The Taber Family Blog

Hey, I’m feeling pretty good about the healing now. The past three days I’ve felt much better overall, since I have more energy and I’m tempted to eat something other than soups and drinks. My face is clearing up slowly, but enough for me to have confidence to go out in public and do some shopping at a nearby hardware store with my son Grant on Sunday. I’ve got to protect my neck from the sun, so I’ll either wear my nifty new sun hat sent to me by my wonderful mom last week (happy birthday!), or simply avoid the sun as much as possible while I’m out and about. Getting out on my own to take care of my own errands felt great too.

Then we had our weekly Sunday night dinner at my sister Sarah’s house and I felt brave enough to try eating a small (think quarter sized) piece of bread. Yeah, I know. Amazing. But if I just take a drink before I eat it, I can do it! Yippee for small victories.  And as if that wasn’t enough, my lovely Denise made me some scrambled eggs today and they were so good! I just have to be very gentle when eating them, since my mouth is still quite tender. But to me this is great progress.

I’m still having issues with the mucus build up while I sleep or throughout the day. Just the thought of it makes me want to gag, which I still frequently do each morning when I wake up unfortunately. However with the progress I feel I’ve made over the last three days, I’m quite happy that the healing has really started in earnest.

Weight when I started: 225 lbs.
Weight today: 195 lbs (amazingly, my clothes still fit)