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649848 tn?1534633700

Sunday Weigh-In November 10, 2019

Good morning... Wow - we've had a major cold front come through the area and I had to break down and turn the heat on this morning... I always hate doing that because I know the air conditioner will be running later this afternoon.  Heat overnight or in the morning and air conditioning later in the day seems like such a wast of energy to me - we're warming it up so we can cool it down... lol

Anyway, it's been quite a week for me... I had did have my surgery on Tues, as expected.  You may have seen that the hernia repair turned wasn't a hernia after all - it turned out to be a Lipoma excision.  I'm still somewhat baffled on that score because Lipomas are not supposed to be painful, and this was, so I'm wondering what was different about this one.  Of course, the doctor talked to my husband after surgery so I don't know what all he had to say and my husband doesn't have the best memory or comprehension of all things medical so there may have been other things relayed that I didn't hear about.  All I know is that the Lipoma was "large" - every time anyone said anything about it, they used the term "large Lipoma", rather than simply saying it was a Lipoma so I'm assuming (maybe incorrectly) that there's some significance in the fact that it was large.  Because it's standard practice with anything removed from within/upon the body, they are doing pathology, which should be back by the time I see my surgeon for follow up on Thursday.  I can also ask any other questions I have, at that time.

I do know that the upper left quadrant pain I've had periodically for the past, nearly 3 yrs and that all the doctors have told me can't exist because there's nothing there to hurt, seems to be gone since the surgery.  There must have been "something" there that was causing that very sharp pain and I can only assume it had "something" to do with the Lipoma... That will be one of the questions for the surgeon since he's the only who didn't treat me like he wished I'd just go home and leave him alone...  :-)   I even told him when I went for my initial consultation that so far all my doctors were acting like they wished I'd just leave them alone because my issues weren't correlating with anything simple and they didn't seem to want to deal with them.  He gave me a surprised look and said "oh no, we're going to figure out what's wrong..."   You go, doc...  :-)

Of course, there's the pathology to come back on the Lipoma, but I'm not expecting any surprises there.  Aside from that, I'm under a 15 lb weight limit for the next 5 weeks (actually, it's 4.5 now) as I wait for the incision to heal, but other than that, I'm pretty well able to do whatever I have the energy to do.  

I still have some  health issues that need to be resolved... Those include the skin issues for which I visit my dermatologist again on Wednesday of this coming week, along with further gastric issues which maybe, I'll be able to get help with now.  We'll see.

Anyway, I haven't weighed this morning but as of yesterday, I was down by 1.2 lbs from last week, in spite of not being able to do a whole lot this past week because of my surgery.  I'm not sure if that's because I haven't been able to eat much or because the surgery did something "unforeseen", but I'll take that loss and hope the scale keeps heading down.  If I can drop another 5 lbs, I'll be back where I was in May when this horrible gain and the worst of these health issues, started.  "If" I can do that, perhaps I can get back on the downward trend I was on at that time... I know there are a lot of "ifs" involved there, but I sure am hoping for a positive breakthrough.

On a really positive note, as I've mentioned previously, I have been taking some calligraphy classes and I've really enjoyed those.  Admittedly, I'm not all that good with it, but hey - everyone has to start somewhere, right?  What can I expect after only 2 classes - well, 3 now, because I took the 3rd one yesterday, but that was really more of an "art" class because we didn't actually learn a calligraphy font.  We learned how to incorporate art and meditation into the practice of calligraphy.

So this coming week, will be taken up by doctor appointments, etc and as some of you know, we're leaving for a cruise next week on Monday.  I'm actually looking forward to some time after that to simply stay home - not be going off to funerals or other traveling, etc as I have tons of things *I* want to do.

The 2nd of this month was my granddaughter's 9th birthday, but since she was with her father, my daughter, her significant other and granddaughter will be here this afternoon/evening for a light meal and cupcakes.  I made my granddaughter one of my woodburnings that she asked for... I posted a photo of it a while back in my photos section if you're interested - it's Bolt from the Disney movie.  I'm off now to get things ready.

I hope you had a good week and everything worked out the way you wanted it.

