Healing
Wednesday was such a great day as I wrote about last - so true to form Thursday was not so good. But I'm now calling those Healing Days instead of Bad Days. My body knows what it needs to do and my mental timetable means diddly to it.
Besides healing on Thursday, I drove my car! Poor Steve -he had a lens pop out of his glasses so he called home (and woke me up at 10:30! see what I mean?). He has a glasses repair kit here and wanted to know if it had any screws left in it. It did so he said he was coming home to get it. No way was I going to "let him" drive. His eyesight is so poor he wears glasses & contacts at the same time - and the fallen lens was for his "good eye". So I drove the kit to his office and tried to fix his glasses in the parking lot but it required a special screw or something. So I drove him to my eye doctor's, which isn't far away. They very kindly fixed his glasses right away.
Then he wanted to go to Burger King to grab lunch to take back to the office, so we did that. My car still smells like French Fries!
Funny note about food. I'm very surprised it's not bothering me more, not being able to eat my favorite foods just yet. In the weeks before my gall bladder was removed, the idea of enduring that pain put any notion of anything remotely fatty right out of my head. And now, I've eaten stuff with as much as 4 grams fat per serving with no serious repercussions. The first question out of my mouth when I see the surgeon Tuesday will be when can I eat what? When I first visited him he told me I should continue to eat low-fat for two months after the surgery, giving my body time to adjust. When he spoke with Steve after my surgery, he told him I shouldn't eat anything fatty for 6 months to a year! When Steve told me that I thought he was joking. Some clarification is definitely in order. (I told Steve, I think the surgeon is just trying to get me to lose weight, it has nothing to do with my lack of gall bladder.)
Yesterday I never quite got to make any art, which was my number one intention. I did some deskwork, which led to cleaning out some files and lots of shredding. I did laundry. I made a pot of soup with the leftover Wonton Soup from the other night. (Note to self: never put a cup of rice in any soup of any size - it's waaay too much - became porridge like, after absorbing all the liquid!) I made pizza dough in the bread machine so we had pizza for dinner. See paragraph above - I have been craving pizza, I guess. My pizza was made with onions and fat-free cheese. Steve's pizza was made with pepperjack cheese, provolone, chopped leftover Christmas ham, peppers and onions. He raved about his and I could barely choke my down. Until I hit on the idea of making my own pizza I was going to try baking one of our frozen pizzas and take the cheese off of mine, but then I chickened out.
And I have decided that, whenever it is I can eat normally again, my celebration food will be mozarella sticks. I haven't had them in forever!! Fried cheese!! Can you imagine?
Gall bladder-free readers: what was your experience with eating post surgery, time-wise I mean?
I've become so dull, haven't I? When Steve and I were driving from the doctor's office to Burger King on Thursday, I found myself telling him about a bad accident I saw on my way to his office. Fortunately, I stopped myself mid-sentence when I started to tell him there were two road construction sites I had to drive through too. Oh my God! We started laughing at how hard pressed I am to come up with anything intelligible to talk about.
Yep, there were two road construction sites. The first one was on Turk Hill and I had to wait for 3 minutes. There were 4 cars in front of me. The first was a sedan. It was blue. Or was it green? Next was a black SUV.
Arrrrgghh!!!!
We watched the rest of Season 5 of The Sopranos last night. Then I read a bunch of stuff online when I was looking up when Season 6 begins (March) - so my dreams were filled with mob stuff! Not in a bad way, just an interesting continued story way. That whole Tony dream sequence thing in the 2nd to last episode couldn't be over fast enough for me - not my thing. But the episode where Adriana is killed - was so well done. Drea de Matteo deserved that Emmy she won.
I don't think I've mentioned that I bought myself a Tivo unit a few weeks ago, for my studio. I tape a few craft shows, occasionally Phil and Oprah and other things once in a blue moon. I've wanted a DVR for sometime - very cool technology, but Steve wasn't for it because we have plenty of working VCRs. (Odd role reversal, I'm usually the one not wanting to spend money.) Anyway, I love it. I can list the shows I've recorded alphabetically, and blow through a bunch of That's Clever shows in no time flat. For those who don't know, it also has a feature where it will record shows it thinks you might like, based on other stuff you've recorded. Obviously, it's a little dicey in the beginning because there's no history for it to know what you like so I was going to turn that feature off. But it's also recorded some interesting things. Yesterday I watched Jon Stewart's Daily Show for the first time ever. I knew it was an award-winning very popular show - but man, it was laugh out loud funny.
