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Min3 is 3 months, 6 months and then if things check out perfect, yearly the rest of your thinned- down life! I was getting weekly blood draws while I had my PICC line and was on TPN, so they used the appropriate ones to satisfy the quota. Mine were drawn at the hospital😝

My local Goodwill is upgrading and remodeling, going to have a drive- through lane like fast food. Got about 5 Styrofoam totes from when I was getting TPN supplies weekly, full of 5X, 4s and 3s, going to drop them off next week, if they sell the totes later, so be it!

And pictures can be worth a Thousand Words, document, document and then repeat.

Note to Self: You are not too old It is not too late if not not now, when? You need It You want it You know you do deserve it so let's go for it, Baby!

Remember Sasha, No one else is YOU ; that is your Greatest Superpower!

Hope you don't learn to HATE it, your taste buds go weird post surgery, some stuff eases oversweet, others bitter or just disgusting.

Wanna See, Wanna See! Sounds like even the raccoons are bigger and stronger in Texas.⭐

Well Jon it's a week, are you feeling weak or strong as a bill or somewhere in between?

So so proud of you for doing that!

SilverOctober keep thinking Good Thoughts towards me! I got recently diagnosed with thyroid nodules, big one on the left, just belie surgical intervention size and multiple small ones in the right. Saw PCP last Thursday , he asked how were they doing at fixing and finding out things? He should know, he sent me for all the stuff thus far, he has the reports. Well Friday I go to see my ENT, I my horseness and husky voice due to the thyroid lump leaning on the nerve to the larnyx, is it a left-over from the years of GERD or something else? Dr Suzie is very smart, I'm sure she'll help me get to the bottom of this. Is the next step a endicrinologist, a cereal surgeon or what? Must confess I'm not certain of the next stages.

Stir Genepro or another protein powder into everything you can? That 🐭🐱is a hard hard question to answer. I feel like I'm a protein with occasional sides of veggies myself. Don't you feel like screaming YOU CANT GET BLOOD FROM A TURNIP! , cause I sure do!

Thought I was hungry, made myself a baby bowl of wheaties and honey bunchs of oats. OMG, I was eating slow and easy, all the sudden nausea and I think I am going to puke it up. I hate to deprecate my Run but I almost never puked in my prior-to- surgery life, now 4 to 7 times a week. And it is often mild , low-seasoned items, makes no sense! And (sniff) thought Tuesday would be a Terrific day💦Only thing I hate more than nausea is the actual puking and upper chest wall pain. 😭😪😥

And I bet you're pretty awesome yourself, glad it worked out for YOU!

I did but honestly the needles are such a small gauge and so short they are not so bad to do. I remembered to switch sides of my tummy so one didn't get so sore, my belly was still so high I didn't have trouble finding a new location. Got good enough after 2 weeks I told my nurse " Ought to rent me out to one of the Drug-Houses, cause I am pretty good at this". But the other posters are correct ,,, if every surgeon requires them, if yours does, please believe he/she has assessed your individual case & feels you would benefit from them. I probably got mine because I am old as dirt(73) and because of arthritis a non- energetic Gym Rat.

Erinshay are you in West Virginia? If you are, Mousecat is also, if not I just wanted to say hi from Central Ohio!

I think @ Danny Paul is either a member or has attended there a lot. Said they have helped him.

Do you have a flavor in life you really like? Make an INFUSION with that, have someone who likes cucumbers, she puts slices in her drinking water, another likes lemon, so lemon or citrus slices, another ( shudder) ❤ loves watermelon, pureed some up and made watermelon-ade, see I think All Melon is yucky and makes me puke! Told Anvie, don't breathe on me or I shall hurl and you're not going to like THAT!

Try your nearest State university hospital, they probably still do them. I know there a bunch-and- 3/4s hospitals in Your Area, but the first one that comes into my mind is Tufts, but I bet Brigham and Women's is also good. You're lucky to have so many, I have to travel 50 miles to Columbus Ohio to get a decent Bariatric Hospital.Mind you, I am not sorry, these people are wonderful, they do stilllap-band although that was not my surgery of choice.

A little fear, a little disquieted, that's cool, Just don't let Fear tuck you into his hind picket and keep you there. You were not made to be Fearful but Victorious, remember that and you will make IT so!

