Frustr8

As a former PICC,line princess, I finally have something in in common with Alex although I didn't have IV antibiotics to give myself. You'll get through all this just fine and pretty soon will be all the way back,to your Former Alex-hood and this will be another Final Victory for You!

Row-ll Row-ll, I just bet you are a Fine Feline specimen now!

Hi from an American Cousin! Things a little different but I do share in your Hopes and Dreams. I was an RNY at 72 years, turned 73 last Boxing Day, count on the Commonwealth to hold My Day special, no one here does! I am now a 18 and going Down, but I started out a w8- 30 Womens, wearing a lot of Mens Sweats because THAT was what I could find to FIT. It is my belief your VSG sleeve will go just fine and you will say like Me THE REST OF MY LIFE WILL BE THE BEST OF MY LIFE and never ever would I go back to my BEFORE! Lost nearly 10 of your stone since last September, a new and wonderful rebirth for ME, Now I am starting to look on the Outside the Wonderful Me I was Within and I can only Wish You the Same! Best Always from ME!

And I am out of gray- black- brown forever! Bought into that Dark Shades are Slimming HooHah! Have you EVER heard anyone tell a Charcoal Briquet they are looking Especially Slim Today? Nope, me neither! So Frustr8's Sartorial Rebirth? Colors, prints, Maybe polka dots? Leggings, always envied others wearing them, Now I do in 17-19 JUNIORS,my original goal was a 15 Junior, so Achievable? Oh Yeah!.And a NSV - type Victory? Saw my profile as I passed something Reflective, I am still a Larger- than- Life person, this regenerated Tomboy will NEVER BE PETITE, but no booty protruding in the back, little if any Pooch in the front, I actually look like somebody You might want to meet and greet on the street instead of a Train Wreck of Flesh, And I Think I actually look Taller now! And you'll please Excuse my 💦 of Joy because although it too also happened for OTHERS it never did before for ME! Although the Bariatric Clinic has gone out of their way to ignore and frustrate ME, Thank You Again Dr Needleman ! Between your skill and my perseverance ---A Miracle has been Wrought! Frustr8 is Absolutely, Positively Fantabulous!🌈😛😛😛

And if you cannot handle shots, pills and things of That Ilk for prevention/ Treatment , you have a Once Yearly INFUSION like ME. That's my PCP's Personal Plan for ME and he seems to feel it's the Best One.😷👈😀👉

And now Nancy, it is Surgery Eve for You! May yours be Smooth, Successful and may you have Years of Renewed Health! 🙏God Bless and keep You safe in h8s Arms!

And on the Obverse of That Coin- we have Me- who refused to Die Obese and had RNY surgery at 72 years, 8 months and 10 days last 5th September. When we come to the point, When We fear Surgery less than continuing as we Are, the Time is Right÷ No matter what our Current Age Is!

And last Friday (July 19th) Valerie the head Nurse- Practioner from my Bariatric Clinic at OSU returned my Early in the Week Call. I was shopping right in the Middle of the Clearance Aisle at Wal- Mart, almost dropped my over- priced Smartphone, gotten because it has an Oreo operating Systemm Ah, we ALL have our follies, that's MINE! We made arrangements for my next blood draw and labs, to be completed before my August 14th appointment. -----What I Think is a Hoot?------ Since I will be 11 months on the 5th, she has graciously GRANDFATHERED Me into perfect Gastric Health and plans No More EGJs for me! It Is A Miracle! Who knew she Might Be A TV-Evangelist in her Spare Time? It does bring Me to Disbelief and Sarcasm at this point!----! If I, Heaven Forbid, developed Intestinal Strangulation like 2 of our Bari- Pals, she would dismiss it as Simple Colic! ----Dang, Maybe They do still give Nursing Licenses in CrackerJack Boxes, after All!----- Might have saved me the wear and tear of my own😷 education, should have simply gone to the Factory! 😵

And what do YOU Want to Wager, on the reverse of that linguist Coin, the whole Former British Commonwealth finds American simplification STUPID? The old joke is WE STAND DIVIDED BY OUR COMMON LANGUAGE. Isn't LIFE just a Funny Funny Thing!

OMG I do hope SATAN has a nice cubicle and ENDLESS😦😈 TORMENT in HIS FUTURE!

Stop it Just Stop it, Missouri .Lee Summit, now I've got protein shake in my 👃, you And I did lose. ours and like You I donated b. milk b while i llved in Columbus, Now Time has moved on and I fear our Mammaries are on permanent hiatis, oh well we Are ALiVE, incredibly blessed with a tinier body and Able to face a Future we never had supposition of, WE STILL WON THIS weight WAR , Just Lost the Booby Battle!

In my own case - Is that all THERE is? Feel like I'm getting nowhere, if I fall off the edge of the world? I won't even make the Evening News and this has been a SLOW NEWS DAY! Welcome to my Pity Party, may not have jackets but I do have Lovely Placemats in place.

A lot easier to correct a minor fluctuation than a Major" WTF did I Just Do? "15- 20 pound Weight Gain , isn't it?

