Yellow Brick Road

This should've been Thursday's blog, but I apparently traded several hours of daylight each day as my ticket to ride this crazy train.

****Thursdays are my official weigh-in days, and this week (29th) was also my first follow-up with Dr. Ganser.  Please prepare yourself for the super-high pitched squeal.....I'VE LOST 18 LBS SINCE SURGERY ON...

Upon seeing my glorious bald man setting up laptop, printer, and carting in my loads of books, I think the doctor took pity on me.  There haven't been any real changes in my symptoms.  My fever still gets above 101.5 every night, I still get woozy, and I have a the kind of cough that would make you change seats on a plane or cars on a train.....but, at...

In the wee hours of Saturday morning, my fever made a marked increase and I returned to the hospital. When I got here, they were concerned about a pulmonary embolism...based on my oxygen saturation and diminished lung sounds. A chest CT and x ray later, I was given keys to the joint for pneumonia. IV antibiotics for two days now and no difference. Trying to...

It's all my fault.  I went to the grocery store, and then decided it would be a good idea to walk the majority of the store...after walking to the mailbox (about 6 houses away).  So, now I'm on a bit of a set back.  Achy and irritible, and still a long way to go before my pain meds catch up.  And, I have a low-grade fever.  I reported it to the...

I keep waking myself up at night.  Not with pain or discomfort....I simply keep hearing my own gas swirling around in my belly.  It sounds, literally, like someone moving heavy wooden chairs and tables.  Perhaps, soon, the gas-x will kick in and there will be an escape for all of that air.  Until then, it has invited a few friends and is moving all of the...

Day of Surgery:

I checked in at 6am, only to be told that my surgery had been pushed back to 830am, instead of 730am.  No biggie...gave me more time with Sgt. Hubby and my 7 year old daughter.  The staff at Renown remembered me from my pre-op appointment a couple of weeks ago and were friendly and excited for me....it's nice to have an unexpected...

I've been waiting so long to write this blog, I almost don't even know how.  My surgery is tomorrow morning at 7:30 am.  Check-in at 6am.  (in about 10 hours)

After the "tortoise-style" marathon of the last few months....you know, where you're giving it all that you have, but you've only moved an inch....but somewhere in the back...

Alright, it's confession time.  This weekend, while shopping for some last-minute things for my hospital stay and picking up my Rx's, the cashier at the local Old Navy made some comment about "how comfortable" I was going to be in my new clothes.

Yeowch!  "comfortable" isn't a good word when talking about clothes, is...

I may as well have written "Lions and Tigers and Bears," actually.  Let's look at the data, shall we?

Today's count:
300 calories (yep, that's it)
50 (at least) instances of having daydreams during which I lust after a bowl of applesauce...
30 minutes before the shake I've just swallowed imitates Houdini and disappears...

Last night was a life-changing moment.  Ever have those moments where you don't expect anything to happen, then your perspective is altered by something that can only be measured with the Richter scale.  That metaphor is actually kind of perfect....the earth moved, my feet were swept out from under me, and I was TERRIFIED.

(for you dirty...