Frustr8

Missouri Lee'sSummit LOL you are going from Boy Scouts" Be Prepared" which also used to Be the Girl Scouts to the 4H ,their motto at least one of them is "To make the Best Better"

And @AshMarie794,@clsumrall,@Chrisb428, this is Frustr8, I'm lagging behind a little but I'm a-coming. Put me down for September 5th At 7AM edt at my hospital of current record OSU- Wexner Medical Center in Columbus Ohio with my surgeon, the one I really wanted, Bradley J NeedlemanMD, head of Bariatric Medicine and Metabolic Weight Loss there. Since I am at 7AM, that means I am the first case that morning, let,the rest of the traffic pile up behind me. First time in a long time I've got preferential treatment anywhere. And Ash Marie, I understand what is going through for you, how many times has my journey stopped, started, had to overcome roadblocks, quagmires, all my fears drowned in my tears, now I am joyfully looking ahead, and I think I can do this, it's my choice, my commitment, and mine will be the final victory. Would you believe I can choose the duration of my prep diet? They ask for a minimum of 2 weeks,max of 4, they of course recommend 4, I'm told that ensures easier,recovery and possibly better healing. Yeah but what my bari-buds have related, I will be hangry, tempermental and the only thing that will keep me from blowing someone or something up is the fact I will be week and dizzy with hunger. My high school class reunion will be the 11th, 55years, I warned you I AM OLD, actually the youngest in my class, but still OLD. So do i commit to 4,3,or2 weeks? And I have an ornery landlord wanting to sell my house. Think his greedy wife wants the money for God knows what, fix their own house, go on a cruise, put money in their daughter's college fund? I have an. insurance settlement coming to payment in mid August, greedy Jenny wants us out by August30-31. Yep right before my surgery! Do I make arrangements to purchase this place, that he has neglected to repair things in, or relocate somewhere else? So I am pitching things out, been here 18 years, in that time my MIL, a 31 year old son, and my husband died, still have all their stuff stored upstairs. MIL was a photo pfreak, I have several totes-full upstairs, I have no MF idea who most of them are, some have names on them, most don't. As example there is old timy one "at aunt and uncle's house, boy we all had a good time" Aunt and Uncle Who? Nobody left from that generation to ask! Add in mine and Tomkitten's out-of-season clothes. What size am I going to be by winter? I'm a 26 now, how close will I be to my goal of a 15 junior? See underneath all of this flabby fluffy fat I think I am a junior. For a big girl I'm only a C-D, many at my weight are E, F,G. So I am an overgrown tomboy figure, honest. I probably can wear the sweatshirts a while longer but the old beat up jeans and slacks have got to go. Do I dump them at Goodwill, throw them in a dumpster, we have a church run facility in my community, gotten rather persnickity, they want everything freshly laundered, neatly ironed or folded before being put into not,overfilled bags. Must have delusions of being an upscale consignment Shoppe. So think,is me,fighting the fight, scratching my head, holding a premiere protein in one hand, wondering WTF do I do first?😫💦😫

What happened is the past, if I cannot change yesterday, this I must accept. I am perfectly okay the way that I am; this is acceptable and I now have the,power to change my future. I do not know,the original author but it is MY statement now.

Tonight on the first night of having a definate surgical date, I regret my body wearing out so far before I could schedule a date. Yes I will regain many facets I once had and lost. And my internal motor will run smoother but the chassis rust, scratches and dings will remain. But I will dusplay them like the battle medals and ribbons they are but now I wish I never gone to war, I wish I had been a conscientious objector to life, I would have like to have lived my life differently, but still life is life and it beats death all hollow. What did not kill me did strengthen me for battle, and although my scars are many most don't throb anymore . Even if I am not showroom fresh and a honey I have "good bones" I am strong, sturdy and capable for many more miles. Don't junk me, I. still have many useful parts.🚘

Looking forward to exhilarating along with my frustr8ion. Goodbye Lane Bryant, goodbye Catherines, Goodbye Added Dimensions you won't have ME forever. And pretty proportions here I COME!📍😝📍🌈

Shells an update, now have a surgery date. 9/ 05/2018 7am. 2 to 4 weeks, 4 shakes, 1 meal, below 300 cals, no corn, peas, potatoes, high protein low carb, 2 snacks, banana, orange, Apple or 3/4 C berries. And of course plenty of unsweetened drinks and water. They claim if you do 4 weeks you'll heal better than the 2 weekers . General consensus,of my Bari-pals is sure, as long as you don't go crazy 1st, everybody says they'll never drink another shake after that day.