When I started feeling poorly I wanted to move my Tivo out to the family room TV but it requires being hooked up via phone line (for updates) and there isn't an existing phone line handy to that location. So I never did. I was desperate on Thursday to watch some of my recorded stuff that I made myself a nest of quilts and pillows on the floor in my studio so I could watch stuff. That was my Healing Day and sitting in a chair just wasn't cutting it for me. I wouldn't want to do it long term but it worked for then!
Then I got it in my head that I was going to order a DVR through our cable company for our family room TV. It's only $10/month, which I would pay for and I know Steve would just love the technology. We tape about 4 shows during the week that we watch together on weekends and we're constantly juggling tapes between VCRs (some TVs get better local reception than others for some reason we've yet to understand - they all have cable connections). It happened to be the day I drove Steve to get his glasses fixed so I told him about it then - and he was for it! He really just hasn't known how a DVR works to appreciate it until I educated him. I know he'll love it. The new cable DVR box is backordered - they'll ship it to us in a week or so. I can't wait.
Okay, I've about put myself to sleep. Time to shower and start the day!
Besides healing on Thursday, I drove my car! Poor Steve -he had a lens pop out of his glasses so he called home (and woke me up at 10:30! see what I mean?). He has a glasses repair kit here and wanted to know if it had any screws left in it. It did so he said he was coming home to get it. No way was I going to "let him" drive. His eyesight is so poor he wears glasses & contacts at the same time - and the fallen lens was for his "good eye". So I drove the kit to his office and tried to fix his glasses in the parking lot but it required a special screw or something. So I drove him to my eye doctor's, which isn't far away. They very kindly fixed his glasses right away.
Then he wanted to go to Burger King to grab lunch to take back to the office, so we did that. My car still smells like French Fries!
Funny note about food. I'm very surprised it's not bothering me more, not being able to eat my favorite foods just yet. In the weeks before my gall bladder was removed, the idea of enduring that pain put any notion of anything remotely fatty right out of my head. And now, I've eaten stuff with as much as 4 grams fat per serving with no serious repercussions. The first question out of my mouth when I see the surgeon Tuesday will be when can I eat what? When I first visited him he told me I should continue to eat low-fat for two months after the surgery, giving my body time to adjust. When he spoke with Steve after my surgery, he told him I shouldn't eat anything fatty for 6 months to a year! When Steve told me that I thought he was joking. Some clarification is definitely in order. (I told Steve, I think the surgeon is just trying to get me to lose weight, it has nothing to do with my lack of gall bladder.)
Yesterday I never quite got to make any art, which was my number one intention. I did some deskwork, which led to cleaning out some files and lots of shredding. I did laundry. I made a pot of soup with the leftover Wonton Soup from the other night. (Note to self: never put a cup of rice in any soup of any size - it's waaay too much - became porridge like, after absorbing all the liquid!) I made pizza dough in the bread machine so we had pizza for dinner. See paragraph above - I have been craving pizza, I guess. My pizza was made with onions and fat-free cheese. Steve's pizza was made with pepperjack cheese, provolone, chopped leftover Christmas ham, peppers and onions. He raved about his and I could barely choke my down. Until I hit on the idea of making my own pizza I was going to try baking one of our frozen pizzas and take the cheese off of mine, but then I chickened out.
And I have decided that, whenever it is I can eat normally again, my celebration food will be mozarella sticks. I haven't had them in forever!! Fried cheese!! Can you imagine?
Gall bladder-free readers: what was your experience with eating post surgery, time-wise I mean?
I've become so dull, haven't I? When Steve and I were driving from the doctor's office to Burger King on Thursday, I found myself telling him about a bad accident I saw on my way to his office. Fortunately, I stopped myself mid-sentence when I started to tell him there were two road construction sites I had to drive through too. Oh my God! We started laughing at how hard pressed I am to come up with anything intelligible to talk about.
Yep, there were two road construction sites. The first one was on Turk Hill and I had to wait for 3 minutes. There were 4 cars in front of me. The first was a sedan. It was blue. Or was it green? Next was a black SUV.
