Gotta love my co-workers

Well today is my fasting blood work so I wanted to get it done as soon as I could to get the ball rolling on all of this.

I ate some foods last night at the other job but not all that much since I wasn't really hungry.  Until today..........

Navy wife and Corrie K have been really nice about eating foods in the lunchroom or not eating at all.  Corrie K went for lunch and picked up a salad and when she came back she happily informed me that it tasted horrible and had red cabbage and red onions in it LOL

So far I have been a gopher popping my head up every once in a while sniffing the air.  I have been playing "name that smell" and both of them have been chuckling at me.

So I have made it through the majority of the lunch hour without running through the office stark raving mad so I am hoping the shortened afternoon will go by quickly.

Sooper Bizzy…….

Well I had the appointment with Dr. Sarah as most of you saw and I ended up with more yeses than noes on her little test for GBS. So I figured that I had the go ahead from Dr. Sarah and I was already to defend myself to her in regards to GBS and I didn’t get a single back lash or any type of trouble!  She told me that my blood that she has in my file is almost a year old so I have to get new blood work and we are going to have 2 sets of blood work done on Tuesday.  Dr. Sarah was nice about it all she even asked me what hospital I wanted to go to.  So I guess the ball is starting to roll so we will see how my journey goes.

Susanne has mentioned to me that I should get into the mind set of eating as if I was post op and so I have been doing that this week.  I am surprised how I am able to maintain myself on a smaller amount of food.  I also have been told to drink a litre of water a day which isn’t that big of a deal since I can do that in the morning.

This weekend was the R7 Conference that was just outside of Baltimore and the DH and were heading down since this is his last “appearance” as a CS so I decided to tag along too.  I knew there was going to be lots of food, since there were 2 meals out and room parties as well so I really wasn’t that stressed about eating.

On the way down I ordered a happy meal at McD’s and I ate the kid’s size fries and a simple cheese burger and I saved my yogurt.  I was pretty happy with myself since I didn’t give it a second thought when I ordered the happy meal.

We stopped in at the hotel restaurant for lunch and we both ordered Caesar salad and chicken parmesan.  I didn’t eat all of my salad and was happy to leave some behind and when the main came I was surprised at the big size.  So at this point I prioritised what was in the bowl and I enjoyed the chicken and the cheese and the few mouthfuls of pasta. DANG!!!!  I my leftovers are still in the hotel fridge!!!!  Shows you that I wasn’t obsessing about it LOL

Friday supper was a buffet that you pay what your container weighs.  We had the options of a large container (used for larger salads) or a smaller container that I would say rivals a hamburger box. Well my dinner was a smaller box of a bit of mac n cheese, a few ribs and 2 pieces of General Tao’s chicken.  I did have a 2^nd smaller container of fruit and yogurt since I have dreadfully missed yogurt over the past 2 years.

Breakfasts on the weekend were a little tougher since it had been so long since I was able to have pork bacon that I might have indulged on that.  I am not saying I ate all of Bessie and left none for anyone else but I did have 2 helpings.

So now I am back and I am not feeling too bad about my eating on the weekend and I had a blast since we have been asked to come back down for next year LOL

I can just see Susanne telling me to give myself a pat on the back for my efforts this weekend.

Nervous

Well I am here early at the doctor's office waiting to talk to Dr. Sarah.

I am not sure if my nerves are for the the talk about GPS or the fact she hasn't seen Nik but noticed her in the car before.

Either way I am next.

Untitled

I could use a lot of puns like “last night had a lot of information to digest” or “Hills and Mr. Hills had quite a mouthful to say” or “they gave me food for thought” etc. so I am going to leave it untitled.

Both of them were at different stages of the surgery and both of them said that there were over 400 pounds when they started the journey.  Hills is just shy of 2 years and her she is enjoying eating food as much as ever and her stomach still is 8 fluid ounces big.  I mentioned to them that on the forum I lurk through that there is one gal that keeps a container in her purse and when she eats she pulls it out, fills it up and whatever doesn’t fit goes in a box. I personally think it is a great idea since you don’t over eat.

They both enjoyed who they are before the surgery but Hills didn’t want to progress any further and end up like her mom so she is turning back the clock on her life.  She finds that she doesn’t like when she gets the “oh my gosh look at you” since she did for other reasons than looking good. Mr. Hills did his surgery since he didn’t want to lose his feet to diabetes.  To him this is the ultimate worst thing he could think of when he thought about his health. 

Pretty much everyone I have talked to would do it again in heart beat or wondered why they didn’t do it earlier.

I do realise that these folks have had a long and rough journey but apparently the rewards in the end are well worth it. I will see what Dr. Sarah suggests and I will let you all know too!

Doing the Happy Dance

I managed to get a time to get together with Hills tonight.  After various times of getting together and needing to cancel for one reason or another it is going happen!

