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Well Tuesday will be 4wks since I have had my surgery.  Things are going well.  I go in to see the dietician tomorrow and see what  my weight is at.  I think  I'm down about 25-30 lbs since  surgery.  About 50 from from highest this summer.  Eating has been going well, no problems with dumping yet thank goodness.  I have eaten spicey things and things like chili, insides of tacos with no problem.  I am having a  problem remembering to eat as much as I should (protein) and to take my vitamins.  But over all feeling great.   Except with the pain in my shoulder  blade area.  I am guessing  because  of  a sore muscle I had from  surgery I was compensating for  that muscle and stooping over  some...now I"m paying  :P  I hope it gets better  soon  as I go  back  to  work  tuesday,  but I have been dealing with this for a couple weeks now.  I am getting  concerned...maybe  physical therapy?   I don't know.  Well best  sign off, it's getting late  and  we  have to get the kids off to school in  the a.m....then  the next  day have  to get  me off to work..YIKES! LOL  

Went to the doctor today for my 1 wk post op f/u.  Everything looks good and I can move to the next level of foods.  I am down 15lbs from my preop date.  Surgery went well only one little bump in the road.  I had to get some blood while in the hospital.  I either bled a little internally at the anastomosis or my blood was diluted from all the fluids that were being put into me.  I wasn't outputting as much as was being inputed thus diluting my blood.  I had my surgery 1/27/09 and was discharted on 1/30/09.  Didn't feel well up until a couple days ago..now on the way up and feeling much better.  I am scheduled to go back to work 2/24/09 so we'll see how I do then.   I am still very low on energy but increasing little by little each day.  I also attended my support group today.  One of that gals said I looked fabulous and that made me feel great! :o)  Now I just need to work on getting all my protein in.  I figure that'll get easier as I can eat normal foods.

I am on my 5th day of liquid diet of my 10 day preop required diet.  It is going as well as can be expected.  Getting tired of the same ole things.  But in the end it will be all worth it  LOL.