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New Day Feeling Better

Jul 10, 2008

Hello all.  Well today is a new day and I am felling better.  Good news I am 297lbs .  This is the 1st time I have been under 300lbs since I gave birth to my last daughter 5yrs ago.  I am happy about that.  I am down 39lbs since wls on 6/5 yeah.  

Ok I am off work until 8/7 and I am so bored.  I can't do too much as I still have this darn feeding tube in my stomach and it hurts sometimes.  Well but I am alive and ready for new possibilities.   

Thank God I'm alive

Jul 09, 2008

Ok so I haven't posted since 6/16 but a lot has happened since then.  1st I turned 40 on 6/26 which was on a thursday the day after i started feeling kinda funny.  Than on the 26th and the 27th i started throwing up and couldn't really keep anything down.  On that friday the 27th I called my doc and the nurse said to try warm tea and go back to just the clear liqs for a few days.  I tried that but that didn't even work.  So on sat the 28th i was throwing up violently all day but I keep thinking I would get better.  Finally at about 8:50pm i ate an ice chip and when that came up 10min later I knew i had to call the doc back.  I called the office and he called me back and told me to go straight to the emergency room and check in.  I got to the hospital and they took blood pressure, it was 187 over 120.  I was at stroke level.  I was severly dehydrated.  Well what happened was my scar tissue had swollen and closed up the hole to my pouch.  It was the size of a pin.  They had to put a scope down my throat with a balloon to open it back up.  I stayed in the hospital 2 days.  Had I not gone when I did, I don't think that I would be alive.  The doc says that this just sometimes happens.  they don't know why but it just happens.  Yesterday I had and appointment and I advanced to stage 3 diet where I can eat soft cooked veggies and moist meats.  I just tried to eat a soft scrambled egg with a little of the meat mixed in with cheese, gotta have protien and it came up.  I am getting a little nervous.  I will just wait to see what happens when I try to eat a little something else.

the healing begins

Jun 16, 2008

hi all.  well the healing has begun.  I am at home, my stomach hurts but I know in time it will feel better.  I don't really feel like eating my soups but i try.  I seem to be surviving on ice water and sugar free popcicles.  I know it will get better.  I am just tired and feel kinda useless.  I will be sooooooo glad when I start to feel a lot better.

wow is all I can say.

Jun 11, 2008

ok all I made it out of surgery.  I went in on june 5th and got out of the hospital on june 10th.  This is how it started.  I went into the OR at 7:24 am the Dr. started out doing the surgery lap, but after 10hrs and it wasn't going good he switched to open.  Yes I was in surgery for 12hrs.  I had a verticle band 18yrs ago that didn't work.  So he tried to get the band off by doing it lap.  It was plastic and would not come off.  Also I had a whole lot of scar tissue and my stomach had fused to my spleen.  this was not pretty at all.  but at the end of the 12hrs(thank God for my  watching over me) I am alive and he said I now have a cute little pouch.
I am very sore though.  well my energy is low so I will finish updating a little later.

Test's all done

Mar 30, 2008

Wow I have completed all the tests that I was asked to take.  Now all I have to do is get my results and have my pcp clear me for surgery.  Yeaaa.  My time is coming.

3 appointments tomrrow

Mar 18, 2008

Well l made some phone calls and I have 3 appointments tomorrow.  I will go get a chest xray, I get to go see the hematologist and I have my physic appointment.  I am getting very excited.  I have also printed out the post op diet for the 1st couple of weeks.  I am going to try the all liquids and the very small amounts to see how it feels.  I know this will not be easy but I am ready to start living.

Getting through these appointment

Mar 15, 2008

Ok, so I have had some labs done, I have my physic evaluation on this Wednesday the 19th as well as chest x-rays.  Next week on the 24th, I have my upper GI done.  I am getting closer and closer,  All I am waiting for is for the Hematology Specialist (because of my sickle cell trait) to call me back with my appointment then all my tests will be done.  I am excited.

My 1st Consult

Feb 21, 2008

Yeah I took that my 1st step and I had my consult with Dr. Coons in Riverside.  He is very nice and made me feel at ease.  His staff was very nice.  I am very excited.  Now all I have to do is get through all these test so they can submit it to my insurance than I will be on my way.  I am feeling very .  The 1st step towards my new life.

About Me
Riverside, CA
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RNY
Surgery
06/05/2008
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Jan 18, 2008
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