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I'd love to be one of the people who gets the "cast iron pouch" but I'm not one of them.  I spent 6 hours on Tuesday after eating ham with pineapple glaze.  I won't do that again!  It took me a few days to get past it, the next day I was still grouchy pouch and even today it has been touchy.  I will go slower.  Tonight I tried some meatloaf and that worked out really well. 

I went shopping yesterday and bought a new dress for a party for Jim's work next weekend.  It is a size 16 petite!  I was buying 2x and 20/22!  I am thrilled with that latest development. 

One more pound and I'll have lost 50.  That is huge in such a small amount of time.

I'm still very much enjoying this website but the bickering is getting on my last nerve.  Why people think they can hide behind the anonymous title of blogger and blast against other human beings is beyond me.  Maybe there wouldn't be so much trouble in the world if people would stop and think before allowing the verbal diarrhea to spew. 

Anyway, that's it for now!  It is cold, cold, cold tonight and I'm hitting the couch with the girls!

Just over one month and today I weighed in at 186.  I feel really good. 

Eating, well, not so good feeling. I still get pretty nauseated any time I eat.  But, I have to give myself time to let my pouch heal and I am sure it will get better. 

I'm already seeing a huge difference in my clothes.  Figure 44 pounds would make a huge difference, right?  I need to find some money to buy something new!  Actually, some of my older sweat pants were pretty doggone tight prior to surgery and now they are fitting appropriately.  So I won't head to the stores just yet.

First WOW moment this past weekend.  I wanted the girls to clean up the living room and that always takes supervision.  So I plopped down on the floor to give directions.  Phoebe said "Wow Mom I never saw you sit on the floor before!"  It never occurred to me that I didn't sit on the floor but you know, she was right!

I can't wait for the next WOW moment!

Hi everyone!  

You know that 1% chance of complications that the doctors tell us all about, well, I'm here to tell you it does exist!  I'm also one of the percentage to make it through.

I wound up with a 4 hour, 20 minute surgery.  The gallbladder was difficult according to Dr. Pohl.  In addition, my intestine was bleeding and he had to put a clamp on it.  The part that was clamped got in trouble, turned black and all kinds of colors, and he had to cut it off and start with a new part.  Then, he tried to put the scope in and my intestine is small apparently on the inside diameter so he had to resection it again to make it bigger and attach again. 

I know you were there for me on Monday Angela, I remember talking, but darned if I know what was said!

With all the trauma to my intestine, the next day was shake day and that was not happening.  My intestine said no.  Everything came back up.  So I was taken off shakes.  Next day, same thing.  Taken off shakes again.  Then I had some nasty test to be sure that nothing was leaking, which it is not.  I finally got to keep down a fabulous shake on Friday and kept two down today and got to go home! 

I have to tell you, I love my doctor.  He is the most caring person, and so intune with what was going on.  He would call and check on me and get more medicines ordered just on a hunch of what should be going on.  He was right on the money every time.

This was hard on my body, but I'm not doing this for the cosmetics.  I don't regret the procedure, and since it was hard fought, perhaps it will keep me more on the straight and narrow.

Thanks for everything,
Leslie

These days move so slowly. 

By my scale, I have lost 21 pounds since beginning the liquid diet.  I am happy with that, my liver should be in good shape for Monday's surgery.  No one likes a fatty liver. 

My kids are starting to freak out a bit.  They are never away from me at night, and the thought of Daddy being home taking care of them, and me being away and having surgery to boot, is making them upset.  I have sent notes to their teachers to give them the scoop so that if things get hairy, they know why. 

I don't know why, but I am very much at peace with this decision.  I'm not nervous at all.  Maybe that will change over the weekend, but I don't think so. 

I went to jury duty on Wednesday.  It got canceled, but that isn't the point.  I started talking to a woman as we were walking out, and I mentioned I was glad we weren't staying, that I had surgery on Monday.  She said I hope it isn't anything terrible.  I said, it is my gastric bypass and I'm very excited.  She said gastric bypass on Monday?  I'm having it done on the 14th!  Small world isn't it?  I thought that was just amazing.

Monday I go to see Dr. Pohl for my before surgery visit and will get a date! I am so excited. It took 80 something pages of documentation to finally get Aetna to give an approval. Wow, are they stubborn. Anyway, as everyone has been saying, water under the bridge. Now I'm doing the liquid diet plus one meal thing and in 4 days have lost 11 pounds! Wow!!!

I'm so happy. This is going to be good now.

Well, I am still waiting for Dr. Pohl's office to submit my paperwork into the insurance company.  Every time I call, they tell me there is one more piece I am missing from the file.  Today I asked, is this really the last piece?  Or when I call you next week will you say there is another piece?  I guess that got to the office staff because it suddenly felt very cold on my end of the phone  

I had really hoped to have this behind me by now.  I guess it just isn't my time.  I'll have to learn to be patient. 

Looking at other people's successes is encouraging me and making me even more excited!  I'm thankful for this board

Today I was released by my primary physician for surgery.  Now I just have to have one more appointment with my surgeon, Dr. Dieter Pohl, and get my date set.  Unfortunately, he's already booking into October.  We are selling our house, and my husband is in the midst of a job search, so we may have different insurance by then.  I'm going to appeal to Dr. Pohl to see if I can't squeeze in next month.  Let's hope shall we?

I am 48 years old but most people guess me to be about 39.  That never hurts my feelings .  I'm at least 100 pounds over what I should be, probably more like 120.  I'm short, only 5'2" so I don't need to be 230 lbs.  I can lose weight, and have many times.  Problem is, I have broken my back and have a fused spine so once I hit a plateau, the back pain hits like crazy and I'm unable to move like I need to in order to continue the weight loss.  WLS will hopefully allow me to lose a chunk at once and I can move easier with less to begin with.  I want to buy a bicycle and ride the bike paths with my kids.  Phoebe is 7 and Julia is 6.  I'm really concerned about being an embarassment to them.  Who needs a fat mom?  Not them.

To top it all off, in the last year I feel my health has declined much faster than should be.  I've developed sleep apnea, high cholesterol and my high blood pressure while controlled, is causing problems with retention of potassium.  Add to that shortness of breath, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia and there you have it.  I'm a mess. 

I'm ready for my surgery!  I can't wait to be a big loser!