I'm so sorry it has been so long since I updated my blog. I know I must be one of the worst bloggers ever. I was sitting her thinking, I need to give everyone a little update.. hehehe Chances are if you know me well enough you will find that funny, seeing as if I hardly ever talk a little..Let's face it, I'm a very "wordy" girl.
Can you believe as I sit here tonight that in only eleven days, I will be 5 months pre-op. Wow! That seems unreal. Time is flying by, why is it the older you get, the faster life flies by us.
Okay so let me update you a little. I had my surgery to remove the pituitary tumor on June 13th, one day after my 41st birthday. "Happy Birthday to me, I'm gonna be tumor free.." Yes! That was what I kept singing to myself. And yes, I realize I'm a little weird, and a bit of a dork, so you don't have to worry about telling me.
Well the day I had the surgery, I had probably the worst headache I have ever experienced in my entire life, but I'm extremely happy to say it didn't hang around too long. I had a few rough days after surgery, but I thought it went pretty well over all. As someone that suffered from daily headaches since my teens, it is hard to believe those awful, mind boggling headaches are gone. Sure I have the occasional headache, but not the want to pull your head off and hide so that it can't find you headaches.. See I told I was a little weird (some might argue more that a little, but anywhoo).
The changes my body is going through is quite amazing. Since the day last September that I asked my Endocrinologist to test me for Cushing's until this past week I have lost 61 pounds. It seems a little crazy, I spent years trying to lose weight, not knowing I had Cushing's (which practically made that near impossible). Now thank the Lord, it just keeps coming off.. WooHoo!!! I have to say I want to go around to all the doctors that I constantly told, I really do not eat a lot and should be losing weight...See what did I tell ya!!! Because I heard more times than I can count, "Calories in Calories out", "Just cut back on what you eat", "Try to exercise" and "blah, blah, blah.." Look here, take out tiny pituitary tumor and BAM!! the weight come off... See I tried telling ya!!
Okay not only have I lost a lot of weight (which I'm completely over the moon about, by the way). I can sleep!! Let me repeat that, I can SLEEP!!! I can not even tell you the last time I actually slept over a couple of hours at a time prior to surgery. I honestly believed I was never, ever going to sleep again. If you have never experienced not being able to sleep, let me tell you, it is HORRIBLE!! A person can not function on a couple of hours of sleep.. So let's all shout...WOOHOOO!! Tina can SLEEP!! Weight loss & sleeping!! Hold on I'm on a roll :)
Let's see what else, oh! I have begun reading again. If you remember I have a bit of a book addiction.. Love, love, love to read. For a long time before surgery, I was unable to read, due to the fact I would pick up a book start reading it, and if I laid it down and picked it up later I could not recall what I had previously read, so I would have to start over. Let's face it a person can only start a book over so many times. So yeah, to reading!!!
Oh, Oh!! I can drive again!! Okay, shhhh.. those of you who are saying, "Oh great, Tina is back on the road.." shhhh... hush!! Because oh yeah, I'm back on the road.. So beware!! LOL Just kidding, I can now drive, because my mind has gotten so much better. I had to stop driving around 3-4 years ago, so being able to drive again is great! Back behind the wheel!!
So as I told you above, my mind has gotten a lot better. I still occasionally have things to pop out of my mouth that make absolutely no sense, but it is becoming better as time goes by, I would say before long I'll be back to normal.. But let's face it I'm pretty sure I've never been considered normal!! Normal is so over-rated anyway!
One of the BEST things is being able to get out and enjoying things with my family. Being able to go to worship services, being able to be involved with things(like last weekend helping the Jr. Civitans scare small children at the Haunted Museum.. LOL), being able to have game night with my family again(we love games, but I haven't been able to play in so long, my brain just would not co-operate at all before surgery) But now.. Momma's back so watch out! Oh yeah, no mercy! Momma's gonna take you down!! Oh no, I'm not competitive at all, why? what makes you ask?? ;) Okay maybe, just a tiny bit.. Okay, yeah let's be honesty.. I like to WIN!! I bet you want to come play games with us, right?? My family, like it when I wasn't able to play and lost at everything, oops too bad for them.. Momma's winning again.. LOL bhahahahaha In all seriousness, I'm a really nice person to play games with, I promise!
Oh and probably one of my husbands favorite things... No more ordering the same thing 3 times for Kaitlyn's Christmas.. If you've read some of the past post on my blog, you will understand... ;)
So as you can see life is a lot different after surgery. Yes! I still have a ways to go. But I'm getting there. My body still isn't making cortisol or ACTH on it's own yet, so I'm having to take cortisol replacement meds. I have to continually try to cut back on them to try to jump start my body to make it. No luck yet, but it's still early in the game. The worst thing now is hurting all over from lack of cortisol (my body is so accustomed to extremely high doses, so its a hard withdrawal.. sometimes worse that others. Especially when I get out and I'm really active. Like the haunted museum last week.. It put me under all week.. But I was out and about again today..) so the pain, and getting extremely tired (even with all that sleep I'm able to get now).. But that is just to be expected, it is part of the journey. I'm happy, really HAPPY, because in comparison to last year at this time, my life has made a HUGE change.. A very welcome change.
The Lord has brought me so far, I'm so very thankful. To have my life back is truly a BLESSING!! I want to thank each of you for all your prayers. You will never know how much each and everyone has meant to me.. ((HUGS)) to you all!! <3 p="">
Okay if you've made it through my latest book, I mean post. Thanks!!
Okay it is seriously cold around here, so everybody get all warm and snuggly and have a great night! Goodnight, sleep tight!!
Here is my before and after pic.. My journey so far after surgery.
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