Having trouble believing my stomach is gone

[Frustr8 7,886]

Like Matt Z I will have the Rube Goldberg rearrangement,of my gastrointestinal plumbing. Weird that I will be asking a Turkey Egg to take over a Football sized pouches function. It is elective mutilation but one I earnestly desire. It will help,fulfill something. starvation, diets, exeercise and will-and-won't power didn't. I am adding to my arsenal one final tool, I pray it will be enough for I surely intend to work with it so I have a future with life and life more abundant. I believe in my surgeon, he will work for my ultimate good. Dr Needleman may be willing to be my ally but in the long run it will be all between Mr Pouch and me.😛

[BabsR 27]

I felt the exact same way. I even had zero pain after the surgery day. I actually went to my doctor and joked that this was all a placebo. Give it a few weeks and everything changes. Once you are onto solid food you’ll really notice how little you can eat and the weight will start to drop. On average I’m losing 2lbs a week. Not a lot but it’s in the right direction.
SW 275.6
CW 244
GW 170

[SydneySleever 104]

13 hours ago, Buddy Warren said:

I know that I feel the same way. I can meet both my Protein goals and Water intake pretty easily, so I feel like nothing has changed yet. Maybe when I move on to solid food next week??

Yep I can report this really changes when you get to solids. Its just like wow, three bites I'm done!

[SydneySleever 104]

13 hours ago, Frustr8 said:

Like Matt Z I will have the Rube Goldberg rearrangement,of my gastrointestinal plumbing. Weird that I will be asking a Turkey Egg to take over a Football sized pouches function. It is elective mutilation but one I earnestly desire. It will help,fulfill something. starvation, diets, exeercise and will-and-won't power didn't. I am adding to my arsenal one final tool, I pray it will be enough for I surely intend to work with it so I have a future with life and life more abundant. I believe in my surgeon, he will work for my ultimate good. Dr Needleman may be willing to be my ally but in the long run it will be all between Mr Pouch and me.😛

Do you have a date yet? I got fingers and toes crossed for you!

[SydneySleever 104]

12 hours ago, BabsR said:

I felt the exact same way. I even had zero pain after the surgery day. I actually went to my doctor and joked that this was all a placebo. Give it a few weeks and everything changes. Once you are onto solid food you’ll really notice how little you can eat and the weight will start to drop. On average I’m losing 2lbs a week. Not a lot but it’s in the right direction.
SW 275.6
CW 244
GW 170

2lbs a week is great! That is actually what I'm aiming for!! Well done I'm three and a half weeks out and have stalled a bit, but I'm sure my expectations are just too high and it will come off slowly!

[Frustr8 7,886]