Well I put in an order for a Terrific Tuesday, but let's see what I can do to insure that! This is an every- other-day week for me. Yesterday was Urology. My former urologist Dr Clemens decided to confine his practice to Franklin County and Columbus so I now belong to his partner, Dr Jed Henry. Seems very nice, a little older(42) than Dr Clemens but still young enough to be my kid. That happens a lot when you're 73. Going to call me back on Wednesday with a proper antibiotic instead of prescribing an antibiotic willy- Billy. Said I don't like the color and consistency of your urine, well Duh, I don't either, and that's why I came in. We had a good laugh at the expense of my PCP who told me last Thursday he would give me a 5 day script for Microbid and never faxed it over to Wal-Mart, my usual pharmacy. If I knew he was gonna forget, I should have asked for a hand-written script, He's only 50 or so, young for senility, maybe a transient stupid attack? Wednesday I also go over to my local hospital, Knox Community aka the "Band-Aid Station" dubbed this by the Columbus hospitals. They have a habit of treating what they want and sending the rest by land or helicopter transport to Columbus. Hence the sarcasm. When I was getting ready for my endoscopy on April 12th, the anesthesia doctor had a low-grade hissy because she heard a Frank heart murmer. Had my PCP. talked with me about it? Well he MIGHT have mentioned it but I thought it was mild, functional and probably part of aging. She still was a less' than- happy - camper, would not let her resident do my sedation, did it herself, and must have sent a little note to PCP because I got more cardiac testing tomorrow at 1 pm. Oh Happy Happy Joy 😂 Joy! Then on Friday I see my ENT, Dr Suzie Helming, she is a really sweet person. I have had a noticable huskiness coming over my voice, usually a high alto/low soprano quality. Now I think I sound like Lauren Bacall & why is this? Is it the culmative effect of all those years of Gerd, is my recently found thyroid nodule pressing on a vocal cord, could it have some sort of heredity basis, my late Mama was also husky- sounding the last few years of her life( died 16 years ago at 87, I was 57 then) or could it be something else? Saw her hubby Dr Jarrett, the orthopaedic surgeon, he did my 1st knee in 2014. Asked why I was sitting outside the office building on a bench, told him about going to visit his wife on Friday, we joked about that I didn't have to go to such lengths to see here, he had pictures on his wallet of her and the kids. Their daughter Charleigh is petite like her, but poor child, she otherwise looks just like her daddy. Maybe she'll outgrow it? Must going to be 3 in June, and their son Dylan, gosh I do not see a resemblance to either of them. The last picture I saw of him, he looked like Suzie had gone somewhere for Donor IVF, maybe he resembles Suzie's Dad or Jarrett's Mama? Funny how genes work! One of the cousins, Brandee, on late hubby side, spitting image of their Aunt Lois, but her grandma Aunt Woneta and Aunt Lois looked nothing alike. My hubby was the son of the oldest sister Faye, then came Aunt Ruth ,Aunt Lois and lastly Aunt Woneta. If you saw them on the street, didn't know them, you would never suspect they were sisters. So we Will see how this week pans out. And next week on the 30th I go to Columbus to be seen at the Bariatric Clinic , my paperwork says I see Dr Noria, my surgeons partner, but one of the nurses I spoke to the other day said No I merely see Valerie the head Nurse- Practitioner. Well no big thing either way! In the meantime celebrating being down to 228 from alk- time high of 365+, I say + because I got to the point I would not get on a scale unless you jabbed me with a sharpened stick. Knew all scales carried a grudge and wouldn't say anything nice about me! Suffice it to say my BMI was in the 50s and now it's mid 30s and lowering by the day! Yippee Skipee Yahoo!👍😝👍🍀🌈

Well let us know how things are going now that you are de-ballooned, did your hubby have his removed and how is he doing?

#23I- tried texting Ellie 123, I think she must be doing so good she has gone inactive. Good for her but I miss her on here! 😋

You're moving right along, let's hope everything else goes smoothly so your surgery can happen!😝🍀😝

And no matter how early or late in the Day it is for your Surgery, He's already up, on the job and watching over YOU!❤ And you will not die of malnutrition, your doctor's will intervene before that happens. I was at risk, had 3 months of TPN being fed through an arm vein 12 hours daily, came out fine, sassy as ever, lost 30 pounds in a month, might not duplicate that but I am still losing but in a healthier way. There is nothing to fear, had multiple operations but this was by far the easiest. And although my recovery has not been classic it still isn't THAT BAD, could never have lost what I have on diet alone. Precious Pouch is a cruel taskmistress at times, but she and I will be a duo until my death, and I don't plan that for anytime soon. You are going to do fine , if I can do it at 72 it should be easy- peasy for you. Stop looking for calamity, just cross your bridges, nobody asked you to build overpasses, side ramps and round-abouts. And if you need to talk I'm almost always here!

How many times have I heard " Well, everything LOOKS fine" and I tell them not everything feels fine or works fine, 80% of the time I am the one correct! Pretty good gambling odds, if you don't feel in your gut things aren't RIGHT, trust it, often your mind can be fooled but you have an inate wisdom about YOURSELF.