Risty's Diary (Christina)

Oh my God,

You were so brave - looking into the open wound like that! I can't believe they used local anaesthetic. And I certainly can't believe the doctor left halfway. Were you on your own?

I'm really glad it's all over. When do the stitches come out?

Get loads of rest - your body totally deserves it :)
 
Im glad everyhtign went well girl...After I had my youngest the freezing wouldnt take they tried freezing me like 3 times and then stitched it hurt like a son of a bitch - lol...

*HUGS* So glad to hear all went well with no complications - it is always nice when that happens - oh and I like to see all that stuff as well :):):)
 
I'm so glad your appointment went well!

Risty,

That open wound stuff would totally freak me out, but I got a big grin on my face when I read your description just because it is so awesome you were able to find any enjoyment in this. Way to go!
 
it's done? so fast?! sound like it's day surgery?
good description... pity no pics. lol

hope it heals soon and u can get back to kickboxing! :)
 
Howdy Risty,
I am glad it went smoothly except the after pain.
But I am glad there was no complications. Sureguries on TV are way
way different than in person.I had a 12 lbs cyst removed from my ovary
while 4 months preggers,most scariest painful thing EVER!!
gET SOME REST GIRL SO YOU GET TO FEELING BETTER SOON! TAMMY
 
Risty said:
,,,At one point he left to go get something and I looked down and I saw the open wound, it looked so kewl. I could see the fat under the skin and that looked so kewl...
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I had a huge grin on my face when I read this.

I am so glad its over, I was thinking of you all day :p.

Good night and sweet dreams (i really do mean that :rolleyes: )
 
Risty said:
Well, I feel like a complete blob and a failure really. I still haven't started eating well and I've not been going to my classes since Fri. The only good thing I have to say about myself is I went on a walk during my lunch hour and my eating went well until supper. I'm just doing so horrible and I can't seem to bloody control myself and it's really upsetting to me. I really hope I can start doing as well as I was before, I really want to get back to that because for a while I was doing so awesome and now I seem to have lost that.

I think I'm just kinda out of it and getting into the whole "I dont' feel like doing anything" mode. So I have to stop that, cause last time I got into that mode it took months before I got myself out of it.

I'm also worried about tomorrow which is my surgery if it happens. The Dr's office left a message today for me to phone (by the time I got home it was too late) but everytime they've called was to reschedule. So it better not be that because this will be the 4th or 5th time that they've rescheduled. I just want it done and over with so it's gone and I don't have to worry about it anymore. I'll be very angry and upset if they reschedule it, so it better not be that. I'll find out tomorrow morning when I call.
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Hello Beautiful. It's so natural to feel out of sorts and discombobulated with a surgery like this. It's the not knowing. Did they reschedule the surgery?

It will NOT take you months to get out of the don't-feel-like-doing-anything mode because you've developed strong enough exercise habits to know once you heal from surgery...you will take up where you left off. And you will continue to make good food choices while you recover. I know you will. I blew my food at supper and onwards today also (((Risty))), we can't be perfect. You have steadily lost weight, so there is no reason to believe you won't continue to do so. Be kind and gentle with yourself at a time like this. One day at a time, one moment at a time. :hug2:
 
Morning Risty!! AHHHH it's over, yeah!! I'm happy to see it all went well, and you seem to be in good spirits. That's wonderful news and it sure made my day to see it was all good!! I hope you enjoy the cycling, I know sometimes that can get boring, especially since your used to the kickboxing. :) I hope you have a very nice day today. I'll check in on you later gator!
Kim
 
^ LOL Miss Ladybug you are so positive it's hilarious and contagious. I love it!

Risty! I can't believe you looked into the wound, I consider myself perverse, as in I don't get grossed out by blood easily or anything, but I do not know if I could look down at myself DURING surgery! That's so incredible, I hope it isn't hurting too much right now, and that you're taking it easy. You're doing such a great job with being positive, It may be good for your body to experience some light exercise, it's so used to you beating yourself up with kickboxing.:) Hope you're having a nice day.
 
