MinnesotanMommy's Journal

I went to my follow up appointment with my surgeon's office. Went well. She is very pleased with my progress and is glad that the diatation helped me so much! She did say I looked pale (I get that a lot these days) and I told her I was anemic and they were supposed to have faxed the lab results over to them. They couldn't find them, so now I'm on the phone with my doctor's nurse trying to figure out what happened. No big. She just wanted to review the labs. She said now that I'm on a calcium supplement regularly that I'm handling better, my vitamin D level should go up since calcium has D in it, at least the one I'm on does and many do I guess. I'm got a V8 product to get my vitamin A level up. I love the product I got. It's an Orange Tropical V8 Splash, I think it is, and if I break it into two servings to get the one serving, I'll get a good amount of vitamin A and a few other vitamins out of it and it'll be easier to tolerate sugar content wise. I'm eager to try it. Stuck it in the frige. I've tried the Strawberry Banana one my cousin had at her place last night and it's excellent. A sweet treat that nutritious for me! I think I'ma make myself this awesome quiche tomorrow afternoon or evening. I have two quiche recipes and this other one is just awesome! The one is good, the other one is awesome. The mechanic told Carl to start driving the van to see if the stop leak works or not. It'd buy us enough time to save up to fix the seal that's out. So here's to hoping it works! If it does, I'll be able to drive it next week sometime I think. If not, it'll probably be a month from now at least. When the nurse asked if I am taking in caffine, I was honest in that I sometimes have an occassional cup of coffee and they said that was okay. I'm finishing off my coffee from yesterday finally. Reheated it. Also found out that the form of iron I'm on, ferrous sulfate, isn't highly absorbed by my rearranged plumbing, so she gave me a script for Vitron C, another form of iron that's better absorbed. So I'm going with Carl to town tonight to get that and Ethan is gonna hang out with gramma and grandpa till we get back. He comes in the living room a while ago hiding his hand. I thought he was holding something and told him I needed to see what he had in case I needed to fix it, and he showed me and here he had a lightly bleeding cut that was just a slow, steady bleed. I asked him what he did and he wouldn't tell me and I told him in order to fix it and make it stop, I had to know what it was, so he took me to his room. He had Carl's shaving gel and razor out! He's never done that! I know he wants to be like his daddy, but dang! It's just on his thumb. Don't ask me how you cut your thumb shaving, but he did. So I had him run it under cold water (he'd just washed with soap and water a minute before) and I put a cloth on it to dry it off and put a bandaid with antibiotic ointment on it and I think he'll be fine. Minor cut. Asked the doc about my calcium dose and found out I should double it. I wasn't sure how many mg I should be getting, and I'll get a little more in each dose then my body can absorb, but she said that'd be fine. Found out the surgeon there just started doing lap bands too, so I need to tell my friend that's looking for a surgeon cuz the only one she found was a long ass ways from here. And I know my surgeon and trust him and I would highly recommend him being such a fine surgeon. She doesn't know if she's going to, but she's researching it right now. So, I guess I might be going to an informational seminar for it with her sometime if she wants me to. I'd be more then willing. Support is great to have in a decision this big! I never even suggested her having the surgery. She just saw my success and mentioned it to me. I think she'll feel so much better in so many ways if she can get the weight off. She's such an awesome great person. She's like the rest of us in the world, the past bites our butt and she has to pay for it every day of her life now. I have therapy tomorrow morning. Kinda looking forward to it since last week he was out sick and this week I didn't make it to DBT cuz I wasn't feeling well that early in the morning, for one, and for two, my car was out and I didn't think I'd have a vehicle but ended up with one, but resting was better for me. So far, keeping up with the saline nasal spray has helped with my sinus headaches. I'll have to do another set of sprays before I leave, but they're doing the job it seems and it's a good, healthy, non drug related treatment. I have this knawing on again off again cough. Mostly when I lay down. Last night I slept sitting in my recliner and I did cough less, then I went to bed for like a half hour before it was time to get up. I took a nap in my recliner this afternoon too. The stupid phone started to ring and every half hour or so it would ring some more. I wouldn't answer it. A little after 4, maybe 45 or so minutes after I'd fallen asleep, I woke and my son wasn't in. Here he'd went up to gramma and grandpa's cuz he thought I was still at the doctor's since I was talking about it this morning. Worked out okay though since they were home and gramma is making lasagne for supper, so he's gonna hang out there for that and then Carl and I will go to town. I just want to be with Carl alone for a little while. We don't get much alone time, even if it's just a ride to and from town. He was disgusted that I insisted I was going to town myself to wait for him if he didn't pick me up, so he agreed to pick me up. I just miss him. Sometimes, I find that reason I married him and it just hits me hard and I need to be with him, just spend a little time with him recapturing those reasons. I woke up two nights ago after a bad dream and he randomly, as I was walking out of the room, pulled me down to him and hugged me a nice, long hug. He doesn't do that often cuz I've spent so much time pushing him away. I felt loved and special. My damn cat started marking his territory, so now I can't give him to my SIL cuz they don't want him, which I understand. Not sure what I'm gonna do yet. Guess I'll offer him up as an outdoor cat. I think I still have the one gal's e-mail that was interested in him. I'll try her next. I decided to walk the grocery store in town since that as the available place and I did that for a half hour and only got two things, one for my quiche and then the V8. I should go. Carl should call soon.