Hi :)
I just wanted to say Hi and Happy Christmas to all my friends :) We have been having a great time making a Christmas Cake and mincemeat pies and lots of appies and stuff - we have 16 people coming for dinner on Christmas Day! I hope it will all be ready..... It will be like every Christmas - huge turkey, roast potatoes and sweet potatoes and parsnips and Brussels sprouts and loads of other things too and apple pie (my favourite!) with whipping cream and chocolate gateaux and ice cream.... I'm feeling hungry just writing about it LOL. I'm still going through the piccies of the California trip - there's more than 200 of them and I'm re-naming them so I remember where they all were.
Jim is here (YAY!) its great having him around again :) He brought me a big tub of assorted nuts as well as Toblerones and other choccies - yummy! - I love the cashews and the walnuts and all the others :) I guess if I did lose any weight on Dad's trip its all back on again now :)
Have a really wonderful Christmas and I'll try to write more in 2012.
BIG HUGZ
Katie
Friday, 23 December 2011
Monday, 5 December 2011
To California!
Dad asked me 'Hey, do you want to come with me on a trip to California?' Of course! He had some business to do there and was taking his truck, so he thought it would be good to make a little vacation out of it. Mom didn't want to go so it was just Dad and me. I guess I slowed it down a bit for him coz I can't rush about too much.....
We drove all the way down Idaho then into Nevada and over to Los Angeles and on the way back we went to Nevada again and then back through Utah. It was soooo cool to see all those places I read about! We stayed at lots of hotels. Some were brilliant and some not so much, but they were all interesting. The worst one for me was the Hollywood Historic Hotel coz it doesn't have an elevator and the rooms are all up the stairs.... I don't do stairs really, but I had to and it was hard and I got so puffed doing it LOL. It was great to stay there really coz so many of the old film stars did. It was built in 1923 I think. There are pics of all the stars all along the passages where the rooms are! I think the best hotel was the Ashley Hotel in Cascade in Idaho. It was all new and beautiful! They were decorating it for Christmas and there was free milk and cookies at 8 p.m. each night.
We had some awesome food too! Dad doesn't always think of keeping me supplied with snacks in the truck like Jim does, but we did go to some fantastic food places. I think I may have lost a little coz there was a lot of walking to do.
I'll do a bit more later and post some piccies.
Hugz
Katie
We drove all the way down Idaho then into Nevada and over to Los Angeles and on the way back we went to Nevada again and then back through Utah. It was soooo cool to see all those places I read about! We stayed at lots of hotels. Some were brilliant and some not so much, but they were all interesting. The worst one for me was the Hollywood Historic Hotel coz it doesn't have an elevator and the rooms are all up the stairs.... I don't do stairs really, but I had to and it was hard and I got so puffed doing it LOL. It was great to stay there really coz so many of the old film stars did. It was built in 1923 I think. There are pics of all the stars all along the passages where the rooms are! I think the best hotel was the Ashley Hotel in Cascade in Idaho. It was all new and beautiful! They were decorating it for Christmas and there was free milk and cookies at 8 p.m. each night.
We had some awesome food too! Dad doesn't always think of keeping me supplied with snacks in the truck like Jim does, but we did go to some fantastic food places. I think I may have lost a little coz there was a lot of walking to do.
I'll do a bit more later and post some piccies.
Hugz
Katie
Sunday, 4 December 2011
Friday, 14 October 2011
Canadian Thanksgiving
We had GREAT meal :) Thank God I wasn't in hospital for it. It was Monday October 10th and we had 15 people for the dinner. Mostly friends and such. We had a big ham, a 30 lb turkey, and cranberry jelly, yam bake, green bean bake, sausages wrapped in bacon, roasted potatoes, roasted parsnips, brussels sprouts, carrots and three big apple pies with ice cream for dessert. There was plenty for seconds and I felt REAL stuffed :) I love to feel like that LOL. I was back in hospital on Wednesday & Thursday for more tests. They said my blood oxygen level was OK and the dizzy things were the inner ear thingy I had a few years ago come back, so that was great news! I didn't want it to be a heart thing, even though its still going a bit quick. They gave me deep breathing exercises to do (about the only exercise I don't mind doing <G>) which help slow it down and help the blood oxygen level.
I'm still writing up notes about our vacation trip and I'll put them on here when I've done. Also a few piccies I guess.
Hugz
Katie
I'm still writing up notes about our vacation trip and I'll put them on here when I've done. Also a few piccies I guess.
Hugz
Katie
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Back home
Hi Y'all
I'm sorry I haven't written anything but I've been in hospital. Since we got home (had an awesome time - I made lots of notes and I've started to write them up and I'll post them when I have) I've been having dizzy spells and passed out twice. Dad & Mom took me to the ER and they admitted me for tests. One Dr says the oxygen level in my blood is low and my brain was a bit starved. He thinks my weight is stopping my lungs inflating fully. Another one thinks my heart is going too fast and that might make dizzy spells, even though my BP is OK. I've got some pills and am home again right now to see what happens, but I go back in again for more tests next week.
Hugz
Katie
I'm sorry I haven't written anything but I've been in hospital. Since we got home (had an awesome time - I made lots of notes and I've started to write them up and I'll post them when I have) I've been having dizzy spells and passed out twice. Dad & Mom took me to the ER and they admitted me for tests. One Dr says the oxygen level in my blood is low and my brain was a bit starved. He thinks my weight is stopping my lungs inflating fully. Another one thinks my heart is going too fast and that might make dizzy spells, even though my BP is OK. I've got some pills and am home again right now to see what happens, but I go back in again for more tests next week.
