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Topic: Men
Here is the story to end all stories...
Last August, I met this guy through a dating website, and went out with him...At that point, I had lost about 36 pounds...I did not tell him that I had had WLS surgery.
Just recently, we started talking with one another through another dating website. Well, I had a date with him again on this past Monday...and if he recognized me, he did not mention it...He thinks he went out with a different woman...same person, but now I have lost 109 pounds total...This time, I did tell him that I had had WLS surgery.
Met my niece and her roommate for dinner on Thursday night, and I was telling her that story...and she started laughing like you would not believe. She said, 'Aunt Norma, that cant be true'. I said 'Yes, Tyler, he did not recognize me at all.' I then said, 'remember you have seen me several times since the surgery, and yes, I am getting smaller...but he only saw me that one time in August and now in May...if he recognized me, he did not mention it to me...'
Norma
Topic: Pre-Op Testing
I had the bpd/ds April of 2002. At the time of my surgery I was down from my hightest of 450+ to 389. So you have to go and have pre-op testing done, right? Well, they give you this 'thimble' to pee in....it might as well be a thimble, you can't hit it. I go into the bathroom and they wouldn't let me take my purse in, like I was having a drug test done. I had brought tongs to hold the darn thing you know.....well, anyway, I came back out and asked if they had one of the childrens pots that hooks to the toilet seat and they looked at me like I was crazy. I said this is a hospital, surely you have one of those things! Nope, so I go back in and hatch a plan. I put the cup in the floor, hold on to the handicap rail and try to squat and hover over that darn thimble and what do you know.....I missed! I grabbed paper towels, soaked up the pee and squeezed it in the cup, cleaned the floor, washed my hands and turned in the cup like a good little girl. The next morning before my surgery, the nurse said all my tests were fine, but did I know that I had a urinary tract infection? I said no, I felt fine!! Well, before they took me in, I told the nurse what I had done the day before and she bent over double laughing. Another nurse came in and wanted to know what was so funny and the first nurse asked if it was ok if she told her and said sure, I had nothing to hide, well before you know it, the whole floor was howling! They said it was a wonder I didn't show some exotic disease in my tests.
I can laugh now, but at the time I did that, I was humiliated, but it is funny now.
Joy
Topic: The Suspender Story
My DH had WLS April, 2005. We were getting married in June and by the end of May, he had already lost about 50#. We were in Walmart, communicating by cellphones at times, at opposite ends of the store. He was in the Camera Department, looking at memory cards for our digital camera to use at the wedding. He is tall, 6'8" but the card he wanted was on the very top shelf. He used an oxygen tank at the time, and had to reach over it and the cart to grasp the memory card off the top. Lo and behold, down went his summer shorts! Of course, being in the high crime area of the store, I am sure he was caught on film by the security cameras! When he phoned to tell me of his embarassment, I couldn't help but laugh until tears ran down my cheeks! I have threatened to get his sister, a Walmart manager in a different store, to see if she can get ahold of that security tape! From then on, until he could afford smaller clothes, he wore suspenders, come rain or come shine!
He has now lost over 200# and looks great! No more oxygen and off of 14 of 17 meds! My surgery is next week...I will be pleased to do half as well as he has.
Jennie aka OcutieObiggsie 
Topic: Another "kids say the darndest things" story
I knew my monthly visitor was on the way before I went in for surgery but forgot to pack tampons to bring with. Well of course the hospital only had huge diaper sized pads and I HATE those things. Well, my sister and nephew came to visit me one evening and my sister was a dear and when hunting around the bathrooms for tampon machines. I'm not sure what my sister told my nephew they were looking for but when they got back, he exclaimed "Auntie Karin, we went looking for TANNING machines."
Topic: So the surgeon says,"You want a candy bar?..."
I'm on the table, preped and ready to go. A little shaky from the relaxer. And Dr LePort comes in. Says "My kid's selling candy for school." Long pause. "So you want to buy a candy bar?"
Um...no. I better not. That's what got my to this point in the first place!
Topic: 50 more lbs BEFORE the bikini, please!
About 6 months post op and I had lost about 60 lbs, which put me at around 200. I was thrilled! So I bought a...bikini. yeah. My family's eyes bugged out! I thought I looked great! Ugh. My son said "Maybe another 50 lbs first?"
After 11 years, I wouldn't wear one if you paid me! Even after I got down to 140 at one point. No Way!! I neglected to notice the hanging skin and stretch marks! I was just so happy to feel almost "normal"!
Topic: NOW you tell me!?!?!
The morning of my surgery, I'm lying in the hospital bed getting preped. The news was on and there was a big story breaking....
Seems the scientist had finally broken the fat gene code! AND came out with a "miracle" diet pill!
STOP! Maybe I should give that a try before you slice me open from boobs to pubes!
The RN says "Yeah, and I got a pill to make me beautiful to all men 100% of the time!"
And that was the first any one had ever heard about Phen-Fen! Luckily I went ahead and had the surgery that day!
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