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Hello there....
I have had some kind of journey this last month!
Thank you to all who have said a word of prayer for me. It is by the grace and mercy of God that I am able to sit here and type or even be here period after all that I have just gone through!!!

Thanks to my sis RaeRae for keeping you all posted as to my condition. It was a very scary ordeal for my family and friends.

I arrived at the hospital as planned by 6:00 am on Thurs. Feb 19th. Got prepped for surgery, had prayer with my parents and my friend who had brought me to the hospital and I was off...I don't even remember being wheeled off from them. I guess the drugs took effect quick cuz  I was OUT!

Next thing I remember, I was gasping for air, kind of choking and seemed to be drowining in my own saliva...I heard all of these voices around me, so much flurry going on in the room...I heard my mother telling someone not to tell me what had happened because she didn't know how I would react....I heard a nurse in my ear telling me that if she were me she wouldn't have the surgery and that this was God's way of telling me not to do it....I heard all kinds of stuff but couldnt figure out what had happened and what the heck was this thing in my throat obstructing my breathing!!!! Later to find out that I was now in ICU some 6-7 hours later. 

Since I felt like I was drowning, I began to panic and everytime I panicked i would lose the cadence of my breathing which would in turn cause me to choke....I kept hearing people tell me not to try to talk and I was screaming in my mind "I'm trying to breathe, not talk!" So I began to wiggle my feet and fingers as much as I could to signal to someone that I was awake. I even heard my sister tell the nurse that I was waking up and she said that I was too heavily sedated and my body was reacting to all of the tubes and medication...I started twitching like crazy cuz they needed to know I was awake....FINALLY they figured out that I was not sedated and heard and felt everything....

They told me that my blood pressure had dropped to almost nothing during the final stages of my surgery and that unfortunately my surgery was not completed. WHAT????? Although I was very disappointed, I was and still remain very greatful that I am alive and that I had a doctor who cared more about my life rather than finishing the procedure....The way I see it....what good is a gastric bypass if I'm dead?????

Anyway, I was in ICU for 4 days and they had pumped me with lots of medication to get my blood pressure back up. This medication and all the fluids bloated me beyond recognition....so when Sunday rolled around, the doc was going to try to go ahead and finish the procedure....unfortunately once he got back inside he discovered that my bowels and some other organs were too bloated for him to finish the procedure without causing me more harm. 

I was moved to a regular room on the bariatric floor and was monitored, blood pressure was back to normal and now we were waiting for my swelling to go down....I was finally released on Wednesday the 24th and was supposed to return in 4 weeks to have surgery....due to my surgeon's schedule though....I can't even get my surgery completed until April 13th!

Not very happy about that date, but at this point, it is what it is....I am doing well....following my regimen as if I had a complete bypass...I have lost about 22 pounds which is pretty good considering that my intestines have not been bypassed to my pouch...that was the last step....

So I ask for your continued prayers. I don't know why I had to go through this, the docs can not even explain what happened, but I do know that God is in control and that he saved my life for a purpose!
Thanks again and I will keep y'all posted!!!