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And even when you don't lose poundage you may lose inches. Your body is still saying " What just Happened to Me?" things will start to smooth out, you may drop overnight, it might take longer, but My Dear, it will happen , that is a certainity! And when it does we will cheer right along with you! Promise!

And I will pray it is something minor, easily fixed and you get to feeling so much better that the post we see will be a Happy😜One! I'm a much older person and I hate anyone suffering, even at 41. I'm 73 and have more than my share of battles but I come out on top as a rule and I believe you will too.

If it is okay with your surgeon, some won't even allow decaf. They fear if they give an inch, you might take a mile, and you are supposed to learn doing all things in moderation, but one little " yuppie", as far as I am concerned, couldn't hurt!

Visit or read to a shut in, go to your local house of worship- I am certain they will sing Hallelujah not Hardly Knew you, if they do perhaps you should visit more often. Go to your local no-kill shelter,help walk the dogs, play with the kitty cats, you will be showing them, no matter what happened in their previous lives, there are nice people out there. Of course you just might find a new forever friend, Tomkitten won't let me go back to our local cat shelter, he's afraid I might stuff my pockets full Of kittens, so no "Pussy Pound" for me! There are a lot of places that need you and your help, there seldom enough for the outreach that needs done.

And of course, being Mamma you were elected to clean it up. I once observed a job that needed done, asked a co- worker to assist me. Her answer: if it bothers you that much, you go ahead and do it and I'll just watch from my seat. Grrr!

So so true and the Adventures Alice went through as she was trying to find herself, trouble at every turn.

One small crack does not mean you are broken; it shows merely that you were tested and did not fall apart. 😜🌈😜

And the "bestess" news - I am now, today, 238.9 pounds, a state I thought at above 365 pounds I could never achieve. God Bless Ohio State University, my surgeon Bradley J Needleman MD, the mechanics of RnY surgery, and most of all that I have retained the strength and commitment to make it this far, no matter the other setbacks in my WLS trek toward goal. Oh I have a distance yet to travel to goal but I now believe I CAN MAKE IT! Happy Sunny Sunday Everyone!🌈😜

And Sarah I do hope and pray you do get better!😪

My favorite assessments which nobody cares much for: Bariatric Surgery is elective mutilation and the diets are structurelized starvation. Well truthfully they are but it was a mutilization I actively sought and reaping the benefits of. And the second also is true , but I did miserable on traditional diets and eating Willy-nilly both. I believe the structure was needed and the only thing starved out of my life were the quick fix, empty calorie things that did not benefit my dietary needs, had minimal vitamins, no roughage to keep my colon working and were so unsatisfying that I had to eat in another hour to 75 minutes. And that is the barbaric thing to me, that so many places produce this kind of food and it is so hard to find ones serving clean healthy foods, especially in my corner of America.

Avery's Mom , you still haven't shrunk as much as me , 5ft11 and 3/4 in my flaming youth, 5ft8in in my half- burned charcoal days, but still it does beat being dead and buried, and as I sink shorter I can look more people in their beady little eyes, now I don't have a forest of the top of people's heads. See it's all in how you look at things, but it still is a good old life!

Bet it just could be, the kind of pressure messed something up a little.

I think I look like Road Kill, mine has changed so much I don't recognize me. You on the other hand look SO GOOD!

I got mine okay with Medicare and Ohio Medicaid, surely W.Va. can't be all that different!

If you have Wikipedia on your computer or phone you can look it up. I wonder if your rny was faulty, I always was told the reconnection was far enough " downstream" that such a thing was pretty impossible and DS were more likely to exhibit it. And Wikipedia does admit it is not a "fun thing" to have happen to you.

Ooh that is so cool, may you continue to have many more!

Oh I think I will, still finding pesky things to have evaluated , Since early February had a MRI of my chest to check on the thoracic aorta aneurysm I didn't even know I had, also found renal cyst on one of my 3 kidnets, got pneumonia, had my PICC line removed, there was fear it was spreading infection systemically, had fluid removed from right shoulder socket, now ortho wants. to remove the Plate and 12 screws. he put in to repair my broken Humerus bone 9 years ago, Told me to consider it, hasn't got better, still hurting upper arm and into right chest wall, not a moment's peace from oain, can be done outpatient/ ambulatory surgery. I'm ready--- when can it be scheduled? Then I had a severe neck ache, couldn't turn my head from side to side,, or put my chin on my chest( medical term- nuchal rigidity) after beaucoup testings, severe cervical arthritis, bad news I have a thyroid nodule of noticable size, had testing for that as well as a carotid Doppler because I am having transient double vision, be watching CNN and all of a sudden there are 2 Donald Trumps on screen , 1 is more than enough most days. Went to eye doctor, he told me to tell my medicial one instead. Why do I keep going? Don't know any better, and you guys would miss me if I weren't here! So far nothing has killed me yet!

And libbyleeb, what an outstanding NSV for you! See, it really does work for us, in a way plain diets never would!

But every day you will hurtless and start to feel better. Out of the swamp of misery sunlight will shine through. Has even forme and I have had so many cloudy days I might be living in a rainforest, things have a way of getting better, as the late Justin Wilson said on PBS" I Gar- en-tee!"