In 6 weeks I will be you, main difference is, I have to be there at 5 for my 7 o clock. A cheerful thought, since you are the first surgery of the day, if yours takes longer they have to wait on you to get done! You are the premier star tomorrow! You can do This and you will.👍😝

Hmmm maybe the country of New England? Sad nobody cares about geography any more let alone American History. Even with its flaws, the US of A is a pretty fine place to call home.🌎

It isn't even just Bariatric Surgeons that are that way. One upon a time I had an OB/Gym cut from that bolt. His favorite saying was Pregnant Women are Ditsy because all of their blood pools in their abdomen and none gets to their brain. And This Doctor Ding Ding went on a diet, ever notice how it seems some men lose easy? Got down to 135 lbs and keep telling us ladies that were his livelihood that we were fat cows because we couldn't lose that easy.

My PCP put on my records I'm a,binge eater. I skip breakfast, eat my meal late at night and some foods because I like the texture and taste. And I am a distracted eater, my former self would sit in front of the TV, eat a whole bag of something and not even really taste it. Oh I am trying to reform but I also ate for consulation when the world treated me meanly. And my late husband had a strange one. You know how an anorexic looks in the mirror and thinks they look fat, he was the re erse, he would look in the mirror and think he looked thin. He weighed over 300 at 6ft3in but in his heart and mind he thought he was 185, slim and nattily dressed.

Old Folks Forum- Nope that's where the Vintage Vixens and Stud Muffins reside and we can Rock the Casbah anytime we like!

Now a bright cheery thought Frustr8's newly realigned statistics HW,355 lbs last October (2017) Current presurgical Weight 321lb and slowly loosing 1st GW 199lb 2nd GW 175& a 15 Junior Drum Roll Please SD September 5 2018 7am EDT Surgeon Bradley J Needleman MD Location the OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL-WEXNER MEDICAL,CENTER Columbus Ohio 43210 Surgery RnY bypass, on this day I ,become a kangaroo, for I then will have a pouch! Boing, Boing! (No kangaroo Emoji. 🐊crocodile his proxy) And am I excited? Oh Yeah if I had a tail I would be wagging it😝❤

Thank you Kat0000 and Gingersnap112, odd Gingersnaps was one of my son's programs. Think he may have had a wee crush on Emily Perkins. At any rate it,is wonderful,to know I have 2 nice friends following me. It was a very,nice exam etc I had today,with Dr Needleman. He is as nice as I hoped he would be, he was amazed at how much I knew already, actually didn't learn as much as some because I am so,prepared but did glean some information to fill in the gaps Every challenge he presented, I believe I can accomplish. I really,feel like we are a team willing to work for me. Yeah he is a very busy guy, but he has this way of making each of us feel we are the most important patient in the 🌎to him. That's not,something easily taught, it comes from within. He's maybe 49-50 years old, getting gray a little, but cares and is approachable tous. Much better person than that first Asswhat surgeon I met at the previous place. And I feel very safe in his care. He was reading the whole list of bad things that can happen and I'm shaking my head NO. He asked me why, I told him nothing bad would happen, he is too good a surgeon, he would not want to mess up his record and my whole day by a calamity. Oh some of the things I have heard on Bariatric Pal are so funny, one woman was worried she would talk about ex-husbands and lovers while under anesthesia. Don't know if I helped when I told her she would have a breathing tube down her throat and couldn't say a word. Another was concerned about people who. might see her unclothed. Pish tosh, good ole Frust8 is going to be lying,on her back, arms secured so I don't slip off the table, belly pumped up so high I look like I'm expected octuplets and I should whether,people know the shade of every hair,on my body? Ask me , I'm 72, people who knew secrets about me are long gone. Got little if any shame in my game, yeah I'm a redhead all over,what does it matter if 8 to 10 more people know that? Unless the TV crews have a wide angle lens they can't get all of me in one picture! Yesterday someone was worried they didn't have an hourglass figure , shoot,i do, instead of 36-25-36 I'm 58-46-58 and my thighs are like bundt cakes instead of muffins, but I believe I'll renovate well,once I peel off my fat covering I am going to be dy-no-mite and really rock the senior set. Might take a year, might take 18 months, but I will be Cutie Pie reconditioned from Big Mama. Big project but i,am the woman for it!😝🍀❤

