Snugglebear's Diary

[louise41]

I hope you are feeling better after a nice shower, just do the best you can, the scars are never as bad as it would appear when the procedures are just fresh! Drs have all sorts of tricks of hiding them in the natural shapes of our faces etc.
take care

[thenewvee]

Hi Jo!

Glad to hear that you recovered from your procedure ok and that you are healing nicely! It sounds like you are being sensible and getting in lots of rest, which has to help your recovery no end!!
You will be back on track with the program in no time!

Keep recovering well!

Vee

[Snugglebear]

Thank you to everyone who has visited and given me good advice and kind words in the last few days, I truly appreciated them all.

Louise - Now I am looking at the scars I can kind of see how they will be given time. I am thinking he is probably a pretty clever doctor, all should be hidden in the curves of my face and my cheek bone will hide the sticky-outy bit (don't you love my technical terms???). I still look abit lilke a chipmonk because of the swelling at the moment though.

The stitches are coming out on Monday morning and hopefully then I will be able to get a decent nights sleep. I do tend to sleep on my bad side, naturally, of course, it couldn't be any other way could it??

I am pretty much back on track now, probably still not quite enough water but I still managed to lose 1kg this week. Hoorah for me!! And yes, I am sure it all didn't come from my face, probably only a couple of hundred grams from there, I think the rest came off my hips. And I pulled my belt another hole tighter this morning. I have those weird angular hips going on at the moment, I don't remember ever having those before. But of course I still have the big thighs, those suckers will probably be the last to leave, what a way to ensure I stay around til the very end.

I am so looking forward to getting down to single digits to lose. I get excited just thinking about it, couple more weeks and I should be down to singles. But it is TOM next week, yeah, I know, poor girl doesn't deserve any more misery, but apparently I do.

Hubby is taking me out later on this morning. He can tell I am going stir-crazy at home so we are going to Spotlight to look for tableclothes for Christmas and some cushions/chair pads for the new storage bench he bought the other day. Its not too far away and he told me that if I untie my hair no-one will see the stitches, so I am going!!!!!!!!! The boys are out Chrissy shopping at the moment but I am showered, dressed and ready to go the minute they come back.

Huge huggles to my darlings

J

[Gorgeous one]

Yahoo for Jo!,
Congrats on losing 1kg after the week you have had. The scar really does settle down with time and the thingy bit if it is what I think you are talking about does come and go over about 6 to 8 months or sometimes more as was the case with me. It is all the little ligaments we have under the skin needing to recover. Hope your trip to spotlight was enjoyable and just be confident about yourself because nobody really cares about your face as much as you think they do. It is our vanity that sometimes makes us conscious of it. I had to go back to school after mine and because the stitches got infected and I had to bathe the scar and get it cleaned by the nurse every second day for about 2 months after, I didn't look as good as I thought I would've by the time I got back to work. I had nearly every child in the school asking me about it and I told them that is why we want you to keep your hats on and to wear sunblock when out in the sun. But only a half hour after, caught some without hats on. Go figure.
Hope you are feeling better.
Michele

[Snugglebear]

Greetings

Yes, it's me, back and smiling again.

The stitches are out, hoorah!!!!!!! I got the nurse to count them....27. But she said that there were more internal ones. Its all covered over with tape that has to stay on until Christmas Day and she assured me that I would be beautiful again (again???? never was to start with???). But I feel so much better now, back to my normal cheeky little self.

Now that my brain is working again I am getting organised for Christmas. I went and bought a turkey and a ham. Will cook turkey for a nice Christmas Eve dinner for my boys and the rest of the family can eat cold turkey and ham on Christmas Day. I must add that this is not what I have been allocated to do by the aunts-in-charge. I only have to provide the house and a Cheesecake shop lemon cheesecake. I just want to do the rest.

Darling hubby cleaned all the outdoor furniture and the patio etc over the weekend, even weeded the garden beds. Gotta love that man!! He told me he was going to take back some rented DVD's and went and bought a chairpad for the new bench. He has truly spoiled me over the last few days. And the best bit..........I had a good cry yesterday because I just felt miserable, my face hurt and TOM arrived early and he just sat with me and cuddled me for ages. I don't know about you ladies but for my hubby that was incredible.

