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Sort of like hitting yourself on the head with a ball peen hammer? Feels so good when you can take a break from bashing yourself! LOL😜👍

Everybody usually is. You're excited to the point you can hardly speak but deep inside there is a small grain of" What am I doing to myself?" And when your surgery is over that may be the first thought you have when you wake up. But day by day it does get better and you will be back to the point where you're giving yourself a High Five for having made this choice. It does change things for the better!

Wishing you the best of luck @ Cajun Sam. We are the same height and have the same goal but I started out substantially higher and at 7 months am now 234.6, but this "ole girl" will make it there also! I make it up in dogged stubbornness, what advantage you may have in youth, and we will make it to the Finish line in our own time!😜🌈😜

Alwzla8, you're just looking for that Mush Rush! May everything go well for YOU!❤No April Showers, Just April Strength and Power!

If you hang too long with one that treats you line an Option you may never meet the one that treats you like a Priority! Just some advice from theBariatric Godmother!

God Bless both of You also! You are one of the reasons I didn't go inactive after surgery, wallow in my misery, and have a group of PLOM days, borrowed that term from Mrs Gamgee, stands for Poor Little Old Me, got to wonder why I have this burden to bear? but you,know what? I have my friends here, I have GOD riding back-up for me, and as His Child there is nothing that can't be handled and I am never forsaken. And that is the Super- Coolest thing of ALL! If I need more surgeries, well No Big Thing, I have made it this far,might as well go for the Gusto of Life!

Had my GB out 35 years ago last mobth, back,in the Bad Old Days when everything was open incision. In fact when I had my pre-surgical last year I told my surgeon I would rather have an open than no WLS surgery at all. He looked at me with an amazed look, said "Do you know how long. it takes to heal an open incision?" Flipped up my shirt, showed him my Right Paramedian, 2 inches above, 3 inches below waist. He laughed and said " Point taken, but I almost always do laparoscopic" and I have 7 little scars, at 7 months,you would be hard pressed to find, well you still can see the top one a little, where he put the liver retractor, because I don't have stretch marks there to cover it up. But they are sikvery, pretty , and I wish he could give lessons to the doctors that sewed up other places on me, some of them are super- evident.

Danny Paul is a treasure on here, many of his postings have helped me! I just hope I can pay it forward as time goes by,guess I sure can try!

Oh Ken S , are you monitoring? I'm almost as bad as her, been so long for me, if I got a new phone, I probably wouldn't get back in either. I know the advice is different password for Different accounts, but it gets hard to remember each one and all the PIN numbers,feellije I'm digetted to death!

OMG, I sure hope not, heavy metals can be poisonous and I neednothing else " Heavy" in my life! Spent too too many years as Hefty, want to make it through Ample Sample and on to a mere armful. Maybe there will be guys not too senile to notice when it finally happens. Probably never will remarry but everyone deserves a friend or 2.

Well mine is " Going to Make the Rest of my Life the Best of My Life" but willing to embrace a few Sucky Times to make it there!

What do you put in yours? Made myself a fruit one Thursday but haven't gone Green, probably should, always feared it would be like eating lawn grass, did that once on a bet,Nasty Nasty Nasty!

Next step, suppositories, enemas and the Evil Cherry'tasting Milk of Magnesia. After that the Emergency Department and some of those people got big hands and thick fingers , Yeeouch! May the poo💩 be with you soon and then on his merry little way!

Keep marching towards it, hope in your ❤ and a smile😜 on your face, you've almost made it THERE! And give us all the updates as soon as you feel good enough! Stay a cuddly bear🐻 Kate Bruin!

Saw one, the two ladies jogging, one says There are only 2 reasons I'm doing this, the good- looking guy I saw running ahead and the evil pervert with the knife I saw,running just behind me!

What a dynamite idea, then you' ok be always be reminded of where you have been and know there are brighter thinner days ahead for YOU!❤

And I'm sending love and prayers to you also! My RnY journey has been anything but picture- perfect, have frequent choruses of "Is that all there is?" but hoping my doctors are not lying to me, that there is a final victory ahead. And you have had so much in a short time it is a Wonder you are not standing out in the middle of the road going Whaaat? but hope life finally levels off and you can find some joy in all that has happened. Remember we are here, we do understand, if we can give you strength, we will!! You are strong, although you probably find that hard to believe now. 😜❤❤😜

Know this song you're singing about no choice where the weight loss starts, my firsts were forearms, face, neck, chest, my Boobs are approaching tube Sox with tennis balls, then rump fat pad Before the actual,side to side measure went down, now thighs and belly, although I fear it never will go flat, too many years and 3 over 9 pounder babies did a evil thing to muscles there. And now I have gone from solid obese bloat to ridges where the fat has dissolved, this is NOT what I thought was meant by " Washboard Abs" think I could srubs stains out there first before doing laundry. Oh well, it is what it is! Still I am becoming half the Woman I once was and twice as thrilled as I thought I could be! Onederland may be not that far ahead, and T *H *A*T is sure something I doubted would ever come. Yeah I told my Bariatric Team it was my desire, but I had failed so many diets at so many diets, I was willing to spout the Company Line nut didn't truly believe glhard work would bring anything but exhaustion m But I had Exhausted all my other options, I was even a Structurelized Starvation failure, made me sick, not thin. You become pretty much a NonBeliever in defense. But from 365+ down to 234.6, it is as much a miracle as this Woman could find. Where will I stop? Dr Needleman's NP Valerie would be satisfied with just sub-200 for me at 73, but deep inside is a little kernal that says " Maybe you can still make it down to 175, maybe you'll make your dream of a 15 Junior!" I mentioned in another thread getting $1 bras and panties on clearance at Wal- Mart, well they are C cups, for my weight I am not excessively busty, many are D, DD or above! I told someone I was talking to I am a Bloated Athletic build, she said the two don't go together, well that's the category I belong in, once the Fat Shell finishes cracking and falls away, the world will see. And,because,i have 2 knee replacements and an ankle that was not adequately repaired I cannot get on my toes to run, but I would like to walk a portion of a marathon before I turn 75. Is that a silly senile dream? Sure hope not!

