If Only I Could Cut off my Stomach. Wait? I Can?? - Long Island, NY

So. Here I am. 2 weeks out. Currently weighing in at 218. 10 pounds down since surgery. My hip pain went away! I had that irksome pain for over 8 months. I used to have to get up and pee before I went to bed, after I laid down to read and then once again when my bladder relaxed. What a pain in the urethra. For the past week, I have not done the last two trips. Ahhh-mazing. Already feeling better my friends. As far as eating, I made an awesome ricotta bake, egg drop soup, and some pureed pot roast. It was bangin'. My tummy feels fine. Still having trouble swallowing pills, but I will work that out. My longing for pasta has decreased, but not vanished, mind you. Went to the gym and walked a mile today. I'll try harder tomorrow to get into a groove with that. Onwards, potential and current sleevers!

I'm making protein powder rain like dollar bills at a strip club! I'm putting it in everything. Today I had weight control banana bread oatmeal with a protein soup added. only ate half the serving packet. Had 2 GNC 25 Lean Shakes. (meal replacement opposed to straight up protein powder.) I had a soft scrambled egg. I pit a little dab of ketchup (no high fructose corn syrup) cause I do my eggs like that, yo! It was just a squirt. Then there was a sugar free popsicle and water...lots of water. I can't wait to get more creative. Hopefully, I'll get cleared for all soft foods Tuesday at my first follow-up appointment. Big thing tomorrow though: BACK TO WORK!

December 14 was my surgery date. Here's how it went down:
I got to the hospital at 12:45pm. They brought me into the surgery preproom. One good thing about being a bariatric patient is that the towns fit , so you don't feel like your ass is hanging out for the world to see. They weighed me; I was 228, which was down from 242. Then the meanest man in the world tried to get my IV going SEVEN times. I freaked the hell out. That is one thing I could never stand, even when I had my girls. I get sweaty, nauseous, and can't calm down. Well, this time you can add crying hysterically. I would rather have given birth again than function as a human pin cushion!! They have me a sedative, and next thing I know I was entering the operating room. They asked me to slide over to the operating table, and it was cold. That, my friends, is the last thing I remember until waking up in recovery. Mission accomplished! Pain? Well, I was sore. I was able to have the procedure done with one incision! That made it less to care for afterwards. I did my swallow test in the morning , and that went well. On to water...6 ounces. Wait...then either jello or ensure. I went with the ensure. Some of that to make sure I could get it and keep down. Some more water and...poof! I was cleared for discharge at 2pm December 15. One day in the hospital and then I returned to the comfort of my own home. I'll write more another time, but this morning I weighed in at 223. I'm less than I was when I met my husband 15 years ago (and there were 2 little ones born in there too)