Pookeyism

You sleep ALL DAY if you need to - that is your body telling you to take it easy, and you should listen. you never know when you will need your reserves and if you have already exhausted them you can be in trouble. I know.

Sending you bright green energy!!! Take some time and meditate and SEE yourself getting the surgery...go inside and imagine your body creating your blood platelets and try aligning your chi. Try "you tube" for meditation and breathing examples.

msYoYo your name says it all - and I am so happy for you that you are doing well. Namaste!!!

Stomach cancer, stomach tumors and cycts, septic conditions, ulcers (extreme but done), abdominal injury, piercing wounds, and more...alien abductions - oh wait that is anal probes... Yes, stomach surgery has decades of history.

You and your WLS family members will not be able to eat much, so I would not make food the focus...consider making it lighter choices all around. In my opinion you should not be worried about food for anyone but yourself at this stage. Baked cauliflour, boudin sausage without the rice, Soups, and fruit are all good. Consider seafoods and tuna and egg salad - but keep them moist with an evoo mayo. Zuchinni and squash and onions, etc grilled just fall apart, and are good with talapia, dolphin, trout and salmon. Cerveche minus tomatoes would be something I would try, should I care for it, but I dislike the onions.

http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-998-MAGNESIUM.aspx?activeIngredientId=998&activeIngredientName=MAGNESIUM Hope this helps.

I would say try a tums strip for the acid, keep gettin your Water in - maybe a small tsp. of evoo to prevent further upset, and let's assume you would be better off crushing your pills. Thing is you may have irritated your tummy, which involves not just acid production but inflammation in the lining of your tummy - you tummy is a part of a huge system of nerves, and they do the strangest, damndest things! Including external facia and lining swelling - "sympathy" swelling - you can get this in the bowels too! the gut is a complex, wonderful thing.

PLEASE, when you have time, make a detailed record of your process, and any papers you had to write and add them to the forum - we get people all the time who need information on how to get through the appeal process. Congrats!

It is possible to experience this - get with your doctor and have a prescription on hand and filled and waiting on you at home...also consider the patches for motion sickness, I spoke to a lady who used those and it worked for her.

is it external or internal and where?

Please remember you can still have potatoes, once you can stand the carbs - a variety of potatoes is a very, very good thing...consider having the skins of a few varieties mushed up in the flesh of the more colorful potatoes - our foods nutritional and mineral contents are related to the color of the food (yes basal explanantion but not trying to write a book). So this could be extremely beneficial - say 2 servings a week. Also - turnips are good for that, and a small radish will give it zing - horseradish will, too. ps - cauliflour and strips of zuchini - mash cauliflour and boil and add to strips of zuchinni and mush together into a patty - make a KILLER veggie burger.

I think you have a good chance of finding a buddy nearby - and check your local support groups - even if you have to drive a bit, a group is a good thing! I will be happy to be your buddy.

Wow! yay for being approved and really glad yo uhave not had the drag-on experience many have had. May I ask who is your insurance carrier?

Read "The Power of Habit" - read it once for content, read it again to absorb it, read a third time and take notes....seriously...you will see once you read it.

http://asmbs.org/ This organization and many like it have credible data - hard facts and figures, that go into the WLS and provide a wealth of information. Just remember - those that do the sleeve can always revision to the bypass, but once you undergo the bypass, if you have malabsorptive issues you cannot get that back. That is my understanding.

Prayers to everyone, all of our new sleevers! I remember "the day".

Consider getting a couple of the other tests that demonstrate a more accurate body fat percentage, and have them guesstimate how much more fat that would be at 50 bmi, list your body measurements, your meds, how it impedes everything from sleeping normally to grooming and being winded, worrying about falling down, if you even suspect arthritis list it...and if it is substantial a list of copays fir appointments, meds and such and how that is anticipated to decrease,,,just suggestions. I was self pay.

