emptied out....

ok...so last i posted it was three days ago. i was dealing with a tight fill but able to get some mushies down. it's now three days later, i've been unfilled, and the scale says i've gained a pound? wtf??? here's the story:

thursday morning was ok. i was able to get liquids down although they kept wanting to come back up. i had something to drink about 2:45 that afternoon and then about 5:45 that evening, i started spitting up white foam. yes. foam. it literally looked like something that you would spray out of a can onto your bathroom wall to clean it. you know, that stuff that foams after you spray it? yeah...that was coming out of my body. i was like what the heck is going on??? i wasn't drinking anything so i didn't know where the foam was coming from. but it kept coming. every few minutes more foam.

finally i decided to call the answering service for my doc. i told them the deal and he called me back fast. i told him the deal and he said it sounded like i needed the fill taken out. i was like awww...no!!! he told me it also sounded like i had mucus plugging things up in there and to continue to take my zyrtec and mucinex and call his office in the am for the unfill appt.

so i took the liquid mucinex which was grosser than gross and guess what? it came back up. and when it came back it didn't look like it did going in. now it had been transformed into guess what??? PINK FOAM!!! so there i was in the parking lot of walmart hanging out of my car door puking up pink foam. lovely!

i went home and drank eensy weensy sips of hot tea and finally the foam subsided. thank god!

the next morning i was able to get water down ok but they still had me come in for the unfill. the nurse told me she's heard about the foam often and that other folks have talked about what they call "coffee grounds". i'm like oh gee... i don't wanna be puking up those!

they took out the 1/2 cc they had put in and said my band pushed it out due to pressure so another .1 of a cc came out, too. so now i'm at 5.4 cc's. back where i was before. i feel like it's a setback but they said that's why it's called an "adjustable band". shrug. still feels like a setback to me.

now...having my band too tight sucked. and the foam was ghastly. however, i lost three pounds in those 3 days and that was awesome. unfortunately, when i got on the scale this morning, it said i had gained a pound of it back. sigh!!!! but i told myself maybe that was like water weight or something since i do think i was kinda getting dehydrated a little since i was hardly peeing anything before the unfill. it makes me feel better to think of it that way.

now i can eat though and that's both bad and good. bad cuz i find myself wnating to do it more and more. good cuz i need to be able to get some sustenance. lol

i was on a good workout schedule and that's been down the sh*tter for the past few days since we've had a lot going on. but i'm getting back on that damned thing and hopefully when i go back to my doc in three weeks i can get my 1/2cc back! they said i need to get my mucus issues under control for that to be possible so i've been downing that nasty mucinex like crazy as well as taking my zyrtec. here's hoping for the best!