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~~