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I choked earlier in the week on Greek yogurt, but each,day that Precious is older, maybe she will calm down, maybe with the liquidfication it will go well. Never had trouble with blueberry yogurt Muscle Milk, it is sure worth an aytempt!👍😪👍

Banana piece 1. Frustr8. 0, need I elaborate? When will I learn to give up ?😪😥😭

tantilize, I do hate smartphones and spell check on many days..

Well 👅Matt Z , I know I'll never escape this life alive. Nobody dies if boredom around me and I may give someone a shred of hope and joy on a cloudy day! Makes me a little happy!happy!

Thanks I'm sure either I or they may find an answer soon, still glad for the surgery!

it tantized me, I remember a lot of the things the other posters did.

well another atypical, many of my. surheons bypass patients are on Stage 3, I'm on Stage 2 and not always doing well. Would you.like to trade your post surgery pain for a pouch that upchucks every time you brush your hair or decides I'll let you eat that pureed item today but I reserve the option to upchuck 2 teaspoons tomorrow. My plan folder says don't watch tV or engage in conversation when eating. I have sat at my kitchen table facing the wall, I have sat quietly by,myself, with my Baby bowl and small spoon, I have taken 30 minutes with my fairly tasteless gruel, lonely enough I could cry, I am a social being, after all. Done all these things as told. Sat quietly, and OmG , grab the Barf Bag, they sent me home with a stack,of these blue critters, now I would have preferred a stack of 1 ounce medicine cups, I think they jinxed me! And no sympathy from anyone who actually knows, they are in two camps First camp You asked for this , you deserve what you got! Yeah but I elected meal size restriction, not to fertilize the front lawn with emesis! And the second camp You are a BIG GIRL , you can stand to,lose some weight! Yeah, I guess so but I am making,up for the Post surgery immediate pain with a very sore upper chest walk pain, burp and yep was never my scene! How do bulemics stand it? Maybe they don't notice the pain. So we all have our non-superhuman moments. I hope my problem resolves, don't really yearn for another EGD and balloon dilatation, just fearful as days go by it looms in my future. You've heard the Flintstone commercial 2 million strong and growing? You'll locate me under the title 3 weeks along and urping! Yours very gingerly--- Frustr8

And my Bari-Bud @Orchids and Dragons in Texas, a shout -out here! She was my friend Presurgery , she is my friend still. She has perked me up when I am full of Whim-wahs, she is a cool head of reason in the Bariatric wars of life. May you all find your own Orchids and Dragon, sure you can go through all this aline, but it is SO MUCH BETTER when you have a friend, especially, one who has gone through the same things.

T'aint fair Magee T'ain't fair, you got a FREE Pass!

Isn't it odd? I got no,meals at all in my hospital. Started with water sips, moved to clear fruity liquids, to flavored milky shakes, once,i got good enough for those, it was let us mix you up a goodbye milky shake, and Goodbye Charley. No broth, Jello, Popsicles, puddings, for Frustr8. Also I never got any hal waljs, basically room- bound, on bedside commode, so no BR or showers. Come to think of it, not even a bed bath. Did I get the Royal Treatment or Did I get cheated? Oh well, life is as it is! I'm still living, living adequately well, and I guess if I were sitting on a saw blade I would be complaining about the sharpness and angle. So leave everything as it is?

And I will pray things will somehow fall into place. Self -loathing is real, it destroys you and many snap from the strain of continuing live that way. Stay as strong as possible for your 3 little ones. There has to be a plastic surgeon who will help! Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was one monitoring this forum, or a brother-in- law of someone? See I am a cock-eyed optimist, I STILL BELIEVE IN MIRACLES! If someone can find her an answer, please let her know!

And congratulations from me also! I hope to lose enough weight by D3cember to show everyone what 73 looks like but 60 looks SO GOOD on you!😛👍

Bringing this out to make a statement! I DO NOT HAVE POST-SURGERY DEPRESSION. Yes I conceed it Can Happen! But Baby it hasn't and I suspect it never will! You see I had my sorrows and depressions early, when I was told I was unworthy, too old, couldn't make a success of things, many of them the inward blueness of my own depression but also outside stressors. And afterward such a sense of accomplishment, a self- validation, I am Good Enough, Young Enough, Worthy Enough and Healthy Enough for all this÷ And now that the surgery is completed I can start to Live and Live Abundantly. N9 wualns, no looking back except to say I'm glad it's over and I've made it through. I had strengths others discounted and By Golly the World is Open to Me! Just watch my contrail because this Rocket will fly, Baby, Fly!🚀

Bites just Ain't Right, don't want a man into cannibalism. willing to 've Sweet but only from a distance. After you've been bit, beaten and brutalized it gets a bit much, and you don't want to know how I know!

