Well its been five days since I was banded, and today I feel like in about 80% which excites me, since at 25yrs old, I decided to go back to college and today is the first day of school!

Yesterday, the chest pain that been radiating, that Ive been telling y'all about, was really strong last night, and I was starting to get worried that maybe I was missing the warning signs of something else, and my husband was starting to get worried as well, and convinced me to go to the ER for a check...

After getting and IV starting me on fluids, they gave me a pain killer to make me comfortable, and anti-biotic just in case, and blood for blood work. While we were waiting on blood panel, and I taken for a chest X-Ray and a at scan with contrast...

After waiting for a few hours we got my results, and my blood work showed some elevated levels of (I cant remember... sorry) I was nothing overly serious, and I was able to stay for a few more hours while I was given a two more IV bags of fluids, and another does of pain medication, before I was discharged with a script for pain killers and an order to follow up with my Docs. in two days to re-evaluate.

The good news was I didnt have a blood clot in the lungs, which was the main concern, the ER Doc seems to think that I may have had my diaphragm pulled on a little to tightly during my banding procedure and that, that is whats causing so much of the discomfort and pain in the chest and upper left side. He was glad that I took the pain seriously, because apparently it mimics the same symptoms of a heart attack... So I glad that I went and found out that Im just an over reactor and dont like pain and discomfort!

Well, thats enough of that!

As for today, I feel really good, I would say that Im about 80% of the way healed and just the same old lingering chest issue, but other than that GREAT!!!

Im getting a little excited about being about to start mushy foods tomorrow!

Im Farting like crazy this morning without having to run to the bathroom, or push really hard to get them out! This excites me greatly!

Well Im off, today is the first day of College for me and Im going to get ready!

Best of luck and prayers to all!