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GinaCampbell    434

GinaCampbell
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Hi all, nearly six weeks out and still very ill from a post op abdominal abscess. Was told yesterday I have to have my gallbladder out too.

I can only get in around 100 cals a day and 500 ml of Water so I have dropped almost 60lbs in six weeks.

I am so frightened that I won't survive another surgery.

Having another CT scan Wednesday to discuss a guided aspiration of the abscess. The surgeon has already told me that he thinks that it would be too dangerous.

Will I ever get well?

All I can do is go from the bed to the couch and back everyday. Even showering is hard.

I live alone so have to take care of myself.

I pray all the time because that is all I can do. I have a counsellor who phones me on a Friday morning. She says that I have to keep fighting but I am so tired, so ill and in such despair.

I keep reading about all these people eating this and that, drinking Protein etc.

It makes me feel so sad and so scared.

I just want to go to sleep but my circulation is so poor that I have to keep moving. If I do sleep for an hour or so, I wake up in agony in my hips and legs as if no blood is moving at all.

I don't think I can take much more.

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GinaCampbell    434

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Thank you x

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WLSResources/ClothingExch    3,444

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Gina, you're in my thoughts and I'm rooting for you. The way you feel is understandable, but you have to know that you'll have a good solution and outcome after this terrible period.

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WantToBe    77

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Gina, I am so sorry you have had these complications. Please continue to follow your doctors advice and take care of yourself. I am also live alone (minus 4 leggeds) so I understand how difficult it is when you need to do everything yourself. I'm so glad that you have a counselor that can help you during this exhausting medical crisis. I agree, hang in there and although you are very tired try to write everything down that medical staff suggests. Maybe you can get a trustworthy friend to also be your sounding board during this difficult time.

Please write often and provide an update. I'm sending up prayers and positive thoughts for you!!!

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GinaCampbell    434

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My bariatric team don't actually know what more to do. Other than diagnostic tests, they say it's "a mystery" to them. Didn't make me feel better.

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FlossieM    8

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Thinking of you Gina - sending you lots of prayers and positive thoughts from London UK

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GinaCampbell    434

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Thank you, I really am losing hope.

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CaitlinT    26

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I am keeping you in my prayers Gina! ❤❤❤

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KristenLe    5,980

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@@GinaCampbell I am sorry you're having such a difficult time! Do they have any rehab facilities there that maybe you could get some medical care for a few weeks? I think it's time for your Drs to do something more drastic to help you (even if it's a feeding tube temporarily)! Keeping you in my prayers!

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GinaCampbell    434

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All I can do is let them run the tests this week and pray they come up with a competent plan for me.

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GinaCampbell    434

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That is so kind, thank you all. I am bedbound now so this forum and my phone friends are mostly all of my support.

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Inner Surfer Girl    12,015

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I am so sorry to hear about your difficulties. You are in my prayers.

Can your surgeon's office prescribe a visiting nurse or someone to check on you? Can you let a local church know that you are isolated so that at least someone can stop by occasionally to make sure you are ok? I hate that you are so isolated and have to go through this alone.

Where are you located?

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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