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Topic: RE: No one posts here
Hey Megan, I'll put your profile in my favorites. My journey is just starting too.
Topic: RE: Had my final tests
Congrats on the final testing...I guess! Sounds like you are pretty miserable right now 
but hopefully you will be feeling much better before too long! Hope everything turns out well for you! 
but hopefully you will be feeling much better before too long! Hope everything turns out well for you! 
Topic: Had my final tests
What a day. It started with getting my teeth cleaned. 
Then I saw my neurologist, who is referring me to a pain specialist. I don't have time for this right now. 
Then I had my hepatitis screen and ABGs drawn. My pO2 was 68. Crap. Everything else was WNL, though, so it shouldn't be a problem.
I'm on day 4 of my first Z-pak and I feel like death warmed over. I have a headache, I'm 
and have diarrhea. I've been eating yogurt, trying to ward of any nasty beasties. I don't think I can do another round of these. The sinus infection was easier to live with.
I'm normally a fairly private person, but today I told everyone I saw about my upcoming surgery. I'm doing my part to educate people on the DS. 
Only one person, the lab nurse, had heard of it.
Today is the 21st and my surgery is 21 days away. Three weeks!!!
Jeanie in MO 
DS 02/11/05
"Duodenal Switch: My New Beginning"
Then I saw my neurologist, who is referring me to a pain specialist. I don't have time for this right now.
Then I had my hepatitis screen and ABGs drawn. My pO2 was 68. Crap. Everything else was WNL, though, so it shouldn't be a problem.
I'm on day 4 of my first Z-pak and I feel like death warmed over. I have a headache, I'm and have diarrhea. I've been eating yogurt, trying to ward of any nasty beasties. I don't think I can do another round of these. The sinus infection was easier to live with.
I'm normally a fairly private person, but today I told everyone I saw about my upcoming surgery. I'm doing my part to educate people on the DS. Only one person, the lab nurse, had heard of it.
Today is the 21st and my surgery is 21 days away. Three weeks!!!
Jeanie in MO
DS 02/11/05
"Duodenal Switch: My New Beginning" Topic: RE: Surgery on 1/25 and Everything is Settled
I hadn't thought of using Jello to mix protein drinks. I will have to try that. 
You are almost there! I don't think it is morbid to write letters. It is practical. 
I'm recording some things on a little mini-recorder. If anything happens, DH will find it in my purse. I'm also making out a will and a Power of Attorney and all that fun stuff. I've been meaning to do that for several years and now is a good time.
I hope the next few days go by easily for you. It is an amazing journey. Do you have someone who will update your surgery page so we will know how you are doing?
Jeanie in MO
DS 02/11/05
"Duodenal Switch: My New Beginning"
You are almost there! I don't think it is morbid to write letters. It is practical. I'm recording some things on a little mini-recorder. If anything happens, DH will find it in my purse. I'm also making out a will and a Power of Attorney and all that fun stuff. I've been meaning to do that for several years and now is a good time.
I hope the next few days go by easily for you. It is an amazing journey. Do you have someone who will update your surgery page so we will know how you are doing?
Jeanie in MO
DS 02/11/05
"Duodenal Switch: My New Beginning" Topic: RE: Helloo....
I'm nervous, anxious, happy, impatient.. that about does it for this hour.
I left hospital nursing and went to Southwestern Bell as benefits manager, then became business administrator at a church.
I looked back after a year away from nursing and realized just how stressful it had been for me.
I left hospital nursing and went to Southwestern Bell as benefits manager, then became business administrator at a church.
I looked back after a year away from nursing and realized just how stressful it had been for me. Topic: RE: No one posts here
I'm with the rest of you...hard to find this board, unless you are REALLY looking...and who knew to REALLY look?
I love talking to other nurses, though, especially ones with the same typew of "issues" I have!
I'm just beginning the journey with all my consults. Had the initial, now getting cardiac, pulmonary, psych, dietary, and EGD clearance...and I'm an otherwise healthy person! Can't imagine the visits I'd have if I had serious comorbidities like DM, HTN, etc! 
Besides the weight (303 and 5'6"), my other problems are the usual: GERD, back pain, probably (but not diagnosed) some sleep apnea. But then, I'm only 29, and could easily see myself with MUCH more serious problems in a few years if I don't do something permanent about it!
Anyway, I love being a L&D nurse in NC, and just this week helped a friend (another L&D nurse) deliver her baby, which was an AWESOME experience; the first delivery I've gotten teary-eyed since nursing school! 
I'll try to do my part and keep up with this board, probably at weird times since I work nights! See y'all here! 
I love talking to other nurses, though, especially ones with the same typew of "issues" I have!
