Long overdue update

Oct 11, 2008

*  Prior to reading this, see my next post.   I now know that the pain I experienced had NOTHING to do with my weight loss surgery nor my reconstructive surgeries.  Rather, I was very active after losing all the weight and had moved to PA where I was bit by a tick a few months before the worst of the pain began....  Please learn all that you can about Lyme Disease and what you can do to prevent getting bit as well as how to catch it early should you get bit.  If only I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't have lost almost 10 years of my life from several diseases all from a stupid bug....

Well, those of you who remember me as always having a camera in my hands, I am now shooting professionally.  I absolutely love it but this past year has been a trying one beginning when the incisional pain along most of my PS scars moved fully into my left arm and hand,

The pain eventually moved to mu right arm/hand leaving my left hand partially paralysed and numb. The pain again switched a few months later leaving the right hand mostly paralysed. It's been playing this "game" for the past year each time with the pain getting worse and leaving my hands more disfigured and not functioning,  Along with this, I've dropped 40 lbs in less than a year (as I had to stop working out given the pain/paralysis and lost a LOT of muscle).  I was already thin, now I'm scared as I am WAY too thin.

The reason ffor the medical problems are most likely NOT related to my RNY, but never did I think I'd be too thin...

Measurements as of this time are 36-22-35...


Where to find my blogs and Update as of June 14, 2021

Feb 03, 2007

Check www.AButterflyEmerges.com for all of my journaling as well as www.myspace.com/carolineam (for more recent updates)

*** Updated as of June 14, 2021  The above sites no longer work.  I can be found on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/CarolineATorge . I generally don't accept friendship requests from people that I do not know, but you are welcomed to follow my page. I do add information every now and then...

At one point, my Obesity Help page was my "journal" which started when I first began considering having Gastric Bypass RNY.  For nearly 2 1/2 years, I used the page almost daily to document my weight loss journey as well as what I went through to have my insurance cover (most) of my reconstructive surgeries to remove excess skin. 

I lost over 225 lbs and went through three rounds of reconstructive surgeries to remove a terrifying amount of excess skin.  Over time, my page became more of a book and I decided to transfer it over to a website that I'd created called AButterflyEmerges.com.

Unfortunately, I was bit by a tick in May 2007, and by Sept. 2007, I was so sick that I was barely able to type due to major muscle spasms, tremors and more.  I was on so much pain medication and muscle relaxants that I could barely talk without sounding drugged beyond belief.  Fast forward over a decade, it took over 11 years to be diagnosed with Lyme NueroBorreliosis and another 2 years of VERY aggressive treatment to get back to normal as much as possible.

As can be read above, I initially thought the pain was due to my having had the reconstructive surgeries, but clearly I was wrong.

And unfortunately, I was not able to keep up my AButterflyEmerges.com website and lost pretty much ALL of my writings.  I was able to save some of the Post-Op Q&As that I'd written for the gastricbypass postop group that I'd created way back in 2003 and as well as some information about reconstructive surgery, and as time permits, I will add it here.


About Me
Collegeville, PA
Location
20.6
BMI
RNY
Surgery
05/02/2003
Surgery Date
Jan 21, 2003
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Before & After
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Night before surgery. 71 inch hips & size 7X
367lbs
17 Years Post RNY - Size 6 and healthy - May 2, 2020
150lbs

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