I'm a loser

Well, first of all thanks for all the encouraging emails I received prior to surgery. Thank GOD everything went well on Monday, I got to the hospital at 7:30 am, but I don't think I went into the OR until almost 10am. Surgery was around 1 1/2 hours and according to the surgeron, wonderful Dr. Teixeira, everything went well. I got discharged from the hospital yesturday and being home has been great. I'm feeling gas pains as well as some chest pain when I take to big of a sip, but learning will come in time. The only complication I had after surgery was elevated blood pressure, which I have never had. So my surgeon has asked me to see a physician and I'm going to go see her tomorrow. I have my 1 week follow up next Tuesday and I'm very excited to see the weight comming off. I have cheated with the scale thing. The morning of the surgery I was 303.4 lbs, I had lost some weight since my journey began (started of at 312), well this morning I got on the scale and it read 287.4, I don't know if I should trust it or not, we will see what the MD weighs me at tomorrow. For some reason I think I'm comming down with strep throught, my middle child had it before I went in on Monday, and my throught is killing me today, not sure what kind of antibiotics I'll be allowed to take but we'll see tomorrow. Thanks again for all the ecoraging words and prayers they have ment the world to me. Pat 312/287.4/150