Pulling the Plug

Well just got back from seeing the Surgeon and had my drain taken out and the SteriStrips taken off my incisions. I have to say that was the weirdest feeling I have even felt in my life. The drain was inside my belly from left to right and when Donna (the Physicians Assistant) pulled it out it kinda felt like I had been hit in the tummy. Not that I was in horrible pain... it was just a weird feeling. I cant really explain it almost how your lungs feel when you get the wind knocked out of you but it was my belly instead! VERY Strange!! Not sure if it would have been better coming out slower or not either way the weird feeling only lasted about 5 mins or so. After the drain was out my belly suddenly felt different. I felt bouncy, like I could jump around and dance! I'm still having a little pain but my belly feels completely different after having it removed! I do still have a hole in my belly that I am told will heal from the inside out. It will only have a bandage over it until it heals - no stitch! Gotta eat lots of protein to get it healed up well!!

I got a picture of me and Dr H today too so I'm going to post it in my blog here soon. He's a cutie and such a wonderful wonderful man... I'm not only saying that because he has my blog website address either! I truely and wholeheartedly mean it. I was feeling quite emotional today and after going there and seeing him and hearing him, again, simply say "you're going to do great at this" and asking me how I'm feeling really makes me feel so much better. For some reason having my Dr, my surgeon be so supportive and stand behind me like he does makes me feel great. I have a lot of other people supporting me... but I left there today smiling like crazy just from his words. If anyone on Long Island here is planning on even just talking to a surgeon, please take the time to check out Dr. Spencer Holover at New York Bariatric Group! Soon I should have a link to their website here just keep an eye out!

Well my new protein powders and drinks have been shipped so hopefully I can get them added into the foods I'm eating and hopefully they will taste better than what I have here in the house. I know I forgot to mention that I have to take multivitamins and calcium for the rest of my life and after surgery I get the pleasure of being childlike and eating FlintStone Vitamins!! Yummy!! So my daily medications are FlintStone Vitamins, Viactive calcium chew, Tylenol or Pain meds, Gas-X Chewable and my Wellbutrin which I was taking before surgery. It's a lot of stuff! Taking all of those is almost a meal in itself but it's worth it to keep me healthy.

Well all in all today was a great appointment, I go back in one month and I'm hoping to be down a total of 50lbs by then! I asked Dr H to make a prediction (not that it matters how much I'm down I just wanted to see which of us would be closer!) and he said about another 20-25lbs. So he thinks a total of about 40lbs gone but I'm aiming higher!! :) I guess we'll see!!

When I was weighed at the office today I was 284lbs which is 16lbs gone from the day before surgery (that was 10 days ago) !!