Tammy G.

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Thank you. I'm hoping.

Been there, done that. I go to wound care every other week. ...

Not much difference....ready to give it up. - I still have a significant open wound that won't heal.  No surgeon or doctor seems to want to help me.  My labs are horrible, even though I take my supplements.  I've tried everyth...

Thank you!

Tired. Worn Out. About Done. Where's Hope? - As I write this, at 6am on a morning where I haven't slept at all, I feel lost, hopeless, drowning.  My life's motto when I'm in a funk is "It could always be worse."  And it co...

Huge NSV for me! - Starting out as a super sized obese person, I've had quite a few NSV over the past 2 years. I still have a lot of weight to lose, but my body keeps changing, even though the weigh...

Met with Surgeons Today--so confused - I traveled out of town to meet with three surgeons today, a plastics guy, a bariatric surgeon and an abdominal reconstruction surgeon. I'm a little over 2 years out from distal RN...

Gotta get my BMI down quick - I've been nursing a surgical incision wound since December after emergency surgery for small bowel strangulation. It was an ordeal, I almost died, and left the hospital after 10 d...

Surgeon wants me to crash diet before fleur de lis - I've been nursing a surgical incision wound since December after emergency surgery for small bowel strangulation. It was an ordeal, I almost died, and left the hospital after 10 d...

Need advice about combo hernia repair, panniculect - Howdy yall, I hope you don't mind me coming over here to ask if anyone can give me guidance on what to ask the surgeon I am meeting with tomorrow. Here's the situation. I ha...

Wound healing? Hypoglycemic? Miserable! That's - Been a little bit since I've posted here. Last time I wrote about my small bowel obstruction emergency surgery, where my intestines got strangulated by adhesions. My surgical inc...

Vitamins and Minerals for Optical Wound Healing af - I've been searching everywhere with no luck. My nutritionist doesn't have a clue. I had a small bowel obstruction/strangulation in Dec, had emergency surgery, got MRSA, the wound...

1 1/2 years out & I almost died. - Let me tell you, this last couple of weeks have been a nightmare. I went to be on Sat night, Dec 22, feeling great, anticipating shopping the next day to finish off gifts for the...

I almost died. -     Let me tell you, this last couple of weeks have been a nightmare.  I went to be on Sat night, Dec 22, feeling great, anticipating shopping the next day to finish off gif...

That's a great problem to have ;)

So miserable, but it will get better. -  Well, I finally did it.  I'm getting dentures.  The rheumatoid arthritis for the last 15 years had really done a number on my teeth.  RA is an autoimmune disease and some things j...

Thank you! I dug out a bunch of my old clothes thinking that I could...