Welcome back Ginny and good morning all. Sounds like you have a busy but fun weekend; I think everyone was trying to take in all they could on such a beautiful weather stretch. In our area there was a tractor pull, threshing festival and the BIG event was "Retrofest" which this year was a 40th anniversary for the company who puts it on so even a bigger production this year, classic car explosion! Friday night Kid Rock even showed up and then ended up singing with Sam Roberts band so that was pretty cool.

B - greek yogurt

S - boiled egg

L - leftover swiss chalet chicken

S - turkey pepperettes

D - spring roll filling

S - 1/2 protein shake (making my own with protein powder, ice, water and SF iced capp powder)

Everyone at TWH was super great, informative, really nice and very supportive. I had my surgery at 11 a.m. Tuesday, was up in my room my 4. I have a really rough time with general anaesthetic - always have - so was pretty nauseous but they were totally on top of it- and fed me stuff through the IV (you have an IV put in before surgery and it stays until you get discharged), before it got really bad. It took me ages and ages to wake up (always does)- but they were constantly checking in on me. As soon as I was able,I started sipping the water ... they provide these little plastic medicine cups. Kept on sipping... right through the night when I would wake up. Both day and night nurses were AMAZING (Jocyln and Martha- thank you!)- early, early morning I was awake and Martha, night nurse unhooked me enough to go to washroom - no issues. She was also impressed LOL -because when she came to check on me I was sitting on the edge of the bed doing the deep breathing they recommend in the My Surgery book they send you before surgery. About 10 zillion doctors and interns (all great) checked in between 7 and 9 and I, along with everyone else who had surgery Tuesday was discharged by around midday!

Now it is almost 10 days! Hard to believe. I had a rough first week (for issues mentioned before - allergic to pain meds, but in all honesty, the tylenol did the trick)- took gravol the first four or so days and didn't really try to eat until the Friday when between then and Saturday I discovered how violently I react to whey protein! By Sunday stopped drinking it, ordered my plant-based protein and stuck to very runny oatmeal (YUM), water and a little jello. By Tuesday my protein was there and I started drinking it - learned after the first one better to break up into two servings (I made it like a smoothie, vanilla protein powder, frozen unsweetened fruit, 1/4 cup 0% greek yogurt (lactose free) and ice and a dollop of lactose-free milk - Since then trying to get two of those in a day and haven't quite got there but drink three shakes approximatley a day (keeping in mind, 2 shakes is ONE serving broken up)- have oatmeal once a day - and just tried some sugarfree pudding but not sitting well so will stick to jello if I want something.

My energy levels are improving albeit I'm grateful I'm retired and will rest a couple times a day once I get stuff done.

All in all, not a bad experience at all - albeit in the early stages right now!

I was just thinking though... Dressing my dog up and painting her does sound like something I would do. She has more costumes than I do.

Good morning everyone. Yayyy it's Friday and looks to be sunny for a couple of days. Last night I wasn't able to get out for my usual walk because I had a hair appointment plus it was pouring. I came home and hopped on my cycle and used my resistance bands instead. This weekend is "retrofest" which is a whole weekend of classic cars so that should be fun.

QOTD: Yes I enjoy art/crafting but once I had kids,, it kind of got sidelined. I'd enjoy taking a few classes but right now looking for a gym to join will be more of a priority.

B - chicken skewers (I didn't realize i was out of yogurt)

S - low fat SF bran muffin

L - turkey roll-up using lettuce and cheese

S - 1/2 protein shake

D - TBD - we will be out I think

S - turkey pepperettes if hungry

Good morning :)

We are doing a couple small errands this morning -- I want to buy a walking toy for the little nugget because we don't have anything she can really use to try to pull up on right now. Then DH wants to go to an electronics store for one of his nerdy projects ;)

Paint night was a lot of fun -- WIP, this pics for you!! I painted pup #2 -- she is a ruby Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. The facilitator used the photo to pencil in an outline and then we got to paint it.

QOTD: do you like arting/crafting? I find it a lot of fun and relaxing. My friends are a bit competitive and didn't have as much fun during paint night.

Post-op four years and three months.

Breakfast - milk

Snack - egg, tomato

Lunch - tbd maybe pork roast

Snack - cheese and pepperette

Dinner - unknown. I guess I have to look in the freezer lol.

Snack - SF pudding

All water and vits.