1 Year Post Op!

I've lost 77 pounds and 42 inches!

Looking good!

While I haven't lost hardly any weight in the past couple months, I have gotten many compliments.

I think it's probably just clever dressing ;)

9 Months!!!

Weight-243
That's a total loss of 75 pounds!

Getting Stuck

Pre lap-band I thought, I will probably get stuck once, learn my lesson and then it won't happen again.

WRONG!

For a while, when I didn't have any restriction, I never got stuck. That is of course very common. Well I'm now on my 3 fill (I have 3.5ccs in my band) and while I don't get stuck or slime as much as others, it does happen.

Being "stuck" is AWFUL! It ranges from a mild discomfort to awful, awful pain. And while I can try to explain it to others, there is nothing like experiencing it.

To slime is different. It's like being stuck and knowing the food will not eventually go down. So where can it go? That's right, up! You feel a bit of extra saliva (slime) building up and you better get to a bathroom or trashcan.

So here is where I'm wrong, its happened a few times. I make wrong choices or don't chew enough or to quickly. I guess I'm learning my lesson, slowly but it's happening. I dread to know what another fill will do for me, but I guess we will see!

8 Months

I'm 8 months post- op and have lost over 70 pounds!

2 Weeks

2 weeks ago, I lost my baby.

On Saturday April 13th, I was 10 weeks 5 days and I learned that the baby was measuring a week behind and had no heartbeat (this I after we had already seen it once). I decided on a D&C but my body couldn't hold on and I had to go to the emergency room Sunday at 3 am. Around 8 am I was being told I could have the procedure some time soon but it wasn't an emergency. Well about 5 minutes later I blacked out and they rushed me into the operating room. 6 hours later I wake up in recovery. Apparently I lost to much blood, they tried 3 times but they couldn't stop it so I had to have another surgery as well.  I had to be given 9 pints of blood and many other fluids.

I felt physically tired and week for about a week, but am feeling better now.  Emotionally, it was rough, but after talking to a friend (she has had both a miscarriage and a D & C) and I've been to church, I'm feeling a bit better.

Why me?

I lost the baby. I was in serious condition, in the hospital for 3 days. It's not fair, I wanted my baby so bad. When will this stop hurting?