8.5 month photo/update
I've finally posted a new pic to my blog today. (I skipped month 7 and overshot month 8 -- hence 8.5! )
I think I'm in the minority: while I enjoy looking at regularly updated progress photos -- particularly of those people who take them like clockwork and are able to post composite shots from start to present -- I never did focus on photos when I was investigating surgery, and I've never been a regular photo-taker in the first place. So I'm kind of a slacker in that department.
I've dropped 7 pounds since the 8-month mark and still have two weeks to go until month 9, so that's good (I lost only 2 pounds last month, but sizes continue to drop: I'm now officially out of plus sizes, past most XLs in most regular stores, and into regular larges and size 14s. Um, I don't think I've seen those days since I was about 12. (I'm 45.) It's a little disorienting, I have to say, but ultimately I'm enjoying it. Still in Lane Brayant Ciacique cleavage-enhancing bras, though: along with Sharon, I'm singularly poorly endowed in the breast department, and these are the only bras I've discovered that camouflage that lack so well that I now actually look as if I have an hourglass figure these days!
(Uh, well, clothed, anyway! )
Work continues to be totally overwhelming. In a good way (most of you know that I started as a tenure-track assistant professor a couple of weeks ago), but still ... it leaves me with very little time to keep up with the boards which I regret. I certainly think of you all often enough, even when I'm not posting!
Best get back to work.
WOW I mean really, seriously WOW!
I got to your blog, and started reading and couldn't stop. You are a wonderful writer.
I've always considered you the heroine because you fought and WON the insurance battle. I came here, watched you fight, had my surgery, and felt a tad quilty that I could just afford to bypass the system.
Your blog should be a must read for all the preops.
Kathy
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Surgery Date 10/21/05 Dr. Anthone
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Surgery Date 10/21/05 Dr. Anthone
Aspire to Inspire Before You Expire!
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on 9/1/06 12:20 pm - League City, TX
on 9/1/06 12:20 pm - League City, TX
I just read your amazing profile. However, I have to ask about the story about the bariatric nurse who had DS and nearly died because she wasn't taking calcium. I am 8 weeks out and my Dr has not started me on calcium pills yet. This is making me wonder if I should start on my own!