Bloods tested

 

Weight today: 13 10

Weight loss this week: 3lbs

Total weight loss: 2st 10lbs

Firstly, I just want to tell my octopus friends how much I love them.

I had my blood tests done but unfortunately one of the vials clotted so I'm back for a repeat today. However, the other came back that I'm high in PTH and the doctor wants to see me. Dr Google told me this was something to do with my thyroid and a possible growth, but when I googled PTH + bariatric surgery it seems it's also linked to low levels of calcium and vitamin D. Now this makes sense because whilst I was prescribed calcium and vitamin D it was a huge tablet, which my bariatric nurse friend told me not to take, under no circumstances for fear of death (no, sorry got that wrong, she just advised me not to take them). So I had to wait to get a chewable version. Which I now have, so hopefully things will right themselves. 

Before surgery I made a list of activities I could partake in on my days off rather than just mindlessly watching TV (and eating biscuits). I don't think I've shared this with you yet but one of things I like to do, but not in years, is jigsaws! I was very excited to open a brand new one which I was given by my sister in law at Christmas. A proper picture, not one of those silly all skies or all sand! Like a normal person I sorted the edges from the middle pieces. I tend to do this looking at the grey underside rather than the picture side (am I still normal?). I had Bella at my feet and life was good. Constructing the edges, which was harder than I anticipated, I noticed Bella chewing! ..... Yes you've guessed it 😡 I must have dropped some pieces and she was busy eating them. No idea how many but by the soggy remains I hoiked out of her mouth looked like at least 4! I wanted to cry. Do I still plod on trying to guess what is missing? Well, obviously. But I'm not a happy jigsaw-doer. Blinking puppies.

I grabbed a pair of old jeans out of the wardrobe this morning, and they fit. No idea when I last wore them but disappointed that I got fatter and they didn't fit me in a while. But they fit me now and at least I'm not buying new yet. 

Friends come and go like waves of the ocean but the true ones stick like an octopus on your face.