Wow...

Just when I had almost the worst night of my life, I wake up to the BEST DAY EVER! Last night I hit the sheets around 7:30. It wasn't even a full hour after my last "meal" but I was exhausted. No nap! And my shoulder, OMG! Could that sucker hurt any more than that??? So I crawled into bed, with a half dose of Xtra Strength Tylenol (liquid of course) and a pain pill. I woke up a few times, but only a very few, until about 2am when I awoke to the most excruciating gas pain in my lower abdomen! What the heck??? I was able to alleviate most of it, the usual way, but went back to bed still feeling the residual effects. At some point it must have dissipated because after 12 hours of sleep, I woke up to the feeling that nothing had even happened over the past week! I mean, I felt GOOD!

Part of that might be because I'm so looking forward to my ounce of yogurt this morning. Yum. I also lost another pound, not too shabby. I think I've decided to go by my home scale, since mine and the docs are about three pounds off. I started at 262, according to my scale, but 265 according to his. At the office yesterday I was 254, but I was 252 here, and this morning...(drum roll please...) 251! Either way you look at it, I've lost at least 10 pounds already, IN ONE WEEK! Because today is, officially, ONE WEEK POST OP!

I know this amount of weight loss will not continue, but I do want to start feeling better so I can feel like moving around and walking. The past two days when I have tried to walk, I get that shoulder pain and that's really a great reason NOT to move! Today, so far so good, and I am going to try to work for two hours today...more if I feel up to it. Only problem is, my jeans come right to where one of my incisions are, near my belly button, so I'm sitting here typing with my jeans open, and know I can't do that at work! Not that I'll be sitting there, but I'm anxious to get out of this house and move around! And when I can start moving even more, I need to get that Wii so WE can start using it! hehehehe I know, very clever, and I'm sure I'm the first one ever to say that. I crack myself up.

So next...egg beaters! Yes, I get to go down right now and eat an ounce of egg beaters. Now, you may be saying YUCK! But honey, you try drinking your meals for six solid days...wait...I was all liquids pre op, so SEVEN solid days, only to finally be able to have an ounce of yogurt, which tasted like steak to me, and next, egg beaters, which will probably also taste like steak to me! Then I have to wait 15 minutes before I drink anything. I also have to plan what I need to take in to work with me. I was going to just try to eat something before I go and just drink water those two hours, but that is not a good idea, so I will have to take my little cooler and at least some protein drink with me. No sense being stupid about it! Two days of tolerating this diet and I'm on to real soft foods, like tuna, chicken, etc. and then I only have to eat every two to three hours!

What a great day. I guess you have to really feel like poo poo in order to remember what a great day feels like...and I'm pretty sure, at least so far, this is a great day.