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Before Pics – A Double Edged Sword

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Category : daily life

These thoughts came about after reading a post on a forum where someone was upset… a friend of theirs found an old photo with them in it before their weight loss and contacted this person saying something to the effect of… ” I just found this aweful pic of you on my facebook album and you would die if you knew it was on here, xxxxxx, you look like ****”.

The poster then went on to talk about how it was a group photo with all these other people they knew, all smiling, and there they were “hiding” back in a corner and how “bad” they looked. They remembered how much they didn’t want to be in the photo at the time, and how sad it was to see that photo now.

Then the original poster talked about how they had posted an update photo to show friends and family their progress, and how this “best friend”, the one who brought this other photo to their attention had never commented on it at the time.

Flashback: Post-Op: Bit of a Blur

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Category : daily life

Originally published April 14, 2009

The last few days have been a bit of a blur.

I’m much more wiped out that I think I really expected to be.

Pain level has been fine… haven’t touched the meds they sent home with me. I think I don’t want to risk the nausea I kept getting from the drugs in the hospital.

Sunday I managed a short walk down to the end of the block and back… maybe 100 yards. Other than that it was sitting up, watching some TV, sipping water… bit of jello… laying down for awhile… sleeping for a bit… rinse and repeat.

Only thing I’ve been downing is water and jello. Broth just is not holding any appeal right now. I tried to jazz up some water yesterday with cucumber slices… two sips had me kinda gagging.

I’m not feeling hungry…. but I think I’m feeling my original stomach and how empty is…? does that make sense? Kinda how amputees still “feel” their lost appendage. Ok, not a true comparison cause my stomach is still there, just not in the capacity it was.

Speaking of yesterday… walked about twice as far as I did Sunday in the morning. Then was gonna shoot for the same that afternoon, and ended up going alllll the way around the block. I dunno, I think it’s like 1/3 of a mile. Took a bit over half an hour. It felt good, but it really wiped me out. I slept most of the evening after that.

With all the sitting and laying on my back in bed, my butt hurts (just had to share that).

I have started doing a few things for work, trying to keep from going stir crazy, answering a few emails, updates on our website. But it’s been hit and miss cause I seem to still be in a bit of a fog a lot of the time.

Gonna go take a nice hot shower I think, then maybe head out for a walk… well, after getting dressed.

Flashback: Under the Knife

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Category : daily life

Originally posted April 8, 2009

Right now, I am probably being wheeled in to the operating room, about to undergo weight loss surgery.

Obviously I am not posting this in real time. I am writing .. or wrote? this on Monday afternoon and telling WordPress to publish it later. Handy feature that.

Anyways, I just wanted to thank all those who have been cheering me on over the last few months. I’d name by name, but I would likely forget someone and I would feel crappy for that. But it’s been good to know I have so many people… friends, family, people I’ve known online for years and never met, all who have been encouring and understanding and so supportive.

It’s meant more than I’ll likely ever be able to really express… so just let me say…

Thank you.

And I will post some sort of update here or identi.ca at some point when I can.

Not Quite Ready

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Category : daily life

My recent Head Games video took me a bit by surprise.

What I started out wanting to talk about was a sort of “the good, the bad, the ugly” sort of thing where I talked about some of the good things I’ve experienced recently due to WLS, some of the bad things I’m struggling with, and the ugly truth about excess skin.

I took a couple runs at it because I kept rambling on and going too long, I wanted to keep this under that magic 10-minute mark and kept blowing it.

So yea, things kind of wandered, but that’s fine. The whole body image thing has been in the back of my mind for awhile and something I’ve wanted to tackle but just haven’t gotten around to it. Plus, there are so many aspects to a topic like this it can be hard to know where to begin.

Warning, here be ramblings.