Frustr8

OSU gave me none also, but I felt on " Room Arrest"- spent 3 days in my room- Only time I saw the Hallway was when I was leaving. Nobody gave ME a clear answer on "Why" Facility Policy? I am a Fall Risk? Since I am without my C-Pap I am on 02? Everbody too busy to walk with me? Everybody hates ME but it would be unprofessional to tell me so? These are ALL THINGS I have wondered about as I Remember Back to my Wonder Wednesday when I was Reborn"

Attention***I require a new group of ?haters****The current batch are starting to like ME?

I remember drinking from the Garden Hose when I was a Wee Frustr8, now I have to drink so slow I would probably drown before I could get enough down. C'est La Vie, so I have declared a moratorium on whines and complaints, it's just the way It has got to Be!???

Take it all to work tomorrow, Didn't Your Mama tell you to share with the Less fortunate Anyway? Out of sight leads to Out of mind and I'm in favor of all the things taking a hike that could increase my behind. Now I have a discrete handful on each side instead of a surface wide enough to show Drive- In movies And Thank My Surgeon And God Himself for a chance to look the best I ever can be- I once was sweet and now I am Sensational- A Great Trade-off --Me Thinks!

mine is on the reverse of my dietician Roy's business card. " Why" I asked" does Ohio State do it THAT WAY?" He chuckled and told me if I was still getting hasseled his business and home # are there and they just can Call Him and he'll verbally verify all the info is correct. Only had to once in all the time he's been employed there! So in Columbus Ohio it is well- accepted. Haven't tried mine out yet, I eat such an abysmally small portion I haven't darkened a Restaurant Portico as yet, and YES I Am coming close to my one-year Surgiversity , it will be September 5th , a Wonderful Day ranking in importance with marriage and my 3 childbirth, for truly that DAY Frustr8 was reborn, remodeled, renovated and realigned. And it Has Not been a Smooth Easy Journey but it's Mine, and I live to fight another day, and I can do it with streamlining of my own now, for I have Worked Hard to Get Where I'm at NOW. Glad I got the One and Done surgery , don't think I could Do All This a Second Time, Might not survive the Next Time. Might not have equalled the promos in the Bariatric Manual but it's Still Good, now and forevermore! And Cool to the Treetops for littler ME!????

And @ypease that's exactly how things shoukdbe!

And I think you handled it well ??, he maybe like I tended to be, that no one cares what happens to Him, Might as well drink, probably feels it is the Only thing he can rely on, a "Hi Joe, just thought I would check how You're doing" feeling like You Do Still matter is a great Mood Load-leveler, I would guess he's in the clutch of Depression Too. And that is one Nasty clinging thing to get loose of- been there, done that and like any addiction, very hard to ditch. Underneath my thin new exterior is lurking a Depressive Foodaholic , never totally gone but under control ? Day by Day. And it remains worth the struggle to be redesigned, renovated and remodeled but never a easy peasy thing. And that's how MsFrustr8 sees it all.

And , Yes,You have made it This Far and even more Wonderful days ahead!?Go For It, the ball's in Your Court and winning is Ahead!

Go Slow, take Teeny-Tiny bites and see what your body will allow. Until later times it is Your One and Only Best Guide, treat it kindly and it will remain Your Friend always! God Bless and watch what Your Future may Be.???

And You are Now the CEO of YOU! Add, prioritize, catalog what you need, Delete if necessary but the Person to Please is YOU and YOU alone. A Good Life is right down the path you've been traveling, Yes right Around That Corner Ahead!???

Do not regret eating only Small Portions- as long as they are protein rich, full of the vitamins and minerals you DO require. With each day you become healthier and closer to the Wonderous Person you were MEANT to be, let the Real You be shown to the Outside World, the Great Person you were MEANT to Be and they can't help but Love the New Positive YOU!❤

And it would be down- right humorous if it wasn't happening to YOU!

stupid CNP said I suppose you're not losing your hair? No I just thought everyone had red hair that looks like it was painted on, You mean They Don't? Hmmm does save temporarily on haircuts, but like ?? my bangs were pretty pitiful for a while. But I am approaching skinny, can't afford wigs so I'll grin?and bear it unless it gets totally gone! Then everybody will see how many lumps I have in My Skull.

Yeah Andy Android has always done me fine- Only owned 1 I-Phone, Tomkitten accidentally laundered it with my jacket. Found out ERA not only removes stains it obliterates Cell Phone MEMORIES, if I didn't love Him So Much. I might have had him Keelhauled for THAT MANEUVER! Current phone is Nougat system, cost dearly but I do love ITS speed and multi- functions. Now if I can keep Tomkitten from programming YouTube onto both TV's my day will go fine, it's his Latest Threat to exasperate Me!

Alcohol is empty calories you know- but you're a Grownup so YMYBYC ( your money- your body-your choice) Okay?

