Weight 334 – weight lost 32 pounds. I went to the ENT (Dr Phillips) and she ordered an extensive barium swallow test to determine the issue with food not going down. It turns out I have a hiatal hernia and acid reflux severely and lots of inflammation causing spasms that keep food from going down. …
4 Weeks Post-Op
I can NOT believe I had my surgery a month ago today. I didn’t weigh in today but I weighed yesterday at my doctor’s office and she was so impressed at my thirty pound weight loss in a month! She looked at my wounds and said they looked good with no infection. I talked to …
Three Weeks Post-op
Hard to believe I had surgery three weeks ago today. This morning I weighed 337 and I have lost 29 pounds since I left for Mexico. HW 389, SW 366, CW 337. I am still having difficulties with food not going down all the way. It seems to get stuck in my esophagus any time …
Minor set-back…
Two weeks post-op, I was given the green light to have certain foods and pureed soups and vegetables. Several days ago, I had a scrambled egg that didn’t go down and seemed to get stuck in my throat for almost two days. Yesterday afternoon it happened again with soup with pureed broccoli in it. It …
The Scrambled Egg
On Tuesday, March 15, I had my first scrambled egg. Little did I know, the scrambled egg would last me a week. It got stuck in my throat and wouldn’t go down. After almost two days it finally went down. I hope this doesn’t happen again.
Two Week Post-Op
Today is the two-week mark since my surgery and I was able to eat a scrambled egg and some pureed potato soup. Both times, I felt so full and I just ate less than 1/4 cup of soup. It’s making it hard to get my water down. Good news is that I weighed in this …
Spa Day with Makeover
What an eventful day! This morning I woke up at 5 am with liquid diarrhea but I also got my drainage tube out at 6 am, then took a shower, went to the hotel at 8:30 am and then went to the Pompeii Spa where Jimmy and I had double massages, then went to an …