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Hi Donnia66 and thanks for your response. You are helping me feel very hopeful about the surgery and glad to know I'm not alone in that a.g.e. thing. Glad you are doing so well !!!
Hi Yvonne!
Tried to reply via my phone days ago, but I needed my password to get in & couldn't remember it! am my laptop now.
That I cool about going kayaking! I never considered it while obese, and now I just don't have the energy despite my love for water sports! So good for you!
I don't like going to public places by myself, either, but it doesn't bother me as much as it did when I was younger.
So sorry about your SIL...I read the obit & didn't realize she was my age. I remember having trouble staying on course with my meal plans when my baby brother died a couple weeks after my WLS. I can understand the struggle!
I also miss ppl posting here regularly. The board was SO active! Not sure why some ppl have not come back...
I had good news yesterday. I got approved for my SSDI. It was my 1st try & got approved in 6 months. Plus, my monthly benefits are about $400 more than I had estimated. Now we can relax instead of waiting until I turned 61 in a couple years.
I don't know if they approved me for just one disabling condition or all reported as I have not gotten the detailed approval letter. My hearing loss is really bad so I think it was probably bc of that and the depression it has caused me. I have become very depressed the past several months since getting so sick in March and not being able to do anything I wanted or needed to. My heart condition already makes me fatigued & the illness just made everything worse. And then not being able to hear ppl just isolates you..ugh!
Anyhow, I am almost fully recovered from my illness. I have a colonoscopy this week & then one last surgery and I am good. I found a place who does deeply discounted hearing aids based on income so will apply for them...can't afford 2k or more per ear! And we can live fairly comfortably with my disability income.
So life goes in cycles and I hope I am leaving the past couple years behind!
Hope we hear from some others!
Kathy
Hi! I had my vertical sleeve 9/7/16. I was 68. I am 5'5". My highest weight was 285. I was 262 when I had surgery. My goal was 170. I am now 149. I have had no complications. I am so happy I did the surgery. I do have some loose skin, but, I am very proud that I am finally slim. I just dress covering my issues, as I am not interested in skin removal at my age. I was very tired for several weeks after surgery. They reminded me it was major surgery. Also, age! But, I have absolutely no regrets. Only wish I would have done sooner!
I'm 68 this month and am scheduled for vertical sleeve on 9/26/2017. I must admit being both excited and quite afraid. I don't know if my age will make the surgery more difficult or the recovery longer. Any help from someone in my age group that has had the surgery would be wonderful. Thanks in advance for your posts.
That's great! I had a 15 pound weight gain and have managed to get 8.2 pounds off. Here in Philadelphia is warm and humid and the weekend shows some rain. Since it is my weekend off I plan to go camping for some rest and relaxation with a little hiking thrown in for good measure.
Everyone have a great Friday and weekend.
let me do a fill-in post, and boast about my continued weightloss.
July 20 I posted my exhilaration at finally breaking the Onderland barrier.
Today am happy to share the scale read 177.5 lbs, so my goal of distancing myself from that once elusive 200 lb threshold has been achieved. Think I will have no difficulties in breaking 175 lbs....Onwards and downwards!
We finally have Summer temps here after a mostly cool and rainy Summer. Hope this isn't Indian Summer as we had a first frost a couple of weeks ago. Cancelling my errands today and going to the condo pool to catch some sun and some natural vit D. Snow will be here soon enough, and thanks to Irma and Harvey, usual winter escapes for us Snowbirds have been hammered to oblivion. Looks like a winter of cocooning ahead in wool socks and lots of movies at home.
Hope you are having a better day than yesterday wherever you are!
Hi,
Thought I would update about my life, good and bad things.
In August, I went kayaking for the first time. It was really fun and enjoyed it. Also went to a Christian music festival and went by myself until the people I knew showed up. It's hard for doing things by myself so I consider that a win and I enjoyed myself.
Finally getting some help with binge eating but this week was hard on me, my SIL was diagnosed with liver cancer in June and she passed away on Tuesday so my eating been out of control. Starting tomorrow I will get back to my plan and do better.
Hope everyone is doing good.
I really miss the action on here, so I hope people come back and start posting.
Yvonne
I was 62 when I had my RnY. Although was slow loser ( read my ONDERLAND FINALLY post a few posts down), it absolutely improved my health, I lost over 100 lbs, then did a a jog up with regain, but never regained so I had regrets. Today I weigh 183lbs. Just did complete bloodwork and kidney function tests, everything is in normal range ( I take my supplements faithfully). Also did lots of Xrays of my spine and have degenerative everything, the weightloss is definitely a plus in managing the arthritis, together with a Butrans 20 pain patch. No need for me to ever take an NSAID again, which is why people hesitate to opt for RnY as it limits the NSAIDs. There are other choices now for chronic arthritis which didn't exist 9 years ago, just like my doctor said there would be available as people age in the future. At the time when she encouraged me to go for RnY and I hesitated because I needed my NSAIDs. Glad I listened to her, and so glad I had my RnY nine years ago. Never looked back, best thing I did for myself.
I'd do it in a heartbeat again if I had the decision to make again. At first I too looked at the lapband but heard so many people failed because of it, and felt it too finicky for my lifestyle with constant fear of band erosion, so opted for RnY.
I did the right thing, only wished I'd done it at least a couple of decades earlier. By the time I had it done, it was laparascopic and recovery is a cinch compared to when WLS was open surgery. Even now, age is no restriction and some patients in their 70's benefit from RnY.
Improvements in overall health, mobility, fitting in normal chairs, normal sized clothing ( am happy now as a 14-16W , no longer the 26 plus I was), the list is long....go for it, you'll be happier and healthier.
i had the Lap Band procedure many years ago, and at the time, had over 100 pounds to lose - although I initially lost some weight, I was unable to lose all 100 pounds. At the time, my internist suggested RNY; however I was too afraid - I now have even more weight to lose, and my internist is again suggesting RNY - with removal of the band - I am over 55 years of age - I feel like a failure, and with my weight still on and age creeping, I am beginning to somewhat panic - as said, my internist is again encouraging me to seek RNY - she does not see my age as a barrier - however, I'm still concerned - would so love to hear success stories from those have had RNY over 55 (I'm 58) -- thank you so much --
