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Don't know but I surely like the sentiment. Don't we, as Bariatric People, deserve some simplicity?

Me Teacher Me (waving hand? furiously in air) I finally know THIS Answer! A paginator numbers pages in a book.?Thank You very much for asking.

Orchids and Dragons, I am now where you started, I was proud of me, but I am still on my way to be half the woman I used to be. And I believe, I am still going,to make it. Slowly but it is still going to happen.????

I once knew a family in Grover Hill, think the kiddos went to Payne for school. Where are you going to have your surgery done? If it is okay I will lift you up in?? prayer on your day! see I do believe in prayer, eeven for small things, although Bariatric Surgery is a BIG UNDERTAKING, a real life changer, although those on here whose surgeries are completed more than think it's worth the effort. So have a smooth Thanksgiving, an effortless surgery and we all will look forward to hearing more of your story!??

My surgeons office makes us look at the labels, especially soups. Not over 20 carb.soyps, that's why you are better off with light formulations like Progresso makes. That said I like Amy organic soups, even strained they are good, bought 2 , drained them and Tomkitten got the solids. Someday I will eat solids again, this I vow!

And NIKKIBEVERLY. And Toya6. you'll always have a friend in me, if you like. Some things are different , I am a 72 year old widow in Central Ohio who had a RyN bypass September 5th, but like you there is not another RnY in my town, the few times I have been to my local hospital, a community one, not the one in Columbus , Ohio State University, where i had my surgery, the nursing staff acts like I am a purple spotted giraffe that parachuted in, oh they may have treated lap-bands, one or 2 sleeves,but never nothing like ME! And I know how a lack of support hurts, I do have Tomkitten,my son, my friends on here, but hardly anyone else. My PCP told me last Friday, after 11 weeks of silence on the subject, that he was very proud of me. This is after seeing him for other things, and like an invisible elephant in the room, he just ignored it. Even he is finally seeing my weight loss, Good news I have lost 60+ pounds since July 31st Bad News I was such a Big Girl it takes a while for it to become apparent and I am not healing perfect, I have a stricture, My surgeons partner has tried 3 times, every 2 weeks, to stretch it, another attempt this coming Friday, and I have 5 post-surgery gastric and intestinal ulcers, not yet bleeding, not ready to perforated although there is always that risk. So since little gets through the narrowed opening, I can't eat much and vomit a lot. Wish I was young enough to be preggers , I would get a cute little baby out of the vomiting deal!??! But life is still in a way good, beats death all hollow. And Dr Noria swears I am still fixable, smart lady, guess I choose to believe her!?

Sister ?? Please please,let me know how things go with You! My ulcers are farther down, in my pouch near the stoma and the 3 on the back wall of the jejumen, you trumped? me with your esophageal-gastric ulcer although neither of Us Asked to be dealt into THIS GAME, but I understand as few others can. I wish they would give me a firm time for Friday, neither of the social service agencies I normally use work Black Friday nor does our local Transport/Taxi so I will have to ask Kay, my late hubby's 1st girlfriend, no nothing funny there, we had been friends before I ever found out they dated. Just one of those " Small World, isn't it? moments in life. But DO LET ME KNOW, OKAY??

Does anyone else think water tastes bitter?

Central Ohio Buckeye, but I have growled many times in support of your teams. And I am old enough to remember Adolph Rupp and the rest. Guess I am a Sport Nut, kinda of rare for a gal, but more than there used to be.?⚽⚾?and especially ??.

Thank you ScoutCR, one of the things in my twisted road to a new shelter, I did save my bag of commodity walnuts. Still no change in my condition, sometimes it feels better if I don't eat, I know warped but obviously" I ain't right", am I? I watch the surgery day twins go on to full foods, they are planning a nice dinner for Thanksgiving, albeit small portions, meanwhile Little Match Girl Me is standing with her nose preshed against the Brightly lit Toy Shoppe window knowing she will never have what is inside.??And it stings like a razor cut to be left out.

Wickedwinner looks like you m8ght be an University of Kentucky Wildcat, plenty of good Kentuckians in this world÷

3 small meals, 3 snacks was the original directive. Go no more than 2-3 hours without something going on. Well honest that's what THEY SAID. My real life, water of some sort when I wake up, either plain or Nestle Splash no calorie, take am pills, try to down 2-oz every 15 minutes, hopefully I took my Carafate at 6Am and my Zofran at 8Am or my day goes badly. 9-10 am protein shake, getting down to soy and pea not my favorite or dry powder from Bariatric Pal. WARNING-DO NOT BUY THE NY CHEESECAKE flavor, I whipped up frozen unsweetened strawberries in it this AM, still FOUL! Tak8ng it 2 oz by 2 oz grimacing all the way. Why don't I dump it, hate to throw that money away. Then lunch time, strained soup with protein powder added, after long enough start on the water torture every 15 minutes, for dinner broth , soup , something with scoop of protein added. Try mightly to get the 90 grams of protein Dr Noria wants for healing those ulcers. Calories, hopefully 600-800 if I have done things right, don't miss zofran, don't miss Carafate, make sure multivitamin, B12 get taken. Live a sad little life, not much flavor, keep it smooth, keep it liquid. Don't rock the boat, I defecate every 2-3 days, often needing prompting. Void 4 to 6 times daily smells of mutivitamins et all. I know everyone has their own JOURNEY but it is lonely being a Stricture Kid, having a pouch,that hurts almost constantly, hard to descern ulcer pain from hunger, emotionally I want to eat , but my body doesn't accept much. Surgery weight was 319, now I am somewhere in the mid 270s, maybe purchase a scale the first of December, first time I have lived somewhere with smooth level floors. And the only joys I have, my son, my cats and Bariatric Pals that I have made. I do make an attempt to be upbeat but it is becoming harder, I see no bright star☀or Sun ahead, had last regular appointment in October, not scheduled for another until December 19th, the average patient is doing well, doesn't need much maintainance, well Dayum I am SPECIAL. Biweekly I go have Dr Noria go try to stretch me somemore, make comments about my,ulcerations and then back home. And like the Little Match Girl staring into the Brightly lit Toy Store, nobody seems to care. Not so much regret as feeling neglected and unfulfilled.

And Good and Good Healing, I wish THAT for everyone but especially US. The Stricture/Ulcer wars do tire a body out!?

And I wonder whether mine is keto rash , skin folds thrush or a combo, anyone want to weigh in a help me decide? Even in weight loss THAT WORD comes up. And my son Tomkitten, the shower Everyday Harry of the Western World only has 1 prescription, he's in his 30s, his skin can stand having its natural oils depleted! Mine , unless I use Dove, Crack and Dry you out Baby!

Tell them, slap a l emon or line wedge on the glass and we will call it EVEN!

And Truth Known each and everyone will give you a big Old Texas Howdy and Welcome! Shoot I am clear up in Ohio and I can feel it up here! I ever go to Texas , I will get off the plane, stretch out my arms and enjoy the ambiance. Of couse someone might steal my possessions while I am standing enraptued, but you get that anywhere!

Yes but let this resourceful granny make a suggestion? Carry Chrystal lite packets or Mio liquid with you, stir a little into ice water and presto chango, You are back in the "loop" of Life. You will benefit from scenery changes more then PLOM moments. PLOM stands for Poor Little Old Me( with thanks to Mrs Ganges in Red Deer Alberta). Too easy to throw yourself a pity party and sometimes you are the only one willing to attend. Be I g a hermit is NOT part of the Program!??

Gosh ProudGrammy, I only wish I was your blood type, but I am not, if I were I'd give up one of my 3 kidneys for you! Tell again your B.T. the Day of Miracles is Not over! Alas my A negative just doesn't work for YOU!???

Remove myself from the scene of my Goody Crimes? Sure worth a Try!

Hmmn, never heard this before but it does make sense. May be the last shreds in me are due to repeated endoscopies biweekly with their attendant sedation/anesthesia. Never get it totally out of my system, puts a ☁⚡☔over your best efforts.???

Well if it is t8me to confess Guilty Fascinations on TV mine is LivePD on A&E, I seldom miss an episode. And last night I was proud to see Franklin County(COLUMBUS) Ohio on there. One of the areascwas the Ohio State University campus and it's fringes, spent years living and walking there and the Hospital I chose for my RouxEnY surgery September 5th 2018. GO BUCKEYES! I truly do bleed Scarlet and Gray!???

And may your teams always be Winners! And how could they be anything else,with YOU at the Helm! Congratulations on your weight loss and may you sustain it far into the future?

Well I am 72 years old, a keen observer of life, never l8ved more than 60 miles from my birthplace but do travel through the lives of people I have met. A lifelong Republican but not a Trumpertarion, blame him on someone else please! Have been a wife , widow, mother of 3, 2 still living, only child of middle-aged parents. Have been telephone operator, Girl Friday in small office, worked in retail sales 11 years, Long Term Healthcare 25 years, loved people, loved making their lives better. No subject is ever beyond my comments. I think I am fun to be around!???

I wonder what ever happened to one of our Former Posters, I think his pen name was @ The Coach, he was fighting an liver issue, NASH or something worse. I worry about people when they don't post for a while, did they get their "issue" settled or not?

Don't really consider,it a Food Funeral, consider it a Food Festival, some of your Old Friends are going on a holiday, if they don't return, it will be fine, you will make new ones. And at a later reunion you may wonder what you ever saw in them!???