The first thing to go, several months ago, was my waist. I guess it didn't actually go away it just got big enough to be unrecognizable. For your entertainment I just measured it and it's at around 43 inches or so. (To avoid obnoxious comments from my brother, I'll clarify right now that that is significantly larger than my pre-pregnancy waist measurement.)
The next thing I lost was my brain. Not all of it, but the part that's in charge of short-term memory and the part that's in charge of thinking of words. My boss has told me several times I need to start carrying around a tape recorder since I apparently never remember anything he tells me. And when I can't think of words I just make up my own, like "topstairs" instead of "upstairs." It seems to be working out okay.
This week I lost another body part and this one was a bit unexpected for me. I'm not sure why it surprised me. I guess I always just thought pregnant women were exaggerating. Anyway, I no longer have ankles. Instead I have a fat roll at the bottom of each leg where my ankles used to be. It's really quite unattractive. You know how on normal people's legs the leg tapers down from the calf to the foot? No tapering here! It's just a straight puffy leg with a puffy foot stuck on the bottom. It came on over the course of just a couple of days and shows no signs of letting up. I bought a pair of sandals in a size bigger than I normally wear and in a wide width. I can get those on in the morning, but if I take them off there's no hope of getting them back on. I went to a shoe store yesterday to see if I could pick up a pair of flip flops or something but I can't get them on.
28 more days...
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So Richard has this girl he bowls with in their league, she has this unusal body part Elise and I have called a "nin". It is what happens when your chin/neck become one and just connect at your chest somewhere. (I think the 400lb body has something to do with that developing.) As long as you don't have one of those, you'll get through this and all, or most body parts will return to normal someday in the near future. I say most because you haven't started nursing yet.
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