Six Weeks Tomorrow Post Op

Apr 13, 2009

Boy do I have alot I need to catch up on.  Last Tues I ate some canned chicken breat with shredded cheddar cheese, and cream cheese as a dip.  I ate it plain.  Well about literally 10 minutes after I ate it  started gagging and was not feeling good.  I began to throw up!  YUCK!  This continued the rest of the day, I could not drink anything and I just had a stuck feeling in my body.  I tried to eat and drink but anything I tried I would throw up again!  It got very frustrating.  The next morning I talked to the bariatric nurse from my surgeon's office, who spoke to my surgeon, and they thought I had stenosis.  They scheduled me to have an EGD done on Fri morning.  I had to go through a couple more days of the same, trying to eat or drink and then throwing up.  So Fri I went in and apparently I had a piece of food stuck!!!!  AGGGHHH!  I did this to myself is all I could say afterward!    I was very mad at myself but got over it quickly.  I felt much better as soon as it was removed.  Dr H did dilate my stoma a little bit as well while he was in there, so hopefully this will not happen again to me!  I am being so careful!  

Also, I went back to work a week and a half ago and have found out that although I chose not to tell anyone at work about my surgery, that everyone was speculating before I even came back if I had some other surgery done.  I love that I am being talked about negatively at work now!  I did not tell anyone because I have heard too many times the comments made about other people that have had WLS and why did they do that to themselves, etc.  I did not want to hear that before my WLS.  So I chose not to tell anyone.  One girl knew because she is in my support group from having WLS.  She has been asked about what I really had done, and has heard them talking about me saying they are sad and angry that I did not trust them to tell them.  Now the people are colder to me at work.  When I was choking last week at work on food I had tried to eat no one asked about it.  It is more like small talk conversation with me right now.  I wish I had just told them as this really sucks to be treated this way, it was such a personal decision for me and that is why I chose not to tell them and now that I am post-op I do not care if they know but if I tell them the truth think it will be worse for me now.  They have to of guessed I am sure, I have lost  a noticeable amount.  My pants are huge on me.  I have started wearing smaller shirts but you can definitely tell I have lost weight!  

Well I think that is about it for now, I will find out my six week stats at my appt tomorrow!  Till then.......

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