Today was a mixture of pain, embarrassment and happiness.

My father picked me up to take me to the dietitan at about 10am. This was the first time that I have been in a car since coming home from the hospital.

Now let me tell you that after stomach surgery… Speed humps should be illegal. Every bump and nick goes right through your body. Now, while I haven’t been in massive amounts of pain, I still feel not quite put together. So by the end of the trip I felt like I had to pick up my intestine from the back seat.

The next part is not for the faint hearted
So I got out of the car and found the building that I needed to go into. Then I went to pass gas and yes… it wasn’t gas! I am not sure if it was because I had been constipated since the surgery (all the morphine does that), or because I hadn’t eaten solids for almost a week, or maybe it was just a general body not doing well-ness, but I had liquid pooh all over my favourite underpants.

I ran into the dietitans and searched for a toilet, washed my underpants and threw them out.

The whole meeting with the dietitans I was uncomfortable and nervous. “Was it going to happen again?”

After going through what was on offer next week “The mushy stage”, I was so hungry I could have eaten a mushed onion.

It’s amazing how hungry you can be when you have only had liquids for a week.

Before going through the diet rules for the rest of my life and the integrated stages before that, I got on the scales.

GOOD NEWS!!!!

Current Weight: 124 kgs
Goal Weight: 72 kgs
Only 52 kgs to go…

Leave a Reply