Frustr8

To live would be an awfully big adventure! Peter Pan

Welcome to Surgerees after 60, We show Them how to Do It and Do It With Class, We are the "BOOMERS" Mamma 5aught us Well! Less than 3 weeks to my73rd, A Kangaroo (RnY) since September 5th, trials and tribulations, I was one of the less than 5% but healing, albeit slowly, but I am Solid sturdy steel not plastic, made me good in the 40s and I'll make it to my goal when the youngins break down along the way! Honey, if nothing else I was built for endurance. Join me all of You!

First calm down and 5ake a deep breath, I'm sure you're pretty prepared, just give yourself credit for getting this far! Biotene for your dry moth, GasX for gas, chap stick for your lips, your own toothbrush if you're not standard, toothpaste, deodorant, many facilities furnish these some don't. Hairbrush, didn't care much about makeup but didn't want my hair getting flat and matted in back and I was never a comb person! A notebook and pen, either to journal your feelings or write down questions you want to ask. Charging cord for your ☎, my facility said I could use theirs but never coughed one up, so I took my 10 foot one I got at Staples, Tomkitten said it was foolish money but I didn't think So! Slippers although most placesfurnish non- skid Sox they hurt me to walk very far. But then my tootsies are prone to aching and complaining. Try to tie up loose ends at home, leave foods for spouse, animals and kids. I felt crappy enough if house hadn't been relatively tidy I would have tried to get up and do something and torn something loose in ME. And then relax your mind, your body, keep peace and hope on your 💓 , believe in your surgeon, believe in You and Darlin' You'll Do Just Fine! But keep us updated, You Hear? Love and Prayers🙏👼Your Frustr8

Gosh thanks Marina 👧, I'm already at risk of Mg depletion,was even. before my BYPASS so definitely will remember this advice, even if I get tempted. Way back in the past, soda pop used to be the only thing that would cut the thick pre- dehydration throat mucus, I would drink reg ginger ale, sprite, or similar, haven't had colas since 1975 when I developed all those allergies carrying baby #2, delivered him but my constitution never recovered from the sensitivities.

Doesn't make sense, that's how I do know You're telling the truth, that's how my Own Things are going, leaves me and the Listening Public going Hnnh? And the rest like Uncle Si Robertson on Duck Dynasty, at least 85% factual. Oh I enjoy that Man, very funny and he views the🌏 World on His Own Terms. Love how he went Duck- hunting in the midst of a 💓attack, doctors askedhime WHY? He said Opening Day of Duck Season only comes Once a Year! Lucky for us and HIM he did survive!🔫Sorry, I don't have shotgun or rifle emjoi on My Phone!

Well I did never finish my train of thought from the 6th, did I? It was time to start my infusion that night and instead of just opting to finish later I hit "send", but you knew I should return didn't you? Well a little more of these trials and tribulations, okay? it is not a whole lot of fun having this extra Tail dragging along with me. When this is full and freshly started it is 3000 ml, don't know what weight in American that is but heavy. Was in BR doing the duties one does there, went to swing it back onto my back cause that way your back muscles can be used to bear the weight, overbalanced kind of over balanced, started to fall, trying to balance me hit the door with my rear half and slid to the floor on my rump, Tomkitten , showing his usual sympathy and great intelligence, comes trotting in from an adjoining room to ask " Are you all right?" well that's rather dumb isn't it? Most days I only pray for adequate! And sitting in the doorway of a bathroom with ceramic slate-type tile in a pair of microfiber jammie bottoms on her nearly 73 year old bottom? Yes I certainly put a request to God to spend my late Friday evening there! Then Mr Wit and Wisdom ( takes after Me doesn't He?) says Shall I try picking you up? Now I have lost over a 100 pounds since my high weight last October 2017 but I still would make a team project for the Local Paramedics. No dang it, you touch that left arm, wrench out the tubing or break it off inside me and you better get your Funeral suit out Junior, you're going to need it! So finally I figured out how to get Me up without wrenching anything loose. Wasn't pretty , betting it would make 500 likes on YouTube , but except for great embarrasment and a scrape on my good arm I'm pretty okay! And something Weird Weird Weird! My BMs are more easy to pass and frequent. Hnnh? My junior surgeon said even though there was no noticable foods going through my GI tract, my bowel had enough excretion capabilities to keep things Tikety-Booming-Booming along. At the hospital I got q.s. to get my oral meds down and a shaker cup of Liquidcell PeachMango drink filled up. As long as I drank down 48 or more oz they were gratified. Me, let's get honest, I feel like the Little Match Girl with her nose pressed against the brightly lit toy-shoppe window.She knows there is warmth there, lovely toys there, even maybe warm food inside but it's not for her. And little Match Girl Me cries until the years freeze on her face. I have gone back to my limited bleak diet, a couple high protein shakes, broths, strained soups and calorie free liquids, 2 oz at a time. Dr Needleman wrote on my discharge resume Stage 3 diet, well his partner Dr Noria rescinded THAT early October because of Precious Pouch would not accept only a few things sans vomitting. And she said " Until I give YOU permission DO NOT ADD one thing, I will TELL YOU when your chronically inflamed pouch and angry ulcers will accept it! Reminds of a Great Big list of requirements, at the end it Says: "Permission Will Not Be Granted" I actually look better, feel better, more like the Pre-Surgery Frustr8, if it weren't for the Danged inconvenience and the Scarey Larry thought in the back of my mind of dislodgement, sepsis and my local hospital , a community one being staffed by the Keystone Kops, could THEY keep me alive long enough to send me to Columbus where I could get decent care? I would be wagging my tail like a happy Irish Setter, appropriate because we Both have Red Hair! I have sent a message to God,🙏 Could I have this out after January 1st 2019 and maybe inch closer to Stage3, Stage 4 and a 🍜Real Food Diet? I know He Is Busy running the🌈 Heavens and the🌏 Earth, but perhaps give it some consideration?👼