Hugz
Katie
Friday, 8 July 2011
Trying to lose weight
I've been really trying to starve since the last blog coz I know I really should. Its been horrid and I just weighed. I lost ONLY half a kilo in 5 days. I hoped it would be more. I worked out if I REALLY starve for 5 YEARS I would be down to Mom's weight and if I carried on for another THREE years I might be down to what the height/weight charts say I ought to be..... Then they say that your weight loss slows down after you've been dieting for a while, so it might be 6 or 7 years to reach Mom's weight and 10 to get to what it should be..... GRRRRR!!!! Its CRAZY and I can't do it. Its been real hard for 5 days, I guess I'd die LONG before I could do it for even 1 year. Jim says he would much rather have me fat and happy than sad and dieting...... I guess I'll go to the buffet restaurant with him and forget about starving.... :)
Hugz
Katie
Hugz
Katie
Sunday, 3 July 2011
Sorry not to have been around for a while
I've been feeling a bit down lately. I just haven't felt like blogging or doing much email or anything. I've just been like asking myself what I'm doing living my life like this. I'm only 19, and yet everything is such an effort these days, even getting up from a chair. Walking is no longer a pleasure, I can't do stairs and even a few steps have me panting. What will it be like when I'm 29? The trouble is that when I'm depressed I eat for comfort and when I'm happy I eat for pleasure, so I never lose any weight.
I had to visit the Doctor's surgery last week coz my knee got really painful and started to swell up a bit. Mom and I got there and got in the elevator, as the surgery is on the 2nd floor. I pressed the button to make it go up and it just beeped and wouldn't close the doors. I tried again and it did the same again. There was a guy with a big box waiting to use it. He asked if we ladies would mind getting out for a moment and he would check it out. He got in and the doors closed. He opened them again and got his box and suggested Mom get in, so she did and it went up OK. Then it came down again and I got in and went up. The guy just grinned and said he was glad to help.
I hadn't seen the Dr for more than a year. He looked at me and shook his head. 'That gastric balloon didn't do you any good, did it?', he said. He looked at my knee and felt it and said he thought I had just sprained it. He said keep your weight off it as much as possible and walk with a cane for the moment and rest it as much as possible and take a Tylenol (pain killer) tablet when needed. He made me get on his scale and it was 276.1 kilos. He said 'Katie, I'm not surprised your legs hurt. They are carrying the equivalent of five people and they aren't designed to do that. I can see you aren't comfortable sitting in that chair. Your tummy is overflowing your lap and your breathing doesn't sound too good. You know you are slowly digging your grave with your teeth. You can't expect to have a very long life at your size. If you could only lose about 100 lbs you would feel much more comfortable, and I would feel much happier about you.' Yeah, sure, if I only could.... He said my blood pressure was a bit high but not as high as he expected, and I'm nowhere near diabetic, so that was good at least. He thought I should take medication if my BP goes any higher. It was agreed that I should register as disabled, as then we could park the car anywhere when we get the badge and I wouldn't have to walk much. So we signed all the forms and the Dr said he would deal with them. That made me feel even more depressed......
Mom and I got back in the elevator and pressed the down button and it just beeped again and wouldn't work. Then I saw a label that said Licensed for a maximum of 6 people or 400 KG. I guess Mom and I together were just overloading it..... I felt SOOOO embarrased as there were more people waiting to use it, so Mom got out and I went down and then she came down with two other guys.
I haven't really done much since then except rest my knee. I've had to give up the job at the gas station until it gets better, but the boss says I can come back when it does. I hope it will be quite soon.
I had to visit the Doctor's surgery last week coz my knee got really painful and started to swell up a bit. Mom and I got there and got in the elevator, as the surgery is on the 2nd floor. I pressed the button to make it go up and it just beeped and wouldn't close the doors. I tried again and it did the same again. There was a guy with a big box waiting to use it. He asked if we ladies would mind getting out for a moment and he would check it out. He got in and the doors closed. He opened them again and got his box and suggested Mom get in, so she did and it went up OK. Then it came down again and I got in and went up. The guy just grinned and said he was glad to help.
I hadn't seen the Dr for more than a year. He looked at me and shook his head. 'That gastric balloon didn't do you any good, did it?', he said. He looked at my knee and felt it and said he thought I had just sprained it. He said keep your weight off it as much as possible and walk with a cane for the moment and rest it as much as possible and take a Tylenol (pain killer) tablet when needed. He made me get on his scale and it was 276.1 kilos. He said 'Katie, I'm not surprised your legs hurt. They are carrying the equivalent of five people and they aren't designed to do that. I can see you aren't comfortable sitting in that chair. Your tummy is overflowing your lap and your breathing doesn't sound too good. You know you are slowly digging your grave with your teeth. You can't expect to have a very long life at your size. If you could only lose about 100 lbs you would feel much more comfortable, and I would feel much happier about you.' Yeah, sure, if I only could.... He said my blood pressure was a bit high but not as high as he expected, and I'm nowhere near diabetic, so that was good at least. He thought I should take medication if my BP goes any higher. It was agreed that I should register as disabled, as then we could park the car anywhere when we get the badge and I wouldn't have to walk much. So we signed all the forms and the Dr said he would deal with them. That made me feel even more depressed......
Mom and I got back in the elevator and pressed the down button and it just beeped again and wouldn't work. Then I saw a label that said Licensed for a maximum of 6 people or 400 KG. I guess Mom and I together were just overloading it..... I felt SOOOO embarrased as there were more people waiting to use it, so Mom got out and I went down and then she came down with two other guys.
I haven't really done much since then except rest my knee. I've had to give up the job at the gas station until it gets better, but the boss says I can come back when it does. I hope it will be quite soon.
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