And yes I do remember Flippi, and Luci's Toy Shoppe but I also remember Casper the Camel, Sue Lucy and his spider 🐵, Buster Brown and Tige his Dog that lived in a shoe, Chet Long, Jimmy Crum and his " How abouttt that?: Dick Zipf, Joe aH9lbrook and Jym Ganahl when he was thin. He is still living, super plump from Congestive ❤,Failure. I remember Pickerington, Reynoldsburg were small towns, and Marysvile was just a place to visit relatives, before Honda came along. The old days were not always Good Old Days, just different Old Days. Like much,of life, you win some , you lose some but it still beats dying all hollow! And Ohio is Mid-America, a good place to be and a Good Place to grow up! And I am sure your states, your provinces, and your own countries are the same! 🌴😛🌺💦🌸🍀🌈

Take it easy, take it slow, read up as much you can, hang with us here and absirb, absorb, absorb. Tell yourself you are investing in your future, you have made a good choice to do this, not always easy, may not always be smooth, my own story if you heard it would bear that out, but worth it? Man oh man YES! I tried for over 3 long years, but am I sorry ? Nope and I never will be! Come Join Us on the Trip of a Lifetime!😛🌴😛🌈

Hey Heifzilla congratulations and best wishes. Glad you are joining us on this side, a little soeness, a little stiffness, a little feeling like you've been run through a wringer, BUT HAPPY SUNNY DAYS AHEAD! 🚩☀⛅☁🌈😋😆😛

Update ITS HERE! Sweet Freema Jones ---they have an uber cute postal person delivering today! Not my usual 40ish tired looking dude. Hey I may be getting old but I still see good! Promised if I would wait until he delivered the next block and a half he would bring it back! Okey Doaky I'll sit right here and wait! A signature and it's mine, all mine! Haven't opened it just yet, Christmas isn't for 3 months, might as well prolong the JOY! But it will be good, Bariatric Pal stuff usually,is. Why enrich Amazon , the greedy. base-born souls they are, when I can shop at Alex Brechers store where things are geared to US?

My favorites, Premiere Protein peach and cream, some people think it taste fakey but not me, I think it tastes like the candy circus peanuts, and I loved them critters when I was a little Frustr8. Muscle Milk, strawberry, blueberry Greek yogurt , the strawberry - banana you would hate, I do eat bananas but I didn't like it either, my only other Premiere Protein was the caramel, I can't have chocolate and I feel pretty much about vanilla shakes as you do bananas, who wants thick, white and tasteless.? Adkins are not as good--, sorry I know you were an Adkins baby. DO NOT BUY WALMART EQUATE! They are cheaper, but they taste of over processed evaporated milk, leave a vile aftertaste, poured the remainder in a old pie plate for the outdoor cats and other animals and it sat and soured. A couple soy based I found okay. I just got a box from Bariatric Pal store with other flavors to mix with skim milk, anxious to try the cheesecake, orange creamsicle and their 🍓 strawberry delight. See I am 3 weeks pist, my surgeon swiches many of his Bypassers to stage 3 sooner but Precious Pouch and I am going sliwer, I'm staying level 2 until October 9th at my next surgeon visit. That way she doesn't upchuck, I'm happier and I still keep looking. 18 pounds down since surgery, best weight loss I have had since having a baby. Dropped 25-30 pounds with each one, but pain, muss, fuss and bother to do that!

And your body is still readjusting too, everything rebalancing and things stressing at different angles. May everyone's cores restrenghten!

Congratulations @ Liz C on being 10 days out, 22 days since my RNY and I also am in a learning curve. My surgeon wanted to start me,on Stage 3 at 6 days, maybe many of his bypasses are ready, me and my pouch were not. We are still Stage 2, although,i was going to attempt again at 4 weeks I think Precious Pouch and I will wait until next Dr Needleman visit,on October 9th, envied your honey &yogurt story , PP even rebelled at that, she has an elevator fixation " Everything going back UP!" , liquids, strained soups , even low sodium V8 she will put up with, anything thicker, so is not always with the program. My worry, and do we always have at least one? 1 I'm still swollen in there 2 She doesn't even want to expand to hold 2-3 oz 3 I may have a slight structure of my stoma opening between pouch and intestine and all. But as long as I remember WHO,is running things she can be a benevolent despot. She doesn't realize the summit conference coming up, where Dr Needleman reminds her he made het, I own her, and if she doesn't behave herself, I go sleepy bye, they run and EGD tube down, look around, blow her up with air, or put a balloon catheter in her stoma and stretch it. But something will be done! Time for her to get down of her "high horse"! The good news I have lost 18 pounds in 3 weeks, I just want the good times to roll!

