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Today is Ed's birthday. He says he got a new wife for his birthday gift. I've lost 25 pounds and I'm feeling great! The swelling is beginning to go down and the incision looks great. It's completely healed and itches a little bit, but there's no redness or soreness at all. I'm back at work, taking a break every morning for a walk and again in the afternoon for a short nap. Giving up the liquid painkiller really helped increase my energy level. In fact, I feel almost normal! I've started on soft foods (finally!) after having nothing but liquids since a few days after surgery. I can eat a couple of tablespoons of yogurt or applesauce at a time, eating with a baby spoon in order to train myself to eat very, very slowly. This new tummy pouch needs time to heal, so overdoing it is not advised. I'll slowly add other soft foods for a couple of weeks before I go on to trying well-cooked vegetables and canned fruits. It'll probably be two months or so before I'm able to tolerate meat. Everything must be chewed to the consistency of baby food before swallowing so that it can be easily digested. I'm not having any food problems so far, thank goodness. I didn't suffer from heartburn or any other gastric problems before surgery, and I hope I don't develop any as I progress. Before surgery I was having a hard time keeping my blood glucose levels within normal ranges, but since surgery I have had no problems at all other than a couple of days of expected highs in the hospital when I was getting a glucose drip in the IV. I'm testing my fasting blood glucose every morning, and readings have been right around 90 with no medication. That is amazing. Both of my grandparents had type 2 diabetes. My grandmother died two days after surgery to remove her right leg at the knee. I now have hope that I won't follow their history.
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