Frustr8

Have you had people my age(because I'm not an usual age for surgery) before and how well are they doing now? My particular bariatric center has past patients with their victory stories on their website. And a Wall of Honor on their hall to the Examination Rooms. I plan for,my pictures to be there someday!😛

We have a posting on here for ladies like us who started out in the 300s. Hey we all are sarting toward victory too, I started out with HW355, currently at 321 losing slowish but hope to stay the course, surgery in July 2018 if things keep moving and then? Happy thinner days ahead, hang with us, see how good things can be, okay?😛

Also svelte makes a soybased one, you give up a little protein rating but it isn't that yucky sweet and I don't taste a pronounced soy taste.

@roleypoley have you tried the Rockin Protein drinks Nnoi recommended on another posting, they sound kind of good,😋 I'm in Ohio, I know Shamrock Farms make them and we can find them at both Speedway and Krogers.🌱😛🌱

And I see in our area both Speedway and Kroger handle them, how do they compare with the other protein drinks cost-wise? As an example Premier Protein is usually $7.27 at Wal-Mart.🌸🌺🌱🌺🌸😛

Howdy Kat0000, looks like Thursday will be a very big day for you. Please update us when you know something😛

And congratulations on these first steps, now that you are on the path please keep going. Your future health and indeed life depend on it. If I told you my chronological life age you would say " that's so cool." but I am having my own life struggles. Let me share a few. First I am one of those whose journey has painfully slow, partly my fault but mostly not. Don't worry , there is no way on God's Green Earth yours could be like dynasty one. Second I am on Social Security so Uber limited income, have been fighting the Workman Comp Wars for a little over 2 years. It should finally settle soon, one wrinkle was I have been fighting,a self-insured ex employer who I suspect has been praying I'd die off so they could wipe it off their corporate books without final restitution, while I was receiving temporary total I had no problem paying my landlord, now as it comes closer to finally being at end that stopped. I had to cut back on rental payment to pay for utilities, medications my insurance doesn't cover or even with co-pay is high and sad to say, they are ones I really need to stay healthy. Last 2 months I could pay at all, bought some time with LLord by telling him I'd resolve it with my insurance. Since he wasn't getting,in what he,thought he should receive he stopped doing repairs. Okay, things still moving along in life? Spoke with my lawyer, thought(maybe foolishly) once I paid LL back there would be enough left maybe I would have enough to make down payment on a future small house of my own, it's just me, my son and 2 rotten spoiled cats, and honestly I'm tired of a house with plaster falling,baseboards missing and now after neighbor moved out, they must have had bugs because they've moved in too. The kind you need an exterminator for, if you know what I mean. LL already threatening to evict,me in July if I don't come up with more money. No do I tell him I have one of those insects that just keep on giving? Talked to lawyer this week, I had already explored getting preapproved for sale housing,even have a letter stating that to show realtor, when time. Lawyer gave me an amount based on his years of practice, he didn't just fall off the turnip truck, been doing this variety of law for years, after his % which I don't begrudge him because he has worked hard. If I would tell ex employer you would say" Oh you can't win anything from those peaple" well I will but not as large as I dreamed of. So I will have to later call LL who lives almost into the next state, yeah pretty absent when yo need something. Oh yes, in December I had to consult a specialist in another city- another county- due to a hereditary condition running in my family, without this more detailed clearance I couldn't be cleared for Bariatric Surgery. My JFS locally had been helping with such medical trips,they dropped this facet December 31st in my case, doctors office didn't send paperwork back until January, So cost reverted to me over $100 which I have been paying off monthly. Just another nasty bite out of my puny budget. So now today I have to call LL and update him, although I have every hope of paying him the soonest I'll realize any money is 2 months, remember he already is making eviction noises. Then I have to call lawyer and tell him to make the formal demand in writing to opposing company, where we say we want like $60,000 and they say we want to pay $15,000 and then they jockey back in forth. Then I hope I don't hear from realator or lending institution because I told them I'd be making a move in July and now it doesn't look that way. I have so many clothes that hopefully I won't be able to wear anymore, some of them winter because I live in Ohio, I could have an all weekend yard sale, maybe I should pile them out on the curbside on a table with a sign FREE and just keep refilling it. Now back to Bariatrics, I should have my surgery in July(another July occurance) all I'm really waiting on is my 30 day electronic validation of usage which will be submitted July 2nd and that is hands down the happiest part of my tale of woe. I started wanting and working toward it in August 2015. Any after my RnY, don't k ow where I'll be living or how much money I'll really have, but I've got to get it finished before the end of my insurance settlement because my piddly bit of money will kick me off of Medicare/ Medicaid and I can't afford the $19,000+ Ohio State University Hospital charges for it without medicines and everything else. But I will triumph over all these setbacks because like Reba McEntire I AM A SURVIVOR! Your new Friend Frustr8.😛🌸🌺🌺🌸

Good luck I hope you will join us. Your youth might be saying one thing but your BMI is shouting " Attention!" You are not too young to make such a change, don't take one no for an answer. If you want to talk,there are a lot of us on here more than will8ng. Keep us updated!

