Sunday, July 25, 2010

FINALLY....

We FINALLY got the internet set up! I've been missing writing my blog for a week and a half. Sorry if any of my readers have been wondering where I am and how I am doing....

Things have been happening so fast and crazy here. We've moved into an apartment. It's small, but we're making it a home! Hopefully we'll be able to move into a house within the year....

I've already made some friends here in Kentucky. (Thanks to the church and service!) And all the friends I've made our very supportive of my new surgery. Amy Bettenhausen has let me throw-up at her home a number of times when I've eaten the wrong thing....

I think the hardest thing about eating right now is eating the right things. It's hard to cook my family meals with only my diet. So I fix them "normal" food and then I try a bite or two. Unfortunately that has usually caused me to regurgitate it minutes later.

I am still loosing weight though. I'm now, according to my cheap scale at home, 223 pounds! :-) And when I went to my new doctor last Thursday (who happens to be cute, young and really nice), she was impressed. She really liked how thorough my surgeon is/was. She likes that I have dieticians that call me regularly from Arizona. She told me to come back if I have problems or in 6 months, whichever comes first. In the past doctors want to see me much sooner than that! So I was excited there were no new problems, etc.

I am going to try to post some pre-surgery and post-surgery pictures this week, so "stay tuned!" We are still looking for the wires and equipment needed to download my camera pictures....

3 comments:

  1. Fun to read a new post! SO HAPPY that you are liking Kentucky! We have some good friends who moved from there to here last year - they lived in Pikeville (4 hours from you guys). We hope to be able to visit you guys SOON! But with Brett's new calling, I'm not sure when that will be. Rachel says "HI" to Kiara and Katia! She sure loves them. We love you all - and think of you often! XOXO, Alana

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  2. Yea! She's back! Well, I guess only partly back, but that's a good thing. I am so excited to come and see you in Kentucky. Furthest I've ever been down that way is Missouri and that was way too long ago to even bring up. I am glad you have someone's house to throw up in. Tell her thanks for me. ;-) And stay away from normal food. It is highly over rated. But I told you that about boys too and you didn't listen then. Anyway, good to see you back in the swing and hear that things are settling down a little.

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  3. I've been having Bariatric Blog withdrawals so it is nice to hear some updates. Not so nice to be throwing up and not sleeping I assume. I thought it was funny in the last comment that dad mentioned things were settling down a little - it must of been a freudian slip because the post didn't exude confidence that anything is settling down.

    Hope it gets better and easier as you find what you can eat.

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