Well – Today I had my appointment for my 3 month check up. There were lots of trainee’s working alongside the employees. When I had my surgery, I had medical students along for the ride, and today, I had a nurse trainee with my nurse and then a Medical Student come in and talk with me before the Doctor and then another one came in with the doctor as well.
SO – According to scales at Doctor’s office, I have lost about 56 lbs so far. The Doctor told me that was excellent. I was like “Really? Because I really had no idea how I was doing….compared.” He said, yes, I was doing quite well and he was very proud of me. That was nice to hear. THEN the nutritionist came in and she always makes me feel like I’m not doing *enough*. Ha ha. It’s like they play good cop/bad cop. 🙂 BUT, I know I can do more, and need to do more. I have improved on some things since my last appointment. I have gotten into a regular exercise routine and have gotten better with taking my pills. BUT the things I still need to work on, which will help me lose more weight, faster, is more protein shakes and more water. I struggle with these two things so much!! I need to look into some suggestions I’ve been given on the protein and get in at least two shakes a day and really concentrate on getting ALL my water in. I know the “few” issues I’ve had, can all be made better by getting enough water in.
All in all though, things are good. I’m feeling better and even though I’m having stalls from time to time (which the blasted nutritionist is telling me I shouldn’t have them often – lol), I’m steadily losing. The physiologist has told me it’s time to add to my work out, so now I will be adding strength training twice a week to begin with. She explained to me how to figure out where to start and how to progress, which I found interesting. So I’ll start doing that after walking at the gym, when we go.
During one of my stalls, I was wondering if my thyroid was working against me. I had thyroid cancer at age 19, and had it removed. So I called the Doctor and had them do bloodwork. I never heard back and emailed them and the nurse said the Doctor had just filed it away in my file when she got the results and was going to talk to me about it on my visit (which is next week), but she went ahead and told me that my levels seemed to be fine. Tomorrow I have an appointment with my family doctor to check my blood pressure…(I’m hoping to at some point go off that medicine.) I was on 2 blood pressure meds and he has me down to one, but I’d like to be on zero. At least he gives me samples every time I’m in, because it’s expensive stuff! Then next week I’ll meet with the endocrinologist and go over my thyroid blood results. I was hoping at this surgeon visit, they would take measurements, but they said “No, that will be at your next appointment. 6 months.” Next visit they will take measurements and do bloodwork.
Tommie and I have been discussing that we want to go hiking more this year. Explore the trails around town. So far we’ve been to several and have really enjoyed ourselves. Really looking forward to doing more of that! Also, in a week we will be celebrating our 15 year wedding anniversary. Well – I wouldn’t really say “celebrating”, when I bring it up, Tommie’s response is “Meh”, but it will MARK 15 years of marriage. Tommie mentioned me planning a vacation later in the year to Vancouver, so I will start to plan that in the near future for later in the year. We had planned to go there once in the past, but things didn’t pan out.
I decided to bite the bullet, since I was getting more requests to take pictures for people, and pay for membership for a website that is tied into a print lab, so when I take pictures for people, I can upload them to this site and they can order prints directly for it. I’m still in the free trial right now, but I think I’m going to just do it. If you want to take a look at it, it’s at: http://amysphotosessions.zenfolio.com/ . I have my last few photo sessions loaded on there, I’m going to redo the intro write up and change a few things, but the rough draft is up. I have a few more sessions coming up in the next few weeks. I’ll be doing another prom session with some friends daughter and her date and then have a young man I’ll be taking pictures of next month. I’ve never done an individual male, so it’ll be a first for me. Hope it goes OK! It’s also someone I’ve never met before, so…..Wish I had someone to work with me one on one with getting better at taking pictures and mastering my settings, etc.
On another note….our cat, Forrest, has been sick lately. I feel so bad for her. She’s been sick for several months now. She got to where she was throwing up every day and I could tell she wasn’t feeling well, because she’d lay out in the open more and look like she wasn’t grooming herself as much. Her bloodwork ended up being normal, but the vet said her intestinal track was most likely inflamed/irritated, and she gave her a cortisone shot. when it wore out (when she started throwing up again), she had us bring her back for another shot. Now we are trying to give her cortisone pills and will give her one a day. Hopefully it will make her feel better. One possibility is that she has intestinal cancer, but there is no use in doing what needs to be done to find out if we don’t want to do chemo, which we won’t do. She is old, and there is no guarantee and she’d have to take her in constantly for it, which is very stressful for her. So, for now, all we can do is try to make her comfortable with the medicine. It might not be cancer, just her getting old. I worry about her though, poor girl.
Well, I think that is all I have at the moment.