No Sydney Sleeved and all. No date yet, every day I inch closer. Some people claim to be on the fast track, I am on the Snail Trail, reminds of something. One of the blessings/curses of being 72, you have existed so long you become a tad philosophical. Everythi,g relates to something else. Back when I was younger, was going to say littler, but some days I felt,i was always this size if not this age. Anyway when I was at summer camp, be it church, 4H , Girl Scouts, we would sit around a campfire and tell ghost stories. To this day, I never figured out why going around smelling like a smoked sausage was going to benefit me spiritually or emotionally, but life is what life is. At any rate one of the lines in all of the ghost stories was "Slowly he turned" similiarly my Weight Loss story is " slowly it moves on".
Wednesday I received a call from OSU, yes we are still on a speaking basis. Ready for the whole title? The Ohio State University- Wexner Medical Center for Weight Management and Bariatric Surgery " Life after Bariatric Surgery " educational information facilitator. Almost feel like I should have a tub of buttered popcorn to go with the description. But then buttered popcorn was one of my youthful dietary indiscretions. Her name is Kaylee Krumm, sounds like an author or a porno actress. Possibly the former, doubtful the latter. I was told to download videos onto my computer, 4 in number, watch them at my leisure and then participate in an hour-long seminar on-line Thursday afternoon at 4:30 PM. Didn't mind , rather do that than drive 100 miles(60 km) roundtrip to sit in an auditorium with poor acoustics in the company of people I didn't know from Adam. The videos were informative, and the seminar wasn't too boring. I had also downloaded and printed out a 56 page booklet to follow along on Thursday while the online dietician and educator lectured. This is another step completed, next I meet with my surgeon. and one of dieticians, probably just post beginning of July. Have to wait that long because they are waiting until they have electronic verification of 30 days electronic compliance data from my C Pap. Would have had it already but I had perpetual sinusitis that its usuage was aggrevating so my Primary care told me to stop using it until it cleared up. So there was a week or so of non-compliance, so I had re establish an unbroken list. I have to show I wore the fool thing. 4+ hours out of every 24 for 30 days. So my seminar mates may get their surgeries scheduled ahead of me. I will be on a Liquid Protein diet for a week, 2 weeks(probably) or 4 weeks. The 4 weeks is usually for over BMI of 55-60, I am a big person but praise God not THAT large. Have I lost weight since my last appointment 24th May? Gosh I hope so, thought I was doing good, my BMI was<48 then they remeasured my height, I wish they would stop doing that, each place makes me shorter I am going to be resembling💩 in height albeit a lighter shade. So they marked my BMI at just under 50 although I had lost measurable weight. Please surgerize me before I look like a pancake! Then after my liver shrinking diet is complete,it is surgery time. Probably,in deference to my. very l'o-n-g drug out search,i won't have to return again until I show up the morning of my REBIRTHDAY in Columbus. At least I hope so. I am thinking maybe 15th to 20th July? If they try for 4 weeks I will not be happy. I have a class reunion 11th August and I would like to be at least on Stage II by then. One thing I do know, sleevers they keep on stage 1 to stage 2 for 4 weeks, RnY only 2, only time I think we catch a break, has to do with not having to heal as long a staple/suture line as sleevers do .
I have been seeking my surgery for nearly 3 years total, 6 months the 1st time through, brief hiatus, 6 months 2nd time, 3 week hiatus and then with OSU since March. Traditional in USA,is 3 to 9 months, depending on insurance and practices hoops to jump through. I got advanced placement having gone through other facility's programming twice. First time because I lost insurance due to job termination, second time was their fault, I did nothing wrong, karma will get them and theirs eventually. Nicest way I can say If they no longer wanted me, then I certainly,don't want them, they betrayed my trust and belief in them and I would never darken their doors again on any basis. If I had any accident or such I would demand to be transported elsewhere. They claim to be a Catholic hospital, pfooey, I'll take my chances with heathens, atheists and headhunters --I actually knew a retired headhunter from New Guinea, nice guy, due to missionary's influence, studying in the US. Fascinating to talk to. People are called "long pork" due to our omnivorous diet I guess we taste pretty much the same. Also told me if you ever encounter an English-speaking one tell them you are an American, they don't like to eat us, due to DDT, other pesticides and hormones, we make them very sick and they don't enjoy vomiting either. Don't know if Aussies and New Zealanders are exempt, you might taste of sheep,know they aren't too terribly fond of Japanese, they taste too fishy although Grandfather said during WW 2, you take what you can get!
Guess I'm like the old joke:
2 men talking, first says " My wife can talk for hours on any subject!" second man says " Mate, you are lucky! Mine talks for hours on end and she doesn't need a subject!"
They talk about someone being the Jack of all trades, well I am the Kill of all Trades, mistress of nothing much. But I keep on moving forward in life perhaps with less weight at a faster speed, but I keep going and going like a battery operated toy. Haven't totally run down yet👉😛👈.

[Frustr8 7,886]

Jill not kill, although therexarevdays I feel as attractive as road kill! Ta Ta!

[SydneySleever 104]

10 minutes ago, Frustr8 said:

