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  • Loving the new routine

    Though I don’t want to get TOO used to it, hoping I am teaching next year (yes, that is still in question).

    I’m getting up, weighing and discovering I have lost more weight (well, there was a day or two of retention there), going to the gym, coming home and doing sweaty work, and then taking a shower.

    Spending the rest of the day doing less sweat producing work.

    I have two weeks (this and next), and then go back to a regular work week for two.  Also have some odd workshops.

  • Getting fixed

    I am slowly recovering from the school year and from having a too tight lap band.

    I checked out on Friday, got a few things done in the afternoon (gym, nails etc).  Saturday morning woke up, fed the dogs, and decided I needed to do one of three things:  go to the gym, drink water or go back to sleep.

    I went back to sleep.  I used to do that when I was in college.  At the end of the semester just SLEEP.  I woke sometime around 2:00 pm, ate lunch, drank that water, and then went to the gym.

    I know I haven’t slept well, and I think that Saturday was my reaction to that as I feel much better.

    I’m also losing weight – check out the My Fitness Pal widget on the site.

    Right now, I think my biggest issue with the gym is the process of showering there, so I’m going to research what might make that better.  I’m thinking ebags is the place to start.

  • Definitely better

    Actually woke up, wanted to work out and up and doing it

    Have lost close to 4 pounds of the weight I gained and things don't hurt as bad.

    Have a test to give today and one tomorrow, almost every thing is out of my room.   

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  • Better

    Since the fill, I am steadily losing weight and best of all, I am not consistently and constantly hungery.

     

    The unfill was good and bad.  I am up 20 pounds from my lowest but some of that is robot stress weight.  The unfill taught me why I need the lapband. 

     

    I still need work to deal with what I can eat, how to eat it, and how to deal with deprivation.  My summer project.

  • Update

    So I am not “out of control” hungry any more, and this is an EXCELLENT thing. 

    My gastro doctor once again, screwed up my prescription.  Now I have a 60 day supply.  I give up.

    Just called and cancelled it, and I am going to call my new fill doctor and have her fill it.

  • Fill

    For the last month, I have had no fluid in my band.  I had it all removed because I wasn’t keeping much down and when they did a barium swallow, my esophagus was not working.

    It has been hell.  I can’t remember being so hungry in my life.

    Went into day, did another barium swallow and everything looks good. 

    I now have 5 cc in my band.

    This is a good thing.  I hope.

  • More on Firing a Doctor

    And she is going to stay fired, even if we get this fixed, as she drives me nuts.  I also think that the reflux may be gone.  The hiatal hernia disappeared that Dr. Loeb found (that Loeb).

    She sent in the approval paperwork for Delixant correctly, BUT instead of sending in a 90 day script for Delixant, she sent in a script for Protonix.  And we all know that no one in her office could have made that mistake.

    Well, Protonix has never worked for me.  Though I am not sure the Delixant is doing anything and well know better this afternoon after 2:00 pm.

  • Just fired a doctor

    I love Medco and the games they play with gastric reflux disease drugs.  I honestly don’t know where the source of the problem is, but I just fired my gastro doctor.

    She did all the paper work to get me approval for the drug, but faxed in a 45 day prescription.  I have to pay the same price if it is a 90 day prescription or a 45 day prescription.

    I’ve called Medco twice, they haven’t gotten the 90 day.  I’ve called the doctor’s office and faxed them, they claim they faxed it on May 5th, but Medco claims they didn’t get it.  The office has to send a message to the doctor to get me the 90 day prescription either faxed or even if they give me a copy.

    Oh, by the way, I faxed her twice about the 90 day prescription myself since May 5th, and she hasn’t responded.

    Good news, I’m seeing a lapband doctor this afternoon, and I’ll get the prescription that way.

  • Dog shows and testing blood sugar

    Okay, to begin with dog shows and testing blood sugar doesn’t really mix.  My dogs have a couple of different attitudes about testing.  Macy doesn’t like it, Dulce thinks it’s a super great opportunity to get into trouble as mom can’t do much about it until she’s done.

    Almost a blooper, I am really bad about not having my meter in my kit.  I finally grabbed a spare and put it in the dog show bag, but guess what, it’s missing.

    Yesterday I was in Denton showing, which I actually liked.  Very small facility, very small rings, but managed to get close parking each day.  Since I don’t groom on site, it was great (this one grooms outside under cover). 

    I grabbed my chair, set up against the wall but opposite the ring gate, thinking that would give me some breathing room.  NOPE!  My pump alarm went off to test, and people were climbing over me WITH their dogs to get to the next space.  ARGH! 

    One woman and her dog were literally on top of us, said excuse me, and I said “Sorry, I’m trying to test my blood sugar” and woman STILL climbed over us, and took our space.  Honestly, I cannot test and control my dog at the same time and I shouldn’t have had to.

    Oh well.

  • Snapshot

    A copy of outtakes from a Magazine article on patients with arthritis staying active. 

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    Yes, those are two different beagles I’m running that day.