I'm just beginning the journey with all my consults. Had the initial, now getting cardiac, pulmonary, psych, dietary, and EGD clearance...and I'm an otherwise healthy person! Can't imagine the visits I'd have if I had serious comorbidities like DM, HTN, etc! Besides the weight (303 and 5'6"), my other problems are the usual: GERD, back pain, probably (but not diagnosed) some sleep apnea. But then, I'm only 29, and could easily see myself with MUCH more serious problems in a few years if I don't do something permanent about it!
Anyway, I love being a L&D nurse in NC, and just this week helped a friend (another L&D nurse) deliver her baby, which was an AWESOME experience; the first delivery I've gotten teary-eyed since nursing school!
I'll try to do my part and keep up with this board, probably at weird times since I work nights! See y'all here! Topic: RE: No one posts here
I work on an ORTHO/MED floor, hubby and step-son are both appling for nursing school next fall.
Topic: RE: Surgery on 1/25 and Everything is Settled
Good luck, and now you know how our pts feel, LOL.
Topic: RE: No one posts here
Well, Hi. I'll do my duty, now that I've found this board, and post. I'm a psychiatric nurse, transplanted to Tulsa. In another life I was an ICU nurse and loved that more. Psych was a choice I made because I couldn't keep up physically anymore (but don't let anyone convince you it isn't "real" nursing). It takes a lot of emotional stability to do it...that is until it zaps your emotional stability. 
There is a physical component to it, but not too bad in my case.
I made the decision to have the lap RNY for the reasons I listed in my profile. Everything hurts all the time and I love nursing, so I'm willing to do whatever it takes to do it. More basic than that, I just want to feel good again. When my sons return from Iraq I want them to see a very positive change in their mother. They have always wanted me to be healthy (of course) and they kind of harp on me about it. They're great kids!
I also have a wonderful husband who worries about me all the time. He sees me come home with my feet and back hurting so badly that I can't do anything but get supine. He'd love for me to find something physically less challenging, but that isn't my plan. You should see him when I tell him that a patient took a swing at me!
So, I've now posted. I'd love to hear more about y'all and what your dreams and aspirations are.
CK rn msw
There is a physical component to it, but not too bad in my case.
I made the decision to have the lap RNY for the reasons I listed in my profile. Everything hurts all the time and I love nursing, so I'm willing to do whatever it takes to do it. More basic than that, I just want to feel good again. When my sons return from Iraq I want them to see a very positive change in their mother. They have always wanted me to be healthy (of course) and they kind of harp on me about it. They're great kids!
I also have a wonderful husband who worries about me all the time. He sees me come home with my feet and back hurting so badly that I can't do anything but get supine. He'd love for me to find something physically less challenging, but that isn't my plan. You should see him when I tell him that a patient took a swing at me!
So, I've now posted. I'd love to hear more about y'all and what your dreams and aspirations are.
CK rn msw 
Topic: Surgery on 1/25 and Everything is Settled
Future Update
OK...I'm sure now that I know what I am doing! Man, the ups and downs around figuring out how to pay for this surgery have made me CRAZY! I got a call from my director of human resources and he told me the big meeting yesterday left things still up in the air...no vote to cover bariatric surgery...like I thought it would be any other way. I am so glad I kept my surgery date and didn't postpone thinking I might have it covered by insurance.
So, I start my Hibclense washes twice a day tomorrow and my Nystatin swish and swallow... eew! I pick up my Lovenox from the pharmacy tomorrow and have it for the night before surgery! I am a nurse but the idea of giving myself an injection is really ...ah....hmm...yucky! I will do it though because the idea of a blood clot is more disturbing. I have stuck to my liver reduction diet and am still losing weight!! Trying not to get on the scale everyday cause it messes with my mind.
I figured out how to make sugar free Jell-O with Isopure. I used strawberry Jell-O mix and substituted the isopure orange, pineapple, and banana for the water. It actually tasted really good!! I also used the Unjury unflavored powder in my chicken bullion and it works really well. If I used my imagination it could almost be cream of chicken soup! Too bad I didn't try it sooner cause I don't have any more samples...just got the one from Dr. Greene's office. I'd love more but it wouldn't come in time if I ordered it so I'll just have to let that go.
I am now writing letters to all my kids and my immediate family...just in case.... is that too morbid or what? I paid Dr. Greene's fee today with my Flexible Spending Account. I am getting my things ready to go. I found an awesome website a few weeks ago with what I should take to the hospital so I am feeling really prepared. I work the next 4 nights so the time should fly by!
I am so grateful to the people on OH and the lists I belong to for private and public words of wisdom and encouragement. Everyone is so supportive. I am ready.
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