Week 7 Update

Woohooo!!!!!  We have closure!!!  I just got back from the nurse at the vårdcentral.  It was time to change the bandage and remove the butterfly tape.  And not only am I no longer oozing puss, but it actually appears to be closing if not already closed.  Guess all I needed was antibiotics and surgical tape.  The doc at the er last week told me if I had been on antibiotics weeks earlier it probably would have closed already. Hmmm.

Wound as of today August 5.  Pretty much closed!

Now onto the not so wonderful news.  Still not really losing weight.  *sigh* I can't wait to go to the surgeon next week.  I'm hoping he's going to tighten the band.  I'm going to have to make a big stink about it I think.  We'll see.

Stat time!
Current weight: 115.4 kg (254.4)
Total weight loss: 10 kg (20.5 lbs) *This is more or less estimation

I guess this is good news, since the doctor told me I'd likely gain weight once I started eating real food.  And I haven't don't that yet.  But it hardly feels like good news to me.  I find I'm getting worried that I've done this surgery just to lose 10 kg.  Like I'm not really going to lose any more weight from here on out.  And that's disparaging.  I'm hoping if he tightens the band, then maybe i'll start losing again.  It was his hope to fill the band every other month.  So every 8 weeks, I go back to Nyköping and get my band tightened.  So perhaps that's the key to it all.  We shall see.

As far as food has gone.  I have more wonderful news (well, sorta wonderful).  I have successfully eaten rice and pasta!!  Woohoo!!!  I started to get scared for a bit there, from testimonials I had read online, that I wouldn't be able to eat rice again.  Which well would be the end of the world as I know it!!  I even got to eat chinese (beef with pineapple) this past weekend!  No complications!  I haven't found anything I can't eat yet.  But then again I haven't tried steak or whatever.

I gave myself a "free" day this past saturday.  We ordered chinese, and for desert I had about 1dl (slightly less then half a cup) of low fat old fashioned creamy ice cream and 1 little triangle of dark chocolate toblerone.  It was wonderful!!!  I haven't had any of that stuff in like 2 months.  So it was a wonderful little treat.

Well, that's the gist of what's been happening this week.  Tune in next week for my post-surgery doc visit update.  :)

-FXA