Arrrrgghh!!!!
We watched the rest of Season 5 of The Sopranos last night. Then I read a bunch of stuff online when I was looking up when Season 6 begins (March) - so my dreams were filled with mob stuff! Not in a bad way, just an interesting continued story way. That whole Tony dream sequence thing in the 2nd to last episode couldn't be over fast enough for me - not my thing. But the episode where Adriana is killed - was so well done. Drea de Matteo deserved that Emmy she won.
I don't think I've mentioned that I bought myself a Tivo unit a few weeks ago, for my studio. I tape a few craft shows, occasionally Phil and Oprah and other things once in a blue moon. I've wanted a DVR for sometime - very cool technology, but Steve wasn't for it because we have plenty of working VCRs. (Odd role reversal, I'm usually the one not wanting to spend money.) Anyway, I love it. I can list the shows I've recorded alphabetically, and blow through a bunch of That's Clever shows in no time flat. For those who don't know, it also has a feature where it will record shows it thinks you might like, based on other stuff you've recorded. Obviously, it's a little dicey in the beginning because there's no history for it to know what you like so I was going to turn that feature off. But it's also recorded some interesting things. Yesterday I watched Jon Stewart's Daily Show for the first time ever. I knew it was an award-winning very popular show - but man, it was laugh out loud funny.
When I started feeling poorly I wanted to move my Tivo out to the family room TV but it requires being hooked up via phone line (for updates) and there isn't an existing phone line handy to that location. So I never did. I was desperate on Thursday to watch some of my recorded stuff that I made myself a nest of quilts and pillows on the floor in my studio so I could watch stuff. That was my Healing Day and sitting in a chair just wasn't cutting it for me. I wouldn't want to do it long term but it worked for then!
Then I got it in my head that I was going to order a DVR through our cable company for our family room TV. It's only $10/month, which I would pay for and I know Steve would just love the technology. We tape about 4 shows during the week that we watch together on weekends and we're constantly juggling tapes between VCRs (some TVs get better local reception than others for some reason we've yet to understand - they all have cable connections). It happened to be the day I drove Steve to get his glasses fixed so I told him about it then - and he was for it! He really just hasn't known how a DVR works to appreciate it until I educated him. I know he'll love it. The new cable DVR box is backordered - they'll ship it to us in a week or so. I can't wait.
Okay, I've about put myself to sleep. Time to shower and start the day!
posted by Stefani at 8:07 AM
7 Comments:
It sounds like your GB surgery was much more invasive than mine. I say that because I was feeling much better the second day - other than the feeling of being punched in the side. No problems with sleeping, sitting, etc. I started eating my favorite foods about the 2-3 day. Of course, I have been on Weight Watchers before that so my diet was already low fat - except for pizza with "old world" pepperoni (you know, the little grease cup type pepperoni).
Hope your back to normal soon!
I had my GB out in '98 -- and gained most of my weight after that! So much for not being able to eat fatty foods, eh? ;-)
I think you're right, Dara - I thought of you that first day. "She went to her kid's Science Night - the night of her surgery??" It took me about 3 days to realize there's no point in comparing myself to others - every situation is unique.
Hey, I wasn't bored reading your post. Somehow even 'mundane' things in other people's lives seem so much more interesting than our own. The construction site stuff was funny, though!
Sounds like you're in the ebb and flow of healing ... some good days and some not-so-good days. It will all feel worth it, though, once you bite into those mozzarella sticks!
Oh, please tell us more about TiVo. How much does it cost? Do you have to buy the machine, then also pay a monthly fee, or is it one or the other? My son's girlfriend has it, and he told me a while back that it's a monthly fee ... so I'm very confused. But ... it sure would be nice to have one of those little babies in my office/studio. :-)
Just a quick note to say Happy New Year!
First of all, Happy New Year! My mother has had a DVR for 2 or 3 years...my mind boggles just thinking about it when she tries to explain it to me. (I'm not the most tech-savvy person...er...radio waves?...what's them thar things??) Enjoy it! Mom absolutely loves hers and wouldn't think of living without it now.
Happy new year Stefani - and go easy with post op eating for about the first month or so....those cheesy things sound ....yummy! and ...(listen to advice of your doc.)I can eat anything now its so great.
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