A Couple New NSVs For Me

The strangest thing...as I was driving this morning my leg itched so I reached down to scratch. In the process, my hand rubbed my leg. That's when I discovered a hard flat bump about half way down my leg, then I found an identical bump on my other leg in the same location.

Concerned, I pulled over and got out of the car to check out these growths. Lo and behold I discovered these were my kneecaps. I didn't know I still had them as it's been decades since I felt or saw them.

And..I'm wearing size 16W Lee jeans today.  I was shocked to find out that they fit!

  Wonderful!

Finding out I had a xiphoid process was the oddest thing for me.

I was going to google this...but instead, I'll just assume it is that little pouch in your neck, beneath your Adam's apple.

Now, I'll press submit, and THEN I'll google it. See.........America.

That's wonderful!! Keep up the hard work! 

Granted I'm a newbie just under a month. But I realized the other day I had pulled my legs up in the seat with me! Haven't done that in years! I was breathing and everything!!!! I just started laughing, my sister asked what's wrong- said you can't understand- except she CAN, she's 36 weeks pregnant, but a "normal" weight otherwise. We had a chuckle!

I'm so surprised at the difference 20lbs can make! I'm sitting in that holding pattern waiting for more weight to "fall" off! I am learning daily about the massive number of bad food habits, I have/had!!!!!! 

Yay for your great NSV!

Isn't that just the best?

I can still remember how I discovered many body parts I never knew/had forgotten I had -- cheekbones, wrist bones, ankle bones, even fingers that no longer looked like sausages. 

And one of the first times I went clothing shopping after my surgery, and took three different sizes of skirt in the dressing room with me.  The first two -- the size I had been wearing and the one I vaguely remembered from a few years previously -- literally fell off me.  The one I thought I would never get in -- it was an 20, if memory serves, and seemed impossibly small -- fit perfectly.

Congratulations -- and may your journey hold many, many more of these!!

I spit my tea when I read that. But so RELATE!  Congratulations!

Thanks!