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Feel free to tell all of us how adorable and great we are, if you,plan on "Shuffling off to Buffalo", just keep in mind you are basically uber healthy and not going to,leave life for a good long time. Besides I'll still need you, don't turn my custody over to the Jolly Green Giant, he'll make me go to work in his vegetable factory.💦Talk about👵Elder Abuse! LOL!

Great advice, I'm 72, you would think I'd remember all this good advice, but it resonates with me also! Sometimes we all need reminders!😛

@ Kimbero you are within the last 3 weeks until that Date of Destiny. Are you keeping calm, losing additonal weight, getting post surgical things piled up,and generally in a good place? I'm wishing you oodles of good luck!😛

Still here, still hanging out with you all. Have next important appointment May 24th. meeting with Case Mgr- Nurse Practioner- Dietician Thought first a "Hi Glad to Meet and Greet You" appointment but another,poster is meeting with same,group at HER hospital, this gives me renewed hope that,like her, this could be an immediate pre* surgical! You see, I have completed another C.O.E. bariatric program twice, and now having to switch,to new C.O.E. hospital, if they have no other requirements, I could be an early-mid June Bug RnY. Hope-Hope-Hope!😛

Everybody, what do you think about Propel Water? They do have a strawberry-kiwi that I like very much. Would it be a good post-surgical option? Also please rate Poweade Zero and Gatorade Zero., Thank you all in advance.😛☕

So excited for all of you! Every day that one of my buds,has surgery I celebrate too. May each day bring. me closer and closer to that day!😛

And me me me,i want badly to be one of your surgery twins, we shall see what we shall see.

ZPS I am also preop,but I pray for not much longer!😛

Danke sheon! I go forth to wreak electronic havoc on a very recalcerant medical personell. Coward Delete#!

😵Oh I will, as soon as I can tie one to the yard stake long enough,that he doesn't break loose and run away! When they don't answer and return my calls, I rationlize they don't allow dirty dogs use of a telephone.☎

You deserve 1st class, you are living and loving yourself enough to do this for YOU, you merit a little pampering, nothing second class about you÷👍😛

And ladies, I have a slightly different slant yet. You see I've. not had the Fat Brain, almost the reverse. In my mind superficially at,least I am 175-185 pounds, maybe not Smokin Hot but glowing along pretty nicely. Then I go by a mirror, with my bad luck usually 3-way, I look and say Who is that fat ungainly ugly elephant in my mirror?. I reach out and touch the mirror andvrwalize it's ME. And I start to cry, usually I back up and sit in the nearest chair. but often I then put both hands on there and still cry. I am a good person, a kind person, even a wonderful person but someone or something has put me in this fat ugly knobby suit and I can't pull myself free, it is glued with industrial grade Super Glue to me. So I stop eating as much as my Ghrelin Monster would like , as often. as GM would like, sometimes I don't given him anything after Breakfast, some days I let him hurt and don't even listen at breakfast, he's hurting me, why should I be kind to him? And when I do eat, I don't get a sense of satisfaction, I eat my little portion, and I stop because I feel sick. My son starts to worry, I'm natually eating a half to third what he does, but then 2 hours later it's Hello up there in the thinking center......I've tried to just drink,unflavored water or a protein shake at this point. Weight should be dropping off like dandruff scales? Nope, my forarmsand wrists are getting thinner, thighs, hips, belly, not that I can notice. I'd revert to a bad diet, but nothing appeals over there, and if this is a stall do I want to imperil another NSV as well as a real scale one? I'm supposed to be a "wise woman" someone younger people consult because of life experience, I don't resent being the Wise Woman of the Mountain as much as the Wide Woman the size of a Mountain. Please help me joy in All This. I keep on keeping on, but fear something is going to snap and then I'll need a keeper. Instead of chasing the bright elusive Butterfly of Love I'm chasing the invisible butterfly of a Commited Surgery Date. What if I see it after all in the distance, when I get close enough,to trap it, my butterfly net has big holes in it, the Butterfly flies on through and escapes? Do on stand there with egg all over,my face, start crying, or throw myself down on the ground and have a full- blown tantrum? There may be sunlight still ahead for,me, but I am growing old and weary, how strong do my glasses have to be for me to see it? Your friendly neighborhood Queen of Frstr8tion,ME😵😪

Ash Ash you are no longer a Fat Cow, you are slimmer, trimmer and a gazelle. If not yet, you are in your 💕 so rock,it that way. Do it that way,and,it will become that way. And in the words of the late Telly Savalas "who,loves ya,💕 baby?" Answer: WE ALLL DO!😛

Although it may be slower it still will happen, few say it doesn't,go slow, but most do. Good luck and Good Healing when your day comes, and an early Welcome to,Kangaroo-land where we all have pouches! Hoping to hop in and join up in June!😛

PS without a doubt I would have used lubricant, although I was feeling mean at that point, even I am not THAT NASTY and besides I've always taken pride in my work, no matter what👸👍😀

