October 17, 2008 ~ Puffer, digestion, long walks, exercise

My take down surgery is in 13 days.  Today I changed Puffer’s bandage with now problems.  The process has become routine.  The skin arount the area looks really good; not red or irritated like it was.  I now change the bandage with the first feel of itching or the bandage begins to peel away.  I remove it,  jump in the shower, sans bandage.  The freedom is refreshing anb this allows my skin time to moisturize and air dry. When Puffer behaves and there is very little output. I read marshmallows really help slow down the output.  I have tried that with mixed results and I adore marshmallows! This time Puffer was extremely busy and the process is utterly fascinating.   Eat food, chew food (twenty times or more), swallow food, food through esophogause, to stomach; some processing and then onto the small intestine.  Brief stay in there and then out the Puffer shoot!  The partially processed waste transforms to watery discharge, I understand comes from the liver.  Hunger strikes again.  Eat and there we go again, so long as I am eating, drinking and refueling my body regularly. 

I cleaned my dresser drawers and set aside cute jammies for my next stay.  Summer is over and this time jammies will be warmer.  I also have some things to buy: soft toilet paper, Imodium AD.  My doc said he hands this stuff out like candy after take down. 

I have been working out: belly dance on Mondays, yoga on Sundays.  Friday, I enjoyed a fabulous four mile walk with a co-worker at lunch along the waterfront.  The sky was brilliantly sunny and temp pushing sixty degrees.  This week I attended Zumba class.  Zumba is fabulous new fitness exercise set to Latin dance rhythms, salsa, meringue and rumba.  Love it!!