So... Donald Trump is actually our President-Elect. Pretty unbelievable, huh? So many reasons why this happened. I almost don't even want to think about it. But the "word of the year" is "post-truth". That about sums things up. Facts don't seem to matter to a large segment of Americans. Or... sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. Depending on if the "facts" fit your world view already. Trump simply lies, A LOT. And his closest allies lie and spread lies. And a chunk of Americans eat it up. Anyway...
I actually thought I'd blog because today was an important day for my health. And hopefully it will have long term consequences. I finally hit my step goal again. First time in 53 days (I did the math). Back in September I developed shingles with led to an abscess in my upper right thigh. It's taken a LONG time to heal. I've just gotten to the point where the pain of walking is manageable. It still looks terrible and pusses quite a bit but that's OK I guess. Walking around and getting those 12,000 steps in felt a lot like January 15, 2015 when I walked up the hill by where a live. Walking was a lot easier tonight but I felt a sense of pride that I'm doing something good for my health. Earlier today I had real thoughts of having a "fuck-it" day and getting junk food but I decided against it. Health is a moment by moment thing. At least for today, I made some good choices.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Summer Goals
This whole election season is starting to bum me out so I thought I'd better put down in writing some goals before Donald Trump leads my life down a dark path. All these I will continue/accomplish through Labor Day:
* No unexpected absences from work. If there's legitimate reason, ok, but no more "hooky"
* Log my food on MFP. No calorie limits. Just honest logging. Eating has gotten out of hand lately
* Make appointments to see dentist, optometrist, Dr Talieh
* Pay less attention to election coverage. Yeah, this is kind of vague. But I'm over analyzing EVERYTHING (typical liberal, I know). I need to just chill out and focus on my health, work, relationships, etc. I guess just be happy and try not to let outside factors effect my mood. I mean, if Trump wins it will suck, but the world won't end.
* No unexpected absences from work. If there's legitimate reason, ok, but no more "hooky"
* Log my food on MFP. No calorie limits. Just honest logging. Eating has gotten out of hand lately
* Make appointments to see dentist, optometrist, Dr Talieh
* Pay less attention to election coverage. Yeah, this is kind of vague. But I'm over analyzing EVERYTHING (typical liberal, I know). I need to just chill out and focus on my health, work, relationships, etc. I guess just be happy and try not to let outside factors effect my mood. I mean, if Trump wins it will suck, but the world won't end.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
A Year Ago...
January 15, 2015 I met Marsha (I think that was her name). She was the Drill Sargeant... err I mean head of the Bariatric Clinic at the hospital in Bakersfield.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
2309
That's how many days it's been since I've had a legitimate "First Date". Today I'm supposed to meet someone (a woman) in Lemoore. I'd never even heard of Lemoore until a couple years ago. We'll see how it goes. I usually don't go into a lot of detail (if any) about romantic stuff and I probably won't here. But I think it's important to note that I'm at least back "out there".
As for the dominate subject in my life (my health), it's going well. I'm down to about 325. That's about the best I could have hoped for in the stage of the game. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm trying to focus more on the habits and being happy. I think I could be exercising more and my food isn't "perfect" but overall I'd say I've done well since surgery. Maybe introduced some foods a little early but nothing that's going to cause long term harm. My main focus now is to make sure I don't fall back into the mindless eating late at night. I'm getting cravings and that's not good.
As for the dominate subject in my life (my health), it's going well. I'm down to about 325. That's about the best I could have hoped for in the stage of the game. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm trying to focus more on the habits and being happy. I think I could be exercising more and my food isn't "perfect" but overall I'd say I've done well since surgery. Maybe introduced some foods a little early but nothing that's going to cause long term harm. My main focus now is to make sure I don't fall back into the mindless eating late at night. I'm getting cravings and that's not good.
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Post Op
Yep, that's me 1 day after surgery. Still big but about 40 pounds lighter than I was a couple months ago. Surprisingly they didn't even weigh me before surgery.