I really should go and bake some shortbread but I want to catch up on at least a few diarys first. Did I ever mention that I love to cook?? Well I do.

Kisses to everyone

J

[Gorgeous one]

Jo,
Good to hear the stitches are out. Wow27 that numbers going to be hard to beat. Great to hear hubby is doing all the things around the house in preparation and that he can cuddle when u really need it. Geez TOM doesn't know when to stay out of things. I do the roast turkey for just our family on christmas eve and then have the leftovers for lunch next day. We normally have our roast turkey then go for a walk to see the christmas lights. Nice touch and great to keep the family together as mine are getting older. Glad to hear you are ready for the cooking. I absolutely love shortbread but there will be none of that for this chickybabe this year. good to hear things have settled. catchya real soon.
Michele

[louise41]

sounds like you have a very thoughtful man there! You are right it is amazing how clever those drs are and how they can cut in just the right spot to minimise any scarring! It is never as bad as you think its going to be and amazing how it totally disappears once it heals if its just in the right spot!

[Snugglebear]

I had a pretty good day today. Bought the cheesecake, visited the neighbours (pre-christmas visit) and had a nanna nap this afternoon.

My face feels pretty good today, a couple of twinges when I laugh but apart from that pretty good.

I am ready to spend tomorrow doing the final prep stuff for Christmas, hubby will be home 2pm ish to help me. Turkey to stuff and cook, no biggy there. We are making special ice-cream for dessert for our Christmas Eve dinner, putting in almonds and malteasers and strawberry sauce. Should be pretty yum, for some

I have to have a blood test tomorrow and my usual QML is shut, so I am going to have to drive further afield to try and find one that is open. I promised Alex that we wouldn't have to go out tomorrow, I lied. He can stay home but I have to go. Get this one done, then I have 8 weeks without one, hoorah.

Must go, hubby is home and he started on jobs already!!

Kisses to all

J

[Mette]

Hey gorgeous! Glad you're feeling better! God, that ice cream sounds divine! I'll be dreaming about it tonight!
Hope you have a fantastic Christmas and that Santa brings you everything your heart desires!

[thenewvee]

Merry Christmas, Jo!

Have a terrific day!

Vee

[Snugglebear]

Greetings all

Christmas at my house was pretty cool. People swam, ate and chatted and generally had a great time. That's a load off my mind. I must confess to being a little naughty with the food, not awful stuff my face until I explode naughty just a little un-cohens. I know I know there is no such thing as a little un-cohens but I am not feeling terribly guilty, just a little bit.

I am back 100% again now though.

FACE UPDATE I took all the tape off this morning, I hadn't seen my face since Monday and it looked pretty awful then, so I wasn't exactly looking forward to seeing it but I must say I was pleasantly surprised. OK sure, it looks like a bl**dy big scar but it's clean and neat and not really hideous. Hubby thinks it looks great and even kissed my cheek, awwwwwwwwww. It is still pretty swollen though and feels heavy (if you can understand that). I want to go shopping tomorrow and I won't feel like I have to hide.

Our Christmas Eve dinner was lovely, just spending time with just the 3 or us was good. The turkey was yummmm and so was the ice-cream (Sorry Mette honey).

My boys made me up a hamper for Christmas with books and bath-bombs (from Lush) and body butter and a hairclip and one white chocolate Lindt ball. The big thing was that they bought me a new bead for my Pandora bracelet. An Angel. Apparently they went to the shop and my hubby shortlisted which beads Alex could choose from, but of course Alex said NO to all of them and chose the Angel. He told me he chose it for 3 reasons.
1. It's Christmas
2. Mummy has been an angel all year (yeah right)
3. Mummy needs a guardian angel to watch over her. awwwwwwwww

I feel very spoiled I must say.

Louise - You are so right about them hiding the scar. I can clearly see now how it will be. Tricky little buggers those doctors.

Gorgeous - I didn't end up making that shortbread. I was just too tired but as it turned out we definitely didn't need any more food for Christmas Day.

My boys are in the pool. Alex was playing on the Wii with a friend and he was literally dripping sweat so I told him to jump in the pool or I would throw him in, luckily he got in all by himself, I just don't have the energy to chase him around today.

