It's been a while

Hi everyone. It's been too long since I've been in here. I had my surgery 6/5/06 and did great. However, the pain meds they put me on made me sick so every time I tried to walk in hospital, I got so ill I had to go back to bed. The latter part of the second day they switched my pain meds and I got a tiny bit better. I think they were still in my system or something. I've been really busy since I came home AFTER I got through the first two weeks when my body got weaker and weaker. My husband worked the fireworks by himself for the first couple of weeks and then I worked with him the last few weeks. I was working between 14-16 hours a day AND we're opening a furniture store so that's keeping up busy too. Needless to say, I overdid it a bit. I also got hurt in my tummy on 4th of July. A 90-lb. girl was laying on my lap with my 40-lb granddaughter and the older/heavier girl placed her hand on my incision (the one with the internal suture) and put all her wt down as she moved her body upward on me. I could barely speak and could only say NO, NO, NO! and finally my brain kicked in and I simply got her lower arm and lifted her off my tummy. I was in pretty bad pain but no serious damage done, THANK GOD! I'm over that now and doing very well. I ate a little bit of carbs when I was able to eat whole foods again and had no problem with them at all. A week or so later I was still eating them (keep in mind, I only ate tinsy portions) and OH MY GOODNESS! they made me SICK! I didn't throw up, but got VERY sick. It passed quickly though. I ate half a piece of sausage... meat... PROTEIN, right? I now know I can NOT eat anything greasy. That made me sicker than the carbs. Live and learn. I did take four licks of soft-serve chocolate icecream Wednesday at King's Island and it didn't bother me at all. I was good and didn't try to eat anymore. I'm down 34 lbs as of this morning. I hope everyone is doing well. I have to shower and get out of here now. I need to go to the grocery and do some more work at our store. We're suppose to open next week. Gale

Hey Gale, congrats on the 34 pounds lost! Thats great! Hope u r taking care of yourself and taking it easy...