Giveaway!

Just wanted to share this giveaway with anyone who may be reading. There is a giveaway going on over at theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.com. I love this blog. I read it regularly and am always scanning the archives for great recipes and meal inspirations. If you have never read it (and I am sure everyone has, I mean..come on it is awesome!) please head over and take a look.

I will put the link for the giveaway below. Thanks for reading!

http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.com/2012/11/get-cooking-with-eggface-giveaway.html

ME? Nominated???!

I got an email today.  It might be one of the greatest emails I have ever gotten.  It was an email informing me that I had been nominated for the WEGO health activist awards as a Rookie of the Year.   Yes...I am maybe a bit more excited by this than I should be.  I can't help it.  I have never been nominated for any kind of award in my life.  I feel so honored that someone out there thought that I deserved such an award.  So if you nominated me, thank you.

If you are reading this and want to endorse my nomination I would be so greatful....even if I feel kind of weird asking for such a thing.   Just click on the box that says endorse me over on the right hand side of the page. 

:)

Yes...I have neglected my blog.

I know, I am bad.  I have completely neglected this blog.  There is no good reason, no justification. 

I did get busy....but that isn't the whole story.  The truth is that I truly needed a little break from it all.  I spend my entire life these days thinking, reading, writing, vlogging and talking about my surgery and my weight loss. I love it....most of the time.  But I got a bit overwhelmed with it all for a while.  I make weekly YouTube videos, I spend more time on my WLS facebook page than I do on my personal one.  I am on myfitnesspal and the fitbit site. I am part of groups and I participate in the WLS community as much as I possibly can.  But I felt like I just needed to step back and find some balance.

I am a wife, a mother, a friend.  I am a room parent for my daughters classroom. I love to read. I enjoy a good movie with my family. I like to cook.  I am a real person.  I am more than my weight or my surgery. I needed to remember those things. I needed to find a way to be all of those things and also be involved in the community that I am so passionate about.

So I am sorry if I was missed.  I am happy to be back and ready to take another crack at this blog thing. 

Complication?

I hesitate to call what I am experiencing a complication.  But that is the only word I know for what has been going on.  If you watch me on YouTube then I am sure you have already heard me talk about this.

I woke up last Thursday morning in some serious pain.  There is an area of my stomach above my belly button that looks an awful lot like a large hernia.  This area hurt, it was more swollen than usual.  Movement hurt the most.

So I went to the surgeon first thing Friday morning.  He took a look at it and decided that he does not think it is a hernia...but it definitely is SOMETHING.  So he has ordered me to wear an abdominal surgical binder until we know exactly what it is.  He is thinking possible muscle tear or muscle wall defect from surgery.  We just don't know.  I will be going in for a CT scan this week to figure it all out.  The binder has greatly helped with the pain.  I honestly don't feel much pain at all there today. 

I just wanted to keep anyone who might actually read my blog updated.  I will update as soon as I have any more info.  :)