Updates are due

Nov 18, 2010

Hi, All, I had a gastric bypass revision in June of 2009 and was out of work for six months.  I also had a tube put into my remnant stomach and kept in for about five months to drain it on a regular basis.  Some foods were refluxing up into my remnant somehow.   I did get the tube removed about a year ago.  For about six months now I'm having more issues.  I think i have a now more serious partially obstructed bowel.  I have been waiting since YESTERDAY for my insurance company to approve a CT Scan to figure out what the issue is but they don't think it's medically necessary so want more info on why it is.  Gee, hmmmmm...the gastric bypass?  the two subsequent surgeries in my abdominal area?  Plus two abdominoplasties, a c -section and a gall bladder removal surgery?  Did anyone tell my insurance company that the more abdominal surgeries you have the more issues you have?

hmmmmmm...so if I have a bowel obstruction, I hope to God, it's fixed before gangrene sets in.

Currently I am having diarrhea when the pressure in my belly is to the point it's going to explode.  I can't eat at all...it's not worth it.  Even drinking is painful at times.  I am weak and dehydrated.  But I have to wait for insurance.  ugh.

I am still in the 160's.  When I was feeling good for a little while I went up to the 170's...but it didn't last long.  My body is completely rejecting this surgery.  It's not supposed to be this way and it doesn't like it.  So I have to suffer.

I also have back issues now from being so fat and am supposed to have back surgery but if I end up in the hospital over this...it may not be able to happen till February.  Sigh.

Okay, I'm signing off for now.  I just haven't updated in forever!!!

Hope all of you are doing well

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