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And I am 7 months out and feel Nothing but Restriction, even on soups that aren't totally strained. Dr Noria at my endoscopy tomorrow,you got some ' splaining to do! Am I ever going to have an EGJ with NO reservations? This inquiring mind would like know! 👵🌷

Don't you hate it when people(especially your mother) talk the talk but fail to walk the walk when they could be of use? Well, on behalf of all the other Mamas of the world, I will apologize! Perhaps we will resind her Mother Union membership. 👎👵

Funny, sideeye, but my ortho pointed out the same thing, said " it wasn't as noticable when you were heavier!" Sorry Dr D, but I am going to lose more, too bad about your👀 eyesight, you are the right age for b👓focals anyway. 👸😝

Same reason i drin,k Nestle Splash calorie free flavors, plain water tastes bitter, kind of like what i think bile tastes like. IDK why,but it has almost since my surgery 7 months ago.

Girl, you do need see someone even if a free or nearly free clinic. You're gonna end up in the hospital I did for malnourishment and protein anemia. Ended up being fed 12 hours a day through an arm vein even after I went home, 3 months until it was discontinued. Grateful I'm still alive but what a path I have traveled!

Slowly, smoothly,day by day you'll heal and find your way to your New Normal! And it is such a incredible place to be!👉👸👈

It's still Wowsers from me! Silly Kitty is now a smooth sleek Feline. Thanks for letting us see the transformation from a round Lap Cat to the Feline on Vacation you were!

De Nada, I'm 73 now, got so many stories and observations, Life is really kind of Funny and you don't have to experience it all, often the watching is 1/2 the fun.

And tomorrow for #12. after I return home from my EGJ,not feeling real good and slightly sleepy, I plan to watch "Murder on The Orient Express", Agatha Christie wrote very good books I always liked Hercule Poirot!

A gree and now with the rolls etc gone I have a neck like a tortoise or 🐢. I'm sure the last time I was this weight I didn't look like this, but maybe the memory had faded, it was a LONG TIME AGO!

Proud Proud Proud of your success! I couldn't believe it,my last new jeans are 22, the dress slacks and top I am going to wear to my EGJ tomorrow is a bono fire 20, after starting out in 28-30W, and. "do you have anything in the Mens section because I'm not finding much here" My baby NSV, I am now In ladies,heading to Juniors, no more cross- shopping looking for something to cover my body! I would "cry for happy"except there is so much better selection the smaller I go and I don't want to miss a durn thing hanging or folded there!👗👚👕👖The baggy saggy sweats are going Bye Bye! The body may be still above average but then so am I! After all, average is just as close to the bottom as it is the top. And if I am a little Odd, well Number One has always been. an ODD Number! Power to the Less Plump Princess, I'm gonna be Weight Loss Royalty#🏆

Oh Jobber, the memory you brought back. Shortly after being diagnosed with DM#2, Late Lamented invested in a biggish bag of Haribo sugar free Bears, when I told him " Honey, you really don't need THOSE!" I was informed it was His Sweet Tooth and he would handle it as he saw fit. Well both my Grandfather here in Central Ohio and his from the Netherlands had the same basic saying " Them who don't listen, got to feel!" So in went the hand, it came out out full of those critters and into his gaping maw. 45 minutes later the tsunami hit! PraiseGod I was not in his pathway or I would have had Size 15 footprints all the over my poor self! And it went well on and on until he produced enough fertilizer to send to the nearest floral garden. Oh and moan and curse and turn the very air blue! He was the saddest 330 pound man even seen! One of the few Dutch phrases my aunt's in law taught me, told him Oppa said and of course I had to translate because he didn't bother with the language except for a few muttered curses he picked up when his own Daddy said when building their house and hit a thumb or two. Best result: next thing I told him wasn't on a diabetic diet,he believed me. Gave a wide shoulder to sugar free candies from them on and didn't hear much more about" sweet teeth"!

Time moves On, so did YOU and now there is a refined YOU under construction. You may have to remove a few crooked nails before things are done. Glad everyone is On your team now. She And was preferring the old Status Quo to all the upsetting things and changes you were making. Guess some people are just that way!

You invested in YOU and what better time and investment! You are in charge now of your own future. So proud of you --Dina!

Well the books said so, but isn't it neat to find out out for yourself! LOL and cheering you on!😝

Think I have been doing this a long time, Tomkitten is on a Normal Person diet plan but Baby I sure am not! Only one meal in 5 do we converge much, otherwise I feed him and try to fix something else MS Precious Pouch will not regurgitate. Tomorrow is EGJ #10 or so, let's hear from Dr Noria the current state of my innards. Ulcerations still or healing? Pouch, less swollen, less red, ready to grow up, get destenosed and act like a Normal 7 month old Gastric Pouch? Last emesis was this Monday, tried to furthering diet, P.P. said " Oh No You Don't!" and enforced her statement with offending food" Up And Out". Few of family members used to say I was bratty 👎but I sure was a miniscule level compared with a turkey egged sized piece of gastric flesh. Every time I think she is going to honor our truce agreement, she starts up more hostilities. I used to bemoan the fact I had been not blessed with siblings, no more, she can be worse than a bratty baby brother, I believe. But I live in hope, and still losing weight, one scale said 233.1, one said 229.5, of course I love the second more, so a long way from 365+ where I started out, but never did I expect the road to there so bumpy and twisting. That makes me about 30 pounds away from Valerie the CNP goal for ME, but inside I WOULD STILL like to try for my Dream Goal of 175, can't I at least try? Best thing will be: Precious Pouch has to come along there with me, unless Drs Needleman and Noria excise her, SHE'S MY HOSTAGE! Makes the struggles I've been threw and chance for revenge on her a little sweeter!❤🍶👈😝👉

My "I didn't realize" was that I would lose so much of my face. I expected body and skin loose places, after all I had been increasingly obese over the years, but my cute puppy face has become more like an aged bloodhound, and somehow i don't expect a call from Search and Rescue in the the near future to find anyone. I think my skin tone is off, Tomkitten says " Mama, you're still as beautiful as ? ever!" Of course at his last opthamology appointment they did fit him with his first pair of glasses, so maybe I can't trust his assessment? But I'm keeping on, muttering under my breath " It is what it is!" So far only a few assorted children run at the sight of ,,, me and maybe I didn't want to be friends with them anyway! 👶👦👧😝🍀

And I hope you do find the right Doctor to help you through the rest of the journey. You have worked so hard already, you need the reward your surgery would give you!

