7 weeks

Mar 24, 2009

3/24/09 --
I haven't been updating this like I should, but I don't know if anyone reads this anyways so I feel it's kind of pointless haha. I guess it would be a good recollection of events for my own benefit sometime in the future so maybe I should stick with it.
 
As of today, I've lost 40 lbs. and I think that's really good, yet bitter sweet. The first 30 was lost while I was still on my pureed food stage, and since I've been eating solid foods it seemed like a HUGE struggle to lose the last 10 lbs.... I've already hit maybe 3 stalls which doesn't seem normal this early out. I've still been going to the gym and according to my nutritionist, I'm doing "excellent" with my food journal and food choices. I make an excel sheet for my food journal, it helps. I plug in all the information then at the end of the day just use the "autosum" feature to tally up my calories, protein and liquid intakes. About once a week I then send it off to my NUT. She LOVES it like that, she praises me each time we talk haha so that encourages me to keep going with the food journal, hopefully, until forever.

I got Lasik surgery last week (3/16/09), and being able to see is such a wonderful thing. I'm also getting Mirena put in next week so hopefully I won't have any complications with that. Some people have been teasing me that I'm doing a full make over... well... why the hell not?! It's for medical/health reasons and why not get it all taken care of at once. I was having eye infections with contacts and I'd get migraines from wearing glasses... so I got Lasik. I have symptoms of PCOS and also I don't want to get pregnant (obviously) so why not get Mirena? I also got all the skin tags around my neck removed (another symptom of PCOS) and I now have fully met my insurance co-pay for the year so any other medical appointment or ANYTHING that's covered will now be covered at 100%. Feels nice. Especially since I have a LOT of check up appointments and lab work to be done.

Speaking of lab work, I still have YET to get any results back from all the tests they've done on me that I spoke about in my other blogs. I don't know how my heart is doing, and I don't know if my kidneys are messed up. I hate waiting, why is it taking this long? That's not the only bad news I have either, I might be out of a job! 

I work in contracting and surprise surprise in this economy, our division that I work for (only 7 of us) lost the contract everyone was getting paid with. Well we didn't "lose" it per se, we lost funding and I guess it's "pending" to get to us. I go back to work off of short term disability on the 31st and I have NO idea what is going to happen. I signed FMLA paperwork that says I'm guaranteed a work position and the same rate of pay that I had when I left... so how does that work coming back to no job?! I have to go straight onto unemployment? It's too confusing... no one is "laid off" but were not working and they're collecting unemployment. Do you still keep your medical insurance in that case? I hate the what-if's... I wish I could stay on short term disability pay, I'm almost getting used to being home all day long (NOT!). Anyway, I hope you are doing excellent (whoever is reading this) and I want you to leave me a comment telling me how well you are doing... all this negativity is getting me down.

Until later,

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