Frustr8

Tomkitten,my son's birthday. Do yo suppose I can convince him your surgery is the only gift 🎁he needs? Shoot it was worth a try!💝

Good luck and Good healing from another member of the Best Generation, we rock,our Baby Boomerhood😜🚩😜 Frustr8 *Age 72 and proud of it!

@ Better Every Day, you're in Cornwall, correct? I always remember the little ditty By Tre, Pol and Pen YE shall know a Cornishman. Well, my real first name is Karen, I'm told I was named for a long ago ancestoress, Kerenza, who family stories say was from Cornwall. Most of the people in that branch were from Yorkshire, wonder how she popped into the picture?

Castor oil, Bio Oil and Lemon juice, what a heady combination. I splash Sea Breeze astringent on my face, Late Lamented used it when he still had zits when we first got married, I've always kept a little around although it smelled better on him than it does on me.😜

OUBrett from Oklahoma City was supposed to have had surgery May 2nd does anybody know how it went?😏

@nicoleea we must be distant cousins or something, you,look like me and mine to be a family member, so you can tell we are lovely-looking people. You know our Dear Mum, the UK had a habit of transporting those they felt were not worth keeping there. Not sure whether mine could have been thieves, poachers of the King's Deer or for utter stupidity. Judging from my boy cousins on my Daddy's side it,would be the latter. Some are devious but there are a few bulbs missing from the chandelier. They tend to get caught and become guests of the state. Never committed a capital crime, no murderers. There are some in,my generation that haven't figured out the business end of a knife🔪and would tend to,look down the barrel,of a gun🔫. Ah what can you do? They are kinfolk, the story is you're permitted in life to choose your friends, well you would have to be pretty,desperate to choose one of these specimens of fine,young malehood. If the,police asked me, luckily I live in another town, if I had seen a couple of them. my answer would be "Why? What have they done now?" These precious limbs of Satan, their games of choice? Cowboys and Indians or Joan of Arc. Guess who got tied up? Yeah, the only thing saving me from getting burned to death? My aunt's wouldn't let them have matches. Needless to say, I only see them at family,funerals if then. Today I'm having trouble walking. Among my,handouts Thursday was a list of mild aerobic and cardiovascular,exercises. I did a set of 10,of each and today,i feel like I should put braces on both knees. Think,I'm walking like a sailor dumped ashore who doesn't have his land legs back. Maybe it doesn't look that bad but I sure feel that way. Told my son to bring me out my walker because I felt dizzy and unsteady. His answer"Just sit down Mum" s9 here in am on the front steps watching,him mow the yard. He's working hard so,i feel ashamed of complaining. I hope as I lose weight the lymphadema in my legs subsides especially the Left, it is the worst. I lost maybe 5 kg in the last month, sounds good but I have so much more to lose. And when I hurt I lose my enthusiasm for the whole thing. Yes I know i can't stay this heavy the rest of my life, yes I know the weight loss will improve my health and give me a chance for a longer life, but why do I have to hurt so bad in the process? I know it says in the Bible,to turn the other cheek but I do hate to be twice as bruised. Well it's clouding up, maybe it will rain , still not as hot as it gets in Australia, but I still don't have to,like it. 😪

And I am very proud of you Devin872 for complying so welll May your daughter and you stay the course to,be very end😜❤

Only slightly better than placing a drinking straw where the☀don't shine! Ooh the mental image is not nice!😮

Roar us all an update when your surgery is concluded, Black Lioness, And God Bless🙏 and Keep,you in the meantime.😜😏

I'm going to watch with interest also. I see you're located in Rhode Island, is your reasearch there or in an adjoing New England state? At any rate, it does sound intriguing.😜

Thanks KikiSue, another evil thing to contend with. Like RebaMcEntire's song Naturelover is a "Survivor", I am glad I have,met ladies like her along my bariatric Journey.❤🌷😜🌷

If that's weird meet the Emperess, if I could I'd do it myself I've got a box-cutter🔪 50 pound test fishing line Hair clips A swingline stapler with plenty of staples a 3--way mirror Heium left over from the last family birthday party Plenty ABD pads Enough bravery to be devided in 3 parts That should about cover it, yeah?😜👍

I'm sure there are more than you might think. As a virgin soon-to-bypasser I think you guys outnumber me in spades. No matter how you got,here we,love you and are happy you want to join my happy herd of Kangaroos. Why kangaroos? Because we all have or will soon have pouches. I was only thi,king,of a sleeve for 12-15 hours then I had my mental conversion and I can hardly wait to have the physical manifestation as well. I started on my I Want Bariatric Surgery safari,in August 2015, a lot of bumps, twists, starts stops and hairpin curves but my Date with Destiny will come and it should be month or slightly more. I keep petitioning Heaven so long God and all the Holy Saints have heard enough. I visiualize them saying Give Frusrt8 her surgery so we can get some other work done, answer more prayers and petitions. Saint James probably is saying Spain needs my intercession but I barely can hear them over top of Frustr8 and her equalling. I even drafted Saint Gerlach, a more minor saint. I liked reading his story, rather resonated with me. To repent of youthful indiscretions, he went to Rome, took a vow of poverty and went to live in a hollow tree at the edge of the Netherlands, he's for me because Late Lamented was 1/2 Dutch I worked in healthcare from my youth on I worked for WalMart-that substatiates poverty A hollow tree , well that's about what I can afford His feast day is January 5th which is close to my actual birthday He is a minor saint, so not so busy, so he might appreciate the business, It must be difficult flying around Heaven and no one asks your help. Might make him feel unloved and underappreciated and i,know how that feels myself. Look him up if you want on Wikipedia he has churchs etc honoring him in Northern to Middle portion of Holland.👼

