One-Month Update

It has been about 4 weeks since the second feeding tube was placed. I have officially gained 3 pounds! I really thought that the weight would come on sooner and wouldn’t take this long. Apparently, it is going to take the 3-4 months to gain all this weight back!

Things are going well. I overall feel pretty good. Unfortunately, the pain in my right side is back. However, this is something I am going to have to learn to live with because at this point, I don’t think I could mentally or emotionally handle having surgery again. I am able to eat a lot more during the day. On a good food day, I can consume about 900-1000 calories!  I am still incredibly sore and can’t handle sitting down for too long. My abdomen feels better when I am up and moving around or lying flat on my back. I still am on weight lifting restrictions so I feel pretty helpless around the house and have to rely on others to lift things for me.

I still have days where I feel super sick to my stomach and feel like I can’t pull myself out of bed. There are still days where my pain is a 6 or 7. There are days when I become super annoyed that I have to hook myself up to a bag for nutrition and that it has to run for 10-12 hours. I get upset when I add up how much money I have spent on medical/doctor bills but am thankful that I have health insurance and a job that allows me to pay them. I hope that I can go on a vacation when all of this is over and spend my money on something fun! But I push through all of this and keep living my life.  I try and not let these circumstances control my life but I try to control them and the symptoms. I am still alive and try to remember that this is just a blurp on my life map and not a terminal illness. I am thankful every day that I have Doctors that care about me and so many friends and family that give me strength to keep fighting and to keep living!

I see Dr. Rasmussen in two weeks and Dr. Frech in 4 weeks and am confident that things will continue to move in the right direction!