OK – I have my official two week appointment today with the surgeon.  It’ll be two weeks tomorrow since I was on the table.

I spoke with him about the pills getting stuck and my concerns that I had damaged something, since ever since I have had irritation when drinking.  He assured me that I didn’t damage anything, if I had, I would’ve been much sicker.  He said that most likely I irritated things or scratched, etc.  He told me to double up on acid reflux pills for now and it’ll get better.

I’m not up to where they’d like me to be on drinking and everything, but from the sound of it, where I am is normal.  So – goal from here is to increase my liquids as I can, get my protein in, adjust my vitamins and get in 20 to 30 minutes of walking a day.  My next appointment will be in four weeks and will be my six week appointment.

The doctor told me I had already lost a lot of weight and brought down my BMI quite a bit and he said he was proud of me.  From my pre-surgery appointment (which was two weeks before surgery and before I started on the liquid diet) to today, I have lost 29.5 lbs.  (Let’s just call it 30 – OK?  Ha ha)  My BMI is down 5.2!

I will return to work in a week.  I’m looking forward to week 5 when I can start eating more solid foods!  I want to thank the people who checked in on me (either by phone, email or FB) and sent me cards and prayers, and the one’s who helped me out.  I’m lucky to have many caring people in my life.