I have various questions that I have written down to ask her.  To me my questions are trivial and important, but I guess until you have experienced this all it might be overwhelming.

I want to thank her to let her know that I do appreciate and hopefully we will be able to have a good buddy system if I do go through with it.  Who knows I might be doing all this leg work for Dr. Sarah to be denied her referral.

What a weekend!

Lots of people and lots of food is how I can sum up this weekend!

Friday night the DH was working until 1 am so I thought I would ask Miss Scrappy if she and Mr. Scrappy wanted to come over for a bit and a chat.  I was a little concerned that he might not want to come since there might too much estrogen in the house.  But he came along and we all enjoyed the night.  We had a spread of Chinese finger food for appetizers, lasagna and garlic bread for supper and lemon cake for dessert. I wasn't really hungry when they got there and I didn't stuff myself tot eh gills.  I ate a few of the spring rolls, picked at my lasagna and really didn't eat the garlic bread.  The slice of cake I took was average size so I think I did okay.  I am sure that they would have stayed longer if he didn't get texts from his mom to let the dog out LOL

Saturday Nikki and I were heading off to Milton to help RedRover out with some team testing.  Nikki tried so hard to stay wake with her vest on that I finally took it off her since she was fighting the sleep.  Once the 5 teams had passed the test RedRover brought out enough food to feed an army!  She had sliced meats, cheeses, chocolate and pops for us that were getting our dogs kids tested.  Well I had a few slices of turkey breast and a chunk of hard cheese and considered that lunch.  I remember a time when I would have put as much mayo and meat on 2 slices of white bread and still looked for more.  I just needed to satisfy the mouth again since I really didn't have a tummy rumble for lunch.  as Nikki and I were waiting for our turn for the kids test an executive was there fro St. John's and bought all of us coffee or hot chocolate.  I was gracious and took the hot chocolate but it wasn't as I remembered with when I would get an XL one for the flavour.

Nikki passed her kids test in 5 minutes and even sat for a little girl to read to her so know Red Rover wants us to get into a kids group home in the area and I am sure they will love Nikki's "dead cockroach" for tummy rubs :)

I get home and decided to have a nap since the kid test was so chaotic that I couldn't focus and Nikki actually put her head on my lap when the girl was reading to her.  That is when I figured I needed to get out of there.  Once I woke up from my nap, the DH let me know that my BiL in Ottawa was on his way to crash at our place before heading to the farm on Sunday to see my FiL. So I guess the steaks I took out for supper will have to wait since I am not feeding 2 but 5 for supper.  So off we went to Yong's for the buffet.  I was glad for the seating arrangement we had since I couldn't really get up to get my own food so I relied on the DH and really paced myself with the food I had.  I normally would have eaten it all and then got up for another plate, but this way I was able to take my time, enjoy the bites and let it settle before racing up again.

I understand that this is the way BPS patients need to eat.  They need to chew it until it becomes and applesauce consistency since the pouch needs the help.  I also have found a BGP support forum in Ontario and there is a group meeting on the 26th.  I know the Hills hasn't heard of it since she was excited to go when I offered to take her.

As I regress, the gang came back to the house and Little L was bored and decided that Nikki needed to be comfy when she feel asleep.  There are various pictures on Nikki having the patience of a saint but I like this one:

Sunday I was to meet with Hills but she came down with something and wanted to reschedule. So we are going to try Tuesday night so I am sure I will have a post to tell you all at that point LOL

So I spent the day on the couch and enjoyed a snooze before I headed off to the 2nd job.  Once I got there I really didn't want to eat that much but eventually I had a tummy ache from hunger.  I broke down and had something to eat but didn't enjoy it.  I really had a "blank palate" of what I wanted.  I have had a good solid week of this and I think Susanne is right, I have no interest in food when I am not told 'no'

So until my next post, enjoy your week!

 

 

 

 

A sign?

And no I don't mean a road sign either........

I had a voicemail left last night at home and it was Dr. Sarah's office calling saying that they needed to reschedule my appointment that I made for my physical on November 28th. 

Normally when I call during the day I am always in a queue for a bit to the point I have them on the speaker phone and I have been on so long that I forgot I called until I hear the "hello?" and it reminds me!  Well this morning it rang straight through to the receptionist and I was joking with her on how fast it happened!  I have to have my physical one year plus a day in order to have it covered by OHIP so that meant any time after the 22nd of November.  Well they didn't have Dr. Sarah's December schedule yet but the receptionist kept trying to get me in on Thursday the 8th.I repeated the details *again* and she mentioned the 7th *again* so I thought what the heck......make it the appointment I need to get the questions answered about gastric bypass.

This will work out perfectly since I am meeting up with Hills on Sunday afternoon to catch up on life and ask some questions that Kane has mentioned to me about colds etc.

So I guess I will wait and see but now it is 6 days instead of 27.