Had a little scare last night.  I was a week out and was told to start back on my vitamins on this day.  The vitamins consist of a HUGE multi-vitamin and two Calcium Citrate pills (which are also both HUGE).  I broke them in half, but that still leaves six big pieces.  I’m telling Tommie, I wonder if all these will even FIT in my little stomach!  Well, took them and after a little bit was feeling an uncomfortable pain mid abdomen.  I just knew it was stuck.  After laying there for a little while, I ended up getting up and walking the hall.  Just walked back and forth, hoping it’d help work it on through.  A couple of times I got that iron taste in my mouth and my mouth started watering and I felt like I was going to throw up.  I stood in the bathroom until it passed and then continued to walk the hall.  Eventually i sat down at the computer and posted about it on a few of my bariatric forums.  So anyway, yeah, they got stuck, it was uncomfortable and (yay) I didn’t throw up.  It eventually went through and I was able to go to bed.  I learned from my forums to not take the calcium at the same time as the multi.  Plus, I went online and ordered some chewable one’s I needed, so I’m not going to take any more until I get those in the mail.  Forget that!

One of my fears is throwing up at this stage!  I’m glad the few times where I thought I was going to, it passed!  My Grandma came over this morning to make me breakfast and we had a good talk and a walk.  She mentioned that she can tell that I’m getting stronger every day.  I told her I can feel it.  I can feel myself healing.  I can finally sleep on my side (either side) and it hurts less and less to stand up and move around.  Though I do still have a couple incision points that are still sore because of their location.

Tomorrow I will have to wake up early to get a shower, eat breakfast and make it to a doctor appointment with my primary.  He’ll check on my blood pressure.  They took me off one of my pills in the hospital, so I guess we’ll see how that is working.  It’ll be nice to get out of the house.  We’ll see how worn out I am by the time I get home. 🙂  Friday, my friend Kristie is going to come pick me up and I’ll get out to go see a movie.  Tommie and I were going to go see one last night, but we couldn’t agree on one.  We couldn’t think  of anywhere else to “get out of the house” to either.  🙁

My Mom bought my Dad a plane ticket to come see me in March.  He was only able to spare two days off work though.  It’s RIGHT after I go back to work, but he’ll be here all weekend.  I’m going to try to take one day off on his last name.  I still have three weeks of PTO, but I also know I’ll be doing a lot of catch up when I get back.  Of coarse when you’re sick and feeling bad, you want your parents.  No one ever takes care of you like Mommy and Daddy.  Feeling very selfish at the moment and wanting my Dad to myself, but I know he has a lot of other people to see here too, because he makes it back so rarely.  I wouldn’t want to keep him from that either. 🙂  I have to think of some stuff for us to do together while he’s here though.

Well – that’s about it from my exciting life for now. 🙂