My very first blog was about a "conversaton" I had with my two Flemmish Giant Rabbits - the Poo Siblings, Antimony and Cadmium: __________________________________________________________ "Wee Ahnn, ah haf bin tinking - eew shood nawt haf da zurgerhy", my flemmish giant rabbit Cadmiun says to me, as I lay in the floor and pet her and her brother, Antimony. "ah haf to ehgree", says Antimony "whaaf sumzing haffins doe eew?" I pat Cadmium on the head, and touch noses with Antimony "I think I will be okay. I have done alot of studying and I have picked a very good doctor" "i herdz eew whill beh all hurty fer daz" says Cadmium. "eew whill notz beh aybelz tew pay wif uz!" says Antimony, as he jumps on my back. "I will be very sore, and it will be awhile before I can crawl around and stuff, but I will be home and I am gong to have Jonathan make me a really comfortable bed on the floor with the air mattress when it is playtime, so I can still pet you." I reassure Cadmium with a good head scratch. "okays" says Cadmium "gotz strahberrez?" "yes little one, I have some strawberries". Our fleeting conversation is done, and we continue to play. I need to remember to be in the moment through all of this. Thank you friends for reminding me to not lose sight of the little things as I take such a big step. I do not want to miss the wonderful things I have now while waiting for surgery, and then waiting ot lose weight. _______________________________________________________________ - so that was my first blog, and oddly enough that helped me so much, to use a "conversation" with my two favorite fuzzy family memebers to help me cope reassured me, calmed me. It was a tool that worked for me, maybe it can work for the pre-sleevers who are where I was...good luck.

Google passive-aggressiveness and learn how to recognize it an deal with it...and rudeness is sometimes best acknowledged. A conversation with a neighbor: "You look so good now! You don't look anything like you used to." neighbor. me: "Thank you, your Husband said the same thing to me just before he invited me to lunch last week". and I walked away...

Yes...but unless it regularly drops below 70-80 OR your lows are tied to stressful moments, you should be OK soon. The trick with blood glucose levels, emerging studies lean to, is not to "aim" for 80-120. Try for a 30-40 point spread instead. The average levels are just that, average - for instance my best levels were 75-105, which I was able to keep about 95% of the time...yes I used a percentage, based on five years of meticulous records of my readings related to "point spread". Lows and the feeling you are experiencing provided it is what you think it is, is also relative. If you ran really high you will feel that wy just by maintaining a lower level, and that still might not be low enough. It's a complex journey. I am not a doctor, nurse or such. I am a former diabetic, who maintained a 6 or better A1c for five years and went into remission about 10 weeks after surgery. In the meantime I was (am) an avid advocate for type 2 research and treatment.

First off, you need to report him to his management, and corporate office...it is strictly against their policy to ever, ever offer or discourage medical advise...and again I stress the fact that people will exaggerate when they feel it suits their "good intentions". Please let us know which store it was so we can avoid it... I don't think Al would give a damn if he looked aged. if you DO, then wait 20 years,and look back at this opportunity if you do not take it - got a visual? :/

The reason why you are still on puree and mushy at three weeks is that many people are still kind of "numb" in the sense that you may put more on your stomach than you should - not can, should. Stay on soft foods and liquids a little longer, and don't try for quantity you can stuff in there, but what you can to feel satiated...this is a learning process as much as getting in your calories. Long term you need to learn, just like any diet, to walk away before the full feeling. We are dealing with a system more cmplex and less understood than the brain. The ENS (Enteric Nervous System) is generally considered the second brain, and we have removed a HUGE portion of one of the main components of this system...steady and slow, we will eventually be "there" and it is forever - so just take it slow and really, really feel your body out - copious notes of every kind, and gentle use of your tummy. One problem is, the surgeons are by no means the experts in this, actually - they just simply cannot be...they are a craftsman, we have to go forth now and pay attention to thereserch specialists - gatherers of data, and publishers of excellent papers. My two cents...

I did not have to do this, being selfpay but with what you have said I would say something like this: I would list my issues and then explain how they fit into my day - explain how they impede your movement, thinking, breathing, career, income both earning and expenditures...quality of housekeeping, being able to keep clean, suffering in extreme weather, prejudice, etc - and go forth to mention specifics that could do more than immediately affect the quality of life...inability to quickly get out of a building if it were on fire or otherwise compromised. Inability to defend yourself if assaulted, robed, attempted rape, home invasion...inability to exit a plane quickly, run away from danger. Inability to correctly perform CPR or most be able to have the strength to correctly perform it on you. EMT not being able to handle you quickly and in many cases at all. Inability to keep up with small children or elderlyin your care, attend seminars, performances, team bondng situations. The mental stress and depression it adds to in all these situations and how little time that leaves open to even leading a mediocre day.

I would think there would be something that could be adhered to you teeth that could guard them, a sports like guard. It seems like I have seem them... Hmmm

Yet you are strong enough to endure it, and brave enough to wear your bathing suit...you win...