Things are well

Hello everyone, sorry about the delay in posting. I am trying to keep this updated a least every other day.

Things are going well. The diet is going ok. The foods that I am eating are staying down. I am still drinking plenty of water. I am still walking for exercise. The weather is supposed to get hot again the next few days. I wish it wouldn’t be so hot. I like to walk when there is a nice cool breeze.

This morning I have a little problem. I think that I ate too much. I had the dry heaves. The feeling came and went and after the episode of the dry heaves I felt ok again. My focus these next few days is to REALLY concentrate on how much I am eating. I will not go through what I went through this morning again.

Medications are going well. Last night I did not take any pain medication to sleep. I slept like a baby. I will see if I can do that again tonight. The shots of blood thinner are also going well. I will only need to take them for another two weeks and then I will be down. The Calcium + D is going well. This medication dissolves in water and I am able to drink it. The Prevacid Solutab’s are going well too, this medication helps with keeping all acid out of my stomach. The Thiamine is NASTY! I won’t lie. It is gross. I have to crush it and put it in water. The taste is unbelievably gross. I can’t even explain it. I gage every time I have to swallow it.

On a very positive note, I am down 49 pounds. It is unimaginable to think that in almost 4 weeks I have almost dropped 50 pounds. I have never lost this much weight on any diet I have ever been on. All my clothes are too big for me (that has never happened to me). This is a very good feeling. It finally feels good to be a LOSER!!!

This coming Friday at 10am I will be getting the drain tube removed. I can’t wait. I can then start to see if certain shirts I have will actually fit. I have been wearing very baggy shirts because the drain tube needs room to move. Also this coming Monday, June 19th I will be one month post op. I will be taking pictures of myself on the 19th and will post them. You all will see how losing all this weight looks on me after one month.

In all I am doing pretty great. Better than I every imagined I would do. My emotions are starting to calm down. I am glad and lucky to have had this surgery. It will not only make me feel better about myself, but I believe that this surgery will have saved my life!!