Okay, CFS is chronic fatigue syndrome, Fibromyalgia I know and battle with , but what is ME? I feel like I should know already, but acronyms elude me at times.😪😮😜

Hey MissLindseyR, a quick,little story. Tomkitten(my son) was feeling sorry for me,at Mothers Day so he bought,me a box of Little Debbie strawberry,cakes with,vanilla frostening. Well my flesh is sometimes weak and,i didn't want him to regret spending the money on me so I unwrapped one, that icing was the consistency and about as tasty as a spoonful of Crisco straight from the can. Ychhh! Told him tobtrash themselves them his own self, I did not care. You may find after surgery,a greasy slimy old French Fry from MickeyD makes you feel the same way. Yeah, eventually you'll eat again but be prepared for the fact things may never taste the same. I truly don't crave sweet things, especially desserts, told my Nutritionist Roy that Thursday. Why I truly crave is tender cooked vegetables, eespecially the cabbbage family. And nuke a sweet potato, hold it in front of my face and I'll,follow you,most anywhere. Don't need brown sugar or even butter, splint the skin open and I'll eat it that way.😜

Hey @ Amanda403, you are going to be fine! Are you going to be on YouTube? And what are you going to call it? Maybe something like "Anxious Amanda gets Her Sleeve"?👉😧👈

Oh and may I throw in I'm also allergic to Hibicleanse? I may be built,like a plowhorse but, sniff sniff, I'm really a delicate little gardenla blossom. Don't believe it? Shoot neither does anyone else!😪

You're not the only one who goes into hives. I call them" stress bumps" got them before my last Thursday. appointment then distressed & distressed that they would see them and think I had fleas, Nearly had panic on top of anxiety, they noticed depression on my medical history, asked if I could be bipolar? Geesh, I'm the diagnosee, not the diagnoser. Told them the closest I come to manic is jumping to conclusions. Maybe I am bipolar but if so, nobody has brought me into the loop. That would be my,luck, to be the last to know. But I got through that day super fine, they were very nice people, more than willing to,my on a gurney for them. Besides the other day I was in like a mezzanine level, if they pushed me out the window I'd only get lightly bruised. I'm acrophobic, I make sure I'm never too far from the ground. Rumor has it, the post-Bariatric Ward is on the 8th floor of the Main Hospital, la la la I don't hear it, if I don't hear it I don't have to think about it. According to Noel Grimm, Late Lamented 's friend, aka the Vision. aka Wallace the Wierd, I was thrown from a building in ancient Persia and crushed under a load of been melons. He also claims he was the driver of the Melon Cart. Strange Dude, sleeps under an inverted chrystal to channel to wisdom of the ages into his chakra, and he is certain he was there. This explained my aversion to melons so strongly,that I vomit if I even smell their sickening sweet smell. Cantaloupe, Persian melon and especially watermelon. I stopped the car and made Tomkitten get out when he had watermelon-scented gum in his mouth. Well, it was for My Protection and who wants to wear what I last ate?😜

And before Iong the planning for August 2018 people will be joining you-- you guys will be the Seasoned Veterans!👍

So how much cost is there to an average monthly vitamin regime? And before you say it, everybody is different, I just want a ball park figure 😍

So then you DO Count them?

Premier Protein Clear in the Mixed Berries flavor? Only one I've found to try.😜

This sounds a,scary and Mon cost-effective situation!👉😧👈

Oh my and I'm naturally worn-out although maybe the protein shakes and vitaminsv seem to have made a difference and I am willing to let my body rest and heal (if I ever get anything to heal from!) but I was hoping to start bouncing back as the weight diminishes and I can move easier. Please tell me I'm not hoping in vain! Am I a dope to hope?😪

This is as close as I've found for my question. So kill me if you want but I'd like an answer? I am immediately presurgical, well actually perpetually presurgical, but that's another longer topic. Last Thursday at OSU, yes The Ohio State University, as they style themselves, my nutritionist Roy asked if I was taking any vitamins, especially multivitamins. Yes I said, I have been taking Centrum Silver, although my hair definitely is not Silver,i am That Ol He says I w a by you to switch to prenatal vitamins for the iron. Okay, I said, then when I got home and started evaluating and second-guessing myself,i started to wonder? Will I be on this post-surgery or will I be swiched one of the traditional Bariatric ones.? Has anybody out there in BariatricLand just remained on them? Mind you except for a few raised eyebrows from the pharmacy staff, nobody has questioned me and they are a whole,lot easier to find them . So I remain your bewidered yet humble servant. 😌Frustr8