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Wow it has now been 3 years since my surgery and toooooo long since I posted here.....  I lost a total of 130 lbs total going from 325 to 195.  That is where I have been pretty much since 2008.  I still live in Fl and everyone that sees my before and after pictures do not believe it is the same person.  I am trying now to lose between another 20 -25 lbs that I never lost from my original surgery.  If I do I do if I don't I don't I just know I will not go back to my unhappy former self!

I found this on tickerfactory.com I like it.  It gives me a real sense of accomplishment.  Now that I have been exercising regularly the past couple of weeks I have had a period of time were the weight just seems to be falling off. I feel great, more energy, I can walk faster w/out breathing issues and my feet don't hurt as much as they used to.  I'm ready to go to Florida now Whooo Hoooo!

I am now at 75lbs lost from my highest weight.  I'm still getting lots of complements at work which is great.  I have had some episodes of dumping and just foamies but I can't complain because I know there are many more people who have had such complications.  I thank God all the time for this opportunity and blessing. 

I am now at 9 weeks and have been feeling really good.  I have hardly any vomiting any more and can take pills regularly now.  I still have issues with trapped gas and my g.f. "burps" me lol, that is embarrassing but she wants to do it so I let her and it does help ALOT!  I am now 65lbs down from my starting weight of 325 and feel great.  My biggest complaint now is I wear a lot of jewelry and all my rings are getting toooooo big *sob, sob* oh well - I haven't really started doing any shopping yet because my clothes that I wore before are either getting to the point that they fit well because they were tight before or I'm getting into clothes I just never got around to getting rid of ~ thank goodness.  I had my first bout of "Why did I do this to myself" last week because I wanted a soda - A SODA for heaven's sake geez, it should have at least been over something worth it like a candy bar or a peice of cake but I was also PMSing at the same time and it went as quickly as it came.  so that is that, I hope everyone is having a great day and wish you all luck in your journey.

Well as of today I am six weeks out.  Every thing has been going pretty well execpt for the occasion bout of throwing stuff up.  But I know when that is going to happen and why.  Well that and getting all my meds in I know that I have to be more dilegent in following up with the meds.  I have felt really good most of the time the past few weeks which is a good thing.  Total with what I have lost going on my 6 mnth supervised diet I am at 
DRUM ROLL PLEASE !!!


55 lbs!!!  the weight is not coming off as fast as I would like it to right now but I know that is because of the fact that I lost weight before the surgery.  So I got keep plugging and believing.   I lost the last 5 lbs in just a week so I know its coming!!

Hi all,
Well I am 4 days post op and I feel pretty good.  I have not really had a lot of pain since Monday Thank you God and Dr. Ku.  I would recommend Dr. Ku to anyone he is a very skillful, considerate, caring and concerned surgeon.  I have to laugh because he came into my room Tues to see how I was doing and I told him I was having very little pain to which he replied "You sound surprised!"  Frankly I was!!! I have read some post which have compaired the pain to being worse than child birth and then others that said there was hardly any so I knew I could not make any kind of assumption until I had it done.  But other than gas pains (ugh they are the worst) and sometimes a pulling at my incisions I feel pretty darn good!  Well I did have one episode last night that sent me into dry heaves and that was nasty.  I was trying to take liquid tylenol PM and it is vanilla flavored - I have issues with the smell of vanilla let alone trying to have something that is pure vanilla flavored.  I had just swallowed the 2 tbsp the night before and was miserable so I thought tonight I'll sip it.  Bad mistake it was horrible so I tried holding my nose cause I know smelling something is half of the taste.  I no more got done 2 sips and I started dry heaving huge burps of gas.  That hurt like HELLLLLLLL I won't lie.  After about 5 of them it was finally over.  So I had some residual pain but after I fell asleep it went away because I feel fine again this morning.

I am excited about the surgery but there have been a couple of times I have been driving home and just start crying for no reason and I know it is just reality hitting.  Im not scared but I know it just such a life changing operation.  I sometimes wonder if  I have enough strength to keep up with all the changes and the willpower to cut out the bad stuff

April 23rd Yeah!!!! This seems like it has been forever planning and now its going to happen - someboddddyyyyy slap me! God I don't know where to begin.  I feel like I going in 30 different directions.  Its a monday and wed would have been optimal for me because my partener works Mon-Fri I figure go home the 25th (wed) so I have arranged for one of my best friends come and stay with me thurs and then I have friends at work that can come Friday if needed and I'll have her with me Sat and Sun. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed everything works as planned!!!

I got a call from the surgeons office today, I'm approved thru CIGNA so now I just have to wait for the scheduler to call me back and set up my surgery date and my pre-admission testing!!! 

Well I had my visit with my PCP today so I am keeping my fingers crossed that everything is in place and correct this time.  I love my PCP, I don't think I ever stated that before LOL.  I have never had a primary doctor that I have ever liked and respected as much as I do my current dr.  He came in the room this morning and asked me "So Jenny what are you doing here seeing me this morning?" and I was like "Well CIGNA denied my first request for the surgery so I had to come in and have one more month of supervised diet documentation from you"  I think he was more shocked then me LOL.  So I explained everything to him that CIGNA stated that I needed, and he took all kinds of notes so hopefully this will be everything.  I figure if it took 2 days to deny why shouldn't it take 2 days to approve right?  Wishfull thinking I'm sure!!  According to my surgeons office they got everything they need from Dr VanDenBosch so I really hope so.  I'm just a bit concerned because the normal insurance person is off on maturnity leave and the person filling in got back to me so quickly I'm thinking she may have just sent in what I faxed myself and didn't wait for the information coming from Dr V's office which was a statement saying that according to a coversation with me I was over 300 lbs in March of last year becuase I only started seeing him in July of last year and updated chart notes.  The reason Im concerned is I got back from my drs appt at 11:10 the office visit was scheduled at 9:45 and after waiting and everything I probably left about 10:30.  I called the weight loss office at 10:20 and let her know Dr. V would be sending over the statements and chart notes and I faxed a seperate chart that Dr V  was filling out for me documenting my 6 month office visits.  I basically no soooner got back from sitting down from faxing that and she called and said she got everything and was faxing it.  So I'm thinking did she just get my fax and send it or did she actually get something from Dr. V too.  I mean his office is part of the Reading Hospital system so if they have a dictation service that can translate as the dr speaks and then send the documentation out right away then I know I'm cool.  But I don't know anything about their chart notes or how they do that.  I'm from a small town in a backwards county where everything is dictated to tape and then typed as time allows so all's I can do now is wait to hear from CIGNA and go from there.  I figure if worse comes to worse I'll get denied again and just knock each thing off as I go LOL.   it's gotta get better each time.