Progress Report

For the week of April 16-22, 2018.

Good news/bad news......

The good news is I lost weight. 
4/16:  176.2
4/23:  175.0
Loss/gain:  -1.2
Year status:  -1.2

The bad news is I'm still on activity restrictions.
My incision came open and there is still a lot of fluid draining.  Yesterday at my doctors appointment he put in 12 stitches and a drain tube. So my pain level today is back up to about 6-7 and I'm not supposed to do a lot of moving around.

If you've never had or seen a drain tube, let me just say..... it's a "lovely" tube coming out of a hole in my chest leading to a pouch at my hip that fills with moderately gross fluid and has to be measured and discarded as it fills up.  I go back to the doctor next week. Let's hope it can come out then.

Goals:
The goal I set for this week to walk a mile every day may not happen.  My biggest goal is to get this incision healed and the drain tube removed without getting any infections.