I think I'll follow this thread 'cause you bring up something that might trouble me in the future. I actually am not due for colonoscopy until 2022 in theory, since normally it's every 10 years of you're healthy. But alas I was all smooth and uninterrupted the way My GOD created me in September/October 2012, cannot make That Claim anymore, can't I? And with my clouded upper endoscopic history NOW I have more spots than an Appaloosa. I figure it's just a matter of time that one of my myriad of surgeons, and I wonder since Ohio State University Hospital-Wexner Medical Center is a teaching hospital maybe I serve as a BAD EXAMPLE in one or two of the Medical School courses? Long long title but YOU OUGHT see their campus! I swear they have a hospital or section for almost anything Man is prone to develop. My recent hospitalation, I call it incarceration because I Was There for 7 and quarter days, beginning to think I might be there as a Research Dummy, accent on 2nd half, I was in Doan Hall, who was Doan ? IDK, maybe a benefactor with more money than Good Sense? but the main section of the Hospital, where admissions et al is, that's Rhodes Hall, named after James Alan Rhodes one of Ohio' s former( I remember him, actually met him when I was President of Knox County Teen-aged Republicans, a really nice person and had a daughter just my age) maybe I shall win the Piwerball or Mega Millions and endow me a building MYSELF! Hmmn, the Frustr8 Bariatric Patient bulding for the Chronically Bewildered, yep does have a🔔 Ring to it!!! Anyway a Proctologist or Gastroenterologist is going to get a Bright💡 Idea, "Lets Go Plumb Frustr8' s hind quarters" and it will be Hello Fiber-optic Tube? My question, the Mag Citrate power cleanser through me, faster, slower, same duration of time or can it not be used at all? Inquiring Future Victim Wants To Know!😱😥😪😭😰

Obviously he subscribed to the "Do As I Say, Not as I Do" school of theology! Somebody ought to pull their accreditation, those diplomas are as bad as Trump University and I have heard a lot of people complaining of being defrauded there!

Yep absotively posialutly right LynnV. It stands for Total Parantal. Nutrition. well if that isn't the right spelling. To give,my beleaguered pouch and small intestines a chance to heal I have a feeding solution dropping into me, actually a cath from my upper Left arm snaking through my venous system into my Superior Vena Cava. not all that far from my actual💓.Sounds scary Larry? Try the knowledge you have a site where you have a risk of sepsis and Death if,you don't follow some stringent rules. I understand it but it still is FEARFUL! I was a STNA for 20- some years, only 3 cases pop into my mind. #1 was a dude, mind pretty well shot, truth was he would forget the mechanisms of swollowing, #2 was someone with cancer and wasting away. #3 I remember because it was Strange. Somebody, don't really know if it was family , doctors, dentists or who decided to pull all the teeth of a 84 year old man. Remember I was a Patient Care person, so not totally in the loop like nurses, doctors et all. Man's mouth , let's call him Henry was so swollen he couldn't swallow well enough to have a PEG tube introduced down through the GI system so they could feed him through his stomach well. I m8ight myself been a PEG tube except for one glaring fact. The PEG tube installation, you go down through mouth,through entire stomach and pylorus, I am a RnY , I have been rerouted, you cannot access my normal stomach and pyloric valve, oh they are still there just inaccessible. So not an option , even to be cut open, No Go! I have survived one whole night home, did not dislodge anything in my sleep! Some obvious other de

