Frustr8

And May she and YOU formulate something you can live and thrive with! Throwing a little Prayer🙏your way, can't hurt and it just might help!

And I am Frustr8, 73 and in Ohio. Anybody need a nice chaperone? I'm quite Available, due to Hubbys Death 7 years ago- I guess that makes me single ALSO. Okay, I'll just hang out here and cheer you youngins along!

Well I seem to have gone to an every- other- day defecation schedule, still bordering on Wicked Firm, doesn't enjoy leaving my BODY- well I'm not enjoying it either COLON, if you weren't original equipment and 73 years I Certainly would vote to replace YOU with a better- behaving, more compliant Large Intestine. Like the verse from Psalms You Are like a Tree planted by the waters, the waters in this case -THOSE of the Porcelain Throne. At this point I often feel I will have resort to Heavy Equipment like a Backhoe to keep things moving along, You- Mr Colon -BETTER have been still approving of M.O.M and liquid Ducolax because I STILL HOLD a Trump Card, a small bottle of Bisacodyl ready to be swallowed. I Do THAT and We Both will be Miserable and I will be House-Bound for the duration until everything stops producing that desired result.💩

Splendid Natural makes that blend too, and yes,it does taste pretty good!

And Nagatha- I do pray🙏your scary days as well as those of Lynda 468 soon become a memory instead of your reality daily. So glad you landed upright from that forced descending out of your WEIGHT LOSS airplane. Now you both, get well and stay That Way, we need both of you here!

Wonder why when i had my DEXA they didnt show me that! I GOT ROBBED, didn't I?

Thank You- that makes ME feel a little less of An Outlier!

I FLAT - OUT GIVE UP!

And the spell- check alterations to the above " if I am lucky" My shoulder locked up"taste of sweetness" and I Lived at a Sl8w Rate" now I am going to trust that Spell- check DOESN'T warp my wording again. "Your Ms F! "

I do try HARD, drink frequently, it FINALLY does add up,but I still only can do my infinitesimal sips, ifvi am extremely lucky and do it slowly, maybe 4 oz, yeah maybe twice as much as immediately post- surg but believe I'll NEVER BE a Free 🐦 like ALL the one-yearers and to Go to 4- IT HURTS- My Pouch threatens to HURL that little bit,so I patiently revert to re- trying in 15 minutes. Cool like refrigerated, warm like Soup and broth, but Room-Temp Gags Me every time, reminds ME of drinking #1, yeah Gross Statement- but just being honest Used to Love love love plain Water but it still tastes like somebody stirred Bitters into it. Only had the. preannounced taste if sweetness until maybe around 6 weeks when the Surgical Clinic and Dr Noria had to admit I was RIGHT- I had ulceratations and a Stomal Stenosis and I have had to Fight for My Healing- is it Complete? Well, last EGJ, June12th of This Year, I was told. by Dr Upchurch, my local gastroenterologist, because OSU had declared ME HEALED by virtue of Time Elapsed and WOULDN'T schedule ME another- He was able to power through, don't know if HE Had to balloon- inflate or slip through the stoma easily, remarked that I had visual scarring in the Jejunem but that I was "patent" the medical term for "open" so he was satisfied with my jejunem and into the proximal illeum, must have had a LONG endoscopy tube, Don't Know because I was very Asleep, didn't even have me gargle with numbing solution before sedation into Dreamless sleep, but apparently I wasn't Even Thrilling Enough for a Post- Procedure Office Visit- basically Thanked Me for Allowing Him (WHAT?) to go look, handed me some PRETTY 2 page pictures of my interior and it was "Good bye Charlie" or in my Case "Charlene" and I saw him "Nevermore" as Edgar Allen Poe's Raven was written to Say.
And , my peeps, I feel as jerked around a Yo-Yo with a literal Bad Taste in my mouth, due to that Plain Water I continue to attempt imbibing of. Sorry but I DID WAKE UP IN A Crabby State of Mind- horrendous shoulder pain- need my Left Rotator cuff repaired which alas will end up an Reverse Shoulder Replacement because of the Concurrent Arthritic Deterioration, Dr Doolittle, my Orthopaedic surgeon, REFUSES to schedule IT until I recovery from my Lipomas Removal ( September 24th) with Dr Mc Laughin, my General Surgeon ,and my Left Cataract removal and Lens Implantation (October 3rd) with Dr Koehler my Opthamologist, in the Meantime in between Time, Baby I got Me some Pain, it dulls down to a quieter roar after I am up a while but I Can't hardly lift or attempt reaching for things, l8cked up on Me a couple of Times because I have very little cartilage remaining that isn't pitted or missing altogether. And honestly , even though it appears like IT-- I am NOT Masochistic enough to ENJOY PAIN I have another appointment with Dr D, really to make sure somehow my Ganglion Cyst stays GONE- a 6 week follow-up- I WILL TRY to plead my Case once again- don't want this to go into December or January 2020, my deductibles have been long ago satisfied, so Please Please Pretty Please? Let Us Do This Soon? Okay, My Dear "Ortho"?
Am I apprehensive about all these Surgeries? Heck No- Just Want it All Concluded and THEN MAYBE I can get back to Carving Out a Good Life out of Chaos.
Meanwhile Me and the Puny BP go travelling on, light- headed, moving at a Sl8w Rate so I don't topple over.
And it's FRUSTR8 Out for Now!

No No It's All Part of the Big Picture, so as long as You Stay on Target you're not vearing too far away from the Topic at Hand.

