Update!

I haven't updated in a while because I have been avoiding the scale. I am at a loss of around 40 lbs right now and my pants are getting way too big. I have pulled some smaller sizes out of storage and I have went from a size 24 to a 20 in the past two months. Considering I haven't been exercising that's still a great loss to me. I have recently been looking into bariatric and low-fat and sugar recipes to start cooking a little healthier. With Anthony deploying in just a few weeks I will have plenty of time to master that before he gets back home. As far as my incision goes I think we only have a few more weeks. Last Monday I was 5 cm deep, Friday I was  4 cm deep, and this Monday I was only 3 cm deep! The smaller it gets it seems the faster it's healing. I'm not going to lie, it's pretty painful. Changing the wound has been difficult because it is getting so small to where the 1/4" ribbon and wooden tipped applicator don't want to both fit in there. It feels like a scraping. I am doing it though, once a day now (YAY!). The top has been closing so we have had to start packing it half-way down and then pack the top more. If the top closes up before the depth heals we will get another abscess and I will have to be cut open again and we will back to square one! NO, thank you! I feel like I am doing okay emotionally, but we will see how that stays as the deployment gets here. I just need to stay away from food for comfort during this! On a happier note, my husband and I are attending a Military Adoption Workshop this coming week and we are really excited to get this process started. Hopefully we will be all set to start placement by the time he gets back from Kuwait! Tomorrow is my birthday and I have been super busy working on projects for an internship at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, so sorry for my lack of postings lately! I hope all of my hard work and efforts pay off and I get the job. Good things are going to happen for me in 2013. This is going to be MY year! :)

Photos to come soon!