Frustr8

She is absolutely adorable, I have that look on my face also, you see I too have a new friend, mine more of a pain. I now have a PICC line in my upper left arm and receive TPN 14 of every 24 hours. My gastrointestinal system is on holiday, I have had that unresolved stomal stenosis, the 5 evil ulcers, 2 near the stoma and the other 3 on the back wall of the jejunem, well Wedneday November 28th at my last endoscopy Precious Pouch was all disgruntled and swollen, the ulcers had not resolved, showed no signs of healing, truth be known, they were marching down towards the third segment of my small intestine, I had been on Carafate for over 6 weeks, kept my diet liquid and mild, avoided smokers like the plague, and I was worsening, not able to get a healing amount of protein in orally so my happy Hoohah got planted upstairs in a room on Doan 10, the Bari-surgical floor. And there I was for a full week. On Thursday November 29th I had a PICC line installed in my upper inner left arm, after 24 hours of letting things settle down on Friday November 30 My first TPN feeding was started , a 24 hour seige of it, at the end of the weekend they started stepping back to 12 hours, after that we started cycling 12 on,12 off. Monday they were satisfied I wasn't going to swing into hyper or hypoglycemia so started preparing me to come home. First Medicare( and by extension Ohio Medicaid, the tag-along) said basically" We've seen her picture, She Looks too healthy!" Hey that picture was 60 pounds ago, my color is off, I now have dimples/dents in my cheeks and a hang-dog expression on my face! Tuesday they would approve a PEG tube and an LTF(aka nursing home) placement, first of all I WOULD NOT accept a placement in one of those, worked in TOO many of those, Homie ain't going There! And fact #2. A PEG tube placement, your stomach and pyloric valve need to be accessible, never going to happen with an RnY short of open abdominal surgery. Wasn't in shape for that! So tall talking from. my surgical team, much tutorials to explain and finally Medicare relented, I could go home, with instruction my son and I could take over the care, and Frustr8 could return to her little humble home. A difference is my portable pump, which I carry around in a medium sized backpack along with my solution, runs 14 instead of 12 hours. So 14 on, 10 off. Last night we were running behind because I fixed him a good meal instead of guess & by gosh sandwiches, Oh I owed him, he has put up with cranky old me, and I do get cranky at times. So didn't get it started until after 10:30-11pm so it's still chugging along now. You really can't hear it run very easily. At a minimum we are BFF until the end of the month, and the longest,maybe FOREVER? I guess the additional protein et al is starting to make me feel better but it can be a pain in the tush to handle the logistics. But I can and shall do it, just a patch of unexpected quicksand on my Bariatric Journey?

My one expectant sleeve friend, well technically she is a friend's daughter, my peers no longer are actively reproducing, her doctor told her good clean healthy foods, exercise, she was on bariatric vitamins for her, prenatal for the baby, told Emily Your body will straighten everything out, she gained 17 and a half pounds, Michael Anthony Joseph was a respectable 7 pounds 11 oz, they went home at 2 days postpartum, mainly because her hubby had Sunday off. Emily and Baby Boy are just healthy as can be and she is nursing him, he's gaining like a little teddy bear, so doggone cute!

To somewhat quote the old saying " Do not stick a fork in ME ---I am more than Done" You are sweetly Sleeved now, so leave you Alone!

