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Donna Chubbypants

{ 07:39, 2008-Dec-12 } { 5 comments } { Link }

As a"Merry Christmas to Me" present yesterday, Donna went over to the rehab hospital to get herself weighed and lo and behold she had gained another 3 pounds. She now weighs a whopping 74 pounds! This may not seem like much, but she has now gained 12% of her original weight, which is quite an accomplishment in 3 months. She was ecstatic and really is happy with her feeding tube. I can tell you, it certainly puts my mind at ease knowing that she is gaining instead of losing.

Now - if I could lose instead of gaining - life would be sweet. I am starting to feel better now on a higher dose of my meds, but these last 3 weeks without my caregiver have kicked my butt. I feel tired all the time and on the verge of hysteria more than 1/2 the time. I didn't realize how much the thyroid affected one's body. It especially does a number on the brain, which is why it is important to get LOTS of rest, exercise and take the proper medication. I can feel things churning around in my head, but quite often can't get them out in a sentence. Short circuiting or something. I also type strange when I get tired...for example I may type "something" like this - thomesing and it takes me a second to figure out what is wrong. Not good in my line of work! Hopefully when the caregiver gets back to work full time and Christmas stuff settles down, I can get back to my baseline.

We are supposed to get snow today, which is rather puzzling if you ask me. Last night we were out and about around 7ish and it was still 8C outside and downright balmy. Now today they are telling us it is going to be -6 with snow? WTF??? It's raining at the moment, so we'll see if it materializes.

On that note, I am off to get some work done before I go and get my hair cut this morning and mail the rest of my parcels. I am hopefully going to Costco sometime this weekend to pick up a new camera that has been funded by my sister and her family. Could I be more excited??? I don't think so! Hopefully there will be a whole new batch of photos to share in the New Year! *quivers excitedly*.

Awesome News!!

{ 10:39, 2008-Dec-12 } { Posted by indigomoonarts }
Great to hear about Donna. I bet she is happy-even with the pain she is still feeling. She must feel better all over from the extra energy she is getting from the food. (not running around energy- I mean Kcals...)
anyway, what kind of camera are you getting?
<insert jealous look here>
I am looking forward to your new images!!
Laurie you really should look into selling your work online in a stock photography site. My cuz makes good money doing it!

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{ 06:06, 2008-Dec-12 } { Posted by windy }
Great News ! :) Merry Christmas !

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{ 10:43, 2008-Dec-13 } { Posted by Cam }

Hooray for Donna !

I've weighed 150 pounds since high school...

Weird !

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{ 09:44, 2008-Dec-13 } { Posted by LadyVisine }
If Donna would care to take some of my spare poundage, she's more than welcome to it! ;) Seriously, that's terrific news about her gain. *happy dances*

Will be glad when you are able to get some much needed rest & things more balanced for yourself, too! Congrats on getting the new camera! Will look forward to viewing your pix!

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{ 07:05, 2008-Dec-16 } { Posted by drdog }
OK, I'm last one here again. That tends to happen nowadays. Just great news about Donna gaining weight. Hope the caregiver can get back soon and let you get back to normalcy, or whatever passes for normalcy today.

Sorry about your bad weather, but it's been bad all over. Santa has Old Man Winter on his bad boys list, I'm sure.

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