage. My stomach was a wreck for the week leading up to his departure and about 2 weeks after. I lost that 15lbs...not how I wanted to but I lost it. Then came the day of surgery.....my mom came up from Buffalo to be with Paisley and help me out for the first week post-op. I surprisingly was not nervous...until I woke up from the anesthesia, then I started to panic. I was in pain wasn't I? Oh wait I was so drugged up I couldnt feel anything, so groggy....confused, extremely thristy! My mom came in to see me and I just kept dozing off so she went home to take care of Paisley who was at my friends house for the day. That night was the hardest ever. Nothing to drink for 24hrs, get up and walk around after having your stomach mangled and put back together the way its not supposed to be! Everything was sore, but, I pushed myself. I missed my husband...I pushed for him too. It was so hard not having him there to sit with me in the hospital. There were no beds available so I sat in recovery for 24 hours. My first meal....1oz of chicken broth and 1 oz of red diet jell-o....yay! I couldnt wait to get out of the hospital after that!
Tomorrow will be exactly 21 days post operative from my gastric bypass surgery. Getting this far seemed impossible. It has definately been a struggle, but, with faith in my Lord I am surviving each day. My journey started in February of this year, when I had heard about the surgery from an aquaintance. I was intrigued and decided to see if I had qualified for it. To my surprise I did! I went to Syracuse for the initial introductory session and recieved a bunch of information and paperwork. Within 1 month of filling out the ppwrk I recieved my first appt. to see Dr. Howard Simon at Upstate Medical in Syracuse. He was such a facinating and pleasant Dr. I continued for the next 4 months going back and forth to appointments and getting all the necessary tests done. Finally I had a surgery date...July 6, 2010. However, thats not the way it ended up. I pushed my surgery farther ahead due to my husband deploying. I wanted to spend every last minute I could with him and not while I was laying in a hospital bed or at home unable to function. So I was rescheduled for September 21st, 2010. I went on about my summer enjoying traveling and eating like we always do....which means we were always eating out since we were always traveling. I gained weight during this time, 15 lbs to be exact. I thought for sure I would never get it off before the last weigh in prior to surgery. I started to get nervous, and I had quit smoking on top of that! Then in August my husband came down on his orders...that was it...he was leaving in 2 weeks to go overseas for the 3rd time in our 5 yr marriage. My stomach was a wreck for the week leading up to his departure and about 2 weeks after. I lost that 15lbs...not how I wanted to but I lost it. Then came the day of surgery.....my mom came up from Buffalo to be with Paisley and help me out for the first week post-op. I surprisingly was not nervous...until I woke up from the anesthesia, then I started to panic. I was in pain wasn't I? Oh wait I was so drugged up I couldnt feel anything, so groggy....confused, extremely thristy! My mom came in to see me and I just kept dozing off so she went home to take care of Paisley who was at my friends house for the day. That night was the hardest ever. Nothing to drink for 24hrs, get up and walk around after having your stomach mangled and put back together the way its not supposed to be! Everything was sore, but, I pushed myself. I missed my husband...I pushed for him too. It was so hard not having him there to sit with me in the hospital. There were no beds available so I sat in recovery for 24 hours. My first meal....1oz of chicken broth and 1 oz of red diet jell-o....yay! I couldnt wait to get out of the hospital after that!
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