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Ah my favorite Lavender-type Lady! So happy happy things went well, I will be listening breathlessly for the next installment, partly because I'm asthmatic. Grabbed my Symbacort and I'M READY! Hugs Frustr8

ALWAYS be what you are no matter what your Age. You were not merely born to impress someone else. Just be YOU- everyone else is already taken.

How are we all getting ready for the Summer that is almost here. Now that I am smaller, I am going to wear shorts more, always felt I would look foolish but my legs are coming back to their early adult-late teen size so I am going to be BRAVE this year. I know it is modest compared with all you planning 4Ks and such but sometimes you start with Baby Steps.

Almost lost mine inctge shower while all soapy, good thing I do have one of those Hair Catchers in the tubs drain!

I sure do, after years and years of obesity my skin is too stretched to bounce back, but better floppy flabby skin and ready to break into Onederland than 365+ piybds, hardly able to move, do my ADLs , crying a lot with pain and just waiting for the Death Angel to show up and claim me as His Own. I am chugging down the path to Victory like a brave little Jalopy, dings,crust, a fender missing, hoping my tires are not too bald, yeah I may not look like a flashy Sports Car, but I am reliable, hard-working, solid made, no plastic or Fiberglass on this chassis, & no matter what I AM ON MY WAY! Beep Beep Baby, Beep Beep, if you're not on this journey, please pull over and let the winning entry through!?

Yeo, reputation/ word of mouth means a lot in the Bariatric Business as c well as most of MEDICINE.

And my favorite is this one, followed by Quora, Tried Facebook for a while, found it terribly childish with the Likes, no Likes, reminded me of a worse facet of puberty so left there. Might try one of the,others someday.

Much love to them all! I am something for years denied, I am a female Aspergers so they have a God-aunt also on the spectrum, The positive affirmation I finally received from a professional was freeing, you see for many tears I was told I was weird, I wasn't 5rying hard enough to fit in, I wasn't " normal" lf that means neurotypical, nope I am not. Even had 2 paternal cousins tell me to kill myself because I was of no use to anyone. So I turned to something that wouldn't critisise,-- Food. See I had an extra. incentive to grow obese, So I involuted, became more "shy", read extensively, like many others I became super-learned,in some areas. Mine was Medicine, still a Medical feel even today. Found a positive mor acceptable way to stim, rocking chairs. Often super-sensitive to touch and tight clothing items. When my lymphedema flared a therapist had the Bright(well she thought so) Idea to wrap me legs fairly tightly with elastic Bandages. No No No, don't do that to a Spectrum, person! Oh it was bad, very BAD. Another troubling thing is sound, if you would interview my kids they would bafdurm that I would say" I can't hear" this truly meant There is Too much sensatory stimyou an I cannot center,on which conversation to,listen to , quietly one at a time. So you see , like many female auties I have learned. to "pass" , but know ME little better and it will be evident, hard to for me to wait my turn in conversations, people got irritated often, but I didn't intrinsically know!.Besides if it was something that interested me, I wanted to share my insights, So mine may be more subtle, but they still are there. Made Silly Kitty upset recently, accused me of highjacking someone else's thread, did not see that way to me but laid low on her favorite topics and threads, maybe it will still end up okay?

Its easier peeing through a wet very warm washcloth, maybe more messy But, it will relax things theree

I guess about having to return clyhe3 because the size that you you chose .was wrong. I still,mentally,feed that because I have Fat Brain.and I am still,cetain I am much. bigger, thr,Old Size I was so long.

Yeah hoping to hear a good report on all this and another step on your Road to Surgery will be done! Hope you were upbeat, factual and convinced them that you were a good candidate and this is what you really want to do. Sure there a few risks, but getting out of bed in the morning, walking,across the street even,going to a shopping mall these days-all risky. Makes this surgery look a lot less frightening doesn't it? Keep pisitive, keep sweet and update us when you can,okay?

Last Saturday was not feeling well, Miralax seemed not to be working well, took Ducolax Friday night, said relief 1/2 to 6 hours , the 6 hours came and went ,2 hours I gave up and went to bed. Next morning a just a little ?, did not feel like I was emptying out. So early afternoon , went to local hospital, figured a Milk and Molasses enema, been a month since I was there. Doctor on duty wanted an abdominal Cat Scan and some other testing.,Turns out I had ileitis, more pockets of gas than stool, and so they said let your doctor the first of the week. We think,you're pretty okay. Finally after 15 hours the darned Ducolax finally worked. At least I am not now under as much abdominal distress. My question is: D9es this mean I might be developing Chrones or IBS? Everybody and their Aunt seems to be dropping meds, am I just developing thines as I heal? Already found out I have renal cysts, thyroid nodules, a heart murmer that's pretty mild, low iron levels, IBS would be just the icing,on one of those cupcakes I no longer can eat! And,oh yeah, every night when I get tired, I get double vision, all I can do to type-text when I'm seeing you lines of letters and numbers. Let me know what you guys think, going to bed while I can still make out the bedroom doorway. TaTa my Bari- friends!???

And you and Grady Cat need to celebrate, dropping all these things is so fine for you both ??

