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I'm now 15 months out to the date and down 130 lbs.  I now weigh 147 lbs. and wear a size Small. I love my new life!!!!!

Today was the day I officially put my walker in the basement storage. No more walker for me!! 

It was one of my goals. To be rid of that thing.  I'm now 6 months out and 83 lbs down.

It's been a wild ride so far.  38 lbs to go!

As of last night I'm down 74 lbs. 

47 lbs to go!!

Down 65 lbs, and I'm 4 months post-op as of December 27. 

I'm now wearing a size L-XL on the top (no more plus sizes) and a size 18 on the bottoms (but that is starting to feel big).

Currently down 50 lbs!!!

Surgery went well on Aug 27.  I was to go home on Aug 29 but I was kept in an extra day because of rectal bleeding.  Old blood but lots and lots of it.  My hemogloben went down 25 points from 116 to 91.  At about 3 pm on Aug 30 they told me I could go home. The surgeon said it 'might' happen again but unlikely.  So home I go.  At 6:30 pm that same day I'm passing blood. Same dark old stuff.  And again the next morning so I haul my butt to Emergency for about 8 hours.  They ran blood tests and hooked me up to a Saline solution.  My hemoglobin was back up to 101 so they said I'm not bleeding from any leaks or problems that it really was just from surgery and they sent me home.  It never happened again.

That was Wed through Friday.  I still had the most horrible pain by the left incision where they put the camera.  On a scale of 1-10 it was about a 15.  Surgeon said they are none too gentle with the camera as they have to see what they have to see but that it would go away. Everyone is different as to how long it stays.  Mine stayed just shy of 4 weeks.  WORSE than childbirth.  The one day, it was really sore and then I noticed by about 7 pm that evening it was gone. So othat is one issue down. 

The other issue is all about bowels.  OMG.....One week after surgery to the date I had the worse constipation!  13 hours!!  The pain from the incision hurt worse and I couldn't push because it was sooo painful.  After the Milk of Mag and suppositories I finally got relief at about 1 am.  What an experience!  I've had a couple of constipation episodes since but now that I have the MoM and suppositories I can clear it up quickly.  But still.   I will be 4 weeks post-op tomorrow and I've needed 'help' with getting the turtle out the gate at least once a week.  The problem isn't that I don't have the urge or I'm not going, the problem is that I basically do but the turtle makes it to the gate, or slightly out the gate but then goes no where.  Drives me crazy.  Surely this will eventually straighten itself out!!  I get all my water and vitamins in, I get my 60+ gr of protein in and some fibre.  Any ideas would be great!!

Hospital called today to let me know what time my surgery is.  I'm to be at the hospital for 11 am and my surgery is scheduled for 3:35 pm Monday Aug 27.

Starting to get more than a little nervous now. 

I was at the hospital on Aug 16 for the last check-up before surgery on the 27th.  I was there 2.5 hours.  I saw the nurse, they weighed me, took more blood, check blood pressure and go over your questionnaire one last time. Then I saw the anesthesiologist who told me what she was going to do  during the procedure.  They did an ECG and then I was able to go home. 

The Opti-fast diet is fine.  Shakes don't taste bad at all, I haven't added any flavourings or ice.  I just mix them in a hand shaker with very cold water.  No problems or issues :)

Next step....the O.R.

I'm finding the shakes to be similar in taste to Slimfast.  I didn't mind those...I don't mind the Optifast chocolate.  I've made it with decaf coffee as well YUM!! 

I haven't tried the vanilla Optifast yet so we will see.

While out of town on vacation with the family the WLC called and pushed my date forward 2 days so now my surgery date is Monday August 27!!!