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  • Name: Katrina B.
  • Username: jax_charmed
  • Location: Jacksonville, NC, USA
  • Member Since: 11/15/2007
  • BMI: 55.8
  • Post Op
  • Surgery Type: RNY (06/28/12)
  • Surgeon: Jon Bruce M.D.
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Goals

Have a visible collar bone

45 People
 in progress, 
52 People
 achieved this

Take a bath and have extra room in the tub.

57 People
 in progress, 
53 People
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Reach Onederland

241 People
 in progress, 
253 People
 achieved this

Buy clothes at a regular store...not a plus size store.

791 People
 in progress, 
592 People
 achieved this

TO SIT IN A AIRPLANE SEAT AND NOT HAVE TO USE AN EXTENSION

66 People
 in progress, 
69 People
 achieved this
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Member Interests
  • Computers & Internet
  • Dogs - I am a Dog lover and have one currently at home.
  • Movies - I love Horror/Action Movies. Not really into sappy Chick Flick thing.
  • Music - I like all types of music & listening depends upon mood. Music sooths my soul.
  • Jewely Making - I love making Beaded Jewely..
  • BMI over 50 - Well my interest isn't in having a BMI over 50; lol, but brining it down!!
  • WLS in your 30's - Okay so I am 32... woo hoo
  • Reading - My favorite books are Mystery and Suspence. Some Drama is good too.

Latest Surgery Support Comments

  • Comment by Katrina B. on 7/2/12 6:51 am
    Thank You to all who posted.... I am doing well and been home from Hospital for a few days now and just working at getting all the protein in daily.. WOW that is Not easy!! Bruises are looking better and finally starting to turn colors so must be getting in some protein. :) Thanks Again!!! ~~ Kat
  • Comment by Ritatorres on 6/28/12 7:44 pm
    Good luck and god bless!
  • Comment by Melodie R. on 6/28/12 10:19 am
    Good luck on your surgery.
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Surgery Day June 28th 2012 till 6/30
on June 30, 2012 9:55 am
Well I am Soooo HAPPY to say my surgery date has come and gone now.  

I got home late last night after being discharged early since I was doing so well.  My surgery was on Thursday 6-28 and a little more than 24 hours later I was home and in my own bed.  I am lucky enough to have a 13 year old self reliant son, so making the decision to come home was a no brainer.  Clearly the constant disruptions from getting woke up every other hour at night and being poked, squeezed and prodded to death was not inductive to healing and relaxing for me.  So when the Dr said I could go home early, I texted my sister and said "When can you be here?"    Now after a wonderful night of sleep, with little pain at all; I feel more relaxed and refreshed.  My son is happy cuz he is not having to worry about me being in the hospital where he can't see me (since I was outta town) and that is a huge relief to my mind as well.  

Two weeks before my surgery, one of my doctors changed a medication of mine so that it was Post Op approved and dissoluble.  To my utter disbelief I watched the scales climb higher and higher as my body reacted to this new Med.    After all but starving myself to get it to come back down to near starting point he then increases it and the scales rise again.  Agggghhhhrrrrrrr.  So my Surgery day Weigh In was at 405 pounds.  Bummer cuz my last preop appointment was 6 pounds less than that.  But I tried not to be discouraged, but did have lots of explaining to do as to why my weight was Up and not down before surgery.  Then when I left the hospital it was 408.  I had read some where that some peoples weight rises after the surgery due to swelling and retention so I am trying not to be discouraged yet again.  So I walked more at the hospital and hoped for the best.  

Today 6/30 now my weight is 405 so I am back down to my Surgery weigh in and that is at least a little bit of good news.  I had some chicken soup Unjury for my lunch and have been sipping my water.  Wow the noises my stomach and intestines make now are something I will have to get used too but boy are they strange.   It's 90 degrees outside but I went for a short walk around my apartment complex and broke a sweat but figure that's more from heat than exhurstion ~ but I got out there so that's the important thing.  My goal for tonight is to get out and do the stationary bicycle for 30 min.  

So daily goal is set, water is filled and ready for sipping.... so lets get this party started and let the pounds come off... 

 
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Preop Testing done!! & Surgeons Results Visit now...
on June 8, 2012 5:41 am
On the 6Th of June I attended my Results visit with my surgeon and also got  ((Drum Roll Please!!) MY SURGERY DATE!!  I am so happy and finally have a date that I know will change my life for the better. 

Alot has changed since I first joined this site.... I know some of my other blogs speak of my husband.  But I think that is the biggest change.  I am no longer with him and had some difficulty with changes after the separation.  I moved from Florida and thus was not able to have the surgery.  I moved to Oregon for about four years before moving back out East to North Carolina and starting the process of finding a surgeon and getting back on track with my WLS goals.  