Want a gloomy blue jacket? I have one your size, because I've been trying since August 2015 to finish my own. CRY ON MY SHOULDER IF YOU WANT, I've cried so long myself I've mildewed. But you are not alone and I can be a faithful friend, okay? We'll get through this together and be stronger somehow for it.

Congratulations this is a happy📣 joy joy day for you, celebrating at your side!😛

Welcome Future Fine Apple from Central Ohio. I will be having an RnY next month at the Ohio State University Hospital. I've been on my journey since August 2015 and it hasn't completed yet.

My urologist has told me after my WLS (i am a future RnY) I will have a lessening of my problems. In addition to the UTIs we females are more likely to have because of the way we are structured, I have bladder spasms, nocturia and mild incontinence from not moving fast enough to beat the urge heading to the lovely porcelain throne. Will any of these truly get better or is Dr Clemens just another of my "Go get your surgery Frustr8 Boosters. I do adore him as a Doctor, well as much as one can adore someone whose firework consists of tweaking with my plumbing.😪💦

Nnori glad you came back out of hiding since April, congratulations to,put Mama for her excellent surgery at Riverside Methodist,yesterday June 5th, now you at Riverside, me at OSU in July 2018. We will show them Columbus Loud Columbus Proud and the way it OUGHT TO BE DONE!

It is important advice from the 2 wise ladies above. True it is YOUR journey but you don't have to face it alone , talk to us but an understanding bariatric therapist is worth him/her weight in gold. But remember Bobbie, we ❤ you. always!

Although chronologically I was supposed to be,mature,i have done a lot of emotional growth. I am more happy in my own skin, more accepting,of myself so now I can reach out and be more accepting of others. After years,in Nobodyland, my opinions are valuable,and I indeed can mentor other others not so far along life's highway. I'm cool you're cool and, as part of a big worldwide Bariatric Family I can share in your as you share in mine. And it is FINE!😛🌸🌺🌱🌺🌸

Congratulations and may you have a sweet smooth surgery and recovery . Not too long until your Big Day!😛

And 🐶Moondoggie although no one has yet gifted me with a bipolar diagnosis I am surely Neurodiverse to hang with you folks. Crazy phone said first band instead of hang, but that could be true also. Got to haul myself of to Staples, they haven't decided to put me through another EGD or not, so I'll fax all the papers I have from EGD #2 and hope that suffices. Anybody who says the road to bariatric surgery,is smooth as silk hasn't been traveling with me!

Nnori I hope Dr Tom S will excuse us mangling his name, shame it isn't Smith, Jones or White, those the smartphone will let me spell right. Trying to get my last 1/2 hour in on my C pap, I didn't sleep well last night so I kept getting up and doing something else to tire down. I know sometimes I whine about older age and poor sleep,patterns but . dang it, I've never n been this age before and I still don't got,it perfect!👵And the grayhaired emoji isn't perfect, although I am the age I never grayed, my hair is still unrepentedly red-gold and there is NOT an emoji,for THAT!😛

Maybe one of those California Girls they used to sing about! Even if you're a California Dude that would be ok too! Welcome Welcome, I'm Frustr8 and I don't have an assigned date myself. Just got a call from my case manager/facilitator in Columbus, one more piece of paper I have and need to share with them so up and go to Staples and Fax it. Might keep me from an additional EGD, that would be #3,in 3 years and I'm still presurgical. Tra la la! Anyway pull up a virtual chair we love having you with us!🌸🌺😛🌺🌸

To amplify it self-loathing hurts only YOU, pick yourself out of the swamp, dust yourself off and keep moving forward. Remember you're a good person, I have had trouble remembering that for,my own self!

Love reading all these stories, maybe I'm a quasi-lurker since I'm a future RnY instead but your victories and joys,it's like we are still family. The Bariatric Family is big enough to include us all.😋

W O W ! That is,SO good- don't know if I could lose down to there but W O W, maybe I could!

Goody you are feeling better,my favorite Tarheel puppy is going to be okay again!🐶

I want one - I want one! Do you hear me🎅 Santa Claus?

Ah Sosewsue I have little culture so I like Just My Size, Lane Bryant and the Cracker Factory on Home Shopping. That said, it will be my consummate joy to delete the first 2 for boutique type places. Did you know both JMS and WallyWorld are marketing a 0,Woman's size- equates to size 14- guess they are sorry to see us go, notice I didn't say repentant just sorry!