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After 4 weeks in and out of the hospital with pain and nausea, etc...I am feeling...Good.   I was still eating only 2 oz. for breakfast, lunch and dinner and yesterday for the first time went to bed feeling kind of hungry? So, I referred back to my WLS binder and read that I am more than ready to start going up to 4 oz ? why am I so nervous?! I feel like if I eat more I will stretch my new pouch? but I know I need to eat more. I am struggling with my numbers in protein and water! and I realize how important this is...so bumping up to 4 oz will only benefit me!! Wish me luck!!!

Last Monday I was feeling dizzy, faint, and overall just NoT right  ... I go into my local hospital and they say I am dehydrated and low blood sugar ... so after 3 hours on fluids, etc...they release me and I go home ..by midnite I start severe nausea, vomiting etc... I go back to my local hospital and they took me by ambulance 2 hours north back up to Toledo! Well, 6 days later I am starting to feel like a human being again! I am eating different items.. a bite or 2 of banana, some veggies, turkey meatloaf, some seafoods...yumm...maybe my body was just craving more than chicken broth and oatmeal!!! LOL... hopefully 3rd times a charm!!

What I thought was just gas pain turns out to be sooooo much more!!! I found out Sunday night I am lactose Intolerant! Which I can totally handle I just needed to restock some supplies! I went to WalMart first thing Monday and bought Laqtaid pills and Lactose free milk and so far so good!! The gas pains are under control! and life is Goooood!!! Finalllly!!!!

Last Saturday night I started experiencing chest pains around my left breast and I knew I wasn't having a heart attack necessarily (I knew it was the gas pains) but OH MY GOD it hurt so I had my husband drive me straight to my local hospital.. as it turns out... 1-2 days after surgery they have u do a upper GI test to check for leaks in your new pouch and it of course goes into your intestines and out into your bowels etc etc...wellll...long story short....after 4 or 5 days later I still had this crap in my system!!! WHAT? WHY???!! 

Well, they got on the phone with the Toledo Hosptail and took me by ambulance at 1am Saturday night back up there! ugh! 2 hr drive! by 3 am I got settled into the only room they had available ... i won't go into too much detail about the mess that was but god wat a f-ing nightmare... I was in Toledo for 6 days!! They finally got my room figured out ... numerous , fun procedures to clear out bowel obstructions (being sarcastic) and 6 days later I am home ..still having pain, but I am ready again to start over with pain meds... ugh LOL... :) 

I had surgery Monday April 4th and i am home as of yesterday so I guess I am 3 to 4 days post-op, not sure how they count it. They were okay on pain managment up there but there was nothing! they could offer me for this pain besides walking!!! not something you want to hear when you are in pain!!!! The problem: I have a LOT of gas bubbles (ouchy) in my stomach and what seems like my chest cavity!, only a few here in there will work there way out, and also VERY bloated, poochy tummy. I look 6 month pregnant and didn't before my lapricscopic surgery. Can anyone tell me if this is normal for just a few days post-op? I am walking...and and that helps a little, but then when I lay down at night the noisey rummbles begins. but I can not fathum that there is nothing on the market that can help this pain! or relieve this? I am not ready to be takin out back and be shot just yet but any helpful remedies..home or otherwise..plllllease!!! tell me..tell me...tell me...

Its 6:15am! I have been up since 4am...and tossing and turning since way before then :) I took a hot bath, but nothing is helping... until I get there and they quick line me with the "fun stuff" I am gonna be a nervous wreck :D hehehe I leave for the hospital at 7:30am ...I have to be there at 8:15am ..its only a 15 min drive from our hotel but I am too "on time" for my own good :) I love you all!! Thanks for the messages!! Hopefully I'll be back on here by tonite!

Ugh...tossing and turning ... I am sooo tired, but I can not sleep!! I feel like I have stuff to do? but everything is done?! I need an egg timer? How random is that!! What is wrong with me!! LOL...-  I have met such good people in the last week! Thank you for all the support and kind words! I feel like the 3 people I have talked to will honestly be in my life for a long time to come :) You are very special people!! I am taking a small bag with me to the hospital but not too much honestly...
- some comfy pjs (i don't know if I will need them)
- warm socks
- a personal size fan
- chap stick (thanks for the tip!!!)
- my pictures of my kids
- my cell phone (a MuSt)
- my laptop n cords (also a MuSt)
- and my personal items?
any tips or anything I forgot ... let me know... I am leaving Sunday for the hotel... it is a 2 hr drive and unless I want to leave 5 am Monday (which I do not ) we are leaving Sunday :D So if I am forgetting something please let me know!!!!!

I was talking to my cousin who think she is "so fat" at 160 pounds and began to tell her until she can't sit in a child size school desk at a parent teacher conference to discuss your child's grades or until she can't tie her own shoe strings she isn't allowed to call herself fat! I cried and vented and got off the phone...that was last summer. I am 7 days away from my surgery date and I am reflecting on my last 10 yrs of being plus-size (since i was 18-19) after the birth of my son and I want to list the things I am going to get back with my RNY surgery......

1. Tie my tennis shoes without the help of my husband or children
2. Sit at a child size desk at the elementary school
3. Take a bubble bath
4. Ride a roller coaster where the seat "thing" clicks over your boobs
5. Go up a flight of stairs
6. Shop in any store...not just Plus size stores
7. Run with my kids
8. Swim with my kids
9. Get off my CPAP
10. Put on socks without the help of my husband
11. Shave my legs without help (embarrassing but tru)
12. Drive any distance without pain
13. Fly in a plane without a "special seat"
14. Not use a seatbeat extender
15. Wear my wedding rings again
16. Get off my blood pressure meds
17. Lower my cholesterol
18. Sleep with my husband again
19. Have an actual normal cycle
20. and finally.............Live longer and healthier life

So exciting!!! I knew I was approved because Kristi at Dr. Whites office told me but seeing it in "black and white" was very ... surreal!! I am usually a very optimistic person but I was literally shaking as I opened it because I was expecting a letter from the insurance? I have never done this before? and I thought? why are they writing me? whats wrong? LOL.... it says "you are approved for 99 visits with Dr. Patrick White" LOL along with the codes for the Bariatric Surgery!!! So exciting!!

I am a bundle of nerves and excitment!! I couldn't sleep last night .. I tossed and turned till midnight...then was up at 4 am!! LOL