Yeah it can push the food along so fast you can't absorb calories, especially if you are part of the general Bypass family, your digestion starts much farther down in the proximal/or/distal end of your jejunem and you are naturally now at a caloric deficiency and this only compounds the malnutrition, sad to say. As the Old Carnival Barker said " YOU pay Your ? money, YOU take your choice" well when we "BOOKED in" our surgeons probably told us, to guarantee good weight loss, a modicum of perfect digestion is given up. In my case I went in more than twice the BMI an 70+ woman. should carry, I needed to LOSE weight before I lost my LIFE and /or I developed all the hereditary diseases I was potential heiress to. The fact that I HADN'T was more Good Luck than Good Planning and my PCP was starting to have a conniption fit that his fancy- shamancy diets weren't working. Want the dictionary definition of conniption? A fit of hysterical excitement or anger, and YES that is exactly how Dr Carroll saw it in October 2017 when I became the ONLY PERSON in his knowledge to ever GAIN 30 pounds with one month of Phenteramine therapy. Oldest person I ever Saw have a tantrum, and like I said, I've been around "since Hector was a pup" and He now has gray on his muzzle. But many of the Things have resolved, I am now. 188 down from 365+, surgeon/ bariatric staff. was SATISFIED with anything below 200, I want to attempt to stay on track to 175, that's MY GOAL! And Doctor Tantrum- Thrower, now he's.PO.end thinks I've lost TOO Much Too Quickly, should have watched What He Said-- for I am nothing but a Compliant Soul , I follow Medical Advice when all's said and done! And although without clothes on, I have blobby stretched out skin where the blubber used to be, barbed I am a Firecracker if not a full- fledged stick of Dy-noh-mite! Honey for a 73 year broad I am looking pretty fine, never was petite, won't start NOW but I look as good as the average over-70 RockStar, and facing the facts there are a lot of 60s and 70s music icons there these days. Always was prettier than Mick Jagger, even at my Worst!?????

fluffy Chix is likely correct, its called Gastrocolonic Reflex- it's the reason you have to visit the Porcelain Palace within a very short time- food in- feces out. And if things aren't going" tickety- boom" down there- a Sad Time is had by all! And I speak sorrowfully from experience: I have very sluggish digestion/ excretion & it is 3-fold 1) skimpy diet without much fiber 2) as a RNY we tend toward the more solid stool 3) I am in the Late Afternoon of Life Span- And as you age your colon along with other things gets sluggish, your rectal muscles are tired and inefficent- and in a quivering voice they say----- H*E*double hockey sticks WE WON'T GO! And I have become bosom buddies with Miralax,Metamucil, M..O.M. Colace and the fearsome Ducolax pills. I already take Magnesium (MagOx) routinely so to avoid Magnesium overload I seldom resort to MagCitrate. And if you have been following my posts (and Thank You for that!) you remember the Milk and Molasses enema of last May, although it is bareable it is NOT something to be desired often. Its hard to maintain a smile and cheery disposition when your "Nether" regions are exploding forth with extreme vim and vigor!

Oh I do also, but when clothes cover it, I LOOK pretty fine, and you take triumph where You Can.

Yeah ??and I even peel batters off, knock crumb coatings into oblivion. Why Oh Why did I once THINK they tasted good? Even milk with more than 1% butterfat is like drinking Crisco, and I never could have suspected I'd even feel that way! Nothing is worth getting Fat once Again!

To quote Dr Suess Oh the Places you will Go---- Oh the Things you will See! But Welcome to our World, the Minor heart aches are more than outweighed by the MAJOR benefits. Very very few of us would even want to return to where we were before, I have had a strangely difficult road to recovery but I would never ever return to the Frustr8 I was before September 5th 2018. She was obese, sick, had given up on herself and almost life itself. No No. Never Ever Again will I Be There! I'm down over 140 pounds since then, don't know if I have gotten cuter, cuteness is optional at 73 , but people no longer ignore the fat lady in the corner, I'm living large with a much smaller body and I am a Force to Contend With, like my Country Soul Sister Reba McEntire I'M NOT GOING OUT LIKE THAT ! I'm sassy , RedHeaded and a Strong Proud Person Now. So let's hear your stories too, okay?

A moment of silence for all the money I spent on junk food. RIP thousands of $.

Yeah Very Very true, but while you're doing THAT you have NO TIME to grab a snack from the pantry or refrigerator! And one for you now You're now dating my Ex? I'm just finishing a ?sandwich. Would you like those leftovers too??

And add me to Lipona Lane! I asked my ortho ( because I darken HIs Door most often) told me what it was, I confess it was just a blob at first to me, consulted a general SURGERY person, broad nearly yawned in my face " You can walk around with THAT. the rest of your life not going to hurt You None!" pafooey, IT DISTRESSES ME TO LOOK At It! That was at least 6 months ago, now the blob on the left upper arm is encroaching over onto my antcubital vein and I have one starting in about the same place on the right inner elbow and a biggish one has developed over the bottom of my right arm scar where my humeral fracture was surgically repaired. Well one of my favorite cable shows is "Dr Pimple-popper" she's a Dermatologist so got referall to local one. Also a big fat mistake, first she told me not to be concerned about the big dark spots over my now prominent cheekbones, the family legends were true after all, I do have some Native American blood in my American Mongrel mix, only explanation I can come up with . I now look like serveral paternal cousins, just a different color pallet! She told me to be grateful as fair as I am, I don't have Skin Cancer. Shoot I never thought Cancer, I wanted something to eradicate or at least fade these marks, had people who would like to mind my business tell me they look like healing bruises. Then we got to my lipomas, each look like halved ? balls, told me " Why don't you ask a General Surgeon? " Who the flying Whoopie- Doopies does She Think sent me to her? It was thoroughly useless waste of my time, but I see on my after- visit she billed my insurance like she actually repaired these things! Enough Gall to be divided in 3 parts, I'm thinking! So when I go for my Bariatric today, I will ask if there is a Surgical someone at Martha Morehouse Pavillion I could at least speak with, even if it is largely cosmetic , looking at them distresses me, Lost all this weight to look blobby and lumpy? Sob Sob, it ain't FAIR??

Never was even offered one- maybe my surgeon doesn't believe of them ?

Ditto?