No Big Problem- just a service I offer to the Bestest People and You're Certain One of Those!

Sheri🐻You Are An Absolute Hoot! Don't care if you develop NAAA- No A** At All- You'll be #1 in My Mind- and head on as thin as You've gotten- You Just may resemble the #1 anyway soon!

One of my bugaboo is showering. Tomkittten gets peeved with ME, see he belongs to the Shower of Day Club- I try to tell him people my age dry their skin out doing it too frequently, but that's NOT the Real Reason- Truth be be TOLD- I get so dizzy and light- headed that I use my shower chair once again- kind of a set- back when I'm trying to prove I can handle everything Life Throws My Way. Although I weigh much less than Once-Upon -A-Time I still could make an Loud Noise falling! Plus I'm not sure, with Osteopenia do Your Bones still break or splinter like a Greenstick fracture? Better had better not go out of My Way to find the Answer, should I?👈😣👉

Oh Bastian, we All At times Do THAT- seems like a good %age of MY LIFE is spent going--- Hunnh?

Well I suspect We All Are- it's like LIFE keeps telling Me " Sorry Frustr8 - I just changed the rules!". SW was 319 on September 5th 2018, this morning Current Weight 281.9, now gone from 28-30 W to a mostly 16, few 18s still aren't falling to the floor because I put new elastic in to prolong wear a little longer. Put my undergrowth clothing on our local buy-sell- trade radio program-TRADIO , thought I priced them at a reasonable price but not even one nibble, maybe people are so cheap they expected them to be FREE? Wanted to realize a little money so I can buy new things in my lowering size range, that would be a fair thing to do, I thought.

Looked it up on Google, seems to be pretty similar to Miralax, but Y3s we can get it here also. It can be ordered from from Jeff Bezos and his Inflated spider "Amazon", seems to come in packets/ sachets not a bottle like my last Miralax purchase. Okay?

Since I have had my SURGERY, an RNY on September 5th, 2018 my Blood Pressure has become on the low side. In Fact I am hard- pressed to have a Reading of over 100. As an example, I had cause to have it taken just this morning- 95/ 60- I expected my weight to diminish- but my BP too? Am I c9ncerned about absolutely nothing? And yes I'm not dehydrated- I do keep my fluids up.

try cold compress, see if you can "freeze" the pain away. My orthopaedic surgeon seems to love recommending that for pain; no real reason it might not criss over for you. And you could find relief with the opposite- a hit water bottle or a low to medium temp on a heating pad. Got to try "Old Grandma" advice when the easy things don't do for you. Your body went through surgery as well as you, now it feels cranky, crabby and feels like swearing. And --- How does a Body show indignation? Cramping and Gas!

And I ate things that usually agree with me tonight, so why did I just wake up at 3 AM upchucking ,sad isn't it? Right about now I do wish I had my entire stomach, unrouted, too efficient at digesting calories and storing them on my body in case of famine. Surely I inherited that capability from some distant ancestor who did have to face such a thing, no real famines in Mid-America currently. And I did sleep through the night, not the " Am I through puking or not?" sensation. Maybe if I can go back to sleep get some good rest I will 💘 my RNY Bypass once again, but if my Surgeon was with i n Easy Grasp instead of over 50 miles away, I WOULD BE SINGING the song from the Little Abner Movie :" PUT ME BACK THE WAY I WAS!" Difficult, tedious , requiring an High Sill level, have to be done OPEN instead of laproscopically, if I DIE, I would at least Go to My Lord--- Whole Once Again.😪😦💦

Probably so, or the author thought it made it sound more like The GOOD LIFE.

Maybe protein- enhanced waters like Protein 2-0, Ensure and the other companies make or you get at General Nutrition Stores or even Health food stores? Now I am curious also.

On 09/20/2019 at 5:50 PM ,november11 said:

Hey Guys I have read all the things you look forward to and here is my list;

to be able to see my everything looking down

for the people I know who have judged or half looked at me see the brand new Bod

for the men that I don't know to see me and actually look twice

to be able to just cross my legs

to not sweat to get dressed

I love dressing and I do pretty good as a plus woman so I cant wait to rock the small sizes

and I know this seems kinda off but I look forward to meeting someone whom I could share the rest of my life with

I want to be held and loved and love myself at the same time.

looking in that store window as I pass will no longer be a nightmare but a smile;;;

The last 2 items on your list are the mostest for me- to walk by store Windows or mirrors and not cringe
And I believe everyone deserved to be loved and loved back in return. To be accepted for yourself, not for how you look, not just for arm candy or a status symbol, but but for the innate wonderful and good person you are and to be treated as fine as you always deserved to be.
Well here I go philosophizing, we "lived long enough to experience a lot of life: type people DO. I once said that we try so hard to insure those we love escape the things that hurt us once and by doing that maybe we cut them off from experiencing and surmounting challenges. Life doesn't come with an,owners manual, we come into life crying but now we all are trying to not exist and die that way.

Had a scary thought- you're posting in the Sleeve forum- they're usually not as prone to strictures as Bypassers but I would think it is possible for your sleeve to twist. Hope by now you have been checked out and are safe and BETTER, nothing to fool around with- For all this IS Your Life and Future we are talking and worrying ABOUT. Better to get told it's nothing worrisome by trained personnel than to risk your health.

And STRESSED is Desserts Alternative Spelling🍰🍨🍡🍜