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clsumrall

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    Y’all idk.. I’m so connected to this fat suit I don’t know if I’m ready to give it up. What flips when they finally give you a date?!? I was SO READY and excited doing all of my pre-op testing/appts then bam, got that call today and I’m freaking out!
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    It perfectly normal. The truth is you are ready. Your mind is xxxxwith you ignore it. So happy you have this chance to transform your life. Open your arms and embrace it. Do your liquid diet and rock it.


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    Welp for all my bragging about tolerating grits yesterday and using a straw for my drinks, I type this message from the hospital. Late last night I started throwing up every half hour. I actually started feeling weird about 1:30pm in the day. I didn’t eat or drink anything else. So I get to the point where I’m getting weaker with each hurl, the draining is no longer going through the tube, but coming out directly from the port site.
    Essentially, I became a grand mess. Once my husband got me to emergency, I couldn’t even walk on my own. They gave me meds for the nausea, but I still managed to pull off one more big vomit spell.
    They did scans and have found a bowel blockage. I’m waiting for my surgeon to arrive to determine what needs to be done next. I can have no food or drink until he gets here which says to me a possibility of a procedure coming up to correct.
    Lesson learned. Don’t try to fast forward the process. Stick to the prescribed diet by the doctor for the length of time indicated. I was doing well until I stepped off track yesterday. Ugh!

    I hope you are ok. Thanks for sharing what happened.


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    My mutant superpower is the ability to accurately measure food weights and liquid volume without a measuring cup or scale. My wife says it freaks her out how accurate I am. She's currently doing weight watchers and after two months of me telling her much something weighs before she weighs it, she's just put the scale away.

    Awesome super power !!


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    Welcome Alice, I love your pen name, rose quartz is one of my favorite stones. I am at the opposite end of life, I am 72 so I'm kinda the Bariatric grandma. I'm in it to win it just like all the youngins. I for one think you're a smart young lady to be seeking surgery. Let me tell you how it feels to be obese most of your adult life. First people think you are lazy, if you' d get up and move that weight would just fall off! Either they regard you as invisible or they won't invite you to their home because you might break their furniture. One of my so-called loving family members told me this. They treat you like you're disgusting and stinky, I take as many,if not more, baths as the next person. They think you don't care about yourself because you let yourself get this way. Sound familiar? You start out strong but eventually your joints start failing, you wear your cartilage away until you are bone-on-bone and you start to have joints replaced, I have 2 knee replacements, they are nice to have but 85-90% as good as the original. And you get bone-a** weary of dragging your body around, you take to sitting down or lying down cause it hurts too much to move. You start hating your body because its failing you much as you wish it wouldn't. You feel like like life is hopeless and you may die this way. Then you hear of a surgery, yeah it might even change how your body's arranged, the more you study, the more you realize that might not be a bad thing. It is just a tool, but why not devote the energy you've spent just trying to live to this?? It's scary but finally you ask for help and you find it. Maybe when you went to the doctor before they were just insulting, Bariatric doctors aren't that way. If they were, they wouldn't be in the business very long. And as you get to know them and they get to know you a relationship is built. By the time your surgery comes you've learned to trust them. On surgery day you intrust your life to them, you go to sleep, wake up in the recovery room with nurses and techs caring for you. You realize you've made it this far and know you're on your way to a new chance at life and better health. And you commit yourself to using this tool and using it in the best way. As each success comes you are prouder and prouder of yourself in a way you never were before. And this is what I believe the journey will be like. Exciting isn't it? You can do it and i can too. Lets do it together for ourselves. Up for it? I know I am. Your new friend and surgery buddy ME.
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    Beautiful words. I too have just begun my pre op life month 2. I’m 60 and so wish I had this opportunity when I was 20. I let life pass me by instead of living it I always helped other succeed at their’s. You can do this for you. And for those of us ready to join you. WE CAN DO THIS.



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