What is the alternative, Fluffy Protein? I used to get mad at a commercial about taking ones clothes to a reputable dry cleaner n did they honestly think we all search for a disreputable one? I think there are too many oxymoron in the world. And what is "spanking fresh" , just saw it in a magazine advert.

Ah Mrs Gamgee there are good and portions to My story. Lets see if I can summarize. Received my RnY on September 5th 2018, wonderful pain free surgery with a great surgeon, what more could I want? And for the first 2 weeks things were wonderful. At the end of the First Fortnight of my joy, I sensed I wasn't healing quite as expected. And being as I can be a "squeaky wheel" I started my "squeak" campaign. I called so frequently they grew to recognize my voice. And the nurses I talked to had varied answers- I was just swollen inside- I was expecting too much too soon. One even stated " I have degrees, I know what I am talking about, you're just worryIng too much!" Finally, I suspect to shut me up they scheduled an endoscopy for October 12, so I was about 6 weeks out, and who was right? ME ME ME! I had developed a stricture in my pouch , it was barely draining anything coming in, this partially explained why I was frequently puking up everything but thin liquids, and I had ulcerations in both my pouch and the section of small intestine, the jejunem, that my pouch was trying to empty into. MS Nurse might have all the degrees,but,i have lived in this body a good many years, I knew it wasn't doing right. My doctor's partner does the endoscopies, at first it was every other week, now I have moved out to monthlybut I still am not quite fixed. The 28th of November I was hospitalized for protein anemia and malnourishment. I simply could not ingest enough protein on such a liquid diet, the ulcers not only were not healing, I was developing more in my small intestine, pretty sick little puppy, I was. So the afternoon of November 29th a PICC line was inserted in my upper left arm and I started TPN supplemental feedings, at first 24 hours, as I began to respond , 12 hours on, 12 hours off daily. And the line remained in place until February 26th 2019. I had been released after a week so,learned how to do my feedings with my son's assistance in the,home. And I really got used to having it,named it Catherine the catheter, and I learned to bypass all the liabilities, wore my pump and feeding bag in. a black backpack. Sure my weight loss almost screeched to a halt because I was on 1400 calories daily, I didn't care because I did feel better with. the 12 feedings, and I only had to attempt either one protein. shake meal or brothes once daily. Actually cried when it was removed. And I have started losing in earnest again, lost 30 pounds from February into late March, my weight is now 234.6, down from mid 260s when line removed. And I have been going through testings quite often this early part of 2019. Saw my cardiologist in January, she asked if I would mind having a MRI,just make sure everything okay. Sure I'm a pretty compliant person, no problem. Well in due time, a MRI was scheduled at her main hospital, she is in a different health system than my surgeon, most all mine now are either local or at Ohio State. she is affiliated with Trinity Health that,owes Mount Carmel so I had to go to Mount Carmel East, they sent me a pile of paper work to fill out and bring to the hospital. And there in Black and White is the reason this is being done. I have a thoracic aorta aneurysm and they are making sure it hasn't enlarged to a critical point where it will rupture or need surgery. It is especially upsetting since my son died at 31 from a ruptured aortic aneurysm, his was closer to the heart, but it means what we felt was a freak occurance, may have had a genetic component, another thing to know my genes may have killed my baby. Well it is stable, but they discovered I also have a renal cyst, didn't say which of my 3 kidneys it is on, would suspect one of the left ones. Called my urologist office, they aren't too worried. Then , as result of having weekly blood draws , which I had all the time I had the PICC. line, I am seriously deficient in iron. Enough that I had to have an iron INFUSION. Then I had an episode where I could not turn my head, barely could move my neck, so we had to rule out meningitis. And the Cat Scan showed only severe cervical arthritis, But it also showed I had a thyroid nodule big enough for concern, so more testing there. Turns out I have multiple ones in both lobes, but the one that caught their attention is 1.8 cm, they would like to wait until it gets 2 to 2.5 cm. before we do more. Then you throw in pneumonia which hospitalized me for 26 hours until they could find the causative agent, an shoulder joint with inflammation and irritation, and had to have fluid drained. Orthopaedic says it is time to remove the titanium plate and 12 screws he put in right arm 9 years ago when I fractured the humerus. 9 years ago, should be outpatient surgery, that was 3 weeks ago, when I see him April 1st I am going to tell him schedule ASAP because I have not been pain-free , not even one day since then. It is impacting my quality of life severely, can't sleep without pain meds and That's Not Good! And on April 12 I have another endoscopy, an EGJ, can't be EGD because my duodenum was bypassed and then last day of April is my bariatric surgeon appointment. And these are the HEALTHY- EST. Times of my life? Not too sure of that! Maybe thinking about your future surgery will take my mind off of me? Sure worth a shot!

Oh Connue, there have been so many recently. Odd, they routinely order ursadiol after surgery to prevent it, either it's not working or it is even more prevalent than surgeons' have thought

And @theskinnyme87, I wish for you much success in the days ahead.

And hopefully yourlevels are now fine.

Nice to hear from you again but sorry to hear of your progress halt!

s o how did things go for you Wednesday the 27th and how are you feeling now?