Dr. Visit...

I went to my primary Dr. yesterday for my one year check up. His scale matches mine which is good. I weighed in yesterday at my Dr. and at home @ 164. His nurses and staff were amazed and did not even recognize me. I was just telling my hubby that morning "that sometimes I get tired of all the questions and explaining and the oos's and aw's". Derrel told me "no your not, you love it". Yes I love the oo's from him! I just get tired of explaining myself all the time. Then we went to the Dr. and the nurses started Oohing and Awing and Derrel looked at me and said "that must get kind of old after while, your right". LOL The one reason is I work in retail and everyone has known me there for years and if they haven't seen me in awhile there like "holly shit". So I just find myself explaining my story over and over while I'm at work. No biggie, just was making a comment to my hubby. My Dr. appt went great. My BMI went from 46 to 25 in one year. My blood pressure 116 over 67. GREAT. My blood work will be back in a day or two. I talked to the Dr about my hip pain also. I broke my ankle years (20+) ago in a car accident and now it has limited mobility and has for years. Because of my limp for 20 years my hip now in the past 4 years feels like it out of place and my hubby is my chiropractor. When I am in alignment I feel great and have no pain. But when my left hip is our of place it hurts pretty bad still some days. It feel just like when you need to pop your knuckles or you have a pinched nerve and has this non stop ache and pain in my left hip. It is much better after losing 130 pounds... but still bothers me from day to day. I want to be able to put my sock on again with out struggle and go for walks without hurting. Something is going on with it and I want to feel better and figure out what's wrong. After all these years I have lost movement/mobility in my hip also. It's kind of sad and I want to make it stronger before I lose it all together. He wrote me one month of physical therapy for my left hip and well go from there. Swimming always makes my hip feel better. He wants me to strengthen those muscles along with my back muscles. Now I just have to see if my health insurance will pay for PT and figure out when I can make the appts work with my schedule. If insurance won't pay for PT.... I'm screwed. We pay over 1000 a month for family health insurance and it is killing us each month. My health insurance would not even cover WLS for myself. It's a crime and making us broke each month. We have health insurance but still can't afford to see the Dr when we need to. In America we need to learn to take care of our own first. Some one has got to take a stand and provide Americans with health care. Poor, rich, young, old we all should have the right to go to the Dr. And lordy the price of gas. In Oregon yesterday it was $3.45 a gallon and the price of diesel was $3.85.

Goal weight: 158

4 more pounds to go till my goal

weight this morning was 162.0