Night Sweats!

This is one thing I completely look forward to getting rid of post-surgery!!!!

It's 5:30 AM on a Saturday, and I've been awake for a while now, because I couldn't cool down! (that and a yucky itchy allergy throat!)

Since the metabolic benefits of gastric bypass surgery include correcting alot of the hormonal issues that I have.... I feel like I am on a double countdown!!

For the last year or more, it is completely normal for me to wake up in the middle of the night completely drenched, having to talk myself out of jumping into the pool, at such a ridiculous hour!!

This is one of the side-effects of the years of fertility treatments that I went through. So I am sure you can see why I am SOOOO happy to get on the other side of surgery and experience a balancing of hormones so that I can be NORMAL again!! In case you haven't read the earlier posts, I have a condition called PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrom), a condition in which my ovaries are kept continually inflamed and swollen (in my case, 3x's the normal size), and no ovulation occures anymore. This is caused by a hormone called insulin... and it's hard to explain it all... but this imbalance is one of the problems that this surgery is known to correct. YIPEE!!

Who doesn't love Maxine??

(The only problem I have relating to her, is I'm 30, people! I'll be glad to relate with her when the time comes.. but for now... Thanks, but no..)

4 more days....