Might go sit and dangle my feet

Love and Kisses

J

[Mette]

Sounds like you had a wonderful Christmas, pretty lady! I'll forgive the ice cream if you promise to make it for me some day!
I hope you gave your boys lots of hugs and kisses for the pressies! They did very well!
Also hope your jaw feels ok, and that you can go shopping tomorrow without any hassles. Shopping, after all, is a wonderful outlet
Take care, gorgeous girl!

[Gorgeous one]

Jo,
Glad to hear your face is getting better. Yeah for the shopping trip. Buy yourself something nice, you deserve it. What a beautiful boy Alex is, an angel for mummy. We may grow horns sometimes but they always seem to see us with a halo. My nose scar is blending in nicely. I don't even think about it anymore except when I'm talking to someone I don't know well and catch them looking in that direction. If they ask I just tell them what it was for and I even use it as a guidance for the kids (mine and others) to not whinge about putting on sunblock cause this is what can happen. OUr battlescars are part of us and the sooner we accept them as part of us the better. They do fad away nicelywith time. Yours are new and it is not what they will be in time. Hope you get time to rest up.
Michele

[Snugglebear]

Greetings

I went shopping and bought myself 2 new tops and 2 new bottom halves, 3/4 length pants Size 14. I told you I wouldn't buy anything over a 14 and I didn't. The tops are great, cheap and cleavage enhancing and best of all coooool. One pair of pants fit great, no baggy bum, the other are still a little too small but in Cohen's World they will fit in a week or two. I could wear them now but they would be just a teeny little bit tight.

I was amazed that 14's fitted. Happy days......... the best news is that when I lose that extra couple of kilos they will still fit and in a few more kilos they will be loose and need a belt. Life is good.

Nobody even looked twice at my face when we were out, I did have my hair out and loose but still I completely forgot about it, yippeeeee.

I must mention that the boys bought themselves some post-Christmas Santa stockings full of chocolate. I told them fine but just don't wave them in front of me. Then we went and bought me 8 mangos, way better than chocolate anyday.

Hey Gorgeous - Did you have that skin flap thingy on your nose?? That is what I have to have on mine.

Mette - It would be a pleasure to make you some of that ice cream, I will even customize it to meet your special requirements. But start and finish refeed first. You are so close you lucky ducky.

I forgot to mention yesterday and sweetest thing that the boys put in my Christmas hamper....................SUNSCREEN, a bottle of that Megan Gale invisible zinc stuff. I was tickled that they would think of it. I think they just want to make sure that this never ever happens again.

Must go, can hear hubby mucking around with the toilets, cleaning them I hope.

Kisses

J

[Gorgeous one]

Hey Jo,
Glad to hear you had a successful shopping trip. Yes I did have the skin flap op done on my nose to remove a sun cancer. All was good except I got an infection which dissolved the stitches too quickly so I spent every second day back at the doctors for his nurse to clean and redress it for me. I also had to clean it with saline. It was a nuisance but it soon healed not as good as it should of but looks fine to me now. I can only just make out the stitches line down my nose in the L shape that they do which apparently blends in better than a straight line cut. You should be fine. I certainly would have it done again if I had to make that choice. It sounds awful but once the healing is done you don't even notice or think about it. Have you booked a date to have it done or are you still waiting for your face to heal?
Michele

[Mette]

Yay for the 14s fitting! That's so awesome!
You have some good boys there. They'll make sure that it never happens again! We have to make sure you're healthy and safe!

[Snugglebear]

Hey

I wrote this huge long entry in my diary yesterday and the stupid computer ate it, I got annoyed and shut the damned thing off. I have my mojo back so here I am.

Life is soooo good at the moment. My face is great, even though my Dad told me is was abit horrible. Its hot but I just got out of the pool. We are having salad and ham (boys), turkey (me) for dinner so I don't have to cook.

I spent the day helping my brother install an air-conditioner. Very hot work, I couldn't get into my pool quick enough when we got home.

Michele - My nose is booked in for 15 Jan 9.10am. I am trying really hard to just forget about it for the time being, I will freak out a little later. The whole flap thing sounds dreadful, but it's not like I have a choice (if I want a nose in 2 years). Its fine, I was no oil-painting to start with.