My weird and probably funny one. To sit down in narrow or plastic chairs, to stand up without help and not to make that embarrassing Sucky noise when I get up. To not have someone ask if they can show their sl7des on my rump because it is so wide. Not wide,no more, and it won't ever be again . A lover would be able,to hold me close with just his 2,hands, not have to get a forklift or find a 10 bushel basket to hold my rump up. Oh I am getting sassy along with sweet disposition, it's sad guys are starting notice me now, the same ones that wouldn't give me the time of day 100 plus pounds ago. And the ones who ignored ME in the past, not too sure I need them now. I may forgive them but my ❤will never never forget!

And that's just what you were looking to achieve, right? Keep moving forward, no matter how sliw, until you get where you want to go.?????

And to me, You are Searcys finest, I am told I may have kinfolk down your ways , late hubby first cousin met a Arkansas woman and never looked back, ran right south and married her. Only met him oncen but told they have a good life together!

Well mine Was the opposite. At the OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS you don't meet with the actual Surgeon until your PreSurgical physical assessment. I did all my pre- consultings, met with Dr Needleman July 17th, got my surgical date confirmed yet before I left. Spent the Entire month of August 2018 on a liver-shrink diet. Dr Needleman , when he palpated my abdomen, found the edge of my liver could be felt This meant I had NASH, which translates to NonAlcoholic Steatohepatitis , in lay terms big fat juicy liver, given a choice of 2-4'5 weeks, given the choice, I opted to do the whole flippin"month and it worked well. I lost 15 pounds, me who,had no successes before, and having the natural B.M.R. of a Sick,Sea ? Snail, yes children it can be done. And MY Wonder Wednesday came, on September 5th 2018 at 7AM EDT I received what I had worked towards for 3 long and tearful years---- My RNYI And am I sorry? Wasn't then, am not now and never shall be, It ranks up there with my marriage and the birth of my. 3 Children as a Personal Historic Day, and I will be unceasingly-grateful to Bradley J Needleman MD who took the chance on a 72 year old woman, too old by many program's standards, and performed a beautiful smooth surgery to helped me gain a future. In 9 months I have lost 114 pounds ,multiple dress sizes, and ready to break into Onderland and head toward my goal of 175. Really he and his Head N.P. Valerie who is also his Right-hand woman, w o Ulf be satisfied with anything less than 200, that's an 165 pound loss from my highest recorded weight but I pray I have strength to make it to MY GOAL. Can I make it? I believe I can, it was the making of me to finally believe in and trust my own strength after being my,family's DoorMat for years, never making a fuss and letting walk all over me, wipe their shoes on me and not let out a protest. Not raised,to make waves- Now I am An Motorboat, I stir up waves but I get somewhere too. And Honey, it,is SO FINE!

Am I missing something? Hi back to you, but where is the rest of this topic?

Yeah and if you don't, you could have what happened to me. ooh I drug my CPap along but left one piece at home. Turned out it was a different,model than any respiratory had stocked.,Ended up wearing 02 my entire stay and was room- bound, no "walkies" for this Old gal. So I didn't get to meet anyone, got an Lonely Only feeling. Took a journal along but never wrote anything,in the it! Thought I would get names sharing my hospital time, didn't happen either- I Got Robbed of my bonding experiences!

And PS if those Check into Cash places are legal in your state,DON'T GO THERE- they are a Blight and a Debt you can't get rid of easily! Thank God Above Ohio pulled their fangs April 1sr!!!

You need a Large Slingshot to get you there! Do you suppose you should call them, tell them you still are wanting it but are going to be slightly delayed? Praying ?things will still work out for TODAY!

Still a winner with 7 but you can't see them anymore except for the one at the bottom of my breast bone and it's tiny, like I was stabbed with a large gauge icepick. So NBD my friends!

Hey Sweetie, sounds like you are off to a Good Start. Hey I have had a treacherous time, I still have to measure and be uber-careful with mine and I will be a year in September, you probably won't emulate me, but I will warn you, it hasn't been "easy peasy" for me. And you can't be too careful with your life, after all. My dietician says I am doing wonderfully well, may look that way but I'm not So Sure. I like the weight loss but my gut instinct? I'm sacrificing my health and well- being to achieve it. Haven't had my low levels of minerals etc checked for 3 months, OH I did have blood drawn for something else only to be told " Oh we don't check for THAT! " Were they just worried I had something I could give other patients? Hospitals are hotbeds of germs anyway, why would this one be different?

No you sure aren't, my casual clothes are ones I have inherited from my son, I go around with fishing and Jimmy Buffet logos at the age of 73. He has started gaining some of the weight I am losing, says when I go for my August appointment he is asking for an application form, our PCP keeps stamping "Morbid Obesity" in on his appointment summary papers, and has for quite a while. that and the fact that his BMI,is nearly 38 and,mine has gone to 31, his ego is "cruising toward a bruising", he has one definate" co- morb" and another,possible secondary and,he feels like his weight is starting to spiral out of control. Told him first he might be able to get a VSG instead of the Full bypass but since he too has GERD, and that is neither of the morbs I alluded to at the beginning he too may be like Mama. Between him and Dr Needleman my surgeon, and his choice, not mine!. Sure I can hold the door open for him but he has to step through and do his own talking. Mama can't fix THIS ONE!

And I do wish my fingers would get thinner, seems like I hit the wrong keys. And I do proofread, before I hit "send" but this SMARTphone corrects to what it thinks I meant. And since I went to the BETA form of the app I can't go back and correct anything anymore. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!