Yeah the surgery did go well, as scary as it was. The call was just a reminder one thank god, I would have been mad going to the hospital to be told no you dont have an appoitment, lol. The surgery was a small one so I can understand why they wouldn't put you to sleep for something like that, but even though it is small, it was still scary as hell! You can feel the pressure of what's being done, you can hear it, feel the tugging of the skin and tissues, plus when he blotted the blood up with the gauze you can totally see the gauze all blood covered. It's just a really weird experience, the scariest part like I mentioned before was the fear of it not being freezed enough and that at some point I would feel the blade cutting me or something, but he's an awesome and experienced surgeon so I shouldn't have worried about that, lol.

The wound thing really did look cool! He only got up for a second to go call the nurse to get him something, so I wasn't left alone for more than that, lol. I was talking to him the whole time, I even talked about this website, how sad is that, lol.

When the freezing went away man was I hurting. I definately had to take something for the pain. Even though it's not big, it still hurt a lot!!! It was hard to get to sleep because no matter how I layed the stitches would be under pressure... stupid boobs squishing the stitches or if I layed the other way it would pull at it. So I used a sweater to support myself which ever way I layed down and it worked fairly well. I did sleep but not very well due to the pain and trying to be very careful when I moved.

Today the pain isn't too bad, but I didn't go to work. I'm being very careful with my movements so as not to do anything to harm myself. Luckily I don't have to get the stitches removed, they're the dissolving ones, so hopefully they don't dissolve too soon or anything, lol.

Thank you all for supporting me and having me in your thoughts, I really appreciate it.
 
Hi Risty, I'm sorry it's so uncomfortable ;o( I didn't really think about how painful it would be when you consider a bra, and basically any movement is going to tug on the stitches. Ouch...I talk about this website with my family and stuff too. It's funny ;o) Thank goodness for the dissolving stitches.
 
Yeah I put my bra on when leaving the hospital and I was bleeding a bit through the stitches and tape and got blood on my bra. The bra really sucked and parking in my parking spot at the apartment... that was the worst! But yeah, I'm not wearing my bra, just a talk that has a little support but it's nothing much and it's not near the stitches so, yeah!
 
Yeah, I was gonna say about the bra thing...that you could get a built-in bra shirt or tank top to wear around untill everything is comfortable again....or you can sleep with an ice pack thing if you said coldness helps the pain....I remember I had to sleep on ice packs when I got my wisdom teeth cut out....
 
Hi luv, sorry to hear you had to have surgery while I was MIA. Hope you're feeling lots better. I agree with 2Skinny, I dont think you're going back to your prior bad habits that put the weight on. You've come too far for that to happen. Sometimes it seems its the obsessive extremely strict strict dieters who go back to their bad habits and put all the weight back on. Its hard to be really restrictive and obsessive forever and some people just give up. But the more reasonable types that lose by changing their lifestyle by eating healthy and exercising, but also allowing themselves a break once in a while, are IMHO the most successful. Feel better soon sweetie :).
 
Hey you - Im glad to hear you didnt go to work and you are resting :):):) It sucks you are still in painand suck but ya know it is only temporary ... rest up while you can girl !!!
 
Hey Risty,

I'm sorry about the pain.

You're so lucky to have the dissolving stitches - I don't know if we're in the Middle Ages here but I got put to sleep for my surgery AND I got the non-dissolving stitches which had to be removed 7 days later - the pain was indescribable seeing as they'd become infected.. When I came out of surgery my throat felt really sore and the nurse said that I'd been coughing and coughing for a while - such a shame I didn't remember any of it! So it's really cool that you got a chance to see and hear (even feel) everything that went on during your surgery..

You made me laugh referring to your boobs as stupid. I feel the same way about mine when they're getting in the way.

