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Saw a good friend yesterday, she said " Oh My, you got your hair cut!" Nope, not really, it is still thinning and hasn't grown much. Oh whatever makes her feel good, and no she didn't see how much weight I have lost, how much my booty has become a mini- booty, all she noticed was my less 5han ample red hair.

Glad you finally got things straightened out! The fact they all live in the same area is no real excuse for faulty diagnostic skills!

Being anxious or nervous is like sitting in a rocking chair. You can rock and rock until you can't do any more but you're not going to get anywhere! Stay strong, stay committed, don't listen to the haters, they often are envious, they keep snipping at you from behind because you are ahead of them and a much better person. You Do This For You- When it comes to this, at the end of the Day you're the most important consideration. And Aunt Frustr8 will be right here, cheering YOU on! Promise!😝👍

Well fellow slimmer Mama, I suffer from exactly the same syndrome myself! Want t9 hear another one? Went to visit my PCP's office yesterday, has been maybe 2 months since I last set 👀 on him and him on ME. First thing he said was " Just HOW MUCH WEIGHT have YOU lost?" , the correct answer is 120 pounds in 10 months. He says " Would you please stop or slow down!?" then tells ME at my age( And I do hate putdowns!) I should only lose. 70% of my excess weight and I am at 68,3%", Bullfeathers! I set out with a Goal of 175 pounds and I WILL DO my upmost to get there! And this from the man who used to dance around singing " Your Weight is Going to Kill You, and it may be within 3 years!" Jeesh,sometimes you can't win for trying! Ungrateful young whelp, he ought to have tried walking in my 👞mocassins, they were pretty broke down from My Weight!

I told somebody I was eating so lightly because it's June and hot outside. Don't know if she believed me, we were in an air- cobfditioned room. Truth is, my surgical after-effect is no good really appeals to ME! This is after years of Varcious Ravennacitious when I ate anything that couldn't outrun me! Big Changes, but I do celebrate the 120+ pounds in less than 10 months,i just wished my pych worked for ME instead of conspiring against ME !😷🙏😭😥

And may it go smooth, sleek and successful this time! And keep a little eye on your kidneys, they're supposed to last a lifetime!

Want an old-time semi- groaner joke? Guy wakes up from his surgery. When his surgeon comes on rounds, he says" Doctor I kind of expected the sore throat with knowing you put an endotrachael tube down there. I even expected the upper abdominal tenderness but why do I have such pain down in my Right Groin?" Surgeon just laughs , then says " I got such a standing ovation from the residents and other people in the Operating Theatre, I took out your appendix as an Encore! It's still okay, Your consent covered it, said" Whatever I found Necessary" and I'm not charging EXTRA for IT !"

I've only been here myself about a year and a half, but I second Orchids and Dragon' s emotion, I too have found it a wonderful support and information site!

And pureed pinto beans, the bomb!

Puree your meat down, mix it with the mashed potatoes, even try some low-fat gravy, one girl calls it " meat lube", see if it makes a difference.

And if ice doesn't work, try moist heat, some people have to alternate them, 15 minutes on, and about an hour in between.

The correct words are The- Ear- and Gloves, my smart0hone contains a miss spelling Demon!

Scopalamine is notorious for this, did you have a patch behind 9be eat? If you still have it there, put gl8ves on and remove it. And many of us are bleery- eyed for a while, give it a couple of weeks for you to detoxify, if you still have it then consult your eye professionals And most things do improve as you recover!😝

Yeah pretty silly, like you're a Smoke Carrier even though you don't smoke. Take plenty of outside walks instead of staying onside the house, and it might be a Good Time to remind Hubby his smoke doesn't affect only him but you too. This reminded me of a thought rather sad. When my 31 year old died suddenly, one of the doctors tried to tell me there was a presence of drugs in his blood work. Now I know such a report could be common these days, but I knew my son, I protested -No No that had to be wrong! Doctor shrugged his shoulders, told me our local water tests often positive for drugs, has to due with them being flushed into sewage systems upstream, certainly made me around of the poor job d9ne by our local water authority. And people ask ME why I drink Bottled Water? Last year my co-residents got a letter stating the toxic minerals our local water, which comes from artesian aquifers, not surface water, stupid. ex-doctor pulled a "boner" there, at any rate, they say " it shouldn't hurt the consumer badly" Yeech!

Sunshine in Mars- sounds as though your body is holding on to your excess gas instead of letting it dissipate. Try warm compresses along with still trying to walk it off, and if you feel like Crying while walking, go right ahead, you've earned the Right To Sing The Blues! Victoriaobe Astitch in the side seems to be pretty common, you're not the first to menti9n it. Perhaps your surgeon did a l8ttke extra re- enforcing there. I remember one girl mentioned being a little farther along, she must have healed in that spot, felt a "Ping" and it hurt no more! Just a weird and funky feeling.

Maybe a Psychic Warning to take things slow and steady, to be truly used to what your VSG can and cannot do. My reoccurant weird and silly dream. I am always in odd locations, I am Stark Naked, nobody notices, nobody seems to care. Now Dream Analysts, WHAT does THIS MEAN?

And I know you had a special goal,to re-fit your dress uniform, and gosh The Marine Corps has an extremely handsome one and I confess I always have had a soft spot for Men in Uniform. Shoot, I even think the Knights of Columbus look mighty fine, although the old joke was " They look like they enrolled in the Polish Navy!" So my fine friend, how goes the Weigh Loss and Tone-Up going?