@ mercmerc And @ Nnoi I am moving my base of operations to a new forum. No days open on this month, so scheduled September 5 ,2018 at 7 AM. Waving bye bye, Blowing kisses. I will still be watching both of your stories unfold.Be Happy For Me!😝🍀😝

Frustr8's newly reconstructed statistics HW 355lbs October 2017 Current pre surgery weight 321lb 7/17/2018 First Goal weight 199lb Second Goal weight 175lb or size 15 Junior SD September 5 2018 7AM,EDT Surgeon Bradley J Needleman MD at Ohio State University- Wexner Medical Center Columbus Ohio 43210 Type of surgery= RnY bypass And that's All I Know!😷🍀😝

Be Proud of your state Matt Z. Since you are a history buff let me tell you one about my state-Ohio. We were the first state carved,out of the old Northwest Territory. When our states leaders prepared to celebrate our sesquicentennial in 1953 they discovered an Oopsey. Somebody forgot to dot the "I"s and cross the "t"s and we were not legally a STATE. The Northwest Territory paperwork set up how our subsequent territories could become a State, but since we were the first it didn't cover us. President Dwight D Eisenhower signed a retroactive Presidential decree that Ohio is, was and always had been a State of the United States of America and had been so since March 1st 1803. This was not a fact I read in a dry dusty history book, I was7 years 2 months old when it happened and I know it to be fact. Although Ohio sent a disproportionate large amount of men to fight in the War between the States do you know,what state's fighters were considered the fiercest fighters? Little Rhode Island who grew her sons stronger and truer. Be Proud of your state Matt Z , indeed no person grows well in life that does not remember his or her roots. So be true and loyal to Rhode Island as I am to Ohio.🇺🇸😝🇺🇸

Keep on taking care of our little God-Bahy- you Are a success and 70,iwill make a wonderful Mommy.😝👶

You are SMART for you knew to seek surgery You are BRAVE for you have opened the door You are STRONG - never doubt,your inner strength. Be Proud, Be confident, YOU are making a stand for YOU And no one will ever fault you for protecting,you. Now Smile😝 You Can Do This and Do it well!

Sounds like a winner to me, climb slowly, be kind to you!

3 Things to RememberWalk walk walk,sip,sip, sip, and lastly,smile smile smile. I worked in healthcare more years than I care to admit but THE PLEASANT PATIENT GETS THE PERKS , doctors and nurses are human too!😝👍😝

@Jess9395 I'll eyeroll with you. One day I caught one of my favorite outfits going out the door on my daughter. "Woah Missy", I said " If I have such horrid taste in clothing, why are you wearing that? Her Answer "Because I can rock it, in a way you can't! Grrr!

A Blue-Ribbon Response @ Missour- Lee's Summit. If I only could ---I would award you 2 trophies for your answer👍❤😝❤

See what happens when YOU went to sleep with your cell phone, guess I should be glad all I said was "Z" Oopsey😝

Grail. not Trail, they may rhyme but they are vastly different things.

Oh my maybe Ancestry. Com isn't the zHoly Trail everbody thought they once were. Although many yearn to know if their ethnicity was, if they have my DNA forever could it be used to exclude me from employment at a future date? Sounds pretty Brave New World to me, and I find that scary.