Thanks to everyone for visiting over the past few days.
I have finally got round to replying to all your lovely messages. I hope that you know how much I care for you and appreciate all your continued support and good wishes.
Camy
Thanks for the great advice re my boobs. I was not aware of the health risks – simply the negative appearance and the fact that they can be heavy and uncomfortable at times – particularly if not properly supported. I will follow up on your suggestion.
Rae, Eldaweesda, Kimberly, Claudia
Thanks for your supportive comment re the idea of boob surgery. It is getting even more likely that I will go down that path.
IWillLoseWeight
Nice to meet you. PCOS is a major trial – but I am sure that you will master it. 50 pounds will seem a lot of weight to you now – but it honestly is so achievable for you. Some great advice for PCOS ladies was posted by someone else here (AmandaRobertson) at the turn of the year. I thought it so good I pasted it into one of the first entries in my diary as an edit on page 1. Check it out.
Eldaweesda, Heidilw, Cerella, Kim, Sarah
Thanks for your supportive comment re my photos.
Camy, Claudia, Rae, Kimberly, Dawn, Yuliana, Kim, Sarah
I keep telling you all what a wonderful husband I have.
I suspect that you now believe me more and more. I gave him lots of instructions from my hospital bed of things that would be a good idea if they got done in my absence on the forum and elsewhere and to the best of my knowledge he did everything. He didn’t see your messages which accounts for why he didn’t reply and give you an update (I suspect that I was keeping him rather busy with other tasks and of course he spent a lot of time with me.) I am sure that you believe me when I say that he is looking after me very well indeed.
Camy, Claudia, Cerella, Rae, Eldaweesda, Sophie, Kimberly, Dawn, Yuliana, Sweatpea, Amber, Carrie, Kim, Nicole, Becky, Tyly
Thanks for your wishes for a speedy recovery. Things are going really well on that front. I have been told that it will be no aerobics or strenuous exercise or anything involving tummy muscles for six weeks. That means that I am back to basic walking until then and have kind of wasted the money that I have paid for my classes for next term. I will ask for a refund as you don’t get anything if you don’t ask. I am really not too concerned about that whole aspect though. The important thing is that the op was needed and was done quickly and things are healing nicely now. The pain isn’t too bad at all as long as I take things easy.
Eldaweesda, Dawn, Kimberly, Nicole
They hardly let me sample the food as I spent all the time until Friday early hours with a nice “nil by mouth” sign above me and saline and medication drips going into my arm. Also a nice tube up my nose and down to my stomach. I thought that the “nil by mouth” sign would go immediately after the op but it didn’t. The “nil by mouth” sign disappeared early hours Friday when it was replaced with “small sips water only”. I was only allowed mush until Saturday morning and not much of that. It wasn’t even low calorie mush. Would you believe that they made me have mashed up cauliflower cheese even though I told them that it would not be the best mush for me as cheese always makes my weight go up. I was actually a bit put out because they were serving mince at the time and they wouldn’t let me have that instead. They insisted on using sugar and not having skimmed milk for weetabix on Saturday. On Saturday morning they told me that I could have my own choice at lunchtime I was so hungry I ate everything including rhubarb crumble and custard. It was not nutritionally my finest hour but my stomach needed food and I was having what was available. No honey shreddies eaten since Wednesday!
Dawn, Camy, Carrie, Nicole, Kimberly, Sarah
I have to say that it is great to be back home. Home is always the most comfortable place to be. I am truly blessed to have recovered so well and so swiftly. I will be having the kind of food that I like today and will try and get round the block once to get some sort of walk in. Then things will feel like they are gently heading back towards normal. I will definitely be taking it easy though for quite a while. My poor pedometers must think they are broken and the scale has been quite neglected.
Dawn, Camy
I am just so grateful that I was so fit for an operation. My blood pressure never went high throughout (if anything it was a little on the low side) but they said that they would have been much more concerned if it had been high. There was certainly a lot less of me to cut through and I am sure that the fact that I was able to tell them that I have a floating bowel as I arrived at the hospital made the whole process run more smoothly. I would have had no idea of that if I had not lost weight and seen the bulge.
Camy
Food doesn’t seem to look nearly so appetising after the moment it is eaten.
Carrie
As you know – I am more used to thinking as a big person than otherwise – and I know exactly what you mean. People (especially healthcare workers) do discriminate against people with big BMIs. I honestly think that some people think that you somehow deserve to be ill. Health authorities here actually admit that they discriminate against people based on their BMI. Rod’s BMI is 54 and this whole situation does worry me a lot.
Kimberly
It does take some getting used to – not walking – especially now that I am home. In all honesty I couldn’t have thought of walking while the pain was on so that was no problem. Sunday morning will be odd – but I am toying with going once round the block on an initial walk to see how it goes. It has been funny to have Rod pacing out ahead of me for a change.
The bulge is certainly still there. I am so swollen I am sticking out more in front than ever. They tell me that they have put the bowel in the right place but I cannot see any evidence of it apart from the scar I saw when my dressing was changed. It will be interesting to see what happens when I get a bit less swollen. I will get back to drinking my water at proper levels tomorrow and hope that may help (all that saline solution)! I know that Dawn’s weight went up immediately after her op so I will have to get her advice on how to bring it straight back down. I remember that she managed to do that really really well.
Rod certainly is very special and I am very lucky to have him. I very much hope that you get over here and meet us both in the flesh in June.
Just think – if I could have weighed myself at my absolute emptiest – it was on a Thursday so we could have made it count for the challenge. Now if only I was as focussed on our team’s success as some people think – just think – what if it had been timed better and our team had survived until the last week. A final weighing like that could have been a real challenge-winner!
Take care
Love
Margaret
with worry had you not told us.
I'll be it's killing her not to be able to go for her walks, either. 
