Kerri-Lyn

AWESOME!! IM 2 1/2 WEEKS POST OP TOO I WENT IN 259 LEFT THE HOSPITAL 264 AND AM DOWN TO 234

my family knows and thats really all the people i want to know because even some of my family members told me im just lazy and to get off my ass and walk around the block (cus there skinny and dont know what its like). nice support right? but least i do have a few people who do support me!!

pre op i mean !!

thanks everyone, i got sick from the antibiotics from treathing the pneumonia and it took all my blood cells away it was horriable. now i have this stupid picc line in my chest and boy is that no fun!!!! i hope everyone has a wonderful journey and for the people post op. dont be discouraged just make sure u walk walk walk walk walk!! cant say it enough

I GOT MY SURGERY AUGUST 15TH, WHAT WAS SUPOSE TO BE A ONE NIGHT STAY TURNED INTO A 8 DAY STAY I GOT REALLY SICK MY WHITE BLOOD CELLS HAD DROPPED AND THE PAIN WAS UNBAREABLE!!! MY TEMP ROSE TO 105.1 AND IT FELT LIKE MY FACE WAS MELTING OFF, AND I HAVE NO GOOD VEINS AT ALL TO GET BLOOD TO SEE WHAT WAS WRONG, I HAD SPECIALIST COME IN WHO COULDNT GET ANYTHING I WAS IN SHOCK ON HOW MANY DOCTORS WERE STANDING OVER ME, I REALLY THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE FROM THE PAIN!! SO FINALLY I GOT A PICC LINE, WHERE THEY PUT A METAL TUBE THING IN UR CHEST TO GET BLOOD FINALLY THEY GOT BLOOD, I GOT NAMONIA DONT KNOW IF IM SPELLING IT RIGHT BUT THE PAIN FROM THIS JOURNEY FELT NEVER ENDING, NOW IM 2 WEEKS POST OP FINALLY HOME AND 30 POUNDS DOWN!!! LETS ME GET THINGS STRAIGHT THIS IS NO EASY WALK IN THE PARK!!!! IM JUST GLAD I AM NOT IN THE PAIN THAT I WAS!!! I HOPE EVERYONE ELSE'S JOURNEY IS ALOT EASIER THEN MINE

so i just took the citrate and im sweating like a pig and my stomach is turning and burning i hope this is normal, and let me tell you that stuff IS GROSS!! it taste like lemon seawater so salty. i dont know when its guna kick it but i hope im ready lol. surgery tomorrow and im so ready!!!

Boston .Mass any one from round here? Dr Thomas Streeter

2 more days for me too!! & thats excatly how i have been feeling, like im guna get in the sugery room and be like no i dont want this. but i know in the end it will help me and its for the better.. good luck only 2 more days =)

good luck

if you can lay on your left side and lift you knees as far up to u as possible without causing pain, (in a hurdle kinda) and lay like that for awhile its a natural way to relieve gas and it really works, i learnd this in my medical classes. Good Luck!!! and i hope it gets better

Katie u look amazinnggg!!!!

19 =) and getting my surgery in 6 days now. any one know any good excerises to not have loose skin on arms and inside of legs i know tummy is the hardest to tone but i was hoping to give it a good shot lol

im only 19

Yes i would like to know too, i also hear alot of people have to get put on feeding tubes? dosent sound like fun!!