Hey Thank You for the reminder You just made me. into a Better Mood. My high weight was 365 in October 2017, came home after last hospitalization at 260, so more than 100 pounds lost but also, since my personal goal as well as that of Valerie, Dr Needleman's chief Nurse-Practitioner, is 175 , I am also less than that 100 pounds to goal myself! I had been having a PLOM(poor little old me) day. After my recent hospitalization I came home with a PICC line in my upper left arm and need to be on TPN nourishment for 14 out of 24 hours each and every day. Oh I am grateful such an intervention is possible, wish I hadn't been the <5% this complication occurs for, not THAT GREAT an honor after all, at times it is a goll-durned inconvenienced rather like a long tail dragging after you & you have to keep it lifted up so it doesn't get muddy or soiled. Like I said on another thread, it beats being Dead all hollow! But a durned inconvenience, Oh Yeah! I do have the Scary Larry thought always in the back of my mind that this could become infected,the catheter break off inside me, travel to my? and it is Final Curtains for Frustr8. This is truly Serious Business and my life is being Monkey???Doodled with. How much longer do Catherine the Catheter and I stay BFF? At the shortest--- the end of the Year, at the Longest---Forever? At this point I have a worse gastroenterological impairment than the usual restriction/malabsorb that the Run of The Mill RnY has. But I am moderately ambulatory, wear my pump and feeding solution bag in a backpack maybe 15 in by 8 inches, when full heavy enough to unbalance You. In Spring, Summer, Autumn when you can wear it like a regular backpack only a mild pain-in-the-tush, but in Ohio as a cold Midwestern state in the throws of Winter, it has to go under my coat to keep from freezing. I suspect as it would freeze and then thaw it would separate, no longer good or have to be shaken to reconstitute. And although it is stored in the Fridge before usage, it has to warm up 2 hours as well as the vitamins I have to inject each time. Nobody wants ice water or such running through their veins! But at 3 months I still have not exhausted my healing months, I'm going to be all better, I'll? dance. in the sunlight ☀even if I still have a backpack or such on!??????

A FYI I'm telling on myself. Last time a guy hit on me I was so naive it took me 45 minutes to realize it. Maybe as I lose weight and my Inner Cute starts emerging I should get a little more with it? Hate missing friendly overtures, just might happen?

I had taken colace pills in past, worked moderately well although MoM usually gets things done better. So when I had my recent hospitalization/ medical imprisonment(after 6 days you get mentally cranky) and due to fouled out hydrations and lack of needful exercise, I was bound up tighter than a fat lady in a Playtex girdle. So I was offered liquid Colace, oh brothers and sister, Do not try to ingest it! Made me PUKE every time, what good does it do if you Cannot keep It Down!? Finally spent an miserable 1.5 hours post-enema on Sunday of that week producing ?, 8 days after my previous parting. Told them I needed relief since the previous Wednesday. Even had resident feel my upper abdomen, said "well it FEELS SOFT" yeah but the roadblock was at end of that traintrack, felt like2 express and a local train had a pile-up Down Low. Weird thing, once I got my PICC line and started on TPN,my BM are light brown, soft and easy to pass, seems a radical way to achieve it but What the Hey, better that than the tragic roadblock, and only liquids going through my GI system by ? mouth.

Almost everything I have got from there is Good Good Good. Why enrich Amazon, Wal-Mart.com and the others overstuffed pockets when Alex's Store at Bariatric Pal has good-tasting stuff. My Bari-bud Ellie123 liked the snacks she purchased THERE!

Only the bestest and neatest people have December Birthdays and I'm glad to meet another. Mine will be on the 26th, 73 on that day and like Peter Pan , I may never "grow up" ,at least not into sour pickle-hood . Had a lady in my childhood ⛪ church , got up to testimony , said" Oh How I love Jesus" with her face all scrunched up. I used to think "Golly why don't you smile? You aren't a very good and pleasant advertisement for the Christian Life!"

And may everything go well for you, you're starting 2019 with a BIG BANG! Hey keep us updated as your recovery goes on!?

And best wishes to both of you- both opting for better health and a future better life!

One good thing about those vivid dreams, you save a lot of video rentals when your body and mind process these things " in house"! There I am ?being chased again!??????

waking is very nice, we,all hope to wake up but I think walking might be the advice you were advocating, yes? Walk, sip ?liquids, put on a big ? smile, because all the presurgery dreading is over, now is time to learn how your new tool is going to work for YOU! And congratulations on achieving this milestone and may your recovery go smooth. Update us as future days come!