Well I'm not sure if this cause my problem, whether it is a result of old age or too many endoscopic dilation but I have had trouble with my vocal cords. They were not meeting correctly when I tried to speak, leaving me sounding deepe4 pitched and husky. Has to have speech therapy all the month of June, had to be retrained to speak, seemed like I am using the higher pitched segment of my voice, I thought the first week or so I sounded babyish, rather like a preschooler, had exercises To do Ahhh-ee, ahhh- hah, ahhh-pop and the mmms, mmms-ee, mmms-oo and the ever- loved mmm- hah, all on steady or ascending tone. And I must be a success, cause I Done Graduated, even got a mini- diploma, probably because I joked about it with my therapist Lyndseym A new diploma at 73, who-dah thunk?😝📝

Diet is an abbreviation for Did I Eat That? Explains a lot, doesn't it?

Thank you I believe I will follow your advice and calling. It is terrible fearing swallowing.

oh Fluffy you bad bad girl! I was just wallowing in self-pity and you done busted me out of my funk! All the people are finding funny things to relate. Makes me wonder" What next!"

Okay since You Asked; HW 365+ October 2017 Height 5ft8 8inches Calculated BMI 55.49 weight at first real visit at OSU Bariatric Spring 2018 still well into mid 300s- they calculated me still well over 50 BMI- I believe,52 I was 72 years at,this time, knew this would be my last best chance at losing to a normal size- knew the diets I had tried gave no real help, tried for years and years, normal diets, weird diets, any diet that came down the pike! All I ever lost was. RESPECT,FOR MYSELF On my surgery day after their guidance and a months of Liver-shrinking diet 319,pounds September 5th 2018 Surgery --RNY,gastric Bypass Surgeon- Bradley J Needleman MD- department Head- Bariatric Medicine- Metabolic We8ght Loss and also a Full Professor in OSU's College of Medicine. These are the cold hard facts And I also heard the nay-sayers and what they said " Bariatrics =Elective Mutilation You will be put on a Selective Starvation Diet, you will be. a Case of Adult Failure To Thrive" 'You are Too Old ! You are too Broken Down! You will Die on The Table! Not Just JOB in the Bible had False Friends. But still I went forward with My Plans - fought an up- hill battle, Many programs don't accept applicants over 60 let alone 72.. But I wanted a chance to continue living, my quality of Life was pretty abysmal, I couldn't breathe, move well because of Arthritis. Even my PCP, supposedly my true friend, told me I wouldn't live past 75, too many things I was at risk for as well as the ones I already had. But I studied my possibilities, learned as much as I could. Bariatrics seemed to be My Last Best Hope- presented my Body to one plan, went their program not once but twice only to be denied. And I won't say the excuse they gave, it was unfounded, error-laden , and it about put me into an emotional tailspin. Then my Red-head stubbornness kicked in- They didn't want ME- fine- I didn't want THEM! So iI applied to the program I had wanted all along, the other someone recomended. Always go with your gut, it knows more than your BrainComprends! And this one, at Ohio State University was truly what I needed, I was treated well, the challenges they gave were d9able and Still are! But enough Back Story. Today, almost 10 months later I have gone from a Size 28- 30W to a loose size 20, quickly going into a 18n never EVER DREAMED I would escape Plus Sizes! My BMI is now 31.1 & I am now below 200 pounds- 198.9 says my Digetal Scale, and yes it does talk to ME. After years of buying cheap models, getting so angry I pitched them in dumpsters or against the wall, I have a good, fairly expensive but accurate model. Has it been easy? Nope- one of the hardest but most satisfying things I have done. And I did not have a textbook recovery- things happened that are fairly rare, but after years of feeling a total screw - up, that I was so pitiful I could never succeed at anything in life, I have found I am a Strong resilent woman, and a good part was the help and consulting of my Bariatric Plan, when I felt like giving up, I knew they believed in ME and so I can believe in ME too. Oh My story is not completed, I am still a Work in Progress. Although originally I am at the point They Forecast, I plan to still do my utmost to make it down to the 15 Junior and 175 I have dreamed of. Right now I weight the same as I did when I married my Late Husband 51 and a half years ago. Oh the body has scars,dings, as the pounds disappeared I am left with loose floppy skin in some places, truth be known I was obese almost from birth, but I am Alive, when I shouldn't be, less arthritis pain, less shortness of breath, look how long- winded I am now , even on paper or the internet! But Baby IT IS WORTH IT! I have drowned my fears in tears, as Martin Luther King once said " I have been to the mountain!" Well I have been tested , found to be true to my commitments, motivated to CONTINUE until I too have my total VICTORY! And if I can do it with the Basal Metabolism Rate of a Sick Sea 🐌 Snail, I think everybody else can also So join me in the journey, our paths may not be the same, few are, but if they parallel let's walk together! On Bariatric Pal you never need to feel ALONE, we are world🌎wide, we can talk the talk because we too have walked the walk- we offer support, we offer friendship, if you, too, feel you've got what it takes- join in! It has been so worth it for ME!😝🍀And today I feel lucky to relate all this!

I take a Prenatal vitamin on recommendation of my hospital Dietician. Only time I didn't was right after surgery when they told me to crush everything, well the chewable I had weren't as nice as Alex Brecher at Bariatric Pal store has, in fact they were VILE, as soon as I could get the Okay I went back to my prenatal caplet, can't beat Once a Day in my book. And $99 sounds high, until you add up how much Over- the- Counter costs monthly. Sounds like he has Bariatricians formulating his, and I can testify his delivery is quite quick, my orders came no longer than a few days, even over the weekend, to Ohio.

They will be happy to have you too! And just a little longer to get ready for the BIG DAY!

You always need a brief period of young and foolish before you can become older and wiser. And also real life doesn't count until after 40, before that you are only doing Market Research with your days. Stiil sassy at 73. Frustr8