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Meet Pearl
We went to the Humane Society of Weld County on the 6th of May to just “look” at some of the dogs available for adoption. I had a few smaller dogs picked out that I wanted to see but as soon as we walked in all the dogs I wanted to see got adopted within the first 10 minutes of us being there. We decided to go browse and see what else they had anyway. Most of the dogs were jumping up on the window and barking at us as soon as we passed by their kennel. Except one. She just turned around and looked me in the eye and…
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Things that annoy me
There are several things that have really annoyed me lately. When I say to someone, I’ve been up early and running non-stop today, and have them say, me too. For one, I know that I’ve done about a zillion more things than they have, I know that they went out to casual lunch, I know that they have taken a nap and I know they have only walked less than half a mile. Sure, maybe it was a busy day, for THEM but damn, don’t compare that to my day when I’ve done 10,000 more things and never got to sit down once. It’s not the same. Don’t compare. Napping…
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Got Tristyn a new desk
Found this desk on Facebook marketplace for $20. What a steal! Tristyn will be getting Mama’s old computer and needed a place to put it. He loves it.
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My Molly is gone
Molly wasn’t eating her food like usual and was sleeping. She was sleeping a lot. I decided to take her to the vet. The vet took X-rays and bloodwork. Fluid was building up around her heart and lungs, probably due to some sort of cancer the vet said. Her liver enzymes were 6 times higher than normal. It was a Friday when this happened. Friday morning. I asked the question I knew I needed to ask. Is this the end? Yes, the vet replied. This is the end. I said, let’s schedule the appointment for Monday. I needed to have the weekend with her. I needed enough time to say…
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So food is weird now
When I first got home from the hospital, I had to be around food again. I had to make it, I had to watch other people eat it. Food that I love eating, food that smelled so very delicious. I knew I couldn’t have it. It’s clear liquids for me for the first two weeks and then it moves on to pureed food. Then it’s soft proteins and such from there on out until I’m completely healed. On the first day back I went through a bit of a mourning period. I really wanted all that food. I wanted it back, my stomach, even though it was impossible for me…
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Surgery was done and now I’m back home
I got my Single Anastomosis Duodeno-Ileostomy with Sleeve gastrectomy on Monday. Everything went fine with the surgery. I made everyone aware that I had issues with pain meds (I require more because I metabolize them very quickly and they don’t last as long) and anesthesia (I wake up during my surgeries) so everyone seemed to understand. The surgery took a little over 5 hours. I was in ICU for 6 days as they tried to figure out some reasonable pain control for me. One of those days I spent screaming and crying for 12 out of the 24 hours that day. It was rough. The pain is pretty bad, still.…
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The surgery date has been set
I know that it’s been a while since I’ve written any updates. I just had my pre-op appointment on Friday and the surgery date has been set for my bariatric surgery. The big day is February 27th @ 10:45am. I can’t believe we are weeks away at this point. Exactly two weeks today in fact. I’m starting to mourn the foods that I love knowing I’ll never be able to have them again. I wish I could get some salsa in the next two weeks but I don’t think our budget will be able to handle that. I won’t be able to take any NSAIDS for the first month or…
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Working for what you want
I got a phone call yesterday from my bariatric office. I’m scheduled for surgery at the end of February. I can’t believe the time is finally here. I’ve been anticipating this so much and looking so forward to it. I’ve cut back on my coffee and come February 1st I’ll quit caffeine altogether. I guess the caffeine eats through the staples so I can’t have any caffeine before or directly after the surgery until I’m all healed up. I can do that. I need to start getting in the habit of logging my food however, I started and then blamed being too busy as a reason why I stopped. I…
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Back to school
The alarm was set at 6 am this morning and neither of my kids wanted to get up. I was surprised that Zahkya was still sleeping as she’s usually up between 4 am-5 am. Not this morning, however. After I shut the alarm off I turned on the lamp in the bedroom thinking that would wake them up. Nope. I don’t blame them, I was tired too. Tristyn was apprehensive about going to school today because he was up so early but I kept reassuring him that he’d feel differently after seeing his friends and teacher. He said he had a stomach ache right before I dropped him off but…
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Post-sickness
I don’t know what I picked up but I picked up something, somewhere. I was starting to cough on Christmas Eve, I didn’t think much of it, just a cough. I’ve been coughing for 4 solid months with one thing or another. This one however, progressed until it was a really wet and deep cough. Then the body aches started. Then the congestion hit and the sinus pressure started pushing my face bones outwards. Pure misery. Here I am 3 days later and I’m still struggling. I’m over the aches for the most part and I’m mostly over the congestion due to Musinex-D but my lungs are wrecked from this…