it's my life, don't you forget
I will be celebrating one-year from WLS a week from today, the 18th, and I really REALLY wanted to be down 140 lbs on or before that date.
Well, I've spent the last 2 days at Unity due to what we finally found out is a bad case of the stomach flu. I had felt like utter crap in a bucket on Sunday so I called Dr. Baker and he told me, based on the symptoms I described, to go to the ER just to be safe. I drove myself thinking I'd be home that same day.
No such luck. I got a real nice doc in the ER, and he gave me some morphine(which, coincidentally does not work nearly as well now as it had with the orthopedic surgeries I'd had prior to WLS) and zofran for the constant nausea, as well as a CT scan. It revealed that the common bile duct connected to my gallbladder was dilated. The doc thought maybe I had gallstones.
Hmm. How could I have gallstones when my gallbladder has been out of my body since 2004??!
So I was admitted for pain control and hydration. The next day I had an MRCP(let me google what this actually stands for: Magnetic Resonance Cholangio Pancreatography) , basically a different kind of MRI and non-invasive like an endoscopy would have been. This showed not only the dilated bile duct, but also two cysts: one on my liver, and another on the right kidney. WTF? So, because of the cysts, they wanted yet another CT scan; this time though with oral and IV contrast(so disgusting, but I chugged that carafe of contrast down like nobody's business).
The scan came back normal. Again I say--WTF?!?
I hung out on the bariatric wing on the surgical floor for another day, they switched my IV dilaudid to oral vicodin. I miss my dilaudid. It put me into sleepy-sleep land and I love to sleep lol.
Came home today around 2pm, and Dad's home too(he got home around noon-ish). Oh, I forgot to mention this... my 60-year-old Dad had a femoral artery bypass yesterday afternoon--AT THE SAME HOSPITAL I was at. He was two floors below me! How funny is that?!? But I felt sorry for Mom because she had just gotten back from a 2-week cruise of the Mediterranean late Sunday night, then had to deal with not only Dad, but me too(she didn't know about me until she landed).
I'm still rather nauseous, but I bought some over the counter medication stuff at Walgreen's that seems to keep the nausea at bay. But for the most part I'm just wiped. I talked to my nurse manager at work, and she agreed that I needed a few days to recuperate, so she took me off the schedule for tomorrow(Wednesday)'s night shift. So now I don't have to be bac****il Friday.
I am going shopping today because I am all out of Febreeze Air Effects. I am going to buy stock in that company because HOLY CRAP does my bathroom stink like tooters gone wild lol.
OH YEAH! I made my goal. Got on the scale this morning: I'm at 246.3, which is officially 140 lbs gone baby gone!!! YEAH!! *happy dances*
p.s.
"Jon & Kate Plus 8" totally got me through last night. I was bored right off my keister, and watching them just made me smile. I LOVE this show!!!! Although I don't ever want to have that many kids. Uh-uh, no way. lol
Well, I've spent the last 2 days at Unity due to what we finally found out is a bad case of the stomach flu. I had felt like utter crap in a bucket on Sunday so I called Dr. Baker and he told me, based on the symptoms I described, to go to the ER just to be safe. I drove myself thinking I'd be home that same day.
No such luck. I got a real nice doc in the ER, and he gave me some morphine(which, coincidentally does not work nearly as well now as it had with the orthopedic surgeries I'd had prior to WLS) and zofran for the constant nausea, as well as a CT scan. It revealed that the common bile duct connected to my gallbladder was dilated. The doc thought maybe I had gallstones.
Hmm. How could I have gallstones when my gallbladder has been out of my body since 2004??!
So I was admitted for pain control and hydration. The next day I had an MRCP(let me google what this actually stands for: Magnetic Resonance Cholangio Pancreatography) , basically a different kind of MRI and non-invasive like an endoscopy would have been. This showed not only the dilated bile duct, but also two cysts: one on my liver, and another on the right kidney. WTF? So, because of the cysts, they wanted yet another CT scan; this time though with oral and IV contrast(so disgusting, but I chugged that carafe of contrast down like nobody's business).
The scan came back normal. Again I say--WTF?!?
I hung out on the bariatric wing on the surgical floor for another day, they switched my IV dilaudid to oral vicodin. I miss my dilaudid. It put me into sleepy-sleep land and I love to sleep lol.
Came home today around 2pm, and Dad's home too(he got home around noon-ish). Oh, I forgot to mention this... my 60-year-old Dad had a femoral artery bypass yesterday afternoon--AT THE SAME HOSPITAL I was at. He was two floors below me! How funny is that?!? But I felt sorry for Mom because she had just gotten back from a 2-week cruise of the Mediterranean late Sunday night, then had to deal with not only Dad, but me too(she didn't know about me until she landed).
I'm still rather nauseous, but I bought some over the counter medication stuff at Walgreen's that seems to keep the nausea at bay. But for the most part I'm just wiped. I talked to my nurse manager at work, and she agreed that I needed a few days to recuperate, so she took me off the schedule for tomorrow(Wednesday)'s night shift. So now I don't have to be bac****il Friday.
I am going shopping today because I am all out of Febreeze Air Effects. I am going to buy stock in that company because HOLY CRAP does my bathroom stink like tooters gone wild lol.
OH YEAH! I made my goal. Got on the scale this morning: I'm at 246.3, which is officially 140 lbs gone baby gone!!! YEAH!! *happy dances*
p.s.
"Jon & Kate Plus 8" totally got me through last night. I was bored right off my keister, and watching them just made me smile. I LOVE this show!!!! Although I don't ever want to have that many kids. Uh-uh, no way. lol 
HW / SW / CW / GW -- 386 / 347 / 205 / 215
Well when it rains it pours!!! Holy crap -- so how do you feel now? And what was their final conclusion? Hope you are doing better real soon!!!
Congrats on the weight loss -- you are rocking your tool !!!! Keep up the good work and keep marching toward your final goal!!!
Fitness is not about age or a size -- it's really about an attitude and life style!!!
Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the moments that take our breathe away~~
Final conclusion was a stomach bug, which I don't necessarily buy because--does stomach flu cause intense crampy like pain? Like you would want to throw up? Maybe so, I don't know.
I am feeling much better today. Haven't had to take any anti-nausea meds or Maalox, so I'm considering that a major victory.
HW / SW / CW / GW -- 386 / 347 / 205 / 215
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