It has been quite some time since I have posted anything on this blog. I will now do my best to catch you up on the happenings of my journey toward being healthy. The wonderful things that have happened since my gastric bypass, and the debilitating horrible illness that has taken over my life. It is hard to believe that I have been living this way for such a long time, but as you will see, I have done everything I can to adjust and overcome.
My gastric bypass went well. I had a huge problem with pain after the surgery. Once I got home I did better. I shed weight faster than anyone expected. I followed all of the rules. A couple of month after the surgery I had to have the esophageal opening stretched because it was so small I couldn't eat. I spent a lot of time vomiting. I only had to have it stretched once, and that did the trick. In late winter/early spring I started walking a lot. My husband and daughter joined me in walking the Glow Run 5K. It was a wonderful milestone for me. I started training to get faster, and I was finding more 5Ks to walk in. That April, however, I started feeling really bad and shaky about 15 minutes into my walking. I started checking my blood sugar, and it was low at these times. I contacted the surgeon's office, and they told me I would have to go through my family physician. I consulted her and my nutritionist. No matter what I tried, my blood sugar continued to drop. By the end of May it was dropping for no apparent reason. I had to take sick leave for the rest of the school year. Then I found out I was also chronically low on iron. I had to start iron infusions. I had 2 sets of iron infusions. That started another phase of my health journey.
By the one year mark I had lost over 100 pounds, and I was thinner than I had been my entire adult life. I will continue with phase two in my next post....
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