Day 9 – My first dinner outing at a restaurant

Day 9 (Saturday 02nd June) started out with me being awoken by a weird gurgling sound. I thought I was dreaming it. I opened one eye and then the other and then looked over at a snoring Elvis.

I closed my eyes again and the gurgling noise happened again. The noise was coming from me. I initially blamed my cold for me making all these weird sounds but then I realised that the gurgling was coming from me and my lap band.

It was and is the most hilarious sounding “noise” I have heard in a long while. They tell me that it is normal and it probably won’t ever go away. I’m sure I have had this gurgling noise for a while but only just heard it. I personally find this sound rather amusing but on a serious note each and every time that I have heard it reminds me of my past, my present and my future.

Anyways, I slowly got out of bed and sat in front of the television for a while to thaw out. My cold was slowly going and in the process I started to experience more lap band issues. I had this insatiable desire to burp and fart but I was too scared to push them out. (Sorry for being so crude and unlady like) I was also experiencing the weirdest thing internally. I was beginning to feel water and food slowly dripping through my “top tummy” into my “bottom tummy”. I can’t quiet explain what that feels like but I could actually feel this little drip, drip, drip. It was and is the most bizarre feeling I have experienced. Don’t get me wrong, it does not hurt, it just feels weird.

My next lap band issue is my bowel movements or lack of. I was always very and I mean very regular and I would go on average 4 times PER DAY. I was now having to go once every second day and my friends this is what is killing me. A positive I guess is that I will now save money on dunny paper!!!

So, my best friend Vicki, and I decided to go out for dinner. I was petrified to eat. I started to feel this cold sweat just spread all over my body. I tried to look cool calm and collected in front of Vicki as I didn’t want to show her how I was feeling. I could smell all these delicious meals all around me and funnily enough I was not very hungry and no real desire for food. We sat down and scanned the menu. I looked for soup and thank God for that. Vicki ordered a chicken Caesar salad and it looked yummy but it didn’t make me want to reach over the table and start eating it. Which is what I would have done in the good old days.

My soup arrived and I ate it very slowly. I was terrified that I was going to vomit. I only got through ¼ of it and I was sooo full. What was even better was that we didn’t get nibblies to start with and I didn’t get the obligatory fries that I always order, or a dessert.

We got up to leave and people I was flying high. I was so happy that one- I didn’t vomit and 2- I was so full.

I am so happy that I had the lap band placed. It has to be the best decision I have ever made.


Reney