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pink grace

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  1. Hello fellower sleevers and sleevers to be, i am waiting to see the heamatologist but have still not got a date
    I saw my diabetic specialist last week and it was very encouraging, i am 3kg down since July, my last appointment, my blood sugar readings are good, and even though it is not his field he said that as far as he could tell i am borderline lupus and this shouldn't cause any probs with my op.
    I was able to ask him questions about when i stop injecting victoza and he reassured me that i won't go hypo after the op because i will have stopped the victoza.
    I am going to reduce the dosage when i get a date and do the pre op diet again so that i won't have hypo probs on 800 cals a day.
    I came home much relieved.
    I got weighed yesterday and was shocked at the scales, good job i was starting to cut cals and eat healthier that day.
    Hope all are well and loosing or maintaining weight, bye for now, x

  2. Happy New Year

    · pink grace · 01/02/2013 12:12

    Had a lovely christmas and the most peaceful happy new year eve.
    Have put about 7lb on but so ready to eat healthier food, meed to banish the nuts and choccy, we didnt buy much and there is not a lot left so that should be easy, ha haa, she says.
    Hope everyone is well and feeling positive about this new year.
    I am at peace knowing that God is with me and am believing that this lupus will be treated quickly and correctly so that i can have my sleeve.
    It is my bariatric support group ntomorrow night and i am looking forward to being there as i have got to know a few more people on fb and at a coffee morning.
    I am in a fibromyalgia support group on face book and am finding it such a blessing to be able to talk with people who understand what living with fibro is like living with it every day.
    Am seeing my diabetic specialist this afternoon and will be asking him how the lupus effects diabetese if at all, and discuss how i feel really yuk when i dont eat much and my blood sugar goes low, and will this be the case after my op and how they help with it etc.
    I am the first person with lupus to have the op at the new centre at dri, so it is a good learning curve for them and i have told them i will be willing to speak at the meetings when i have lost my weight to help others who may also have lupus and be disabled.
    Hoping to see the heamatologist this month, will report back when i have a date, bye for now, xx

  3. Christmas Eve

    · pink grace · 12/24/2012 21:51

    HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE, MAY THE LOVE OF GOD BE IN YOUR HOME This Christmas AS WE CELEBRATE THE BIRTHDAY OF OUR SAVIOUR JESUS AGAIN THIS YEAR, LOVE, JOY, PEACE AND MUCH HAPPINESS TO ALL.
    Looking forward to my christmas dinner at my eldests sons house tomorrow, going to enjoy my dinner and try not to eat too much
    I have been told that i have to see a heamatologist about the lupus before i can have my operation.
    I have been assured that i am at the top of the list and as soon as the specialist as seen me and given me treatment he will talk to my surgeon and decide if and when i can have my op, should see the sdpecialist in jan, so i may be a feb sleever, i live in hope. xxx
  4. Havn't felt like updating my blog, limbo land can be a lonely desolate place, it is only my Trust in God and my hubby that is keeping me going.
    I had a blood test for lupus 2 weeks on monday, don't know how long they will take.
    Hoping they will be back on monday so the surgeon can look at them on tues.
    Went to my local w l s support group last night, came away really down, even though the speaker was very good.
    As i sat waiting for hubby to come and push me, he dropped me off in my wheelchair and had to go park the car, i saw another bunch of new applicants coming out holding their white papers and worried looks on their faces, i can spot them a mile off, and can only wonder how many will get there, and how long it will take them.
    This year i had a chateract off my left eye on the 4th jan and it was good to start the new year with much better eyesight, am trying to be positive for the start of 2013, a new stomach and a new me, just got to try and not do too much damage over christmas, will only have to starve to get it off, so better not to overindulge.
    Happy Christmas sleevers and sleevers to be, enjoy the build up to Christmas and have a blessed day and a fantastic new you in the new year, lots of love, xx

  5. Feel Better

    · pink grace · 11/29/2012 10:47

    now it is more waiting time for this blood test to come back, but feel better that something is been done.
    I am really hoping i don't have lupus, the google facts were not encouraging, but am not worrying.
    I could be just one of those people who have slower clotting times than other people, and if so, it shouldn't have any bad side effects, i have lived 15 years after my gall bladder out, so just not worrying, it was too thin then and here i am now, still alive, lol.
    My goal now is to not go mad over christmas, and still try to eat healthy like i need to for my health and to loose excess weight and maintain weight loss, after the op, and am more positive that i will get my sleeve done in the new year, a new start.
    4th of Jan this year i had a chateract removed and that was a good start to the year, my eyesight is so much better, so a new stomach for jan 2013 will be great, heres hoping,

