15 months and one week after my gastric bypass I reached my pre-plastic surgery goal weight. I’ve lost 10 lbs since I got pregnant, but it’s not been intentional. I fully expect it to come back and then some as soon as the morning sickness disappears. As you would expect, life is inexplicably better now [...]
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We told Maddie about the baby growing in my tummy and that she’s going to be a big sister. Her reaction has been a little different from what I expected. She keeps talking about “when the baby comes out with toys!” and “when the baby is done growing and it comes out with balls!” At [...]
Thank you all for the supportive and encouraging comments on my last post. You’re the reason I love the internets. Gerald’s recovering really well from his surgery. He went back to work today, as a matter of fact. He’s handling the extreme lifestyle changes so much better than I did. He hasn’t cried ONCE, people. [...]
It’s been a little over 13 months since I had gastric bypass. I’ve lost 135lbs and sometimes I forget exactly how much weight that is. Yes, these are actual pants that I used to wear. Can you believe it? * I’ve been planning this post and title for more than a year. It feels SO [...]
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My one year “surgiversary” was July 21st. I was visiting Gerald’s family and then immediately set off for Chicago after that, hence the lateness of this post. Let’s go back a year ago and get some stats, shall we? I weighed about 300.4 lbs on the day of my pre-surgical consultation. I wore a 26/28 [...]
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With BlogHer only 30 days away (SQUEEEEEE!!!!), I’ve decided to set a goal of posting every day until then. I seem to have fallen out of love with my blog and I’m hoping that spending some quality time together will bring back the spark. That being said, I make no claims to publishing actual interesting [...]
Filed under: BlogHer 09, WLS, daily, where do I come up with this stuff?
I’m home and fine. (As long as we’re using “fine” to mean in pain, tired and bitchy, that is.) The surgeon didn’t find any twisted bowels or an internal hernia, so that’s awesome. He did, however, find a few adhesions and cut them out. He’s pretty sure they were causing my pain but at this [...]
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So, I’ve got to have surgery on Wednesday. The Mysterious Pain in my abdomen hasn’t gone away and is now accompanied by elevated liver enzymes. Since CT scans haven’t revealed the problem, my surgeon feels it’s in my best interest to carve me like a Thanksgiving turkey go in and have a look around the [...]
Filed under: WLS, complaining
First, thank you all for the sympathetic/empathetic (I can never remember which is the correct term) comments about The Hernia. I went ahead and made an appointment with my surgeon for tomorrow morning. I’m quite unhappy about the horrible testing I will most assuredly have to endure, the surgery itself, the recovery time, the lack [...]
Filed under: WLS, confessional
So, I spent most of last night in the emergency room. Around 6:15, I started getting some stabbing pain in my upper abdomen, right under my sternum. A half an hour went by and the pain intensified. Since I was at work, I didn’t want to make a scene. I shuffled over to the break [...]
Filed under: WLS, complaining
