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Well, my followup went pretty well.  He said I'm right on track with everything, except my protien.  I have lost a total of 32lbs, which I'm just thrilled about.  He told me to start trying different meats and see if I can progress with my food, because I'm not getting enough protien in, but other than that he said to keep up the good work.  I don't have to return until January 21, 2009 and they said then they will take a new picture.  They said I will have changed so much they won't even recognize me.  I am still waiting for that.  We will see!!!!!  I also started on my new vitamins, so hopefully they will all agree with me.  I will get labs drawn about 2 weeks before I go back so they can see how everything is going on that end of the spectrum.

Well today is my 3rd day on my soft food diet.  I was so excited the first day, because I finally get to eat like real people.  For breakfast I had 1/4 cup of cottage cheese and 1 egg.  For lunch I had 1/4 cup of tuna with mayo and 2 saltine crackers.  My NUT told me that if I have mac & cheese to eat meat with it for more protein and she said ground meats were ok in the soft phase if I could tolerate it, so for dinner I had mac & cheese and ground turkey.  I had a 1/4 cup total and started feeling uncomfortable.  The pain started getting worse and worse and my husband kept asking me if he needed to take me to the hospital because I looked uncomfortable.  It hurt to breath.  I asked him to please quit talking to me so I could stay calm and not think about the pain.  I asked him to put up the leftovers so could go to the bathroom and as I was walking I started to get sick.  So I don't have to go into details I got very sick and afterward the pain was gone.  I guess that was my first bad experience and it wasn't pleasant.  I will try mac & cheese by itself next time and see how that works, I think I will wait on the ground meats for awhile.  Day two on my soft diet, I had to go to my first family gathering.  I had 1 egg for breakfast with a thin slice of chicken breast lunch meat.  I couldn't eat lunch and while everyone was eating BBQ for dinner, I packet 1/4 tuna with mayo and 2 saltines for dinner.  I was able to keep everything down yesterday which I was happy about.  Today I am going to have 1/4 cottage cheese for breakfast, and I'm not sure what from there. 

Well I am 10 days post op and doing well.  I have no trouble getting in my water, but everything else is a different story.  I drink at least 1 1/2 protein drinks a day, but they make me feel bloated.  I am trying my best to increase my protein, but I'm just not hungry. I am feeling stronger everyday.  I amlost passed out in the shower a couple of times and I found that is makes it better if I leave the shower curtain partially open to allow air to vent in and out.  I am getting tired of the liquids, because it feels all I have are sweet things, so I will be glad when next week gets here, because I start on soft foods.  I'm a little nervous about that to though, because I don't know how I will tolerate stuff, and I don't like feeling sick.  I hope I do well though.  I haven't weighed yet, I have decided that I will wait to weigh until I go to the doctor, so I don't know how I'm doing yet, I will find that out on the 23rd.  I guess I will make that my next update.