  6. 6 Weeks

    · pink grace · 11/19/2012 01:16

    6 weeks today since my blood test, struggled to keep eating healthy this week, my birthday was my undoing, i had some chocolate mints after my meal and it gave the taste back for chocolate.
    I really need to take control again, i have been down about the wait for my blood results this week and once i ate the foods i had cut out, the more i wanted them.
    I have felt really unwell after eating too much high fat high sugar foods, i am actually wanting to eat better and feel better again.
    Nothing tastes as good as loosing weight feels, i love the feeling that comes when i can feel the weight coming off, and i am eating right, and feel down when i am not loosing weight and eating right, perhaps i have learned more about my eating habits than i thought i had.
    My aim is to loose weight ready for my op and to continue to eat right and follow the rules so that i can loose weight and keep it off for life.
    The more i wait, the more i realise how important this is too me, and want it even more than ever.
    Really hoping this week will be the week that i get the results and know what treatment i will need, and most of all to get my new date for my sleeve.
    Really should go to bed and get some sleep, i will share my news as soon as i know anything, meanwhile, keep up the good work sleevers and sleevers to be, xx

  7. Happy Birthday To Me

    · pink grace · 11/12/2012 12:04

    Enjoyed a lovely carvey with hubby and our two sons yesterday for my birthday which is today. i even had half a yorkshire pudding, it was yummy.
    I am getting a stairlift fitted today, I didn't think i would be so excited by a stairlift on my 55th birthday, but can't wait, my left leg is agony when i walk, no more crawling upstairs in agony, yay.
    I am going out tonight with the ladies from our church, it is the ladies christmas meal that just so happens to be on my birthday, thinking i might have a steak.
    I am hoping that by this time next year i will be wearing size 18 rather than the 28 i am in today, or even a 16.
    I am already eating much smaller meals than i was able to eat last year, and next year i suspect i might be eating a starter for my main course, bring it on.
    Still waiting to get my blood test results back, hoping it will be soon, ive waited 5 weeks now, so must be nearer getting them.
    Funny thing about time, 5 weeks just seemed like an eternity 5 weeks ago, but here i am, 5 weeks done and hoping i will get the phone call any day now.
    I have been able to address comfort eating in this waiting time and also am pleased that i now prefer to go for the healthier options for my meals and always try to share it with my dogs or leave some on the plate, not bad for someone who was brought up to eat everything on my large plate.
    It took a long time to get over the dissapointment of my sleeve op being cancelled, but now i am at peace that i will have it when it is the right time for me, God knows best, i am resting in Him.
    I particularly wanted to do a blog today to record how i am feeling and will compare with how i am next year, believing
    God Has got good plans for me, to do me good and not harm, and that my latter years will be even more fruitful than my former years, that the years that the locusts have stolen from me will be restored back to me 100 fold, amen.
    Praying for everyone who reads this to have a quick easy operation with no complications and a swift good recovery, to get to the weight of your dreams.
    I also pray for all who have already been sleeved for good healthe and continous weight loss to get to your dream weight too, God Bless to all, Janet, xxxxx
  8. just spent 45 mins typing an update and poof, when i tried to preview it and edit a word it dissapeared
    basically, still waiting for blood test results, really fed up of waiting, not got my hopes up to have my op in november any more.
    Today i have cast my cares on the Lord and will have my op when He gives me the date, He knows best.
    I know i still want my sleeve, and will restart the liver shrinking diet when i have a new date for my sleeve.
    I am not concerned if it is just before christmas, any time soon will be ok with me, i was motivated and ready for oct 9th and can do it again, but this time without the problem of my blood it will be safer.
    Hope everyone is doing well, sleeved or to be sleeved, God Bless, xx

