I'm now over one week out! I'm still alive, thankfully. I'm feeling a little better each day. I went back to work on Monday and all was fine. I'm finally finished with the terrible antibiotics Mexico sent me home with. Small favors, eh? I have a hard time taking pills to begin with; try swallowing the nastiest horse pills EVER (four per day!) after just having most of your stomach removed--not pleasant.
I'm still on clear liquids. I'm going to give it until next Thursday before upgrading to full liquids (low-carb Slimfast is sounding pretty good right now) for two weeks. Astonishingly, I'm hardly hungry at all. This is beyond me; I'm probably barely getting 400 calories in me per day. I cannot stand Isopure and "plain" protein powder just doesn't do it for me--it's gross. Needless to say, I've not been getting in much protein lately.
My head hunger isn't too terrible; at least I'm craving fairly healthy things for the most part. I'm not really thinking about candy, for once! (and I love me some candy!) I'm dying for a banana with peanut butter--soon, my precious. *drool* Right now, I'm working on just getting in enough fluids.
I'm down to 179.8! Goodbye 180's (hopefully forever)! I hope to say farewell to the darned gas eventually too. It bothers me all day and even settles in my shoulder for a little while when I lay down. It goes away pretty quickly though, and I've been able to sleep decently.
My incisions look okay, but my drain site has still been oozing a bit. I'd been using gauze to cover it, but the tape has been itching like crazy so I downgraded to a Hello Kitty bandaid. I'm going to take a look at it later and see if I can leave it uncovered yet. Ick, I hate wounds. How'd they get my ginormous gut out through those tiny holes anyway?
Okay, I'm done rambling for now. Sleep soon; I deserve it after my 11.5 hour workday!
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