Well only thing I can come up with, sometimes when you wear a girdle or maybe binder, doctors think your muscles grow weak from not being used. One doctor yelled years ago my Mama' s abdominal muscles were soft like lasagna noodles because she wore a girdle frequently and didn't let them get exercised and remain strong. I always thought him a bit of a grouch myself.

Was it similar to the one from Amazon Prime? $16.99 sounded like a reasonable? price to me.

Yeah but some look Bad pureed, if you can get past Mildew And Garbage Green appearance they still taste Okay. I like Wal-Mart organic vegetable broth, it stays down when most others don't. Rather a pleasant taste and color, my Nut groaned at it because it wasn't as intense a protein count. But he relented when I reminded him it stays down.

Wow on one side NSV Yippee I got Me one, on the other side, Darn I really liked them ? do I use them for storage? In my case I. have a cat with dog-like syndrome, she parks her toys in my shoes to play with later. Taken. to shaking things out before wearing them ! Drat you Squeaky!?snicker-snicker-meow!

Sounding well worth it, I surely also need a card because of my PICC line, on TPN for only GOD knows for sure how long! Maybe I'll have more of an idea on the 18th when I see Dr Needleman or on the 28th when I should have my next endoscopy with Dr Noria?

And Alex , the Daily Double answer to" which comes first, increased weight loss or gastic ulcer healing?" the answer is Depends on person, Depends on your perspective, Depends on general bodily conditions. Oh Pfooey, I ain't having Any Fun!

Excellent, may get a button or t-shirt that says this. Metabolically Broken- but Healing Now! And just watch my weight keep dropping, and if mine does yours will also. The Surgical Power will lead to Happier Hours!

Well if I CAN DO THIS I should reach my goal at a year instead of 18 months. Oh that would be loverly, as they said in Mary Poppins, A bright ray of sunlight on this Sunday of gloom and Financial Disrepair. This is not a FunTime for me, Tomkitten wants to watch Hoarders, he says I need the intervention, don't know how, ex-landlord kept the Good stuff, threw the rest in a dumpster, wouldn't let me reclaim anything I still wanted, escaped with 1 small u-haul of furniture, changed locks when I went to return for load #2, local police would not intercede, guess I should have called county sheriff, how should I have,known that? Nobody in my whole life treated me so shabbily. When he finally dies I hope his wife buries him in a muscle shirt and cutoff Levis because I AM CERTAIN where he will be spending eternity!

motif not motive, speaking of healing, this phone needs its SpellCorrect deleted, phone thinks it's smarter than ME

Considering one for me, 1 post-rny, some surgeons say yes because we have a non- continous stomach and digestive track, others say 1st responders seldom start stomach/n.g. tubing so really a "moot point"? 2. Should I name my PICC line or are we "dating" for a short short time? They sent me home, did the medical equivalent of gently swating my rump and telling me to " Go and Sin No More", well masked people I hadn't been THAT SINFUL until now! Okay my pouch is Precious Pouch, I'm open. to suggestions for the PICC , leaning toward Catherine for "catheter", I think Orchids and Dragons reminded me Catherine of Siena had a torture wheel motive? I've been speaking to St Luke, the Great Physician , do hope he is not emulating his earthly counterparts, either gone to voice mail or hired a messaging service and I never get "patched through". Don't mean to sound flippant but I'm sitting here in mild misery. Should get dressed , go to my nearby house of worship, hmmm what outfit I can still wear that goes with a black backpack 18-20 inches long,7.5 inches wide and makes gentle whirring sounds along with beeping when it feels threatened. And NoBODY has given me a time. table that we are a couple? End of 2018? January, February? Spring-time 2019? Anyway I think 1st responders might want to about THIS? Spend money on a bracelet and then it's removed? Maybe I'll have Catherine PICC catheter the rest,of my misbegotten life? And I forecast a Hard Candy Christmas, pretty bleak, pretty sad. While I was a guest of OSU's Bari- Surgical floor, also known as Doan 10, Wal-Mart sold out every one of the Christmas trees Tomkitten and I had our eye on, would Wal-Mart.com still have them or are they gone Forever and Forever? Been trying to sell my kerosun Heater, worth $150 new, gently used, this house has more reliable heat, offered $50, no takers, $40 no takers, $ 30 one guy came out, I needed new C batteries for the ignition, but it was nice looking, not dirty although it had been moved to my backyard shed. Brought into my kitchen. so he could see it. He's "Thinking" about it, been studying on it close to 2 weeks, maybe he's a Slow Thinker? That $30 might have bought Tomkitten and I each a FurTrimming for Christmas, now we go around semi-shaggy, his hair curls at the nape of his neck, I threaten to kiss them like I used to when he was a baby Tomkitten.Ooh he doesn't care much for the prospect. And the people of my community are Cheap, Cheap Cheap, sure I could set it out by the curb, it would disappear but give me money? Can't be bothered!

