Health
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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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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…
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Food aversion therapy today
Zahkya has her first occupational therapy appointment today for her food aversion problem. She still won’t try new foods and she still has major sensory issues with her mouth. I have to take foods that she will eat and also take foods that I want her to eat. I don’t have very many of those foods so we’ll see. I really hope this helps her. It’s a long drive to Fort Collins so I hope it’s worth it. I wish they had something closer. I got almost all the presents wrapped the night before last night. I still have a few to go but I feel much better having the…
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Hematology Appointment
I had my hematology appointment yesterday. It went well. He saw my history of being iron deficient and ordered more bloodwork to be done. Those results came back rather fast. I was off on 5 out of the 6 tests ordered. They called me shortly after saying that I needed iron infusions and that they would call and set those up as soon as it was approved by insurance. I’m not surprised. I expected this. Hopefully, the iron infusions will make me feel better and give me more energy. My hematology doctor is in the cancer center and boy was it nice in there. They even had a grand piano.…
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Migraine Problems
Yesterday my migraine held on tight and refuse to leave me. I was free of appointments and tasks other than taking Tristyn to school and watching Zahkya here at home. I pretty much stayed in bed most of the morning with my puke bucket and a pillow over my head. This migraine was unrelenting and had a lot of pressure associated with it. I took my blood pressure several times and it was scary high. I kept getting readings like 150/106, 146/110, etc. when I usually run around 120/80 the majority of the time. That nudged me enough to go to the ER. Mom came and picked up Zahkya and…
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Mom life is a hard life
I woke up yesterday with a lot of sinus pressure and a nagging throbbing in my right temple. That’s where all my headaches are, the same place every time. To compound that, I had a really stiff neck too. I knew I had a giant day ahead of me so I tried to ignore the headache and got the kids around and took Tristyn to school. When I got home I prepped the carrots, celery, potatoes, mushrooms, and beef stew meat and got it all in the crock pot to cook on low for 8 hours so I could have dinner for us when the time came. My headache continued…
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Health Updates
There are so many health updates going on with my kiddos. Tristyn’s chronic cough still hasn’t gone away. They have thrown 4 rounds of antibiotics, 4 rounds of steroids, and a month of asthma meds at him with no change. His doctor referred him to Children’s Hospital in Denver for further evaluation. Zahkya had a doctor’s appointment on Friday and they ordered a bunch of bloodwork and urine analysis, and I had to collect a stool sample from her. Her bloodwork showed high inflammation markers, and her urine was fine, but her stool sample showed she had a type of food poisoning and an e. Coli infection. Her ear infection…