ANOTHER question.....
I am 4 months out...
the breath - I brushed my tongue, AND found sugar free breath mints...
the toots - they eventually subsided in potency! I no longer run away from myself when I let one rip!
body odour - it too passed
I think the lack of variety in our diet pre and post op are the cause of the evil scents...but now I am eating a wider range of foods and things have evened out. My skin was super dry too, more than even before. It's till dry, but tolerable!
Orientation - April 25, 2012, Nurse - May 16, 2012, Social Worker - May 25, Dietician - May 25, 2012, Abdominal Ultrasound - June 29, 2012, Cardiologist - August 1, 2012 Pre-Surgical Education Class September 19, 2012, Meet with Surgeon September 27, 2012, PATTS November 9, 2012, Surgery Date November 16, 2012 (Dr. Mamazza)
Funny thing happened to me.....
I had my surgery at HRRH and (as a lot of other OHers have posted) it's an older hospital with old lingering smells. When I was discharged, I rushed home.... showered... washed all my clothes.... showered again.... brushed my teeth.... NO MATTER WHAT I DID, I couldn't get rid of the ol' HRRH stench and I could still smell my stinky roommate, even with a hundred miles between us!
Then one day.... my girlfriend came for a visit. And, as only a TRUE GIRLFRIEND would tell it to you straight up - she told me she too could smell HRRH on me. We laughed and laughed and giggled. D'oh - it took all that time for the two of us to figure out that it wasn't HRRH that smelled - it was ME.
She told me I should call them up and apologize to them for all the bad thoughts I'd had and all the bad things I'd said about them.
VBG: Dr. Abawi (Bowmanville) Jun-2004. Weight Loss: 237 ⬇ 164 = 73 pounds loss in first year.
Bariatric Network Registry: 19-Aug-2011 Orientation at HRRH: 17-Aug-2012
Consult with Dr. Hagen (HRRH): 29-Aug-2012 Doctor ordered Gastroscopy: 10-Oct-2012
Meetings with Nurse, Vampire, Registered Dietician and Social Worker (HRRH): 24-Oct-2012
Consult with Internist Dr Glazer: 29-Oct-2012 Ordered Cardiac Ultrasound 12-Nov-2012
Met with Dr. Hagen: 12-Nov-2012 Surgery date 19-Feb-2013 (07- Jan-2013 date revised)
Pre-Admission Tests: 10-Jan-2013 Started OptiFast: 14-Jan-2013 Starting Weight: 233
Conversion Surgery VBG ➜ RnY with Dr. Hagen: 28-Jan-2013 Weight day of Surgery: 216
OMG, you all have me sitting here laughing so hard, especially your experience of the hospital smelling and then realizing that it was you. OMG I can't stop laughing. Believe me I understand what you are saying, but you guys just tell it so funny.
May you all smell like roses very soon! 
Cathy xo
Orientation: Feb 2013, Surgeon, Nurse, Dietician: June 2013, Dr. Glazier: April 2013, Surgeon: Dr. John Hagen, June 2013, PATTS: August 2013, Optifast: August 2013, Surgery: HRRH Sept. 5, 2013
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I think I popped a stitch when my friend ever-so-seriously looked at me over top of her bifocals and told me I should phone HRRH and apologize for being so judgemental.
And for the record.... I am still uncertain if I smell (as in, foul odour emanating from said body, and perhaps, all orifices contained within)... or if I smell funny (as in, my nose doesn't work the same and has become hypersensitive).
Big sigh. I suppose it could be both - or my nose just not likin' what it's smellin'.
I just pictured everyone on the bench getting up to leave and the bench tipped over with me hanging on with one hand, nose plugged with other...
VBG: Dr. Abawi (Bowmanville) Jun-2004. Weight Loss: 237 ⬇ 164 = 73 pounds loss in first year.
Bariatric Network Registry: 19-Aug-2011 Orientation at HRRH: 17-Aug-2012
Consult with Dr. Hagen (HRRH): 29-Aug-2012 Doctor ordered Gastroscopy: 10-Oct-2012
Meetings with Nurse, Vampire, Registered Dietician and Social Worker (HRRH): 24-Oct-2012
Consult with Internist Dr Glazer: 29-Oct-2012 Ordered Cardiac Ultrasound 12-Nov-2012
Met with Dr. Hagen: 12-Nov-2012 Surgery date 19-Feb-2013 (07- Jan-2013 date revised)
Pre-Admission Tests: 10-Jan-2013 Started OptiFast: 14-Jan-2013 Starting Weight: 233
Conversion Surgery VBG ➜ RnY with Dr. Hagen: 28-Jan-2013 Weight day of Surgery: 216
2by4, OMG, I have read your post about your journey with cancer and surgeries. I think you are absolutely amazing, brave, and you must be optimistic. When we come into these groups we don''t always realize some of the other things people have gone through because we are so focused on this surgery. But you have come such a long way and now this surgery, I must say, I am so humbled after reading your story. I wish you all the success possible, and I believe you will do very well. I'm sure you will be able to give lots of great advice to all of us. Bravo to you! 
Cathy xo
Orientation: Feb 2013, Surgeon, Nurse, Dietician: June 2013, Dr. Glazier: April 2013, Surgeon: Dr. John Hagen, June 2013, PATTS: August 2013, Optifast: August 2013, Surgery: HRRH Sept. 5, 2013
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Awww, thanks Cathy.
You're right - the only thing incurable is my optimism.
VBG: Dr. Abawi (Bowmanville) Jun-2004. Weight Loss: 237 ⬇ 164 = 73 pounds loss in first year.
Bariatric Network Registry: 19-Aug-2011 Orientation at HRRH: 17-Aug-2012
Consult with Dr. Hagen (HRRH): 29-Aug-2012 Doctor ordered Gastroscopy: 10-Oct-2012
Meetings with Nurse, Vampire, Registered Dietician and Social Worker (HRRH): 24-Oct-2012
Consult with Internist Dr Glazer: 29-Oct-2012 Ordered Cardiac Ultrasound 12-Nov-2012
Met with Dr. Hagen: 12-Nov-2012 Surgery date 19-Feb-2013 (07- Jan-2013 date revised)
Pre-Admission Tests: 10-Jan-2013 Started OptiFast: 14-Jan-2013 Starting Weight: 233
Conversion Surgery VBG ➜ RnY with Dr. Hagen: 28-Jan-2013 Weight day of Surgery: 216