  9. New Beginnings

    · pink grace · 10/20/2012 23:01

    We had hubbies mom's funeral yesterday, i was dreading it, but with my sons and the eldest sons girlfriend with us we did ok.
    We went out for the day today, just hubby and me to our favoroute seaside town, Scarborough, it was strange to be on our own, but it is just another thing we will have to get used to and we did have a lovely day.
    I decided to have a few days of my liver shrinking diet , there is no chance of a cancellation until after the 29th oct, the day i should get my blood test results so i figured i would have a few foods that i know i won't be eating for a long while.
    I am starting back on the diet strict on monday, to be ready for the op any time in november.
    I was surprised to find that i can not eat as much as i could do and actually knew when i had had enough, the pre op diet has done me some good.
    I had a fish today, in batter, and 2 toffee apples, the red toffee ones and really enjoyed them.
    My mom should be home next tues or wed so we have been busy moving things around for her new equimpment and are going to clean her bungalow tomorrow afternoon so it is nice and fresh for her homecoming.
    When my operation was delayed i was devastated and so down, but now i can see that in God's plans it was for my good.
    I was very close to my mom in law and it hit me harder than i thought it would and can now see how difficult it would have been to have my op just after she had died and to then have to go to the funeral would have probably been too much for me.
    I have been very fatigued with the grief, the fibromyalgia has been bad and at least now i get time to recover, but i am so ready for my op now.
    My sister had her operation the day after i was due to have mine, and has just got back the lab results, it is great news, they got all the cancer cells and she only had one cell in her lymph nodes which was removed, she will have radio therapy and be on tablets to stop the cancer coming back for 5 years, but it was caught early and they expect her to make a complete recovery, so happy for her and her partner.
    The autumn is really well and truly here now, the misty cold mornings with the crisp chill in the air and all the trees have turned into living fireworks of golds, oranges, reds and browns, they are a delight to the eyes.
    Next week we put our clocks back in the uk and it will be getting darker an hour earlier, we have long cosy dark evenings to look forward to, and then christmas.
    I am not a bit bothered wether i will be on liquids or soft food by then, i just want to have the operation and get on with loosing the weight and keeping it off.
    Some people are beginning to notice how much weight i have already lost, i have gone from a size 34 to a 28 and all my clothes are very loose on me, much more comfortable than been tight.
    Some are saying that i don't need the op now because i am doing so well, but i am not listening, i am loosing weight to have the operation so that this time i will loose the weight and keep it off for life, i wont have a huge stomach and be hungry all the time, but it is hard to get some normal size people to understand this.
    Hope everyone else is doing well, we are doing this because we need to, want to and with the tool of a sleeve we can all change our lives for the better, keep up the good work everyone,

  10. 5 Days Nearer

    · pink grace · 10/12/2012 19:33

    Instead of counting how many days i have to wait, i am counting each day as a day nearer to getting my blood results and a new date.
    My sis has had her op and they think they have got the cancer early enough for it not to have spread, she gets the reults next friday;
    My mom may be home early next week, and my husbands mom's funeral is next friday.
    Hubby's brother has been offered a council bungalow to rent so that is another tick on the things to be done list.
    I have been reading loads of posts on here to encourage others and to learn even more about the sleeve.
    I am still on my liver shrinking diet and did less than 1,000 cals yesterday, but today i could eat a lot more, it might help if i knew how long i had to do this for, but at least it will be getting me ready to much less cals after the sleeve.
    I wa surprised to read today that you can eat 1,300 cals a day after the sleeve to maintain the weight loss, at the moment i have to eat less than 1,000 to loose weight, but perhaps i may have a better metabalism after the op, got to keep the hope up and be positive,
    I am still battling with the dissapointment with the delay of my op, but getting there, day by day.
    I must not eat chocolate, i must not eat chocolate, wonder how many times i need to write this to stop the desire, lol, hey ho, on we go, lettuce really is as nice as chocolate, not, lol.

  11. Had My Blood Test

    · pink grace · 10/08/2012 16:36

    Had a long talk with my bariatric nurse today, and she has found out that a person 2 weeks ago had the same problem and the treatment was a vitamin K injection and then they had their operation.
    I have to wait 2 weeks for the results and should have my operation in november, in about a month, meanwhile i am staying on the liver reducing diet so that i am ready for a cancellation at a day's notice, but i am doing 1,000 rather than the 800 and less that i was on.
    Ive also ordered some milk thistle to help my liver, which was fatty 15 years ago, and presume could still be fatty.
    I have been researching the fatty liver online and that could be the cause of my blood problem, but no one medical ever suggested anything 15 years ago, bit annoyed about that, but will just have to wait and see what the results are when they come back.
    My blood clotting time was 49 secs and it should be in the upper 20's,

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