Chicken Broth for the Soul
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, 09-20-2013 at 08:10 AM (1511 Views)
Y'all, my mom ought to bottle up her chicken broth and sell it to bariatric patients across the world. Yes, it's that good and I really don't think it's because I'm food deprived, lol.
She actually made me chicken soup so I could drink the broth now and then blend the soup once I'm on pureed!
Anyway, I was struggling a bit yesterday...just feeling really blah...because I have had a hard time sleeping. This is nothing new...I've had a hard time sleeping off and on over the last few years in part because my head gets in the way and in other part because when I do wake up in the middle of the night whether to go to the bathroom or just to turn over, I have a tendency to check email or FB or play a game. In other words, I take my sleepy self and stimulate it. Boo on me. So anyway, Wednesday night I went to bed at 11:30pm and then woke up at 1:30am. I then proceeded to get out of bed, go lay down on the recliner in the family room and doze in and out until 6am when I was up for good. It's hard to heal when you aren't sleeping.
I took a different approach last night and did the whole melatonin thing before I went to bed. I woke up sometime to go to the bathroom, but then slept the night away for a total of 8 hours. I feel soooo much better.
Observations being 4 days post Op....chicken broth is my favorite thing to drink. It goes down the easiest/smoothest. I have difficulty with water no matter what temperature or if it's decaf tea or added flavoring. I started experiencing hunger yesterday - real hunger, not head hunger - I know this because I saw countless commercials for food and all I could think of is that I can't wait to have some damn cream of wheat once I'm on that stage, lol.
I have become very aware of my "empty" abdominal cavity - I envision my spleen, gall bladder, liver, and kidneys having a party because they have so much room to spread out in. I'm ready for them to settle down and take up their new residency, comfortably, so it doesn't seem to oddly empty in there for me.
I haven't weighed at all because my scale is at my house (still at my parent's house) and I don't want to confuse myself by using all kinds of difference scales. I will wait for my first weigh-in to be when I go to my first post-op doctor appointment on Wed 9/25.
In other news, the period I was supposed to start on 9/10 (6 days pre-op) finally decided to show up last night. Yay me. =/
I pooped for the first time this morning. I was very proud of myself. Sad, I know. lol.
Well, that's about it for now. =)