Well I did once lose that much in one day, but I had to deliver a 9.5 pound baby boy👶 to do it, Praise God 👸I'm not doing THAT no more.😛

well dismissal got slower, I am going home today (December 5th) at 1 PM- 13 weeks, my 3-month surgiversity and exactly 3 weeks until my Birthday, December 26th, when I shall turn 73 years old. I am now old enough to boast instead of hiding anymore. My NaySayers keep dying off and I don't! And I will be going home with my PICC line still in my upper. inner left arm, and being fed by TPN 12 hours every evening. Not the the present I asked Santa for this year, do you think my letter somehow got crossed up with surgical orders from Doctors Needleman and Noria? Anyway my next E.G.J. will be December 28th, do have an appointment on the 19th but only with Valerie, Doctor N head nurse-practitioner, so no commuting my sentence that soon! Oh Well, it still beats Death all hollow!😛🚩🎭😛!!!!

Well Hi from a second- semester Freshman, 3 months. today! Hoping🙏 to grow into Sophomore in March!😛

hey mi75 is probably correct .See with sleeving the doctor would have turned you into a digestive garden hose type affair. With a sliding hernia it could slide up up and down until (worst case scenario) you have more sleeve stomach up in your chest where it Does not belong instead of in the abdomen where it does belong. Things get twisted, and I won't have my G sleeve after Fifty' s companionship on line, and I l8he you. He or She is trying to keep your best health interests at ❤.

Come to Bypassland and Kangarooville and visit me÷A lot of n8ce people there. Do you know why we are Kangaroos? Because we all now have pouches! And you still won't have had 3/4 of your stomach thrown into the surgical trash.You're all there, just a little rerouting of the piping. And I have had the torture-side of RnY, if I can remain positive , believe in its ultimate rightness, have hope for my own healing, you should fare well. If not, honey you've got ME, I have paid and am still paying my dues. Going home this aftern9on after a weeks hospitalization with a PICC line in my upper left arm and will have TPN every evening until my ulcers heal down, wasn't getting sufficent protein per 👄 mouth. And I am upbeat- know my surgeons are ordering this so my body can do its repairing. Could be out before Christmas and my Birthday( December 26th) not the gift I requested but at least it's custom- tailored for me! And Life is different but still So So Good!

I have a good gal-pal from Clarence Center, a Buffalo suburb. I call her my Buffalo Oriole, looks like a Baltimore one but has an extra set of water wings. Someday she's taking me there since I've shown her my Ohio haunts. I think Clarence Center is where they had that bad plane crash a few years ago.✈

A tiny whiny would be better than the bushy tushie I still have, but day by day I am pruning it down! I may never be be a Tealael or Chix but I can be a Fine tuned Frustr8 any that's cool in it's way!

What-t-t? Bariatric Surgeons usually fix such things during the surgeries. You need Sherlock Holmes on this case! Paging Dr Holmes!

May you now sing🎶🎸 All my ex-weight got left in Texas And Now I'm Thin, Proud and Obesity-Free! Best Wishes for a Future Happy Life😛👍🌈

Happy 3 months to ME Happy 3 months to ME Happy 3 months of getting thinner Happy 3 months to ME My exit weight after this hospiti,/incarceration, well that's what it feels like after a week, 259,6 pounds, pretty good when I had a High Weight of 366 in October 2017. And the next. 75 down, hard work ahead but achievable. One of the few times in life when someone says " You're Less the woman you used to be" that it is a Compliment. So a High 5 for me👋and a prayer 👼🙏that things will continue healthily!

This is your Auntie Frustr8 in Ohio, does your Doctor know this? My radar says Endoscopy time but I'm not a Grays Anatomy star let alone the Good Doctor, both lovely shows on ABC.

You see I'm even a little scared of topical until everything heals!

Glad it is workiny out Okay, as the unhappy step- mother of a stomal. stricture and 6+ evil cranky gastic and,jejunem ulcers I th8nk you're staddling a buzz Saw Blade, but Your Surgeon,Your Choice! We're All Different in our Reactions!👈😱👉

Not Meh but Meg in Arizona, sorry about my spoiled rotten Smartphone, honestly keyed in Correct Name!

So Meh I hereby rename your Problem- ATSAD. Atypical Timing Seasonal Affective Disorder, not the lovely PR campaign regular SAD gets but Just As Valid!

I try I try and I'm sure there are those who find me merely Trying! To Them- Pfft!