...and I don't mean in a "I'm back on the scene" kind of way; I mean that at least some of the fat has returned to my ass. I've gained about 19 pounds since I got back from the hospital three weeks ago. I'm obsessessed with eating now and try to have bacon every day. Once I get started on a meal, I can't stop and I think it's actually interfering with my breathing, but it's certainly better than slowly wasting away.
For a while, my body wasn't sure what to do with the fat: my arms and legs were still gaunt, but I had a Homer Simpson-style spare tire around my waist.
So I currently spend my time eating, coughing, and spitting up phleghm. I couldn't cough for about six months, but now sit around making horrible wrenching or little-old-man gargling kind of noises, and then spit a seemingly endless amount of tacky, foamy white phleghm into paper cups--when the phleghm isn't a rather solid, glob-like yellow mass. That's the really desirable phleghm.
I still get very short of breath for what seems like no reason, and sleep with oxygen prongs in my nose, but my last x-ray showed that I've gotten the top third of my left lung back. So there's progress.
Your ass is always "on the scene"!
Posted by: Wendy | June 26, 2007 at 07:41 PM
Glad to see that your ass has made a reappearance, literally and figuratively. lol We've been thinking about you over at Sybermoms and wanted you to know that you're in our thoughts in the CC forum.
Posted by: Rachel | June 30, 2007 at 12:14 PM
WAAHOOOO for your ass! So glad you are doing better.
Posted by: Cassie | July 01, 2007 at 06:31 PM
I personally think that daily bacon is the key to a happier life, so cheers to that decision!! Is Adam singing "Baby Got Back" to you a lot now? :) Thanks for the update -- and congrats on the good progress!!
Posted by: pam | July 05, 2007 at 11:52 AM