Living with Diabetes and Lapband

Day 13 after surgery

Now don't count on a post every single day.  And sometimes they will be late in the day like this one.

Today was my first day with "food".  We had our end of school luncheon and we had Mexican baked potatos.

I picked a small one, and got lots of butter and sour creme and some cheese.  Then turned it in to a mashed potato.  We also had macaroni and cheese with some mexican flavoring.  It was over cooked so it was also good.

I will say that I didn't finish the baked potato but still felt REALLY REALLY full.  It is also different to get used to eating without drinking.

I did do some prep work last night -- had a cream of potato soup the night before, so it wasn't a complete shock to my system. 

Still maintaining my weight -- and that's to be expected and okay.

Still can see my ankles.

TDD is still the same.

Day 12 after the Surgery

Yesterday was hard. Woke up feeling a bit off, and stayed that way most of the day.  Now I think I was constipated but I'm so rarely in that state didn't realize what was wrong. 

We had our baby shower for the Associate Principal for Instruction (we used to call them the Dean).  She had her baby before the originally scheduled shower -- and they had lots of food.  I could have eaten queso or dip but nothing they brought for the dip so there didn't see much point.  They also had little sandwiches and cake, but couldn't eat any of that.

Didn't get to leave until at 4:00 pm -- that's for the other blog, later on today.

People have asked me how I feel -- physically I'm better than I was before the surgery -- I have ankles again.  Mentally, I just don't know yet -- I'm still in the initial healing stages and still on liquid diet.  I tell people ask me in six months how I feel about the surgery.  Right now it's all too new.

Dog agility went MUCH better last night.  I actually ran and there was a definite improvement in both dogs.  I need to lose at least another 25 pounds before it gets good enough to trial.

Still at 11 pounds since surgery but TDD was 37 yesterday.

I also need to get better at dosing insulin and on taking Symlin.

Day 6 after Surgery

Survive the day from hell -- okay it wasn't that bad, but came back to an email inbox full of requests.  Also was a bit dumb, because I got excited because the wireless was up.  Walked the front of the building and answered a Dean question.  (Dean is the Associate Principal of Instruction - title used to be Dean, and I like it).

Had to do some work in the library -- so ended up walking the buiding at lunch.

Had a middle school meeting after school.  Unfortunately I was the second lead on that project, so had to be up and participating.

Fire alarm went off at 6:30, and a really nice lady took my stuff down for me.

Got home at almost 7:00 - fed dogs, chilled for a few minutes and walked on the treadmill for 20 minutes.

Then couldn't get the brain to shut down.  Finally took a sleeping pill and Tylenol which might have been a little too much but sleep until almost time to wake up (okay, woke up a couple of times but rolled over and went back to sleep).  Was constipated with nothing in me, which like the anaesthologist said on surgery day, is no fun when you are on a clear diet.

See surgeon today and is last day of clear liquids.

Blood sugar was a bit rocky yesterday -- but I am clearly still diabetic -- see those entries and yes, I need to figure out why contribute screws up my date and time stamps.

Priority today: grading!

7 Days until Surgery

Made it -- seriously this has been hard -- today is the first day I truly was on my liquid diet. Over the past 4 weeks, I've been doing mostly liquid via SlimFast. My exceptions have been SlimFast bars and various forms of protein. Before the surgery was scheduled, I did have a few days where I did a bit more than that, but have stuck to SlimFast / protein since Friday and each day of the four weeks the quantity was less.  And I am eating MUCH less than I usually do, both volume and calories.

Surgeon did seem okay with that yesterday but did urge me to get 100% on track.  I stopped by the grocery store on the way home from the appointment and picked up popsicles and different times of pre-made stock and that has REALLY helped. 

I was okay during the school day though had a few minutes during lunch when going down for a piece of chicken sounded good, but managed not to.

This evening I've alternated between stock, Crystal Light and popsicles.  Am also doing some Special K Protein water.  So I only have 6 days of preSurgery diet to go.  (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) - 2 days of clear liquids, 12 days back to the liquid diet and then can start adding some food. 

Yes, I'm counting.