Jean M. wrote a blog post 13 years, 10 months ago
All kinds of pain - My fibromyalgia pain has been terrible for the past few days.  At the moment I can't think of one part of me that doesn't hurt.  It's especially discouraging because the pain inter...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 13 years, 11 months ago
Stumbling along - My port repair surgery follow up appt. with my surgeon on Monday (during which I was counting on getting a fill) had to be postponed because of widespread flooding and road closing...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 13 years, 11 months ago
Reverse discrimination? - I have a coworker who is surely the most disliked employee to be hired in the 6 months I've worked at this store.  Associates complain that Maryann (not her real name) is a loud, o...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 13 years, 11 months ago
Port repair incision - 3rd week - My port incision is looking much better, though it's still itchy and the site is still quite swollen (as you can see in this photo).  The fine red line under the incision is from m...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 13 years, 11 months ago
Let that be a lesson to you, young lady! - Back when God was a small boy (in the early 1980's), I worked for a big, multinational, industrial company that treated me pretty well considering that a woman had never held my po...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 13 years, 11 months ago
This is only a test - When I was growing up in the 1950's & 1960's, I was terrified every time I heard a radio station play the blaring emergency broadcast test signal.  We did bomb drills at school, cr...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 13 years, 11 months ago
Itching port incision - My port repair surgery was 2 weeks ago today.  It's healed up beautifully, so I'm hoping I'll be able to get a fill when I see my surgeon on May 3rd.  All is well...except for the ...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 13 years, 11 months ago
Blah - When I woke up this morning, I did not feel any of my usual zest for the new day.  In fact, staying in bed sounded like a good option, but I had to pee, and once I had done that, I...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 13 years, 11 months ago
I'm not kidding! - Last week I went to the hairdresser to have some refinements done to my current super-short, spiked hairdo (not shown in my avatar).  Monica bleached the heck out of it, then added...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 13 years, 11 months ago
I think it's getting bigger - Well, my port re-positioning was a week ago today.  The swelling has gone down a bit - I now look like I'm pregnant on my right side, but not my left side (kinda creepy).  The brui...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 13 years, 11 months ago
Port repair day 4 - A lot of the swelling has gone down, but I look like I've been beaten with a baseball bat. I'm 99.99% sure I didn't look like this after my original band surgery. I think I would'...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 13 years, 11 months ago
Day after the port repair: not a pretty picture - It's gruesome in a way, but when you think about cutting through scar tissue and abdominal muscles (and maybe a bit of adipose tissue), my port repair incision is pretty neat.  It'...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 13 years, 12 months ago
The Easter Bunny - We had an Easter Egg Hunt at work today.  The store manager hid plastic eggs in various places in our stockroom, and we had to find them.  I am terrible at that kind of thing and w...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 14 years ago
It's all a matter of balance - As I drove home from work today in the afternoon sunshine, listening to very loud 80's music (Talking Heads singing, "Take me to the water"), I thought, Things are finally looking ...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 14 years ago
Is fat making me fatter? - For about 6 months, I've been struggling with what feels like hypoglemic episodes, an hour or so after I eat (which is called reactive hypoglycemia, common in RNY patients but I've...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 14 years ago
If I want to twirl, I'm gonna twirl - When I was in my late 30's, obese, and between "real" jobs, I worked for a few months as a customer service rep for a stationery and office supplies manufacturer, in an office with...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 14 years ago
We're going to miss him - A week or so ago, my friend/hairdresser/aerobics instructor told me that her husband (a prison guard) was going to have to go away for a week for some kind of training course.  Whe...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 14 years ago
Is JCP ready for this? -  I got a haircut today.  Close to the end, my hairdresser said, "Your hair would look real cute with a faux hawk, Miss Jean." "A what?" "A faux hawk.  I'll show you."  She pu...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 14 years ago
The third time's the charm, right? - So, back in December I told my surgeon's scheduler, Janette, that I want my flipped port repaired, and she put me in the surgery schedule.  I had pre-op tests done (a 5-hour round ...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 14 years ago
Does my dog need a gastric band? - Does my dog need a gastric band? On the left, we have Meg, our Porky Pup.  This photo does not begin to convey how hefty she is.  But compare her to her brother Teddy, on th...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 14 years ago
My picture in the paper - In my county, we have a free (sponsored by advertisers) news magazine called "Hometown".  I know some writers that contribute to it, and have thought of submitting articles to it (...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 14 years, 1 month ago
New exercise routine - My health club drastically cut its exercise class schedule in December, so I was delighted when a fitness studio opened a few miles from my house.  It's small, no showers, no weigh...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 14 years, 1 month ago
Are we speaking the same language? - Sometimes at work I wonder if the customer and I are speaking the same language, even though it appears we're using English. Yesterday morning a woman about my age told me she n...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 14 years, 1 month ago
Port repair rescheduled - One of the first things my poor husband said to me when we first talked about his mother's death was, "So, now you can reschedule your surgery."  (Then he cried about his desire to...

Jean M. wrote a blog post 14 years, 1 month ago
An NSV at 29 months post-op - When you're still fairly new at the whole WLS thing, scale and non-scale victories pop up all over the place.  It's very gratifying and it keeps you going when otherwise the busine...
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08/16/2012
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Dec 11, 2007
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