Well let's hope it all straightens out, give yourself a brief pause and then try again.

well Well congratulations are in the order for you and your Aunt, I hope things will go very well for you. Sometimes a rocky start will make for a smooth finish, let's hope it's that way for you.

Day#1 What do I like about me? Probably the same things that irritate others, stubbornness, strong and resilience. I don't agree to everything others ask me( reformed from being an doormat for my family) but if I make a promise, I move Heaven and Earth to fulfill it. And I am compassionate, especially to animals. I cannot stand to have one be in pain, you don't want me to visit our local no-kill Cat Shelter, I might return with pockets full of kittens! There are few things in life cuter than kittens and puppies, and everyone there is looking for a 2nd chance to have their Forever Family.

And the latest update, had my plate and 12 screws removed from my upper left arm. That part wasn't Too Bad, but when he got in there he found the rotator cuff on that arm was pretty well shot. So he fixed it, and it is " kicking my butt" pretty bad. Oh he suggested I stay around home and recover a week and come in for a post surgical appointment on the 17th. Have I stayed home like a good little trooper? Oh you all know me better than that, had some paperwork to turn in to JFS, things I didn't want lost or misslaid by the US Postal System. Like to Little Girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead, when they're good they're very good but when they're bad they can be horrid. Returned paperwork once to my attorney in Columbus, took a full week to travel 50 miles. Where was it in the meantime? Well they are not giving out that knowledge. okay, the next part of the saga- I got to the office, they are doing remodeling in the rear parking lot. Now when I travel on our local transportation system, county- wide so its name is Knox Area Transpirt, well I avail myself of the mechanical lift, the one they use to load/unload wheel- chair dependant clients. With 2 semi- bionic knees and an ankle that needed surgery and didnt receive it,my days of mountain climbing are at a finish! So the driver thought she had gotten me close enough, went to step off, she had left me maybe 6 inches of sidewalk, went over the curb edge, topsey- turvey, and onto the arm that had just been repaired, and there I laid, bawling because did I hurt it worse? Luckily a Sherrif Deputy happened to be coming out of the building, called in on his shirt Mike to dispatch to get me the Emergency Squad because I couldn't get myself up to a standing position, Yeah FAT LADY DOWN! And I was a little frightened also, if I had been planning a fall I would have landed on the healthier side of my body. When they got there,they stood me up by one lifting under my left arm, the other 2 by lifting me by the waistband of my jeans. God Bless you, Levi Strauss, you do weave a strong fabric! And off I go to the local hospital, known in Columbus as the "band aid station", one of the few things they don't screw up badly. So why do I occasionally frequent them with such a reputation, convenience, pure convenience, baby! So off I went to the hospital, 4 days after having my arm operated on, multiple x-days and much maneuverings, many of which I cursed through, no breaks, no cracks, I guess at 232 I got away with some massive bruising, at my high weight of 365+ I would have crunched that rascal but good! Another benefit of weight. loss nobody mentioned. Well I also mentioned my 💩 was residing in my lower colon and unwilling to move. So I got a bottle of adorable Cherry Mag Citrate, took it when I got home, should work 1/2 to 3 hours later. Proceeded to wait, visited the porcelain chamber, a little came each time but no sense of relief. And so went my evening, decided to go on with what I should be doing, let the bowels take care of themselves. Well maybe not the most perfect choice, that and excessive pain pills got me in this predictament. So this morning at 5 AM. I got back up and drank down the chilled remains of yesterday. Finally after all this, at 10:30 am I gave birth to a 2 kg softball, felt like it was like a small bowling ball, probably will be brown and loose the rest of the day, hey NBD the LUMP resident,at the anal opening, is now gone gone gone! Tried some skim milk this AM , came right back up, maybe I wasn't that hungry and needed it? Well. Ms Precious Pouch, she made the dicussion for me. When things settle down I will take the Zofran I missed at 8 AM, Yeah still troubled with emesis and such at 7 months. But then I am so special. a case I hardly can stand me at times. It will straighten out,by the end. And poor Doctor Doolittle, he tried so hard to make my arm appear so,pretty despite they surgery , now it looks like somebody twisted my arm severely, bruising on top of bruising. Isn't too pretty now and will be uglier as the bruises turn green and yellow while they heal up. May try to take those papers down, but sure going use another entrance if I do. I don't want to give my body to science until I am truly done with it!

And small world after all, Colchester is among the cities I'd like to visit if I ever made it to the UK.

Amen Frou Frou! And I apologize for her insensitivity and please don't let her Mar a beautiful surgery and a wonderful recovery period. She seems envious of 2 ladies who are commited to their religion and have pride in the external trappings as well. I have friends of your religion along with my many Christian and Jewish ones, and each has enriched my life greatly. There is No Room for such actions in a caring profession like nursing.She shames a beautiful profession by her actions!

I hope the guy with that matter one finally got his act together.Even notice how our New Years Resolutions seldom Chang?