Mette - My boys are great, no doubt about it. Love them to bits. Alex is in the poo at the moment for scratching his name into the white paint on my internal stairs. I am still trying to think of an appropriate punishment, by the time I think of one I will be calm. Actually I told him he was grounded until the end of the year. Tee hee hee. Yes, I was totally thrilled about the 14's but watch this space for the 12's and the 10's. With about 12kg to go I should get to 10's shouldn't I??

I have officially lost the little extra baggage I gained in the dreaded 3 days (Xmas eve, Xmas, and Boxing), and a little extra to boot. Will update my weight on Saturday as usual, when hopefully it will be lower again. I can't wait to hit the single figures.

I have to be truly good from now on, I wanna be finished with all this by mid-March. Pushing it..........yep but I am going on that cruise on the 14th March and Cohen's on a cruise..............don't think so. I should be done by then depending on the refeed time. Katie lost about what I have to lose and hers was 19days. That is really pushing it time wise for me. Oh well, if I don't make it I will just Cohen up for a few weeks after I get back and then refeed. Either way I can wear some swimmers and not get embarrassed. I guess it depends on how quickly my body decides enough is enough.

Must go and read some more diary and stop rabbitting on about me

Kisses

J

[Gorgeous one]

Jo,
Luckily Alex is still alive by the sounds of it. Give him a paint brush to fix up his masterpiece. He'll think twice about doing it again. lol. Your doing great. Trust fathers to make comments like that. Mere Males: never cease to amaze. Catchya
Michele

[Mette]

Oh, poor Alex! I'm sure he meant well! Is it fixable?

I'm sure you will be a 10, pretty lady! Vee is a 10 already. I'm not. I carry my weight around my tummy, so it's taking a while to get down in pants sizes. You never know though, still have 3-6 kilos to go, the miracle could still happen!

So glad life is good for you at the moment! Don't worry about the nose op, I'm sure it will go smoothly, and then we can have you healthy and happy again!

[Snugglebear]

Hello out there in slim and sexy land

I was thinking that as of tomorrow half of Australia will be going on short-lived diet and exercise routines to remove all the fat they have gained all year. Look at us, already well on our way to being fabulous. We don't have to fight the crowds at the gyms, pay buckets of money for shakes and bars that don't work. We are Cohenites.........and we are proud.

I have already closed up the house and have the air-co pumping. Yesterday was so hot (nods from everyone is Brisbane) and today is going to be just as bad, I am not giving the house a chance to heat up. We all slept with air-co on last night, but my brother rang me this morning and told me that he turned his (newly installed) air off at 9pm last night in a neighbour friendly gesture, silly silly boy, stuff the neighbours, it was hot!!

Best news ever (well almost), I went to the shop (Super IGA) this morning to get a few things (cabbage, apples, chicken, you guys know the drill) and guess what I found.............Turkey breasts!! Just turkey, like you would buy chicken but it is turkey. So I went a little crazy and bought 5. You know when you buy the turkey breast in those foil trays, just remove the plastic and cook away merrily, well.............I bought the trays and have already transferred everything over and put it all in the freezer for next time turkey calls. It was 10.99kg which is cheaper than the chicken I bought. My day is made. OK so you probably think I am a turkey about now, but I was just really excited, still am, can you tell??

Mette - You will get there honey, Size 10 is like the glittering prize, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbox. If 6 kilos doesn't fix it, nothing will. Realistically does it matter whether you are a 10 or a 12, Keith will love you either way.

I probably won't get to a Size 10, I am pretty sure my bones are bigger than that, post child the hips do spread. I got married in a size 8 dress, I don't remember what I weighed though, it wasn't relevant, I wasn't fat and I never got on the scales, ever!!

I am sure Alex didn't mean well!!! Who scratches their name into things?? Oh hang on, he is a boy, he is 9. It can be fixed but it will involve alot of sanding, priming and repainting. I can't make him do it, things would only get worse if I did, hubby will fix and give Alex the bill (tee hee hee).

Cheers (and I hope everyone has a good night tonight)
Happy New Year

J