~~Wishing everyone a wonderful, successful week~~
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649848 tn?1534633700
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Overall, I'm pretty pleased with the way things are going with my medical issues as well. I'm really surprised (and happy) that I've had as little pain with incision as I've had.  I figured that since I'm older now, it would take longer for it to heal than it has taken things in the past, but it seems to be doing very well, so far and although they did send me home with a prescription for pain pills, I've only taken 2 of them and those were taken 1/2 at a time instead of whole ones.  I've always been so scared of those things that I'll endure the pain/convince myself I don't have any before I'll take them every 4 hours as prescribed.  :-)

Anyway, I'm hoping that once my incision heals, someone will be willing to get to the bottom of the rest of the issues.  We know "what" the issues are; we just need to know what's causing them and/or what to do to resolve them or to work around/make me better if I have to live with them.

It sounds like you're getting the moving all done and settled into the new house.   It's a pain in the rear to have to send back things like rugs, etc but if you aren't going to use them, better to get refunds than have that money tied up in things just cluttering up the house.

It's nice that there's a dog park so close to your house.  Most dog parks are split into sections to accommodate various sized dogs.  Typically, one puts the dog into the area that fits their current size and moves them into a the next size area when they reach a larger size in order to avoid having puppies get beat up by larger dogs even if the puppy will be larger when grown.  Of course, since your puppy already seems to be something of a bully, maybe it's not bad that she got shown a thing or two...

That's odd about the female cat.  We used to bring in other female cats all the time and never had an issue, but sometimes, you just get a cranky one that wants to be left alone and that's all there is to it.  :-)

I'm really glad the school issue seems to be resolving itself, or at least getting better.  For a while, I had visions of your family moving all over trying to find a home in an area in which your son liked the school and finally just staying at the farm and home schooling...  Not a very realistic vision, was it, since you'd already said you weren't going to move again.  lol

Enjoy your week.
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So pleased about your medical news, Barb! It could be that the lipoma was pulling on a nerve. Hope that is all it was!

I think I might have to just give up and buy a new scale, our digital scale still has not come to light in all the unpacking (wouldn't it be ironic if it was actually in a box at the farm all this time?). I was out in the gritty garage barefoot in my nightie this morning trying to dig to the bottom of any box left that looked big enough to hold the scale, but no luck. From the way my pants fit, I think I'm holding steady or losing a little.

We've been doing all the move-in things, including the boring chore of returning things to the store that we bought for the new house that didn't work. I still have a bedspread and vacuum cleaner to return, but did take back three area rugs to the shipper, after first contacting the seller and printing out return labels and finding appropriate heavy plastic to wrap the rugs. One more is waiting to take to the UPS store. I kind of hate returning things because it's so tedious, but would rather have the money back than the thing taking up space, that's for sure.

In our new neighborhood is a dog park, where we took Delphie (our big puppy) for the first time this week. It has three off-leash areas, respectively for big dogs, small, and mixed, and since Delph weighs 45 pounds and is on the way to 55 lbs, we went in the big-dog area. Wow, she did not look big in the company of those doggos! There was a Great Pyrenees, an English Doberman (much larger than seen here), a very oversized Golden Retriever who was also a puppy still (8 months), a mastiff, a Boxer, and a half pitbull, among others. She was bowled over, barked at, mounted, jumped on, and rolled in the dust. We loved it, because she is so boisterous with our little dog that it was time for her to understand being on the receiving end of such behavior. But the next day she chose instead to hide under the park bench whenever the biggest dogs came around, so next visit we'll try the little-dog enclosure. (There never seems to be anyone in the mixed area.) I was worried she would do the jumping-on and rolling over of the other dogs if we took her to the little-dog area, but she might have gotten the drift from being on the receiving end. I am glad she has seen she isn't the biggest dog in the world. She needs to know.

Our adult cat has been bratty since July because we got a kitten, even more since September when we got the kitten a kitten (because the first kitten was driving the adult cat crazy, following her around and leaping at her and trying to play even though the adult would hiss and lash out). The cat simply doesn't want to play, and doesn't want to be friends. (At least, with another female. A theory is that two females can get territorial because they might both have to feed litters in the wild. You could prove it by our girl, though she has never had kittens.) Anyway, the cat goes in and out (we could not keep her in if we tried), and she disappeared for 36 hours. We have lost several cats in the last three years (most of them presumably to coyote predation, though one had cancer) and I just wasn't ready for another to simply be gone, no matter how unfriendly she was being. But this morning she came back, hissed at the younger kitten and ate a big meal and is now asleep beside me. It's a relief. I do wish she would lighten up.

As you can see, there isn't much news! Unpacking, moving in with the pets, and school (which is going much better!) Hope everyone has a great week.
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