Day 22 with my sleeve...

I haven't posted for a while, but no worries. Things are going great with my revision to the sleeve.

Start weight 246
Surgery weight 236
Today's weight 224
total lost: 22 pounds

Not to shabby!

Today was my first day back to real exercise (I've been walking a bit, but nothing strenuous). Today my work out buddy and I decided to do intervals of 1 minute walking 2 minutes jogging. We did a solid 3 mile workout and I felt really good the whole time. I wasn't really pushing it, but I could feel my heart rate was up and I even broke a little bit of a sweat. It is gorgeous weather right now, and we will have it for 3 days. Can't wait to get back out tomorrow for another go at it!

Sleeve life is going well but real life is just going. Work is draining, I love it but lots of issues to be dealt with and hopefully we will make it to June and next year will be better.

I'm worried sick about my sleeve twin sister Maria who has been back in the hospital for some issues related to her surgery- she keeps telling me that she is doing better, but they haven't sent her home yet and I'm about to have a heart attack if she doesn't get sprung soon! Thank goodness she has a great husband who takes very good care of her. She is in good hands.

I also had personal trauma last week- one of our dogs has epilepsy. She has been on medication for it for almost 2 years. The medication is supposed to suppress the seizures. On Tuesday night she started having seizures and they continued into Wednesday. We took her to our regular vet office, but the vet who usually sees our dog was not in. They gave us some more medication to give her since she was still suffering from seizures nearly every hour. The medication did not work so later that day we ended up taking her to the emergency vet. The emergency vet was not able to stop the seizures and we had to make the very difficult decision to have her put to sleep. I know we did the right thing, but it is so very hard. We are heartbroken and it has been a very difficult week. Our pets are part of our family and we have had a very hard time with this since she was only 5 years old.

I ended up with a bad headache (mostly from crying) on Wednesday night, hardly slept, then went to work on Thursday and did my best to be distracted from my broken heart. My headache turned into a migraine so I hurried home, took my migraine meds and went to bed. Felt better most of Friday but by 3 pm my migraine was coming back full force- made it home by 6 and took meds again. Finally got relief and no more migraines over the weekend.

I'm ready for the sucky stuff to be done.

I made it through week 3 plateau (did not lose any last week) and then lost 1 lb this weekend. Lets hope this week brings smaller numbers and less migraines. Please.

loves ya!