gmanbat

Egg drop soup.

I came from Ohio to here but I know my excellent surgeon knows folks down here, he trained in Florida. I will send them an email. In the mean time: The Cleveland Clinic in Florida is about the best place in the country, my surgeon trained here, they may be able to steer you: http://my.clevelandclinic.org/florida/departments/general_surgery/bariatric/default.aspx I like Tampa General. Here is a link to their Bariatric Unit which is a Center of Excellence: http://www.tgh.org/weight.htm

I have found that exercise draws excuses like a prom queen draws phone numbers. Having to go to a gym; nothing to wear, too cold, it's raining, car's out of gas, etc. Then there's waiting for someone to go with you, too tired, just ate, good tv show on, I'm sore, maybe tomorrow, blah, blah, blah. I devised many exercises that I do at home that got me in top shape. Don't have to go anywhere. Whether someone does them with me is irrelevant. Edit: I, too, have posted in the ladies powder room by accident. Reminds me of the time when I was sick and half there and wandered into a theater women's room by accident. I saw high heels in the next stall and when I emerged I gave the lady a mean look as she gave me a mean look. I looked above the door and saw "Women". I left the theater in the middle of the show. :ph34r:

Don't smoke. From other websites: Patients are advised to quit smoking before and after the surgery. Smoking can cause infection, blood clots, and other health problems. Before gastric sleeve resection or any bariatric surgery, you must quit smoking, as smoking increases the risk for infections, pneumonia, blood clots, slow healing and other life-threatening complications after surgery. Ideally, you should permanently quit smoking, but even if you don't you must quit for at least one month before and one month after bariatric surgery.

When I saw the title I thought it was an unfortunate nickname. The idiots in my junior high used to name people like that. By the context I assume it is a drinking apparatus.

http://www.newlifebariatricsurgery.com/uncategorized/medication-absorption-after-bariatric-surgery/

That is a good question, BirdMadGirl. I have no answers but that question sure deserves some. I would guess that the absorption is nearly the same as before but I could be way off base. I know the gastric bypass folks have malabsorption of some Vitamins but haven't heard whether meds are involved as well. You're right. It does deserve a separate thread.

I used to be called, "Scary Gary". Admittedly the large shadow cast created it's own intimidation. But in my mind I knew that in a fight situation I had better hit hard and precisely for one or two strikes.or my stamina would be gone and I would be helpless. I was an unhealthy skinny guy in a big overcoat of fat. All the fat did was drag me down. Anyone that fights a lot knows this when sizing you up. Now I have shed the parka and can see what is underneath. I was going for Arnold in the old days. Now I am happy going after Bruce Lee. I am rock hard and strong due to continued workouts and hard work at the job and don't care about the phony intimidation factor of the past. In a clutch situation I know I have much more to bring to the match now.

Morphin in the hospital, Lortab after. A child of the 60's, I knew how to work with the chemicals. Was sad when the script ran out.

My honeymoon phase ended when I reached my goal. However, I am still in love and hope to spend many happy years with me.

If we "tried hard enough" we could be olympic athletes, get 5 doctorate degrees, be a hit on Broadway, make a billion dollars, and beat up Chuck Norris. We can only do what we have the desire and energy to do. It's up to us and noone else to decide what that is.

Interesting topic. I used to dream about foods both day and night. My life pretty much revolved around my taste buds and pleasing my stomach. The approach of the grim reaper got my attention and I made the change with the sleeve and a commitment to change of mind and heart. I still enjoy food but it has dropped down far on my list of passions. I am working hard now shoveling and wheelbarrowing in the Florida heat with 20-30 year olds, ( I am 64), and my main need for food is keeping strength in my body and recovering from the torture I put my body through. I worked out for a year as I lost my weight and this job is working out times ten. Enjoying food is only as important as you make it. It is just not a big deal to me anymore. I am more interested in being in the top shape a man of my age can manage. If I were in my 20's my muscles would be huge by now, instead they are rock hard but smaller. If it weren't for the excess skin I would be a cut, slim, ripped body with a wrinkle-faced head on it.

I am slarthing some natty peanut butter on em. Good find.

All my best to you. Glad it went well.

Egg drop soup. The Chinese are food geniuses.

From another forum. Good answer.

Find a friend with an AR-15 or a 12 gauge.. Take a case out to the country and blow the shnizzel out of them. I always get over things when I can hold a ritual of destruction. It worked for cigs. I drew the line at romantic obsessions, though. :ph34r:

I don't know anyone who has from the sleeve. I know one person who had a gastric bypass who managed to put it all back on. A little harder with the sleeve, it doesn't stretch much.

People that advocate "only natural" don't take into account that humans have creative brains and are capable of modifying body and behavior. Natural taken to extreme would mean that we would be reading each other by butt sniffing like doggies rather than language.

Man, don't swallow that stuf!! Talk about malabsorption!

nat·u·ral /ˈnaCHərəl/ Adjective Existing in or caused by nature; not made or caused by humankind. Toilet paper is not natural. Wipe with leaves. Niether is tooth paste. Let em rot. Natural does not equal better.

My urologist and lead doctor on my prostate cancer treatment was a major cheerleader for cancer. Even when treatment showed vast improvement he only gave me 2 years to live, (that was in 2009). My cheerful attitude seemed to bother him and he did his best to turn me depressed. I can still remember his Bela Lugosi face telling me that cancer was sure to kill me. He was not in favor of my WLS either saying it was "too hard on the body". I thought, "What do you care, Dracula, a fat corpse or a skinny one, what's the difference to you?" God knows my check-out time.

You can have pedigree papers to attest to the high grade of hog you have but the thing is still a pig. An educated jerk is still a jerk and jerkisms will come out of it's mouth. Also, education in one area does not cover ignorance in another. Your medical people are showing no more smarts than the common yokel on the streets.

Post op I wouldn't even look at a 20 oz bottle of Water. I could not get it down in 4 days. A pill cup full looked like Lake Superior to me. Consult your doc but to me this is not out of the ordinary. And about that crack from AmyinOrlando about why men don't have babies. I am GmanbatInZephyrhills and I agree with you. We had only one kid, and not because it was too hard for her.

Thanks, Carol!! Your input is very needed and welcome! In case you are not aware, we have a veterans forum now as well, http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/forum/352-gastric-sleeve-veterans-forum-new-forum/