Healing nicely

I had my two week post op visit yesterday with my surgeon. (More like week and a half) I am glad I moved it up because he is going to be on vacation next week so they originally had me coming in almost 4 weeks post op.

At the appointment he said I am healing nicely and actually wants to see me back in the office in 3 weeks for my 1st FILL!!! WOOOO HOOOOO!!! Usually they wait about 6 weeks or longer post op but he wants me back sooner. I am happy. Also was told when I weighed in that I lost more than the average in my two weeks post op. 12 lbs according to their scales (Which are 4 lbs heavier than my scales at home)

So Laney well start to do some more work here really soon. 3 weeks is just around the corner and I can't wait!

I also have officially been given the ok to go on Full Liquids. I told him the truth and that I had already been doing some and he was quite ok with that. He was the one that asked me if I had been doing full liquids already.

So that is good to know that I did not hamper anything. So I am planning on doing another week of liquids than next week I will progress to the soft/mushy foods. Since I will be filled in a few weeks that is why I might progress things up a bit.

I might start doing some scrambled eggs this week for breakfast just to get some more protein in me etc.

As far as cream soups go, they really are filling me up at night, but I don't like the Cream of Chicken. (YUCK) but the Cream of Broccoli and Cream of Potato and Cream of Broccoli Cheese are really good. Specially with some extra cheese sprinkled in it.

So I am pretty much going to stick with them, I have left over Optifast as well that I am going to use. I think I might add some mashed potatoes and as I mentioned scrambled eggs here this week Friday (tomorrow) and then next Friday add more soft/mushy foods.

Other than that, I am coming down with a cold. I forgot to ask my surgeon about flu, if I am throwing up or anything if I need to come in for and unfil. I have heard from others that their doctors required them too. I did ask him about NSAID since I have heard from others that their doctor's have told them no, he told me he does not restrict them and has never had anyone had an issue. So that was a big relief to know.

So now I just need to really work on keeping up with retraining my eating habits. I am still more hungry in the evening than in the early part of the day. But slowly I will get this to change.

Now onto the big news...this weekend my Hubby and I found a stray kitten. The area we live in is pretty big on letting their animals run loose. Drives me crazy, but what can I do. Well, Saturday night hubby and I were out letting our dogs go potty. (I think I mentioned in another post that our house is an acre back from the street, so I have been walking up and down it for exercise.) So hubby and I were walking up to the street and I hear this frantic cat meowing. Me being me had to meow back to see if the cat would show itself to us. (I talk cat pretty easy) So I told hubby it was coming to the empty house next to us (Our neighbor passed away or was put in assisted living we are guessing and the house has been empty for almost 2 months) So we walked over there. I knelt down at the gate and meowed a few times. Hubby kept saying it is coming from a few houses down. Just as he said that I spotted this tiny moving object coming up the driveway. It was surely seeing him move towards us, like as soon as I looked at him he froze and then would move some more when I meowed again. I said to my husband um no I think this is him coming right now. Next thing we know at the locked 6 foot chain fence was this little gray kitten.

Since the fence was locked we did not know how to get him out but he kept meowing at us as to help him. Hubby was able to life the fence up a bit in hopes of him crawling under, but moving the fence spoked him and he backed up about 4 feet. So fence went back down and then he just walked up and went right through one of the chain links, we were like why didn't you just do that to begin with. So hubby carried him back home and the poor baby was covered in FIRE ANTS! Also stickers. So hubby rushed in and washed him off to get rid of the fire ants and then started working on pulling out the stickers while I looked for anything to feed him.

He is the cutest lil boy. Since we have a slew of animals and mostly with Disney names (hubby is a Disney fanatic) I said he needs a strong name with all that he has been through. Well Hercules popped right into my head and mentioned that. We played with a few others but finally settled on Hercules. He was really weak the first night. Obviously has not eaten in awhile or had anything to drink. He could barely walk or hold his head up. By his kitten teeth we are estimating him to be about 7 weeks old. (Born Aug 1st) He is the friendliest little thing and wants to be by me or Terry (hubby) all the time.

We went to the store the next day and got kitten food and wet food for him. Since it is like night and day. He has so much energy and is playful and just follows you around where every you go. He is going to be a great cat. Curls up on your chest, purr machine and just super friendly. Not scared of anything yet and I am trying to keep it that way.

So here is Hercules - he only weighs a pound and should be at about two so we are working at getting him feed good and weight put on him.