Sorry for my absence...I am back.

So, just to give a quick update.  Monday i will finally be allowed solid foods, but not EVERYTHING.  I still have to stay away from those scary carbs like; bread, pasta, rice and tortilla's. 

I have had 3 endoscopy's to get me where I am at today and I'm thankful that I no longer have to deal with not being able to hold down mush, much less WATER.  Even that was coming up.  I'm also thankful to be able to eat mush even.  I was on liquids, which actually, I was only able to drink water, nothing else.  Other stuff came back up...anyways, i was on water for about a month.  hence the quick weight loss. 

Plateau...
I did hit this.  A "plateau".  All in part to starting mush after one whole month of ONLY water.  My poor body went into shock and held on to EVERYTHING.  I even gained about 3 pounds.  I have since lost one of those 3 pounds and I know for sure, it will continue to come off. 

Today I felt really good and decided to give "turkey jerky" a try.  I had been eating it.  Although, i think i ate too much.  I over stuffed myself.  I feel guilty about it, but then again, I know i'll NEVER do that again.  Lesson learned.  It's SOOO not fun throwing up turkey jerky that's been chewed to the best you could do.  Sometimes not exactly TOTALLY chewed enough.  Reason I threw up was because I couldn't chew it thoroughly.  Bad idea.  No more turkey jerky for me.  Although it was delicious, it definitely WAS NOT fun coming back up.  Therefore, Turkey Jerky will take a rest for a "later" date.  :) LOL!

I have been updating my youtube videos as much as possible.  Check them out if you haven't yet.  It's not necessarily for anything other than a purpose for myself to see what a different I have made in weight loss.  When i was young and thin, i thought i was fat.  So, this is so I don't EVER do that again.  When i get to my goal weight, i will NEVER doubt myself, feel depressed because I'm not thinner than SOME girls, and I will not let myself down again...EVER! 

I want to take a second though before I end this to thank God who helped me through such a ROUGH time.  Who let me live through such a horrific experience.  Even when I was laying there LITERALLY dying, people crying around me, I managed to live.  I prayed a LOT while I was in the hospital and I know the reason WITHOUT-A-DOUBT was because of Jesus that I am still here today to talk about it.  God Bless those of you about to have this surgery, my prayers will be with you.  Those who have had the surgery, my prayers are with you as well.  Hang in there! :)

Steph

long awaited update...

I know i wrote an entry about day one in the hospital but i was in the hospital for 7 days so i figured with being behind on updating on here, i will just sum it up.

Please understand i am in no way trying to discourage anyone. This is just the truth not all of these surgeries come with no complications.

My case is a good example.

I had not one but two surgeries, got pneumonia when under anastesia the 2nd time. Had a catheder in my neck and well... You know. Had multiple xrays, i literally lost count.

Got out of the hospital and was having troubles. I had these really uncomfortable foamy burps. So i found out i had stenosis and would need an endoscopy. Got that done but dr said he could only slightly dilate me cuz i was only two 1/2 weeks out from surgery and that i would probably need to get another one done when i hit 3 weeks. So i went back and got a 2nd endoscopy. I was told it should be the last one.

Turns out that was wrong i go back again tomorrow for another endoscopy. Number 3! I hope it fixes it cuz i have been on water for 7 straight days, no food. By the time this is all done it will be 10 days of just water. I have been really cranky cuz i am soo hungry.

So thanks to everyone for your prayers and please continue to pray i really need it.

I guess i will end this now, tried to sum it up a bit and i am sorry for not updating in so long. Just been a tough couple weeks.

Steph

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