General Anxiety is rough, let's demote him to Corporal or kick him out of our army if we can! And I get anxious myself, some things I'm sure others wouldn't find worrisome, but I do! Maybe that person doesn't like me? Maybe that,funny person is trying to follow,me? Oh every person has their bugaboosm maybe ours look bigger but they may also be what makes Us ,Us. And @Oct517, I just had my surgery 3 weeks ago on September 5th, and although,i did end up at,peace about things, there is always teeny reservations. See I am probably the oldest new-surgerized Bariatric Pal you are going to find. On December 26th I will be 73, might as well hang around, you know? Now,my hospital was and is a wonderful place. Ohio State in Columbus Ohio, I recommend them if someone doesn't have one already. The day of surgery was going smoothly, and I'm sure yours will too. We went up in a elevator, to the surgical floor,first gurney I ever ride that was smooth, didn't veer into walls. Knew once I got there my surgeon , Dr Needleman would be there, he promised and he is a man of his word, before everything progressed he brought by a good many of the staff going to be there, a benefit of being the surgery first of day. Even knew my anesthesiologist, Dave, by name and appearance. Did Dr Needleman have to do this? Probably not but it gave me peace, even if they were all suited up in Scrubs in there, I did know who there are. The last thing I thought as we go in through those doors" Hmmn I wonder if I am going to die?" Dave had slipped some Happy Juice in my IV. before I left the prep room. Neat that,he asked first, though. I get in there, Dr Needleman waved at me, yeah sounds silly but I liked it, okay? I was helped onto the table, first,one in all my surgeries I didn't feel like I was going to fall off on the other side and bounce on the floor. I had heard they yank your arms out to the sides and fasten your arms like you are preparing for crucifixion. None of that, room warm , not too bright, ORs usually are. And there was my friend Dave right there by my left shoulder. I recognized him, even suited he has the prettiest set of green eyes. Hey, I noticed 5hese things. He asked Are youcomfortable? I had time to say Yes I think I am and the very thing I remember I was waking up in my room. Missed any memories of Recovery Rooms and things, and I felt GOoD. As pleasant as waking up in my own bed on a warm summer morning. So you see all my worries, fears and qualms were nothing. I was treated with tenderness, kindness and I even felt a little loved. And I know yours will be equally good. My doctor has never lost a,patient, and I was not his first. Your surgeon will be equally good!😛👍😷

Better yet try Herbals instead of gerbils, those little rodents got a whole separate b7nch,of problems. I like Yogi Lavender-Lemon,, and a bunch of others.

Please do follow Green Tealael and Matt Z's advice. Do you like tea? Try gerbils and decaff green tea, I love popsicles, especially the sugar free tropicals, not as sicky sweet as the Orange-grape - cherry variety, one vari- bud said her store has the sugar free red/white/blue bomb pops, not Wal-Mart where I shop,gosh I envy her! You say,you work with kiddos? If they are old enough make,it,a teaching experience, maybe how Toby,the Train works better when he takes his water on and how people do too. Even pass out the 4 or 8 oz size baby bottles, a lot easier to clean up than grape juice. Now I loathe room temperature water, reminds me of something else, so,i do chill or ice things. But another bari- bud about same point as me ( 2 to '4 weeks post) only likes warm/very warm things. I may be there with Premier Protein water over ice, she's sippin,g weak Lipton citrus green tea. Point is we're both getting in some fluid. I also like low sodium V8 over ice, Not only fluid but some vitamins there, and tasty instead of sweet. But you DO Need water, your body gets all slushy, sluggish and doesn't work well without plenty. You had your surgery to feel better, work better and feel better, don't hamper yourself like that! And let us know how your journey continues, We are Your friends, We are,here for YOU always! Let's keep in Touch! Okay?

well I am out sitting on my side porch. Ordered. some items from Bariatric Pal store Monday. Should have been delivered Wednesday, got a text from them stating it was in my town and the USPS postal person would be bringing it. Oh Goody Goody, I think, then I get a text stating they needed a signature and I wasn't home. WRONG' the front porch, where my mailbox is, right next to my bedroom window, would have heard them, and although I have 2 more porches my house is small enough I can hear knocks there also. So tried to track this thing down, BPS stated We sent it, why didn't You want it? Oh I do want it, please help me find where it is. Called the number off of Google, national number for USPS, says you have reached the Customer Service # no live person , went into 3 minute dissertation about the Carolinas🌲🌴 and how water-logged the Post Offices are there. Hey, I am sorry for them, been praying for them ever since it first happened but hardly responsive to my problem. Never a sign of a live person! So dug around the house and found an old phone book, which I hadn't recycled yet. Glory Be, a local phone number for the postmaster! Started calling, and kept on until I had to go to a doctor's appointment. Have a theory on this one, yes they have a number, either shut it off or leave it off the hook, only use it to call out, don't want incoming. Never got anything but busy signal. So here I sit, on my side step, attractively clad in an Ohio State sweatshirt and a long tie dyed skirt, remember I'm 3 weeks post surgery, Levi 501s and I have not renewed our friendship, zippers on my sore site scars , dont think so. Somewhere between 9AM and 10 AM they should be here. And it's maybe 55 degrees, if I get sick or develop bladder spasms, can I sue the government? No? Well it was a nice thought in passing!💇 FYI the stuff from Bariatric Pal store is very nice, been enjoying the small amounts I ordered before, this is a BIGGER order.My only gripe, it is horrid getting the order placed, maybe because I am older and crabbier than most, but taking a hour to complete it? Somethin' wrong there, Lucy,Ricardo! So if I don't freeze to death maybe the box and I will get together?😦🎁😋