Can I just say....

I love my family, and that sooo includes Caroline. She's such a help, and such a sweet girl, and I'm so glad it looks like she'll get to stay a couple extra days.

Right now I'm spending my time alternating between wearing a girdle type garment, or airing out my incisions. It's weird because I'll literally just walk around the house with my belly out, and it's nasty and gross, and this 17 year old isn't holding it against me. My children are kinda grossed out, and that's fine, I try to not make them look, but Caroline could complain and tell me to put it away or whatever, but she's fine with whatever I need to get better and feel better. I'm so lucky to have all these wonderful people in my life and she is one of them, without a doubt.

Right now the healing process is interesting: I have swelling between my main incision and my belly button. This is a bit dismaying for me personally because that's what they actually cut off, that exact area, so to see swelling there that's not huge, but definetly noticable, is disturbing to me.

Due to the "drying out" assignment I now have quite a few scabs, but a few areas that are still kinda icky. One side of my incision seems to not want to "marry" well, and I'm glad I'm going to see Dr. Sweeney Tuesday because I'm sure she'll either address it or reassure me and my paranoia. The belly button is icky looking too, but that's fine. I can see progress with it all on a day to day basis so that's very encouraging.

My first day back at school Saturday was interesting, I had a couple of my class mates actually join me in the restroom to look at my incision. I'm totally cool sharing it and was happy to even hand out Dr. Smith's number to one of them -- I know it by heart, it's an easy phone number LOL. I did okay, class got out about 45 mins early which was great because I was really feeling the day by that point. I did okay with my eating while at school which was good, too.

Today I have a little personal NSV -- that's short hand for "non scale victory" -- I am allowing up to 26 points per day until I see Dr. Sweeney again. I've gone over it almost every day since surgery, and today I only got 23 in. I'm soooo proud. I did well, I made Okay choices and it led to a successful day. I also got in almost all my veggies/fruits, and I got in probably 65-70 ounces of water or more. A win all around. Yay for being on program!!!