Smoother, BETTER and more profitable, gosh w"ve hung out so long on here I'm finishing your sentences. If it wasn't so Laughable it might be SAD😛

Exercising your pectoral muscle might help a little but Ain't Nuthin' Gonna Re- perkie-fy Us Again! Would have loved watching you stuff the wrapper behind the cushion, Now That's Something I would do myself! Went from a DD to a scanty B, think I need a Seat Belt Retractor to roll them up and stuff in the cups. 💦😝, Got to Laugh, because crying only makes my eyes Red and Sore.👈😀👉

Wish we lived closer than we do, I'd trade you Even Up, love the Orange and Pineapple more Myself. But IMHO I still love the s.f. natural Orange bestest of All😛

Like the Old Song went Slow Down, you move too fast Got to make the Morning Last. So skip down the cobblestones and feel rightously GROOVY, my friend!😛

You Know🐭🐺back in the "Bad Old Days" I laughed at anyone who quoted such a Small Amount but truly THAT IS ENOUGH!

And May Everything Go Absolutely COOL!😝🌈😛

Ooh another quick but healthy thing to try out! Another reason I like staying " Active" on Bariatric Pal, you learn so much here!

A Wise Thought for you both now and in the Future THE PAIN OF THE PROCESS IS ONLY TEMPORARY; THE FEELING OF ACHIEVEMENT WILL LAST FOREVER Love ❤and Prayers 🙏and Hugs to you both from 10 and half months out 👸Frustr8 & it's STILL getting better as days go by😛👍

And yes they called from Opthamologist to schedule my LEFT cataract removal, would you believe October 3rd? They truly are booking out THAT FAR, still have to meet with Dr K on September 11th, thought they did enough last Tuesday including pictures of my interior eye to satisfy a herd of physicians. and Funny I don't remember his partner Dr Reeder having THAT done before I had the Right Cataract removed in December 2016? Maybe different doctor, different Bells and Whistles? Well, a Big Fat Whatever, not sweating such a trivial small thing! And at the very least I have 3 appointmentst each remaining month of 2019. About time for Medicare to draft me a letter telling ME Please stay home, We Can't Keep up with YOU as it is! LOL👈😄👉, for such a long time after I,turned 65 and old enough for it, I stayed home and didn't cost them MUCH. Oooh Baby things have changed around now!

And that's a perk I hadn't tried, Thanx Sandra for the idea!

And Stella S, if you came to my city Mount Vernon and my County Knox County Ohio you would see more Obese people than you could shake a stick at, and I see them starting in Toddler- hood, I see so many 80 and 100 pound ones. Makes me wish I had a pulpit to preach the Joys of Bariatrics and what it has done in My Life! Would I have accepted the advice? No and 8 fear they would not either, I thought I was doomed, without hope,no place to turn, the world either ignored or hated my Obese Self, and I was disappointed and hated myself more. It took a lot more gumption , bravery and chutzpah than most people contain to search out WLS at nearly 70, truly the fact I probably would die soon. had a Big Motivation, I decided it wouldn't hurt to try since I was destined for death, even if I died on an Operating Table, I would have at least tried, nobody thought I could succeed at anything anyway. There was just enough Red- headed spunk, enough " Don't Tred on Me" that I inherited from the strong New England side of the Family that I was going to Do This or Bust! And it took over 3 years, 1 month and a week to finally achieve it but Achieve It I DId and I am a smaller healthier glob of SUCCESS no one gave me credit for. I may be scarred, slightly bloodiedbut I STAND TALL AND BROKEN-DOWN BY LIFE NO MORE! Frustr8 is getting fine, better and better each day I live, and I am a Force to Contend with!

Well more update,turns out I do NOT have a fracture either normal or stress produced, I have trochanter bursitis, mycenter of balance changing put. extra stress there? I will probably have my left cataract removed within a few weeks, Dr Koehler says I could wait up to a year but it will only get more cloudy, my visual discernment will only get worse, already have a yellow tinge to every thing, double vision and printing leaning to the left, so why postpone things? Hey I'm getting cuter and somewhat younger in appearance, want to see Good- looking Men if they happen My Way, don't want snuck,up on cause I couldn't see clearly! Yesterday when I was at Doctor Appointment # 3 I received a call from Valerie, Dr Needlemans Right-hand CNA - nurse person. So today when things settle down I'll return her call! This morning , Chico from Lincare came , recalibrated and adjusted my C-Pap, we tried it out and Mr Smiley Face emoji showed up, changed out my mask/ nasal pillows size as I am not as BIG a girl as once I was. I believe I will be able to wear it tonight instead of removing it in my sleep! Yippee Skippee Yahoo! I do concede I sleep better, no nightmares when I wear it. Maybe they had to do with insufficent oxygenation? Now I have next the Dermotologist about the brown discoloration/ mask left on my cheeks that strangers are accusing me of being an abuse victim and trying to hide it! Yeah I live in a strangely suspicious town, don't I? One lady pressed into my hand a business card for New Directions, our local Battered Woman Shelter, when I protested. that I really didn't need it, she said "Just Keep it, We All will need it Someday!" Last person who tried that is securely DEAD, and no, he died willfully on his own. Thought he knew more than his doctors, turned out he was wrong and it was Fatal in the long run. Then Both Tomkitten and I have Overnight Sleep Eval/Studies to be run . His to establish need, mine to ascertain my residual degree because I will probably be one of the minority Bariatric surgery did not cure, since it is STRONG Heredity in my family Tree. NBD, I'm strong, I can handle it, surmount it for my best benefit, and it would give TK a strong Co- morb to go with his 2 secondary and onward toward WLS for himself. < 40 BMI ---be danged ! He's well over 35 so we will see how things do progress! Still need complete Blood Labs before MY Next Clinic visit. Other-wise my PCP says I am in Wonderful Shape for the Shape I am in, still think he feels I will either implode or explode one of these days! And I am securely below 200 and I SHALL NEVER RETURN THERE AGAIN✋!😛👊!