Get loads of rest, now that you're not working, and be sure to pamper yourself. Your body's still recovering from the shock of being cut open! Even if you enjoyed the sights :)
 
Rho, lol... glad you found that amusing! Boobs so can be stupid, lol. About the whole going to sleep thing...I think now they're trying to do things quicker. I mean there's just not enough medical staff to do all the work. So instead of being put to sleep and having that take longer plus then taking up a bed when you're waking up and getting better from that they would just do a local remove it and stitch it up and you're done in half an hour compared to however long the other one would take. That way they could do more patients, and the beds for recovery wouldn't be taken unless it was for a major surgery patient and what not. I think that's one of the big reasons.

Blancita - thanks for the confidence. It's hard not to feel like you're going to fail when you're doing bad for so long, but it's true... I've come to far to go back now. I'm not going to fail myself a second time and gain all the weight back, there's no way I'll let that happen.

Adam - I slept a bit better last night. It was hard at first to get in an unpainful/comfortable position. Again I used the sweater to support myself and it works well. Even though it was a bit better of a sleep, it still wasn't too great of one, lol.

Cerella - Yeah I'm glad I didn't go to work either. Some people were like.. oh you can come to work, it's not big deal! I just said, I'll see how I feel. So the first night I was in a lot of pain when the freezing wore off and so I called the girl right away saying I couldn't go, in too much pain. So yesterday I was trying to do a load of laundry and it really sucked and today I was supposed to do a shift where you do a lot of laundry and I'm thinking hells no! So yeah, didn't go today either. It's a long weekend also so I don't have to work monday so I should be fine for work next week!

Sun - I was thinking about using an ice pack, didn't though. Maybe I should. I know when I had my bottom wisdom teeth removed I was in sooo much pain. I couldn't take the Tylenol 3 they prescribed (I took one and it didn't do anything and so I took another and it gave me the worst chest pains, felt like a heart attack I was crying and wanting to go to the hospital, it was the scariest thing ever). So no Tylenol 3 for me. I was living off Ibuprofen! Thank goodness it worked. My gums felt like they were gonna explode the stupid stitches, it was so stupidly painful. Plus one side got the dry socket thing and holy cow did that suck. They had to take the stitches out early on that side and pack it with this gauze soaked in some disgusting thing for the pain. It tasted like uber concentrated cloves... it was the sickest tasting thing. I went out to dinner that night with my friend and all I could taste was that stuff and I was like damn it, and she's all I can imagine I can smell the stuff from across the table... that's how bad it was, nasty nasty but boy was the pain gone, lol.

That pain was worse than this one. However the first day it felt like it was gonna burst the stitches, but that was the only day it felt that bad, now it's just pain when I move, lol. So if I'm still it doesn't hurt besides the random burst of pain, at least it's not constant though! For that I'm thankful!

PS - this post was so long I knew I had to copy it because I knew I'd be logged off, lol. I've become smart, I copy anything relatively long just in case because retyping sure sucks! Good thing I did too ;)
 
Hi!

Glad your surgery went well!
I haven't read much here in all honesty but I plan to. I am going through a somewhat similar experience with my weight loss adventure. Good luck!
 
I copy my long entries in Word and then copy and paste now as well...it sucks when you lose a post!

I'm sorry that your coworkers aren't very concerned, of course it isn't a big deal to them, they didn't have surgery! UGH that is so rude of them. I hope that you feel better by Tuesday...and that wisdom tooth story sounds dreadful. Thank goodness you don't have that sort of pain this time around.

If you have swelling or redness then the ice pack would be a glorious idea. After my jaw surgery I had this foot-long velour ice-pack that I had to tie around my jaw and cheeks. haha with a big bow on the top of my head. My face had swollen up so bad! I literally slept with the ice pack on for a week. Ice was my best friend. That and painkillers. Well I hope you're having a good, relatively immobile day.
 
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