I got my period!
I got my period, I got my period, I am not preguhnant, I am not preguhnant! Woohoo!
Last night I went to the Dallas Support Dinner at Humperdink's in Irving...ya gotta drive through a pretty skanky section of Dallas to get there. Oy. I didn't see any prostitutes out, but it was early.
Anyway.... They think I'll be having surgery within a month! Holy Macaroni! Oy! It was interesting to see all these people ordering different kinds of food, and then eating a few bites and being finished. My meal was horrible! The worse restaurant meal I think I've ever had. I ordered low carb whole grain pasta with chicken done in an an italian bread style... I just can't recall the name of it right now. It was awful.... Shahram said the same about his meal and we were both hungry when we left the restaurant. I'm sure everyone else enjoyed what they were eating. I was trying to stick with Weight Watchers, but Shahram was just trying not to be rude. I told him not to worry about it. He did relax a little and order a big Shiner beer, which he enjoyed a lot. The lady sitting on his right thought it was amazing that he'd ordered pasta. LOL. I looked over and said, "yeah, he looks great, doesn't he?" and laughed. He laughed and said, "my wife is having the surgery." She laughed at her mistake and then kept telling him how wonderful he looked... kind of making a joke, but kind of flirting with him, too. I thought it was so adorable, and he just laughed in his charming shy way. The more he drank the more he laughed through the evening.
There was a guy there who sat across from Margaux and had her engaged in conversation most of the time. Of course the subject turned to homeschooling, which was uncomfortable because he started delving into my qualifications and whether I thought there'd be something I wouldn't feel comfortable teaching Margaux, which went into the TAKS test, and went into him making it sound like she was being neglected, which really sucked. So, we left soon after that. I felt the focus was more on unschooling than on WLS. So, I decided, after talking with Margaux about it, that if I want to go to another support dinner, I would take her to spend some time with Avery, or Ryan and Mira. She was good with that. I don't really think I want to do a whole lot of support dinners. I didn't find it very supportive, but then again I haven't had the surgery yet. Everyone was very good about answering my questions before the dinner started. There are other support groups that meet and don't have dinner, but have speakers and are more directly aimed at being supportive than being specifically social, if that makes sense. There was one today at 2:30 at Parker and the Tollway... somewhere. I wanted to be with the fam instead. I may attend that one regularly after surgery in addition to the Baylor one. I met one lady last night who lost 77 pounds in 3.5 months. She's still quite a bit bigger than me, but she was so happy. She's only 33 and has 4 kids. Gosh, I'm so spoiled that I get to be around families with the same lifestyle as me so often. It's always going to be strange to be around people who have kids in public school. Margaux was the only child there last night.
Pam prompted me to ask about moodiness with a drop in blood sugar. Nobody recalled that happening to them after surgery, but now, some of the ladies will get shaky and realize that it has been too long since they've last eaten.
I was nervous before the dinner and wanted to know what happens to the stomach in anxiety-producing situations. They said that I would probably still feel the same feelings. We talked about Charlene, the one who had had the bleeding ulcer and kept passing out.... they said she is the only person they'd ever heard of to have had that problem and that it is very rare. I will still ask McCarty about it when we go in for the consultation.
When we got home, Shahram checked the mail and I got the information on my echocardiogram that is scheduled for Thursday. It turns out that I *do* have to exercise, well, I have to walk on a treadmill, to get my heart rate to 150 BPM. The whole thing will be finished within an hour, the information stated. It also warned me not to take a shower for 45 minutes after the exercise because this may make my internal temperature rise even more. I thought that was pretty interesting. I read one lady's account of doing this and she said she couldn't exercise hard enough to get to 150... she just couldn't. I've taken my pulse in the middle of exercising several times and it has not been above 130. I think I can get to 150 though. Unfortunately, the packet of info said nothing about the weight limit of the table.
I'm going to call Dr. Culver in the morning to see if I can have the appointment changed over to Baylor. I had thought that this group of cardiologists also had an office at Baylor, but I was wrong. Or maybe I shouldn't. I'm not sure. Well, I suppose I could do the test again. I should be thinking about insurance, though. I don't want them to turn me down for something. I'll have to ask Pamdala if Margaux can stay with her on Wednesday night. I think it would be "educational" for her, but Shahram and I were thinking that they might not let a child into that area. We're not sure.
I'm so happy that I have my period. I felt a little frisky last night, which really made me think I'd get it today. Gosh, hormones are so weird. I'm so glad I have my period. Did I say that already?! :o)
Happy Happy Me!