Entries from December 2007

December 23, 2007

Amazing Grace

We are having the best time this Christmas- I love it when we all are together- Jeff, Katie and Steve. Everyone is so easy to get along with- it’s fun!  I am still having pain from the big SNEEZE and am accepting the fact that I will probably have to face hernia surgery fairly soon.  [...]

December 20, 2007

Things are changing

My new photos give you a facial progression of my weight loss so far.  The first is of me before my surgery. The next is after one month. The next is after 2 months.  They reflect a 50 pound weight loss.
Katie and Steve arrived last night- in time for supper.  It was such a wonderful [...]

December 18, 2007

It’s beginning to look…no, it’s not

Katie and Steve come tomorrow night!  I can hardly wait.  We are going to have such fun.  Steve got a Wii for Christmas so I am sure we will be playing that often. Also, we never all get together without singing. Hopefully, Jeff will bring out his guitar and we will spend some time singing [...]

December 13, 2007

Nurse Ronnie

I am staying in today and doing nothing- trying to heal the pain in my stomach.  After the BIG SNEEZE- I have really been uncomfortable.  I am not sure it is a hernia (I hope it is not). I am going to treat it like it is a pulled muscle.  Rest, no lifting, no stretching, [...]

December 12, 2007

Update on Linda and me

This is an excerpt from Linda, my friend from Washington State that had the surgery the same day that I did- but had major complications:
“I am finally home after six weeks!  I still have a drain in my right side and a vacuum tube over my surgical wound, which I’ll have to have for the [...]

December 9, 2007

Where have I been all my life?

I have not been good about keeping up with my blog- I will try to do better. Today marks 2 months since I have had the surgery. Wow! Do you know what it’s like when something seems like it’s been forever and then in another way, it seems like only yesterday? Well, that’s the way [...]