Frustr8

And if you need a shoulder to cry on, somebody to complain to, think of your Buddy Frustr8, I had an RNY at 72, now 73 , it's been 10.5 Months so still in a losing weight/ recovering at My Own Pace, but honey/ homey, it still is 99.9% good. Good for Me, Good for my Future. I will MAKE IT when all is Said and Done! ???

And Good Good Wishes for Success coming Your Way! My path has not been perfect, but I WOULD NEVER GO BACK and it has brought wonderful changes to ME, wish I had done it much sooner, but even a 72 year old puppy like I was , had talents she didn't even guess that I had!???

I know they have "Sipping Broths" and I bet most of these things at the Bariatric Pal Store. Reasonable prices, great shipping time frame, and all things formulated from our Bariatric Viewpoint. Why enrich Jeff Bezos and his ever- expanding spider of Amazon? And I will tell you, I have been VERY SATISFIED with my BPStore purchases. Planning to redeem some more of the points I have accrued in the Near Future. I get even better delivery time than many things in my Home State(Ohio) and They are in New York!??❤

Hey THAT IS ONE INTERESTING APP- I confess I had not heard of all of those or met anyone who Had them other than My Bari- PAL LynnV from Dayton who has an ESG and, at last repirt, was doing Wonderfully Well. Thanks For Giving That link- up App, @ ARMoma45!

And I pray? that things continue to go well in Your Life!

And although you and I don't always agree, YOU ARE AN ASSET TO BARIATRIC PAL, and your advice tends to Be Spot On. Sometimes it pinches but , hey you're a Truth Teller, and it just maybe was WHAT I needed to? Hear!

P.P. is an Emporess, although she emitts Emesis still at times- IT IS WHAT IT IS- and it suffices.

And I like the veggie broth ftrom W-M as. wrll, use it , coconut and almond. soupbases also I have grown tired of commercial soups. But if you're not, CampbellYES brand butternut squash, Progresso Light, I either Strain out the solids or blenderize them to a smooth consistency. And remember take anything in small anmounts, take them in , but wait between bites, lay your utensil (spoon of fork) down between bites. One of the hardest things for me to learn, its okay to throw things away when you stomach says " No More", although I was a small-town girl type I was raised " country" And we cook lot at a time and aren't naturally wasteful. But Precious Pouch can be a Wicked Strong- willed Emitters of my Life, since my surgeon and I invited her to become the Center of My World, I deal with it Odd isn't it, I use to be Foods Slave, now I am in slavery to an egg- shaped piece of gastric flesh. But most days the positives outweigh the sorrows and miscues I have encountered. Wonderful weigh- tloss, my son , my dietician , and main doctors say I LOOK Good, certainly don't resemble the obese for Years Frustr8, don't know who I shall resemble at the Finish, for I am, at 10 months, still A WORK IN PROGRESS. Dug out snapshots of ME at a comparable weight and that was maybe 1966- 1967, before I married the Late Lamented, my husband of 44 years and the father of my kids, and NO I DO NOT LOOK LIKE HER EITHER! She was a Youthful Chickee- Baby, now I think I LOOK, like RoaD Kill. but Tomkitten,my PCP Dr Carroll, my orthopaedic Dr Doolittle and even my Dietician Roy at Ohio State, they as an Unit tell Me You are doing Fine, looking GOOD, within Okay ,preeminently reaching my Goals at acceptable times, except I am basically on Stage 2 and pureed because I had pouch stricture, jejunal ulcerations, the things that seldom happen to a FINE UPSTANDING SPECIMEN like myself. But day by day I inch to closer to a Final Victory, am an Optimist that ALL will heal, I will come to the terms legally I am a Success with an Elective Proceedure, even at moments that I DONT FEEL SO emotionally, I have taken all my meds, vitamins, minerals, got Q.S. of liquids. So stop beating myself up and realize I am BLESSED. ¬ that much of a MESS. I am down 170 or so pounds from my High Weight, have dropped 130 pounds from Surgery Weight, a wonderous achievement for someone 72 at surgery, now I am 73, in an 18-19 after starting as a 28-30 plump woman size,havi,g to buy Mens Sweats because THAT was what fit over All of Me, not really into Cross-Dressing but one does what one does to keep my body covered. And I was ashamed but felt powerless to affect a change. So IN MANY MANY WAYS my RNY Bariatric surgery saved my life,improved it and I have now a chance at a FUTURE. What will my final chapter of my Journey read like? Even I don't know, but I came" In It to Win It" and came too far to attempt aborting what I HAVE GAINED, no matter how my body feels or acts its been QUITE A 10 1/2 Months, and I am still a Big Lady, but This formerly Fat Lady will sing a HAPPT SONG at the end. This is MY PROMISE and I ALWAYS KEEP MY WORD!??

May you have many of these NSV and size surprises and few tears and sorrows as your Post-Surgery recovery progresses. Hoping to hear many more Success Stories from YOU. Smiles on this Beautiful Monday Morning!???

And I am sort of there too, feel that I have missed a step or I would do better at things, was I just" shooting myself in the foot"? and NOBODY wants to help me face these concerns. Yes down into the Inner ME, I am glad for my surgery, my surgeon, even the facility, but out on the surface, qualms, the conviction I may have. done something wrong, maybe these trails are my fault! Perhaps come the morning, things will get better! Trying to maintain a positive outlook in an disfunctional & negative world ????