I'm back! And the beat of my life goes on and on. Decided to post here because I was the OP and started it beck last summer. Well, the Fe Infusion wasn't too awfully bad, when I told PCP I had it done, nary an apology about failing to schedule me one in Mount Vernon, just reminded me I could end up on a quarterly schedule. Well that would make the next one within a day or 2 of Tomkitten's birthday and that's a warm pleasant time in Central Ohio. Now back to the Infusion and its side effect. Well early in the evening of the next day I was able to do #2 with a minimum of grief. Every since surgery except when I had my PICC line in, my stool is very reluctant to leave me, have to be on twice daily Miralax and when not even that works, the Trusty bottle of M.O.M. the cherry- tasting agitator of all things fecal💩. Okay I said to myself, small amount of stool, still fine, I do not eat that much. And then the tsunami hit, black viscous stool, the kind I rationalize as double or triple wiper. And it went on and on, each movement the same until the last 3 which ended about. 3 AM that were nothing more than black profuse water. And before each movement I was cramping in the same area as childbirth pains, I had 3 9+ pounder, last 2 Lamaze, that is an sensation one does not forget. Well, I says if your uterus does fall on with all this straining , we can push it back in , slap an ABD on it and see the doctor in the AM. If this is gonna happen every time, I would rather be unmagnetic, obviously my body didn't feel we needed or wanted that much iron so got rid of it as best it could! Now I don't know if I mentioned but when I had my Chest MRI at Mount Carmel East to check the status of my Thoracic Aortic aneurysm, the one my Cardiologist conveniently forgot to mention, maybe she thought it would depress me? OMG, my middle child and first son died in 2008 of an Ascending Aortic aneurysm which exploded in his chest and within a few seconds bled out and died at 31. This takes it from a horrid one in thousands freaky happening to be possibly genetic and. I , a mommy who loved him with every breath of my being, may have had a part in his destruction? I cried when I saw in Black and White, " to rule out ant enlargement of existing Thoracic Aortic aneurysm, current measurement____cm" , did not go into depression, because maybe my baby's death might somehow save me? Happy to report it is still holding at under " must do surgery" have to keep faithful on BP meds to reduce stressors. But I can do that! And now the results show I have a Renal Cyst also present, don't know which one of my 3 it's on, urologists office not as worried as me, said no need seeing you right now. Then next, about 10- 12 days ago I woke up with a stiff neck, not a "oops I strained something ", I could not turn it to either side, and I had a degree of nucal rigidity. Oh I am a Medical Geek, scary cause that can be a sign of meningitis, a disease that doesn't take hostages, and can kill if neglected. So off I go to E.R., it of course happened on a day PCP was taking off. After beaucoup levels of tests even I hadn't been through before and 2 I didn't even have book knowledge of, I received a diagnosis of cervical arthritis, okay-bee, the bad part I have a thyroid nodule approaching 2 cm on left side of thyroid. They suggested getting it checked-out by ENT, endocrinologist, or at very least PCP in very near future. Well , I just so happened to have an appointment with PCP coming up, so I mentioned it to him, at first he said" many geriatric patients have these" could shorten that man's life span, I am not geriatric I merely am in Late Middle Age and I've told him that! Says" maybe I should go to that portal and read what they said" and then had to admit We GOT to do more testing, so last Wednesday I had both thyroid screening and Doppler of my carotid because I also am having periods of double vision, it is bad enough seeing Donald Sr and Donald Jr on CNN , don't need them 2 at a time! Then to round out my week I had a Reclast INFUSION on Friday, in deference to my inability to chug down liquids, Thank You Ms. Precious Pouch, I can't have pills or capsules so get this treatment yearly because my osteopenia is rounding the corner towards osteoporosis. I am grateful to be alive, thankful for the extra years my bariatric surgery has granted me, really I am, but is every flippin' test got to have a " by the way"? I knew I had dings in my bodily chassis, but does the jalopy that is me have to have engine failure too?💦

Remember with your gallbladder gone your bile duct has a straigh shot into your small intestine. My body's reaction to what it feels is too much fat, I get bright yellow mucously stools, only time I revert back from my semi- obstinate constipation. Any less than Miralax twice daily and I become a Very Unhappy Camper💩and extremely crabby to one and all!

Hi from Central Ohio! Most hospitals and Bariatric Centers do have support groups, if they don't maybe you could help found one. I love 50 miles from my hospital, all theirs are in the evening when I cannot locate transportation, my firm belief is that I am the only RnY in all of Knox County. My local Community Hospital is talking of starting a Bariatrics program in Summer- Autumn 2020, a little late for me and besides they plan to start with lap-band and VSG, and later implement RNY if they find enough demand. But if it does get off the ground , by then I will be 2 years out, able to speak as a veteran, but Bariatric Pal serves the need for me, and one day when my Dr N was running late, I made some friends among the others also waiting, we check on each other from time to time. And keep out a lookout for me, I am frequent poster, at 73 I think I know a lot about life, and I would rather post than do housework. Family Joke: If the police come in here, they will state there is evidence of a struggle! But it still is tidy enough I haven't lost my 2 cats or my son in the not perfectly done!

When I had my tubal ligation way back in 1982 they put a scar in my lower navel, when I had my RnY on September 5th 2018 Dr Needleman put one in the top ,while healing and #2 was a tad swollen it was like they were kissing. I feel think it was a way of blessing, a visible sign , " you have gone through 2 abdominal surgeries, each changed you in a fundamental way, but all is well, use both for good in your life, and remember always you are worthwhile and many more love you than you ever may know! All is well!" ,,,.,,,,,,,,,,Frustr8

23 That I am a failure in all facets of my life, I believed that, even bought into it, it is so untrue. I am a beautiful Child of a King, I should be walking it, talking it, and not acting like a grubby little serf. I am Frustr8 and that is doggone cool to be! Do I hear an AMEN?

Not news ---Jaws, I am vastly smarter than Auto Correct gives me credit for!