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@Sadie24304 did you feel like the Bariatric Pal was coming to get you? 😛From a distance it sounds hilarious but having to clean it up, you weren't giggling too much,were you? There you are , hungry to the point of hangry and the microwave and oatmeal are conspiring against you! This is the kind of thing that will happen to me too.

And as long as we have each other, our load is shared and doesn't seem so unbearable.

@ Ernie55 this May be the forum you were looking for, it's only a few months old.

And here you will find Pouch 101, care &feeding of your New Pouch. Long but interesting.

Has anyone ever heard from @ShianneB the OP of this thread? Her surgery should have been August 8th, I do hope🙏 things went well for her!🌈😛

And that's not a place of sorrow. In ancient times, when few of uscsurvived that long, we were celebrated as Wise Women, a source of good consul for others. And that makes later life a valuable commodity to experience. At 72. I can testify , Grow old along with Me, the best is yet to be÷

And Ally I too shall post such a card because it is so true. We have to Each be the one who saves Us. In the dark of night, in stormy times, we have to believe in ourselves, and step bravely,into the future. Love and Sunny Days Ahead, ya gotta believe it!

Still chugging along in my little choo choo 🚂toward surgery. Nothing is going to derail me , I have invested all of August in this miserable Verdompt diet, I am going see it through to the finish. I have a PCP appointment on the 29th, let's see how much weight I've lost, got to be some after all. According to Rick M I have a BMR of 2033, if I'm only taking in 1000 calories daily, some fat has got to be going away. I Hope I Hope So! But like ancient Rome there is still enough of me to be divided in 3 parts.😪

My facility poem? If it does not go through***It's not Stage#2I'll Catchy, isn't it? I wonder if they paid someone good money to come,up with that?

So @E.G. are we doing. any better on this lovely Thursday?

I hope that was a typo, it's 2017 after all. In healthcare we had a premise " toileting,in advance of need" but I doubt any surgeon sleeves patients THAT FAR AHEAD,

Is that a Pengy Junior Grade in your picture? It's a very cute kid!

At the very least you know" Aetna" didn't" forget ya!" 24 hours is a very short time for a decision and I think you were very lucky.

I have heard many terms in life, but,i don't recall Texas Bald,being one of them!!!

Hope you smiled in your sleep so you looked all "Pretty" but come to think of it, that's not whatl the photos were of, and how well,fanboy smile with a tube down to your throat?

Hi Peaches7231, if you have any questions you'd like answered , just ask. We all like havi,g of help if we can be!

Every Day***Every Way***You Are Getting Better and Better!

Well I am atypical. You see this is the University I yearned to attend. Money, life and,my family got,in the way. If I could,be back, I would still go, work out funding as I went, not care that my parents,and later, my husband didn't approve and I buckled under, shelved my hopes and that. future died for,my. Still I had my middle child in that hospital, and, cornu as it sounds, I feel like I have come home after a LONG TIME away! Perhaps this is why I feel no anxiety about the surgery upcoming, I feel warm , sheltered and safe there.

On my day(September 5th) I am on a similar time plan, report in at 5 AM, 7AM for ,my surgery. Do me a favor okay? Give your son a little 💘 and attention for me, you see I am a " Spectrum Sister" , although I am on the Asperger end of autism. I have still felt the sorrow of being in a world you can't always understand. When you are not Neuro-typical. you have a different mother-board it functions but we are not wired quite the same! Love to you both from Ohio and me, Your Frustr8😪

Go with the 18 for the reason AEL said above, would have said the same but she beat me to it. If the tailor has to cut it down a lot and I hope so, you might have enough left for a coin purse or clutch!

So head hunger is " Gee that looks good, I wish I could have some!" real hunger is " oooh that hurts, it hurts so bad, I've got to find something healthy to rid myself of this pain and gnawing in my stomach!" sorry but that sounds more like gastritis or an ulcer flare to me! And I have both.😳

Wish my diet mentioned bone and other broths as being allowed, but then maybe,then I'll get sick of them in the post surgery days anyway. I think I'm rebelling against the same blandness and sweet drinks EVERY DAY! I keep quoting the same Bible,verse the,people with post-surgery gas do, " this too will pass", good to know it's not forever but the days creep along, don't they?

All of these first-hand reports do help, I know no matter I wake up someone has been there before, They made it through, I can too, and if you're reading this also, the same goes for you!

I have got to call the BP store, as often as I am on, I should have beaucoup points but, I'm on a phone and have no way of checking.😪💦😪

Good reasonable,budget-friendly suggestions. I'm sure we can all find words that m8ght help us there. And as our surgeries draw closer let's play the hands life dealt us, but play them skillfully. And trust things will be smooth, easy and not cause us too much heartache or tears.