Girls don't worry too much about catheters, unless your surgery is prolonged, you might not even have one. Often if you do, if you're young and frisky they will d/c it soon,so you will be up and doing your "walkies". if not you just take Frankie the Foley along with you. Won't be the first one to do so. Confess something to you all. After knee replayment #2 in February 2017 I DID NOT have one. Apparently Dr Doolittle, no telation to,the movie doctor, he was a vet anyway, was so proud of his speed and skill he didn't have one installed. Imagine if you will me, all 300+ lbs of dizzy me, being asked to stand on my knee and pivot to the bedside commode. I only pray they didn't have a camera up on the wall taping it. If so I made America's Most Funny Medical Videos hands down. Right then I prayed for a catheter so they would leave me alone. Better yet, bring me a Foley Kit, perhaps he forgot,I had been to nursing school, got an A plus in catheter placement. FYI my school practices on Downy bottles befor we venture out to do the real thing, and a male catherization, takes a little longer, at this point he was lucky he has on another floor because I had fire in my eyes. The red hair on my head is not chemically enduced!😵

My300lblife, you are my size sibling, so I'll be watching how your progress goes, both pre and post. Gosh I'm so envious, I'm. beseaching Heaven. I join you in June! Figure by now, the Holy Angels are flying in to say "Father God, please respond to her petition? She' s making so much noise down in Ohio we don't have time to intercede from someone else!" It is difficult to romp and stomp around while you're praying but I've had so much practice I'm getting proficient.😝

Bryn sorry about the💦, you know you may return from the OR,either on a blue-backed absorbent pad or a "granny pad: and mesh panties on. One of the detrimental joys of being female and being pre-menopausal. Aunt Flo would show up at the most incovenient times, like,most relatives drop in uninvited and overstay her welcome. I kept begging my gynecologist to help me murder the old broad, never would, I had to let her die off on her own, and typical sneaky broad, she sputtered many months until she,gave up and moved away. Last time was the morning my older grand-daughter was born, waiting for my son-on-law to call, thought well I'll tinkle one more time and surprise! Usually a little cramping before but not this time, afteriNaomis' s both my RD and I had granny pads on, she had a good excuse, me, didn't know if Aunt Flo was going to spit and sputter or vomit red all over my undies. And usually when she decided to do the letter not even tampons slower her down. I was 60 years 2 months and 10 days old, it was not fair! My mother started at 9, was over at 54 maybe 55, I started the week before my 13th birthday and was chugging along for that long. Couldn't catch a break!

Good Luck all of you- Moondoggie all 4 paws pointing forward? Good, no more howling without,purpose at the moon, going to pray your surgery is so smooth. you won't have to whimper. They put collars sround dogs necks so they won't bite and chew at their wounds, do we have put a big plastic collar on you just below the chest? Maybe we should put mittens on your front paws?

A "think" to brighten your day. You will always,be Johnnie, and th at is totally fine, wouldnt' t have it any other way. As you exercise, you are going to get stronger, a little more firmed-for a healthier you, you're still,hoping to be our Dragon64 but your tail isn't going to be dragin' (dragon) 🐊anymore! Pretty doggone good, I'm thinking!😛🚩😛

Hi there TeresaGraham ARGrannie, which a long title. I'm in Central,Ohio, I am 72 and will,be having RnY in Columbus Ohio this summer. I am hopeful it still will be June at the Ohio State University Hospital -Werner Medical Center. If I remember my US geography correctly you are on the Texas- Arkansas border. Must be a very fine area to live in. If you have any questions any,of us can help with, just ask. You will find We are all your friends on here. Welcome Again.

you have to see an exercise physiologist or life coach ,I did not. Don't know why,my phone is being obtuse, it's posting in the middle of paragraphs and partly in the middle of sentences. This will be more than worth the effort, I know it is for me.

nutritionist, in someplaces yo

Doesn't hurt 1 iota. Be very glad you are where you are. US , Canada UK NZ Australia and I'm sure Ireland we are asleep. Main Europe, many areas they have you upright, spray your throat, and do,it while you're barely sedated if at all. Glad God didn't see fit to plant me in such a benightened area. I have had 2 of those myself, my last December 2017 by my gastroenterologist, my previous in June 2015 by a general surgeon. My. GI doctor Dr Mujataba was wonderously gentle,i went to sleep, had just spoke a greeting to him, and I was out, woke up back in the edge of the ED, no pain, no throat soreness, no headach or anything. The only reason I was in the edge of ED was because of my age. Did I mention before I became 72 26 December last? With the General. surgeon, sore throat,achy and felt like a wolf had chewed on my head. Both times. I received a paper with pictures of my insides. Super interesting. So. have gastritis, a hiatal hernia, GERD and a lovely picture of Hector my little baby ulcer. I also had consultations with a pulmonologist for lungs, cardiologist for heart, sleep specialist to check out degree of sleep apnea, Daddy had pretty badly, tendency is often inherited. A psychologist to check my degree of craziness, I'm Irish don't most think us a tad crazy? A dietician/n

@Apple203 yeah something. odd here checked earlier, nada, so I post and I came back,and here they are again. Perhaps,Mark Zuckerberg, Ken S or Alex B can explain this transitory,nature. Scared they will float off again. Could ask the friendly nerghbood hacker, they're always around lurking.