she will terrorize me no more, haha
Tomorrow I head back to work. I'll work two short days then go check in with my foot doc. She'll check out the swelling in my foot to see if I'm doing well or need more time. I'm feeling apprehensive about going back considering that I'm still on crutches and can't put any weight on my foot but I'm also anxious to get to the next level of recuperation. I've been off my foot and out of work for THREE WEEKS.
In the last three weeks I've lost some weight - tends to happen when you can't hardly keep any food down. I've been able to eat some broccoli here and there but mostly it's almond butter & jam sandwiches, spaghetti, cornbread or oatmeal + protein powder. Not exactly the high protein - low card diet I was doing well on before the surgery. I expected this but I didn't think I'd lose weight because I thought I'd be munching on the junk food while laying around. Yes, there have been whoopie pies (one) and dairy-free chocolates but the truth is that my stomach isn't handling that stuff well and that is keeping me from eating it. Saltines are my newest problem food - easy on the stomach but all that salt is no good. Oh, well... I gave up the cornbread so the saltines have to stay just so I have something to settle my stomach.
I'm still waiting for the day that I can get back to my diet and enjoy some salads and turkey burgers and maintain my weight loss. As of now my stomach is in the yucky stage, having just ate a sandwich so I could take my antibiotics (ugh!) and pain meds.
I can't wait for all this to be over and I can walk - pain free!
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