I'm sharing my journey here, if you'd like to join in feel free, if you'd like to judge move on please. My life is being reinvented at 65 this is the year I'm having Gastric Bypass Surgery. Such a leap, such a change, such a chance.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Up & At it, well barely :-)

~~~Appreciation, it's what you have       
when you realize how much you had
you took for granted!!~~~

Hello my friends and wonderful supporters.  This is my first attempt at being at the computer, actually the first time I've turned it on.  That's really saying something for this techno world addicted fool.

I had a SHOWER I know that doesn't sound like much but boy that water was Heaven.  I even have graduated my menu to include creamed soup today.  Paul shuddered as he handed it to me but I thought it tasted pretty gourmet!  I opted for 3 Tablespoons along with a couple teaspoons of my new found friend Benifiber, lol.  

Isn't it amazing the things you find you need in your cupboard.  I'm not a real fan of the chewable muti vitamins we got but better than the horse pill ones I had been taking Pre-OP but I'll manage for a couple of months until I feel like I can swallow something else.

A little bit goes a long ways toward activity, I'm surprised a body can rest so much and still feel like it could fall asleep at a moments notice.  

Well I think I'll high step, nope baby step, myself back to my recliner with my heating pad on my tummy and just see what the insides of my eyelids look like for a little bit.  I opted to cut back on the Loratab Elixiar pain medicine, oh gag me.  They make it that awful so you won't want to stay on it very long.  I had my regular dose last night and another half after the shower, that should be plenty for today.  I know pain meds can really mess up the natural flow of things and I'm trying to get that back so maybe less of those and more Benifiber will do the trick.

Day four --- am I sorry I did this, not on your life!  Best decision I ever made and it will be even more so once the scales stop being evil and retaining those stupid pounds that came back.  Not really too bothered, what doesn't go through the lips, over the gums straight to mini tummy can't put on pounds and pretty soon the scales will get the message and get with the program as well.


2 comments:

  1. I am so happy to hear your sense of humor is coming through loud and clear!
    I can remember (not too long ago, I know) you first mentioning this journey you were going to undertake, and I thought it a long way off, and yet here we are post surgery already! Now that you have completed your pre-op drinks only preparation, I am curious as to how Paul is eating now. I know he is not having 3 tbs of creamed soup!
    Keep moving, but baby steps. Don't get too used to looking at the inside of your eyelids!
    Stay strong - Julie

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  2. Yay Patti! Amazing how something simple like a shower can feel regal! I am so happy to hear how great you are doing, the body will get the message it's supposed to be shedding pounds and then there will be no stopping you.

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