Part 2- Flying Squirrel Woman: Ecstasies and Agonies Chronicles: 6 Months on Weight Loss Drugs
Pancreas Bitch-Slapping
Mounjaro® is mostly responsible for my pancreas
being kicked into modified submission. To
my endless joy, I no longer need to take Insulin. My A1C is down to 6.1 and I’m only monitoring
my blood sugar.
Additionally, I have
no more back pain, and my sciatica has been tamed like a lion with a chair. I have a lot more energy and I don’t think of
things in terms of places to sit anymore.
Thanks, Mounjaro!
Hairnado!
Hair loss is possible with fast weight loss (your experience may vary).
The first time I noticed it, I was sent a picture of me in
a group shot and I swear my forehead looked bigger. Think Casper the Friendly
Ghost. I blamed it on a lighting
problem.
Next couple of months, my bathroom sink wouldn’t
drain. I plunged it out and a major
clump of black, slimy hair emerged
“Huh? How long has that been
there?” Not even denying it—just plainly not seeing the truth.
A week later, I dropped a box in my bedroom which caused a
huge wind. A Hairnado whirled in the
adjoining bathroom, creating hair clumps that gathered together into a giant tumbleweed
that rolled and stopped at my feet, coughing.
For fun, my daughter, Krista, put me into a bald filter
using her iPhone the other day. It was
me, but evil, villainous. Without hair,
I would rile animals to an aggressive neck-fur on-end point. In a flash, I could see me with a whole new
persona and an accent, wiggling my fingers fiendishly.
(note: I know
wonderful people who look handsome/beautiful without hair)
I’m pretty sure it’s temporary. Don’t bother with trying regrowth
shampoos--they don’t work. Neither does prayer. Is being thin worth
being bald? YES, it is.
Flying Squirrel Woman
I now have a saggy stomach pouch large enough to shelter a fully grown kangaroo.
I think, if I swan-dove off a smallish building, the wind would underfill all my loose arm skin and, stretched out, I could soar, flying squirrel-like. I would have to be naked for the air to reach the skin. DON’T TRY this at home
“Downward Dog” position is possibly the worst way to look
at a newly shrunken woman, especially from below. Once, I tried looking at my face, looking down
into a mirror and my eyebrow-less Grandma Hazel appeared, eye-folds and all.
“Not a good look for you, dear,” she soothed.
Stay tuned for Part 3.
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