Tuesday 12th June – Cautiously optimistic

I have had the procedure nearly two weeks ago to stretch the opening that had been closed due to scaring for the second time, and I am now cautiously optimistic it has worked this time, at least it is working currently. I am beginning to be able to eat again. I have to say that I am terrified of it and so I have been trying to eat new things slowly. However, over the last few days each meal has had TEXTURE!! Last night for example I had half a fillet of sea bass and mashed potato and a few well cooked broccoli spears and so it is a vast improvement from sieved soup. There is hope that by the time I go to France on the 7th July that I will be able to eat out in a restaurant!

It is easy to underestimate how much a procedure can effect you, I have been very tired and sore, but picking up now.

This week I have been setting up in a pop up shop in Brighton which is a co-operation between seven jewellers. I am really enjoying being involved and getting to know new jewellery friends. So far on a quiet Tuesday afternoon we have only sold one necklace in total, and sadly it was not mine!!

The next stage if the scar tissue begins to form again is to have a major operation and I have decided to get a second opinion before I go ahead. I am a complicated patient as it will involve rerouting the intestine into a different portion of my stomach, which is the part that had been closed off for the bariatric gastric bypass and reversing this operation and so needs quite a lot of expertise from different kinds of “gut” surgeons. So not something I wish to take lightly. So lets hope it has worked and that this does not need to happen.