David's Girl

#71 (permalink) David's Girl Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 67 Posts: 5 I'm here! Phyll--your pictures look wonderful! I have just gotten my referral from my from my internist and I am going to an orientation meeting on March 6th. I have been trying to lose weight for about 15 years. At first it was 10 lbs or so, now it is 70 lbs. Five years ago I had an abdominal blood clot and when they tried to heparinize me I hemorrhaged and had to have 14 units of blood and packed cells. I was in the hospital for 31 days. My kidneys began to fail, I got a couple of strange infections and was extremely sick and on morphine when I got home. Slowly, slowly I started to recover. I had an hematoma the size of a basketball in my abdomen which didn't absorb for almost three years. Of course I was very out of shape and depressed. Almost exactly one year later, when I had just started to feel better, I fainted for an unknown reason and fell down 13 steps and landed on my head on the concrete. I had a brain bleed and lost a lot of my memory. Needless to say I have grown even more depressed and out of shape. I have gained 45 more pounds. I'm to the point where of course none of my clothes fit and I don't want to buy "fat" clothes, so I either wear almost the same thing every time I go out or, I don't get dressed at all and spend most of my time in bed reading and watching TV. My family is very exasperated with me. They don't understand my memory loss very well and they are disgusted with how "I have let myself go!" I will be very happy to hear from any and all of you and thank you so much. __________________

Phyll--your pictures look wonderful! I have just gotten my referral from my from my internist and I am going to an orientation meeting on March 6th. I have been trying to lose weight for about 15 years. At first it was 10 lbs or so, now it is 70 lbs. Five years ago I had an abdominal blood clot and when they tried to heparinize me I hemorrhaged and had to have 14 units of blood and packed cells. I was in the hospital for 31 days. My kidneys began to fail, I got a couple of strange infections and was extremely sick and on morphine when I got home. Slowly, slowly I started to recover. I had an hematoma the size of a basketball in my abdomen which didn't absorb for almost three years. Of course I was very out of shape and depressed. Almost exactly one year later, when I had just started to feel better, I fainted for an unknown reason and fell down 13 steps and landed on my head on the concrete. I had a brain bleed and lost a lot of my memory. Needless to say I have grown even more depressed and out of shape. I have gained 45 more pounds. I'm to the point where of course none of my clothes fit and I don't want to buy "fat" clothes, so I either wear almost the same thing every time I go out or, I don't get dressed at all and spend most of my time in bed reading and watching TV. My family is very exasperated with me. They don't understand my memory loss very well and they are disgusted with how "I have let myself go!" I will be very happy to hear from any and all of you and thank you so much.

Lets hope so!!! I need to get on to the important part and give you more info in the next few days

so Sorry,I'm still trying to to figure out how to do this. when does the edit post part go away?

Dear Phyll, I have followed your messages on the 60's site today and you are so gracious with your help. Thank you

:sad:I just decided to have the lap band today and I must say I don't have much support from family members. I'm worried that they will sink me before I even get started. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how have some of you managed?