it's been a while

Jul 10, 2013

hey guys,

sorry it's been so long since i've blogged. sometimes i get a little lazy lol. so updates...well i've lost 197 pounds! my personal goal is 200 down, my surgeon things i can make it to 220 down. but once i am 220 down i am gonna make another goal of 300 pounds lost. that would put me at 127,,,but i will be happy between 130 and 140.

these past two years have been nuts. i have had five more surgeries since the bypass and all of those were within the past year.

first, i was having pain in my right side and they discovered i had gall stones...so i had my gallbladder removed in february. the pain didn't subside, so my bariatric surgeon decided to do an explorative laparoscopy on may 24.the surgeon discovered I had a bunch of scar tissue that had bound my intestines up...so he cut it all out and thought the issue was fixed. 2 weeks later I was completely unable to hold any food down. I couldn't even hold water down...so I went to my surgeon and he hospitalized me. I was severely dehydrated because I couldn't eat or drink...so he decided to do another exploratory laparoscopy. he found that my roux tube was completely clogged up so he had to cut me completely open. he had to make a new roux tube and make my stoma smaller...I also lost a little bit of my pouch. my pouch had also grown fused to my liver so he had to peel the liver from the pouch. they were getting ready to staple me up when he realized that 3 feet of my intestine were dying before his eyes...so he had to remove the 3 feet. an operation that was supposed to take 1 hour took 5. i then started to get severely sick. i got pneumonia and paratinitis in my stomach and some people were even saying i had sepsis. i was admitted to the ICU early the next morning after my surgery. my pulse was running between 150 and 180 and they couldn't get it to go down...and my BP was running around 175/110. i also had to have two blood transfusions later on that day they discovered that my liver was leaking bile, so they again had to open me up. i was in the ICU for 4 days and in the hospital for a total of 11. i'm not completely recovered but i am feeling a lot better than i did.

some people ask me if all of this is worth it. i say HECK YES...i have lost almost 200 pounds and i know when all of this is over i will be happy and healthy as ever.

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