Week Three, Day Six . . .

Well, I decided I'd better start counting by weeks and days rather than just days. I'm not sure I can count that high. I just came from my first follow-up appt. with Dr. Avila. He said everything was looking great and asked if I had been nauseated or thrown up at all. Since I haven't felt any of that, he said I was okay to move on to soft foods. I told him about eating some regular food and doing fairly well with it and I asked him why I have to go through the liquid and then puree stages. He said it is to help with the hunger issue. Easing into real food causes less hunger problems and since they don't do any fills until the sixth week visit, learning to deal with those issues is important. I guess I can understand that. He said I can eat anything I would feed to a baby. That limits me quite a bit. I guess no more chile rellano for a while. Any way everything went very well.

Yesterday I had some juice for breakfast and an ensure for lunch. We went to Treyson's last T-ball game so I put some potatoes in the oven before we left and let them bake while we were gone. When we got home I sauteed some mushrooms and we had our baked potatoes and a few baked beans that were left over from last Sunday. It was really good and I didn't feel hungry at all. I had a little ice cream before I went to bed which I could have done without but it was a nice treat to go to sleep on.

Today I had an ensure for breakfast while Bob had bacon and eggs and hashbrowns. He was nice enough to bring me an ensure though. Real nice! On our way home just now we stopped at sonic and I had a strawberry creamslush. It was cold and refreshing as todays temperature in already in the 90's.

We're going to Shirley's tomorrow for Bob's dad's birthday. It's on Saturday but since Cyndi's birthday is on Sunday and we'll be coming home on Saturday to celebrate with her on Sunday, we will celebrate grandpa's birthday on the 4th. It will be fun to visit with them all again. We'll stay with Adam and Brittany and I'm so excited to see them! I can't wait. I miss them way more than I should, but now with a new baby soon I know I'll be missing them more and more.

Anyway, not sure what we'll do for supper tonight. Maybe I'll have some soup or something like that. I know this next week of soft (puree) foods is going to continue to be hard. But hey, only eight more days of that to go and then I'll be starting on regular foods. Yeah!