And in the last week, maybe a week and half, I have developed multiple small brises all ovee my arms. Havent bumped into anything, even my elbows look bruised like pin point up to dime sized bruises. Like you others stated earlier it could be a product of aging, but this is a time being a "Medical Geek" is not emotionally for me. All I can think,about are blood diseases, Have my platelets gone poor into thin air And multiple myeloma, the leukemia cousins, lymphoma keep trying to crowd into my mind. And then I feel delicate in health, like maybe this all my fault and I'm being punished. Hard to convince anybody you feel fragile when you still are a little under 200. Oh I do see PCP on Wednesday, I am definitely adding it to my list, better be checked out before I check out into Death! ? ??

Mine is more humble. Had bought. Protein 2 0 in mixed berry, found it nasty and vile. Tried cuttting strength with water, skim milk, even bought Minute Made 15 in Fruit Punch, nothing seemed to help. Sat it out in the shed with the lawnmower! Well I noticed they had another tasteable one. Got Tropical Coconut and it I like, well chilled it is smooth going down & don't taste the milk protein in it. So surprise surprise to ME.

And also,i took my C Pap along as I was requested to O.SU., dopey me I forgot to take the hose and its adaptor. And alas my machine didn't fit any of the spare parts they had in Respiratory, so yours truly had to wear Oxygen with those nose prongs until my doctor released me to go home. Yes they had my best interests at ❤but I felt singled out , picked on and resentful, probably without real cause, and that's what happened to me.

And looly, 10 months out, tried p.b. once again, did notwork, did not stay down. My poison, my deadly Kryptonite, perhaps i will just give up and learn to accept it! But it discourages me on a beautiful day.

Weight loss is starting to slow but I'm stepping up the exercise, see if it makes a difference. Only the 14th, July's not over yet!

And another baddie you didn't state but true also. BLINDNESS, when my diabetic Daddy died along with the other less lovely qualities he would have been Legally Blind within a few months. Wish he could has sought WLS , I would still have him and my also diabetic Mama instead of just memories. YOU CANT HUG MEMORIES like you can a Real Person. But at the time, neither one was offered the options, do wish they were both here to watch their only baby try to be successful , I'm now 73, but even if things still are not all perfect n I AM SO MUCH BETTER THAN before surgery, and 10 months pist- surgery I WILL BE A SUCCESS! Sorry, I am sniffling a little, just wish I could share this experience with them instead of having pictures to hold clise!

I mean Brought it up, our Mutual PCP is very Gung,Ho about it. TK says" Mom I have seen what a change it has made in You and Our family life. I want it before I get your age" now his insurance differs from mine so I am curious What His Requirements will be. He is on Caresource, one person said 6 months of dietary consult, another said 3 months and yet another said they are dropping THAT this year. Told him he'd better call Dayton and speak to his Case Worker there. But if he truly wants it THAT bad----Well, I'm behind him all the way like he has been for ME. Says he wants the same surgeon I had, we will see if that can be arranged. No matter how thingsvend up I am Very Proud of HIM! ?&?

Tomkitten is thinking strongly about following ME into WLS-land, he goes for his Sleep Eval on the 25th, knows he already has GERD as well as some costochondritis, poor cholesterol/ lipids levels. He's just under 40 BMI but says Mom if they do accept me I want the improvements in life you've gotten. And when he brough5

I guess you said HUSK, right?

Hmmn I seem to practically live at Wal-Mart so I'll try finding this shampoo called Bask. I started out a red- head and science says we have the fewest hairs per square inch in the first place, Tomkitten was nagging me to have my hair cut when he goes to Great Clips, probably this week. Why bother? I have kept it in pixie since this all started And I doubt,it's worth a financial outlay! Not bald but sure not thick either.?

I just looked up MGUS, Wikipedia states it's a plasma dyscrasia which in some cases can lead to Multiple Myeloma and yeah, it too admits is can be tough on renal tissue. Now You take care of YOURSELF, don't want to lose you or anyone here on Bariatric Pal!?

She attended a meeting last month and I believe I'll call them Monday morning and find out the next meeting time. My own surgery clinic in Columbus does have A SUPPORT group themselves but it meets in the Evening, I no longer drive and hadn't found another person with my kind of surgery to bond with or who I could share has expenses with! The few local VSG I have met are several years out and no longer interested in doing THIS. Yeah one, Carol, was one of the reasons I even sought surgery at 72, she was in mid- 50s when her Sleeve was done, haven't seen her for a bit, think she and hubby Mike relocated to Florida when he retired. The older members of hers and Mike's family had all died, their kids have married and moved somewhere else,So they decided to escape Ohio and the Midwest nasty winters before she fell on the ice and broke some bones. SO MAYBE I will see Angie again at the next Support Meeting!??

Oh, I am in Central Ohio, the name of my city is Mount Vernon, population approx. 20,000. And hey I had yesterday an different type of NSV than usual. Was shopping at Wal-Mart yesterday and I met in the protein shake/ power bars aisle another RNY. Her name is Angie and she had her surgery at Grove City in May whereas my own surgery was o last September 5th at the Ohio State University Hospital- WEXNER Medical Center in Columbus, 48 miles SW of here. Now our local Hospital, Knox Community Hospital , will be instituting their own Small Bariatric program in 2020, neither ANGIE or I felt our own health concerns could wait for that, but they have started a b local Bariatric Support Group

And I believe I am most like #8, less than energetic even for a Sloth!

Yeah I do have an appointment with my Primary on Tuesday, that's another thing to go on my list. Yeah at times I vastly prefer animals to people, no duplicity there!