Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Day 6

I'm holding off on weighing in until Thursday - so I've got a week's worth of progress in the resulting #...

It's been hard - esp with a weekend that included a houseguest, boozing, snacks, pizza delivery and 2 (ACC and NFL) football games! But I stuck to my guns - and complained a lot... which unfortunately is what Rob gets since he's not also liver shrinking :(

It's also really hard when I'm not super busy - which week of Thanksgiving isn't exactly the busiest week at work...

Yesterday I got to spend 4 hours in St Mary's - ugg! It was for all of about 30 actual minutes of tests and an appt w the NP at the surgeon's office... I also apparently continue to have temperamental veins which is really fun when they need to fill 5 vials w it... luckily the dude got it on the 2nd try and I dried up w just enough in the 5th vial... surprisingly little bruising from it! This is yet another examples substatiating my reluctance to participate in blood drives... and IV drug use...

I got an rx for 1 - ONE - pill... i kid you not. It's an anti-nausea med for right before surgery as a precaution. And Target will be giving me a $10 giftcard for that ONE pill - woot! Good timing on the coupons!

Otherwise I've got more info from the drs - plenty of reading materials for the week/weekend pre surgery. This supplement goes into weeks 2 and 3 post surgery so it talks about the 'mushies' I can eat... And given that I could probably entirely subsist on potatoes, those I think will be good weeks for me ;) I'm already brainstorming how to make 'high protein mashed potatoes.'

Anyone tried powdered milk? How god awful is it??

I will let you know on Thursday how much I've lost on shrinking - I know I need to boost water consumption already - and that will make a diff in the bottomline too but you learn as you go! That will mark completion of week 1...

2 comments:

Megan Van Fleet said...

I use powdered milk in a cocoa mix, but I haven't had it in potatoes. It's a darn good cocoa mix, though, so it may be alright. It's a worthwhile experiment, right?

Kate McHugh said...

Sweet! And did you just psychically KNOW I was needing comments?! Great timing!