Well I have also on my side the fact that people in my age group, okay Johnnie Cochran invoked the Race card, I'll invoke the Age card, but this true- we cat nap instead of solid wads of sleep at a time. Best I can do, 3-4 hour increments, oh I USALLY drop back off, if not there I am! and it's NO BIG Thing if I don't. I am rather entertained by watching the green light blink on my TPN pump machine, yeah maybe come Spring I 'll buy me a LIFE! One lead pipe cinch, the Rites of Spring will not include junky skunky. Fast Food , that button thankfully is no longer able to be pushed! And for me that's a Dream Fulfilled!???

And a Big Amen from Me, I would love some pictures of me showing. a beautiful new covering where my old cracked turtleshell once was, faint- shades instead of vibrant and shining. I always suspected I would be pretty, charming and could rock the "senior set" on their heels. Cutie Pie is emerging out of a vanilla Big Mama. Is it too much to ask that I no longer look like someone's dowdy old Granny?

I would suspect more like frozen yoghurt but haven't tried it myself. I am also a blueberry gal, somebody gave me a 5 pound bag frozen in a big lump, in one corner of my freezer. Thought I might make myself something Bari-friendly for,my upcoming Birthday. Since it is the Day after Christmas I learned young to "make my own kind of music" nobody gives you a party, nobody gives you gifts, and money or gift cards leave me cold= it means I didn't care for you enough to buy you a present, that would mean I actually cared about you, here let me buy you off with money or a card I bought you at a filling station/ cheap garage/ supermarket as an afterthought. One of my Aunt's husband was famous in the family for such tricks, never called him Uncle, that would mean I felt affection for someone who treated my Aunt shabbily every chance he got! Why didn't she divorce him/ kick him to the edge of a busy road? She believed only bad girls. got divorced, a man is the burden you bear to stay married! A MRS is the only degree a girl could aspire to! Oh I am sorry to get on a soapbox, but my aunt had to work 2 years past normal retirement. Among his other marvelous larceny talents, forgery, forged her signature on loan papers , of course kept 5he money sizable for his own self, told the bank he was dropping off the paperwork because she was busy working, she knew nothing about it u,til the bank loan fell due, he had conveniently died of cirrhosis and hepatic cancer, the nasty glob of man-flesh , oh and he was also a pedophile, no girl of 6 was safe from him, somebody older among the females warned you. I thank God, Allah whoever you hold as Supreme being, that the baby girl I was carrying at his demise was safe from him. Tell you what I did to him! I was practicing my piano, yes my parents paid for lessons, did it long enough to participate in recitals. Nasty pervert snuck up behind me abd grope me, Kept playing the melody line with my right hand, picked up a heavy brass bottle-opener with my left and bashed him across his knuckles, broke 3 fingers, told my aunt he fell fishing, he had always ridiculed me for being fat and clumsy, I wasn't clumsy, I was ambidextrous and I was free of unwanted attention at 13 years old. NEVER TRIED anything again!, So did I mourn him? What for? And I grew up in the Era where adults were believed over children, and had I told police or other responsible adults, he would I'm sure killed my pets. So don't tell me of the Good Old Days, things were different then and not ALWAYS GOOD!