First of all, thankyou for the comments on my last entry. I know it was a total drainer to read... just having one of those less than positive days.

I went out for approximately 10 hours last night and was feeling pretty good but completely exhausted -- in fact I was out of breath walking from the movie cinema to the carpark.

I woke up today feeling really good. All of the exhaustion meant that I slept really well. My wounds were feeling quite good also. However, I noticed one of my steri-strips had lifted a little and when I looked underneath it, I had an ENORMOUS blister. It is roughly 1cm in diameter in all directions. It is absolutely horrible.

So after freaking out, trying to phone my surgeon whose office is closed, I phoned the hospital and the nurse told me that sometimes, because the strips have no give in them, if there is swelling (or in my case, coughing) it can cause a friction point.

She told me to take the strips off. But to be honest I'm too scared. I removed them from the 2 smaller wounds and found a bloster under one of those and the starting of one under the other. I cut the strip around the initial blister and the other wound seems to be ok. I'm reluctant to pull the strips off the bigger wounds.

I then proceeded to obsessively stare at the blisters for a few hours :mad:. Fingers crossed that friction is all it is and they go down now.

On another note, trying to get into some sort of food routine. It worried me how weak I was yesterday. I haven't done too badly with it today and have found I'm able to drink a bit more at a time now which is a welcome relief.

I had a weigh-in this morning and have lost 6.6kg (14.5lbs) in 12 days. Looking forward to more improvements in the coming days .

CRAVING: Cheese, sweet corn and chicken soup, chicken generally, potato, BREAD!