Days Go By

Well... today was the trip with the group to the Cleveland Zoo. Everyone got up, had breakfast and were leaving for the zoo at 9:30am.

I ate breakfast WAY too fast because I wasnt paying attention and ended up getting sick and puking before our family could leave to go to the zoo. We did end up getting there around 10:30am or so. We spent a whole hour and a half seeing a few of the animals at the zoo before we had to leave.

Why did we HAVE to leave, you ask? Well I forgot Kaitlyn is allergic to the sunscreen I brought for her and her face blew up... well it broke out in a horrible rash and her eyes got all red and puffy and were watering and burning. She HAD to have gotten some in her mouth or something too because the poor kid was drooling like faucet... it was literally pouring out of her mouth. Then on top of all that we had a puking episode at the zoo... more specifically, I had a puking episode at the zoo. I ended up puking all over the ground in front of a bench at the zoo and even managed to get it on the wheel of the stroller.

UGH!

So we left and came back to the hotel... Kaitlyn is now napping and we're just going to relax, chill out and hope that the rest of our day turns out a whole lot better.

Wish us luck!

And We're Off

Well as most of you know and I'm sure I mentioned here plenty of times, we are on vacation! Right now we are in Cleveland Ohio at an Infant Reflux Disease convention and having a great time! We will be going to Michigan on Sunday to see my family for the week and then heading home next weekend!

Yesterday was a hard day on us since we drove through the night on Thursday night... so we really took it easy. I did get to go in the pool with Kaitlyn and felt like I got some great exercise. Honestly, I know it sounds weird but I think I have lost more weight since the other day. I mean I really FEEL like I have lost some since then. My wedding ring is getting REALLY loose and I dunno... I just feel it, I think. Today we're going to be having breakfast with everyone (our site members) and then we're heading off to the Cleveland Zoo. We're coming back to the hotel and doing some more convention type things and then dinner. Tomorrow morning we will have breakfast and then we will be checking out and heading off to a Cleveland Indians game. After the game we're on our way to Michigan!

So yesterday we went to the restaraunt here at the hotel for breakfast before we were able to get in our room... I had some scrambled eggs and a little sausage and they were perfect and went down VERY well. I had no issues eating breakfast. Dinner was wonderful too, I actually ate and did very well with the food too. I really only had a little bit of the "Pulled Pork" but it tasted great and didnt bother me or make me puke, so I'm happy!

Hopefully today will be just as great! We'll be walking a LOT at the zoo so I hope to leave Cleveland having lost SOME weight, even if it's only another pound! But, after all the swimming I plan on doing and the walking... I just hope I get some kind of "reward" for all the "work." :)

Well, I'll try to update again very soon!! Don't get mad if I dont, I might just be having too much fun! :)

Have You Seen My Quarter??

I FINALLY MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am officially HALF WAY to my goal today!! I weigh 225lbs!!!!!!!!!!!! I have lost 1/4 of my starting weight!!! Cool huh?? I am so excited that I actually made it to my little goal!! I wanted to make it to 225lbs by Aug 11th because thats when we were going on vacation... and I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Doin' a little dance WOOOOOOOT!!!!!! hehehehehe

OMG OMG after being the same weight for two weeks I finally lost 2 pounds!!!!! I'm down to 226 so I have ONE more pound to go before our vacation!!!! WOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!! I'm so happy to have gotten rid of those couple pounds! I was getting worried I would be stuck here forever!!! YAY! YAY! YAY!

Oh yeah, I forgot to update you all on the Neurologist... I went to see him yesterday and he is sending me for an MRI again but this time of my Thorasic vertabrae (last time he did the lumbar) and he is also going to do the EMG (nerve test) again. I have been taking my vitamins everyday now for over two weeks and I have noticed the numbness is getting worse... well it's spreading up into my thighs and above my knees. So almost my entire lower half is numb.
I have it figured out too on how to explain the numbness... you know when you go to the Dentist and you get Novacain? Well the numbness is like that... I still know and feel my body parts but when you rub my skin it's numb and it hurts to touch it... Hopefully you have an idea of what I mean!

Well thats that for now... I got the blood work done too from my surgeon (and since I have an inside source - DH runs the tests!! - I got the results the same day!) and most of my results look good. I do have a couple things out of whack and my liver enzymes are very high for some reason... so thats one more thing I have to talk to the surgeon about and figure out whats wrong. DH was concerned when he saw the numbers so he ran a Hep C anti-body test and it was negative so I do not have Hep C. However, they are still high so something is wrong there. Other than that everything else is looking fairly good. I talked to Dr H about it and he suggested looking at my pre-op numbers and see how they are in comparison. He also said that at the end of the month when I see him that maybe we should to a PT & PTT - those are tests for clotting and stuff since I'm bruising so easily. He also says he doesnt think a Vitamin B6 deficiency would cause the numbness I'm experiencing... we'll see where it is coming from!

Now just to fix the couple things that are wrong and we're flying high!!

3 Months Post-Op

First of all let me get the pics out of the way!!

This is the 3 month post op pic:



















This is the Pre & 3 Month Post Op Comparison: