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Ohio State follows you yearly for Life, University of Michigan does too. Once you're Family, you're Always Family!?&Forevermore.

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Trumpeter hete, honestly hadn't considered it until you mentioned it. After belly soreness left--- I'm okay.

And now we all are on Team Drez! 2-4-6-8, whose surgery is gonna go. great? Drez Drez Drez! Yeah!

And you are going to make it after all! Like the Energized Bunny you keep and going and going! And Jazzy, You are going to sing a sweet sweet song, a little scary I as times, but still a beautiful work in progress.???

I took a stuffed rabbit with me to OSU when I had my surgery. Her name was Roux N. Rabbit and she was my "splinting" Buddy for coughs and sneezes.?

Might need to have that checked out, if under skin wasn't fully healed you could pop a little hernia, and that is nothing anyone would want you to have. That said, my 7 are all pretty well healed except Big Red , the largest on my right side, that is where on a bypasser the equipment that does the important work is inserted. He's still a little red and bumpy, probably extra reinforced stitches down there. Usually on sleevers, it. is one of left ones because that. is where your stomach. remnant is pulled across and removed. But most of mine are "silvering " out, and start hiding among my stretch marks. I had 3 babies 8 to 9 and half pounds, and I swear I carried each at a different angle.

Paul, a Freudian slip, " an inital barbaric" consult or was that what it really was? I know I got grief at 355 pounds, mildest was Nice weight for a redwood tree, a might heavy for a Human Being! And this was from someone who was supposed to be watching over my very health!

Well if you're not in Ohio you would have to be in Southern. Michigan or far Eastern Indiana. My guess- southern Michigan , maybe not too far from Toledo, suppose I could check your profile. Yeah the Dutch eat a,lot of bread and potatoes, the difference? They bike everywhere!

Nor did I with Monkfruit!

A giggle and a High Five There!???

Drez---Would you like mine? She Saw A Need***She Made a Plan***And She Succeeded!! I'm 72, if I could, a Youngin' like You? Pfft Problem Solved!

But Good NewsFlash, you will be over Aunt Flo in time for the Surgical Good Times to Roll! Better this than waking up in Alabama with the Crimson Tide a-rolling! ?Happy Joy Joy?

Thanks opsMatt, I am Nowhere near Disney in Central Ohio, but I do have Kings Island,Cedar Point, the Columbus Zoo and the waning days of County Fairs to contend with, if not THIS YEAR surely 2019! Big Mama is in the process of metamorphosis into Cutie Pie! Gonna happen, it just takes a short while!???

Arcoxia is a Coxib, is IT a near-enough cousin to NSAIDS that you will have to delete it? Or will you be allowed to keep it since you are a Sleeve Candidate? I have an Ulcer ?caused by excessive NASID usage, so I worry about it for others.

You Are Doing This as a Gift? to YOU and to Insure a Better Life! As time gets closer, a blue funk can descend, this is a BIG change in life, but keep your central purpose in mind and you will be fine. FYI -As a 6 week veteran of the Weight Wars , Apprehension hurts a Lot More than the Actual Surgery. But I will pray?for Peace in Your Soul, for I know and believe you will be Just Fine. Hugs. Frustr8

Mr U did not care for the MOOD MUSIC???? Well perhaps it will settle down soon, maybe you need a gas-release medicine, over here we have Gas-X, perhaps a warm cuppa tea would help??Would giggle but when it happens. to YOU it is not as Humorous, is it?

And I am waiting for my second attempt at releasing my stricture, Dr Noria, my Dr Needleman's partner who is very skillful at endoscopy, , to quote Duck Dynasty, it is her "bang zone", attempted on October 12 to release it, dicovered I now have 5 new ulcers, around the stoma opening and on the back wall of,the jejunem, I have been on Carafate around the clock every 6 hoursc(6am-Noon- 6pm-Midnight) and doubled up my omeprazole to twice daily, told me to maintain vitamins, Zofran, minerals, and of course the Carafate, and omeprazole, which I was on when my first ulcer, Hector, was discovered back in December 2017, I don't believe for,me it is gastric-protective, but I will slog along with it. Liked Dexilent MUCH better but They are the specialists, aren't they? And the same liquid diet, what I Call Stage 2A, there are things on a true 2 Precious Pouch balks or refuses. Don 't add anything she has refused before, this includes plain Greek yogurt weak runny cooked cereal, cottage cheese, even a salted soggy saltine, I always could keep them down the only other time in life when I had so much emesis, pregnancy. She will try again October 26th, another EGJ, can't call it an EGD, because a bypasser's duodenum is no longer accessible. And this morning I woke up with right subcostal pain, the self-same pain that sent me to the gastroenterologist last winter. They thought then, it m8ght have been from Hector, my anteal gastric ulcer, that's why I underwent my EGD then. Took my Carafate as close as I could to 6AM, I had a rough night, got woke up about 2, couldn't get back to sleep until 4:30, then back awake for that dumb pill. Have to pour boiling water on it to melt it down and chug, well you know, what passes for a chug these days, the slurry. Tastes about as thrilling as white flour paste, but I do it,I do it. So now what, keep sipping small sips of water, go open a protein shake, or stop even putting THAT in? I've read , I've studied, I probably got as much book knowledge as a layperson can have, but still this surgery did not come with an Owners Manual. I am in Subjective, not Objective Mode. See my white flag waving? I SURRENDER! Bypass Surgery 150 Frustr8 Nil! And yes, my bowels are working so I can't be full of?anymore.

Good deal, I hope it does help! Life is too short to be miserable!

How are your Magnesium and B vitamin levels?

Well, as a RNY instead, I do still have my stomach, I instead asked my surgeon to make it largely non-functional. Does this give me a leg up. on sleevers? I'm not certain it does. At 6 weeks if I regret something it is the fact that I never feel full and never satisfied. I take in what I can, stop after designated amounts, try to keep all my counts proper, sufficent fluid, adequate protein,pray that my still meagre liquid diet is providing me sufficent calories to keep me until another day. But my skin is now dry and leathery, my lips are perpetually cracked, I keep ingesting vitamins, minerals, omeprazole, Zofran and Carafate, is it benefiting me or just something to keep me busy? I do not looks forward to losing my hair, although it is probably inevitable. Obesity was slowly killing me, but did I merely trade it. for malabsorption, dehydration and a deficiency diet? Is there any. guarantee I have not jumped from the frying pan into the ?? I know of no other bypass veteran in my city of 20,000, I had to travel 50 miles to even find a bariatric surgeon. I have not seen him since shortly after my surgery, I am palmed off on Nurse-Practioners now,nice enough people but are they giving true consul or merely mouthing the company line? Walking the walk? I do try but when you are light-headed it's not very easy. Try to keep my exercise at the level I don't pop tendons, rear ligaments, these muscles and. bones have to last the rest of my life. Have already repalaced a few joints, but they are 85% as good as the natural thing. I do not know if I have buyers remiss but at this point I do question the outlay of my insurances monies for this operation. I now have 7 small scars, was it the right trade-off? I have sacrificed myself but have I improved life, health and my future? At this point, IDK, I just don't know.???

TAOZ not what,silly smartphone seems to want to say.

wonder where my friend @ Taos is? She's very much a daughter of Oz, gave me a l9t of encouragement when I was looking for a new place. Super nice lady!

you might say: You Had An Organ Recital! To hear it is humorous, to live it I am sure not so! ???

Sugar free popsicles, 6 weeks out, I can't survive without that frozen fix, they keep my lips from cracking, and I think they (the tropical ones) are a faithful source of fluid.