I have to say I am very happy with my surgeon choice.  Dr Jon Bruce is very nice and upbeat and told me up front with out sugar coating it what I was in for on my first visit.  I appreciated that honesty and cemented in my mind that he was the right surgeon for me. 

So a little over 7 months has passed since that first meeting and now here I am a little over 3 weeks till my surgery date.  I am so excited and nervous too.  I know the nerves will pass but for now I am just enjoying the ride....

Be Safe and till next time.... 
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Cardiac Clearence Is Mine!!!
on May 19, 2008 3:47 pm
Woo Hoo!!!  I have my cardiac clearence FINALLY!!!!!  
I am sooo very happy and have been flying high all day!  Deb called me today and said I could even cancel my appointment tomorrow as she was faxing over the paper work today.  
And I got my endoscopy moved up to this Friday so I will have that done soon too.  Only thing I know left after that is the ultra sound of my gallbladder.  
Things are looking up for me finally.  Only thing left for me to worry about is the final payment of the fee's and how much the hospital is gonna want for thier fee at the time I register... 

Yeah Me!!!   

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Keep on swimming.... I am Swimming!!! :o)~
on May 15, 2008 5:04 pm
Okay well a few days ago on Tuesday I got a call from Meghan telling me that my H-pylori test came back positive.  Meaning I would have to do an endoscopy and also since I still have my gallblader, a scan of that too... Of course I didn't take that allllll too well.  A referal to another physican to get more test done.  Whew.... Well after much venting to a good friend, thank you JC; he reminded me to think like Dory in Nemo movie.  Keep on swimming..

So that got me thinking.. many moons ago I would go surfing with my friends on the beach in Oregon.  The water is cold there and most of the time you have to wear a wet suit to keep from getting hypothermia.  Well I wasn't very good so when I would get up I would eventually fall down.. One time stands out in my mind in particular...  I had just been knocked down and was swimming for the surface when a huge wave grabbed me and pulled me back under... I was tossed around and didn't know which way was up.. Even in day light it is hard to see under the water there and then your eye balls get soooo cold cuz the temp of the water is really cold.   So seeing for long periods of time just really isn't possible.. So I swam.. And I am sure if someone was filming me it woulda looked really funny, cuz I had no idea where I was at direction wise.. I am sure I went down and side to side but eventually, thank god, I came up... Air never tasted sooo sweet.  (I have a Huge fear of suffication and this is a major contributor for why.)  

If I hadn't just keep swimming around I probibly would have never made it back up.. That's scary in itself.. But thinking about what JC said made me realize that right now I am swimming, not necesarly up, but I am going side to side and eventually I will make it to the top,  And when I do the air on the loosers bench will be just as sweet!!  These ongoing test will eventually make sure I come out of this alive.  And being that I have a son and husband that really want to see me again, that is important.  But I desided while talking to my friend that I wasn't gonna let a set back pull me back down.  So here's to the sweet air I know is coming.  Wheww.. 


Well today I had my Cardiac Stress Test and Echocardiogram done at the hospital where I will have my surgery.  Started out by admissions saying I didn't have an appointment, then them telling me that I did but everything was under my maiden name.  So after and hour + of straiting out insurance info and documentation I finally had the test done.  

I am glad they are over and hopefully I will get the good news tomorrow from the doctor that he will sign off on the surgery clearence.  But I also see it as now they have all my updated information correct in their computers so it should go that much easier for check in.  


See I am swimming!!  Have a great day, and remeber to keep swimming too!!

                 
                   
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Back on track
on May 9, 2008 8:09 pm
Just wanted to appologize for yesterday.  It was a rough day all around and I normally don't like to let the little things get to me... It just all added up.
I am much better today and am back on track and working twords my WLS goals.. 
Have a great journey!  And keep your chin up to anyone who may read this.  We all have our weak days, but it helps to keep the bigger picture in mind when those days happen.  

                         
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So I guess this is were I tell everyone a little about myself. Well foremost, I am a mother and a wife.  I love my dearest friends and love to have a good time.   I have been battling obesity for most of my life.  I have fought my own drug addictions as that was a way for me to be thin.  Nearly 10 years ago, I realized I had more to life for and was able to put that part of my life behind me.  As an unfortunate side effect my wieght nearly doubled and I have been gaining ever since.
  
I decided about 6 years ago to have the gastric bypass surgery, and just as I was getting scheduled for it; my insurance company at the time decided it was no longer a benefit.  Lovely little thing to find out when you are sooooo close to it; only to have it yanked away from you.  

Devistated, I began to try to find a way to have the surgery.  Then in 2007 I started with a company that offered it as part of the medical plan.  Woo Hoo!!  So again I am working towards my ultimate goal.  Writing this, I am almost 6 months in the new year 2008.  And I am again hoping soon for a surgery date......