Things are going well. It's been about 60 hours since surgery. I'm feeling about 85% healthy right now. The pain and the nausea has subsided dramatically. The thing that I'm so surprised about is the little amount of fluid I'm able to take in at one time. I need to be really conscious of drinking sips of water throughout the day. For someone with a normal sized stomach if you're feeling thirsty you can just take a big gulp of water. Not so with this surgery. Other than that I don't see a lot of drawbacks. Yes, I won't be able to eat large amounts of food anymore. But that's kind of what I wanted/needed anyway, right?
So, onward and upward. It's hard to believe I finally had the surgery. Now that I have I'm going to live the life I've always wanted. Healthy and happy, one day at a time.
Friday, March 13, 2015
Pre-op meeting
Well, yesterday I had my pre-op meetings at the surgeons office and the hospital. Everything went fairly smooth. No big surprises. I wish I had a definite surgery time though. I have to call Sunday night to find out for sure. If you read my previous post you'll see the cost they were going to charge me kept changing. They did keep it at $2,900. Which is about all I could afford so it worked out OK.
Everything is on track for Monday. Got my rides all set up. Even have my best bud coming in Monday afternoon just to hang out for support. That will be cool. And I found out that 4 people donated their PTO to me (3 anonymously) so I will have a full paycheck when I take that 2 weeks off. I'm so touched by this gesture from my co-workers. I didn't know I was so well liked!
Life is pretty good right now. I have a decent job, good friends, and am making healthy changes to my life. I still make the occasional bad decision and act like a douche from time to time but I think that's getting more rare.
Right now I'm just focused on being healthy and happy One Day At A Time.
Everything is on track for Monday. Got my rides all set up. Even have my best bud coming in Monday afternoon just to hang out for support. That will be cool. And I found out that 4 people donated their PTO to me (3 anonymously) so I will have a full paycheck when I take that 2 weeks off. I'm so touched by this gesture from my co-workers. I didn't know I was so well liked!
Life is pretty good right now. I have a decent job, good friends, and am making healthy changes to my life. I still make the occasional bad decision and act like a douche from time to time but I think that's getting more rare.
Right now I'm just focused on being healthy and happy One Day At A Time.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Surgery Cost
Back in September of 2013 I started this process of getting bariatric surgery. At that time my "Out-Of-Pocket" max was $3,500. It stayed that number when open enrollment happened again last August. So, I knew my max I would have to shell out for this surgery was $3,500. I saved, but life happened, and quite honestly I spend a lot of money frivolously the past year. There were so many setbacks in this process many times I thought it wasn't going to happened (I'm less than 5 days away and I'm still not 100% sure it will)
The whole time I've been doing my due diligence with regards to how much it will cost me and how I'll be able to pay. I was told the hospital would set up payment plans if you come of with, say, half the cost. Well, this POS hospital I was assigned to (San Joaquin 7th day Adventist in Bako) won't. They are just dicks there. On top of that they are so dumb there they've given me 6, (yes, 6!) different amounts to pay. Here they are:
$0 Two months ago
$2,789 Seven weeks ago
$2,143 Three weeks ago
$3,820 8am this morning
$3,470 1pm this afternoon
$2,900 About an hour ago
What is wrong with our healthcare in this country??? How can they come up with all these different prices? Does the police or fire dept charge you different prices depending on who at the insurance they talk to? Oh, wait, they don't charger you ANYTHING because we have SOCIALIST police and fire depts! And that's how it should be.
I'm done.
The whole time I've been doing my due diligence with regards to how much it will cost me and how I'll be able to pay. I was told the hospital would set up payment plans if you come of with, say, half the cost. Well, this POS hospital I was assigned to (San Joaquin 7th day Adventist in Bako) won't. They are just dicks there. On top of that they are so dumb there they've given me 6, (yes, 6!) different amounts to pay. Here they are:
$0 Two months ago
$2,789 Seven weeks ago
$2,143 Three weeks ago
$3,820 8am this morning
$3,470 1pm this afternoon
$2,900 About an hour ago
What is wrong with our healthcare in this country??? How can they come up with all these different prices? Does the police or fire dept charge you different prices depending on who at the insurance they talk to? Oh, wait, they don't charger you ANYTHING because we have SOCIALIST police and fire depts! And that's how it should be.
I'm done.
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