Week 4

Okay so this post is going to be a little graphic. This week started out the same as any, I was trying to get my calorie intake up, on Wednesday after school I tried to have a bowel movement. It took 12 hours to pass and was probably the most pain I have ever felt. By Thursday I have to go to emergency, I was told I had an impacted colon and large intestine, I will spare you the gory details. I spent the night and part of the day in the hospital. I got home and was still in a large amount of pain for the rest of the day. I am hoping that I am back on track now. I have weened myself of of the meds and I am only taking them as needed. My food intake is slowly increasing and I am hoping that I can start back at the gym (I am supposed to wait until I can get my calories up to 1200).

I had my first real outing with my friends, a birthday party. It was a little more difficult then I thought. I had to really watch because I couldn't eat any of the normal things. No chips, no alcohol, no carbs and I noticed that raw veggies are hard on my stomach. Next week is Thanksgiving, and it makes me so sad because I will have to be very picky about what I eat since I can still only manage about 1 cup a food at a time.

After four weeks of pain and discomfort I am praying and hoping things will go better. It really can only get better from here. I am not even looking at weight or inches right now, I am trying to get my body healthy again before I move on.  It is more important for me to be healthy and not damage anything then to be thinner, I just have to keep reminding myself of that.

It is hard to go through this when there were almost no blogs that followed the details of peoples journeys. I am hoping that I can blog this all the way till the end so that other people can be prepared for what may happen. If things don't get better I may have to consider having my balloon removed, hopefully that is not the case.

Until Next Week
Tara