Two weeks out - How I'm doing May 15 '05    Write an essay on this topic. Tweet Popular Products in Books Rick Bragg - Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg From $6 260 Drum Machine Patterns From $8 The Bottom Line I still hurt, but I'm doing ok! Some of you have been following how I am doing since I had my Gastric Bypass surgery two weeks ago tomorrow. I figured this would not only update you, but let others, who might be thinking about having Gastric Bypass, know my out-come, as well. I'm not going to lie. There hasn't been a day go by that I haven't wondered just what in the hell I did to myself. I have good days and bad, but lately I've had a few problems with keeping down my food. Throwing up several times a day is no fun, especially when you're still recovering from abdominal surgery. The past three days have been the worst. Even foods I had kept down last week, such as boiled eggs, don't want to stay down. I have reverted back to an almost totally liquid diet. My doctor said that right now liquids are the most important thing, so I don't get dehydrated. I have managed to keep down most milk products, to which I add protein powder. My medications have been tricky, but for the most part I have been ok with those, as well. Right now, including my two Flintstones Vitamins that I have to take, I have 9 different meds to take. I got lucky in that I could get four of them in liquid form. They taste nasty, but they're the easy ones to get and keep down. I also have 4 pills that have to be crushed. Oh, almost forgot. I also take two other, separate, vitamins from the Flintstones. A calcium and B12 supplement. Try taking all of that with only a 1 oz pouch for a stomach! I've had to get pretty creative and it takes me a good two hours to get them all down. Now, all of these meds aren't the "norm". I have high blood pressure, hypothyroid and some other medical problems that I take prescriptions for that others might not have to take. Other than that, how have I been? Hormonal. PMS from hell and it's not even that time of month! I watched Extreme Makeover : Home Edition tonight and bawled like a baby. A sappy song or a sad commercial can bring me to tears at the drop of a hat. On the flip side, however, my upstairs neighbors are moving. All day long I hear stomping, running and so on. It's gotten on my last nerve, causing me to have a shorter than normal fuse. Patience? What's that? I no longer have any. Maybe that is just me, as well. I don't know. I don't sleep very well, either. Being a stomach sleeper, having to sleep only on my back for the past two weeks has made me very sore. I haven't been able to sleep on my sides or my stomach. I also suffer from reflux, so I have to sleep sitting up at a 45 degree, or so, angle. I use a large mound of pillows. By morning I am so sore that I feel like I have been beaten! Add that to the sore tummy muscles from puking, I'm still very sore! My bruises are finally starting to fade, and my incision are starting to heal. The 4 blisters that I got from the bandages are still hanging around, but only one of them is still giving me trouble. Being diabetic I am healing slower than I normally would. Three out of sever incision still look (to me) pretty icky, but my doctor assures me they're fine. I am still taking my Lortab and don't know that I could function without it. I am down to just taking it three times a day (when I get up, when I go to bed and once in the middle of the day) unless I over-do it, which I have done twice now. Sometimes you just have stuff that needs done. My son doesn't understand that Mommy hurts and can't do things he thinks she should be able to, like pick him up. I try to be careful, but when he gave me a hug, wrapped his arms around my neck and then picked up his legs, I felt like I was being ripped in half. He didn't know any better. He thought we were playing. The magic question. Have I lost anything yet. No. It pains me to say that I haven't. I know it will come off, but it hasn't yet. Or at least if it has, my cheap Wal-Mart POS scale hasn't shown me any loss. Well, as of Thursday of last week, anyway. I haven't weighed myself since because I didn't want to get depressed. My clothes feel a little loose, and I'll leave it at that. So all in all, I'm ok. I'm still pretty scatter-brained from the pain med, but other than that I'm alright. I am hoping to get back into the swing of things within another week or so. I am trying to take it slow, but it irritates me that I can't do the things that I want or feel that I need to do. Simple things like changing my son's diaper is a slow process. I have to be careful that I don't hurt me and that he doesn't, either. I know that in the long run I will be glad that I had the surgery. It's just that right now, with the pain and food issues, it's been depressing. The lack of weight loss hadn't helped, either, but I know that each person is different. I know I will lose, I just have to be patient.

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