No Sydney Sleeved and all. No date yet, every day I inch closer. Some people claim to be on the fast track, I am on the Snail Trail, reminds of something. One of the blessings/curses of being 72, you have existed so long you become a tad philosophical. Everythi,g relates to something else. Back when I was younger, was going to say littler, but some days I felt,i was always this size if not this age. Anyway when I was at summer camp, be it church, 4H , Girl Scouts, we would sit around a campfire and tell ghost stories. To this day, I never figured out why going around smelling like a smoked sausage was going to benefit me spiritually or emotionally, but life is what life is. At any rate one of the lines in all of the ghost stories was "Slowly he turned" similiarly my Weight Loss story is " slowly it moves on".
Wednesday I received a call from OSU, yes we are still on a speaking basis. Ready for the whole title? The Ohio State University- Wexner Medical Center for Weight Management and Bariatric Surgery " Life after Bariatric Surgery " educational information facilitator. Almost feel like I should have a tub of buttered popcorn to go with the description. But then buttered popcorn was one of my youthful dietary indiscretions. Her name is Kaylee Krumm, sounds like an author or a porno actress. Possibly the former, doubtful the latter. I was told to download videos onto my computer, 4 in number, watch them at my leisure and then participate in an hour-long seminar on-line Thursday afternoon at 4:30 PM. Didn't mind , rather do that than drive 100 miles(60 km) roundtrip to sit in an auditorium with poor acoustics in the company of people I didn't know from Adam. The videos were informative, and the seminar wasn't too boring. I had also downloaded and printed out a 56 page booklet to follow along on Thursday while the online dietician and educator lectured. This is another step completed, next I meet with my surgeon. and one of dieticians, probably just post beginning of July. Have to wait that long because they are waiting until they have electronic verification of 30 days electronic compliance data from my C Pap. Would have had it already but I had perpetual sinusitis that its usuage was aggrevating so my Primary care told me to stop using it until it cleared up. So there was a week or so of non-compliance, so I had re establish an unbroken list. I have to show I wore the fool thing. 4+ hours out of every 24 for 30 days. So my seminar mates may get their surgeries scheduled ahead of me. I will be on a Liquid Protein diet for a week, 2 weeks(probably) or 4 weeks. The 4 weeks is usually for over BMI of 55-60, I am a big person but praise God not THAT large. Have I lost weight since my last appointment 24th May? Gosh I hope so, thought I was doing good, my BMI was<48 then they remeasured my height, I wish they would stop doing that, each place makes me shorter I am going to be resembling💩 in height albeit a lighter shade. So they marked my BMI at just under 50 although I had lost measurable weight. Please surgerize me before I look like a pancake! Then after my liver shrinking diet is complete,it is surgery time. Probably,in deference to my. very l'o-n-g drug out search,i won't have to return again until I show up the morning of my REBIRTHDAY in Columbus. At least I hope so. I am thinking maybe 15th to 20th July? If they try for 4 weeks I will not be happy. I have a class reunion 11th August and I would like to be at least on Stage II by then. One thing I do know, sleevers they keep on stage 1 to stage 2 for 4 weeks, RnY only 2, only time I think we catch a break, has to do with not having to heal as long a staple/suture line as sleevers do .
I have been seeking my surgery for nearly 3 years total, 6 months the 1st time through, brief hiatus, 6 months 2nd time, 3 week hiatus and then with OSU since March. Traditional in USA,is 3 to 9 months, depending on insurance and practices hoops to jump through. I got advanced placement having gone through other facility's programming twice. First time because I lost insurance due to job termination, second time was their fault, I did nothing wrong, karma will get them and theirs eventually. Nicest way I can say If they no longer wanted me, then I certainly,don't want them, they betrayed my trust and belief in them and I would never darken their doors again on any basis. If I had any accident or such I would demand to be transported elsewhere. They claim to be a Catholic hospital, pfooey, I'll take my chances with heathens, atheists and headhunters --I actually knew a retired headhunter from New Guinea, nice guy, due to missionary's influence, studying in the US. Fascinating to talk to. People are called "long pork" due to our omnivorous diet I guess we taste pretty much the same. Also told me if you ever encounter an English-speaking one tell them you are an American, they don't like to eat us, due to DDT, other pesticides and hormones, we make them very sick and they don't enjoy vomiting either. Don't know if Aussies and New Zealanders are exempt, you might taste of sheep,know they aren't too terribly fond of Japanese, they taste too fishy although Grandfather said during WW 2, you take what you can get!
Guess I'm like the old joke:
2 men talking, first says " My wife can talk for hours on any subject!" second man says " Mate, you are lucky! Mine talks for hours on end and she doesn't need a subject!"
They talk about someone being the Jack of all trades, well I am the Kill of all Trades, mistress of nothing much. But I keep on moving forward in life perhaps with less weight at a faster speed, but I keep going and going like a battery operated toy. Haven't totally run down yet👉😛👈.

Gosh, things are so hard over there in America! I really feel for you guys. But this is it Frust8, I'm sure it will come through and you'll get your date. Then it will just be a countdown, like new years. And I love your stories.

[Frustr8 7,886]

ME TOO ME TOO!

[BabsR 27]

On 06/16/2018 at 00:14, SydneySleever said:

2lbs a week is great! That is actually what I'm aiming for!! Well done I'm three and a half weeks out and have stalled a bit, but I'm sure my expectations are just too high and it will come off slowly!

I had the same thing happen one week nothing changed it actually went up a pound. Then boom the following week I dropped more. My doctor said this happens. So hang in there it will be all good!!

[Orchids&Dragons 9,046]

6 hours ago, Frustr8 said:

I am thinking maybe 15th to 20th July?

Grab the 15th if you can, lucky day at my house! My birthday, hubby's birthday and our anniversary (29 years.) Our twins were even due on July 15th, although they only made it to June 30th!

[Frustr8 7,886]

I will try very hard for the15th, 26th was my birthday and my mother's birthday (December/February) ready to start a new tradition. and where,better than with my BariBud Orchids & Dragons happy date! And happy birthday to your twin 👬blessings a little early, how old will they be on the 30th?👼

[Orchids&Dragons 9,046]

5 minutes ago, Frustr8 said:

I will try very hard for the15th, 26th was my birthday and my mother's birthday (December/February) ready to start a new tradition. and where,better than with my BariBud Orchids & Dragons happy date! And happy birthday to your twin 👬blessings a little early, how old will they be on the 30th?👼

22! My other two are 22 and nearly 26!

[Orchids&Dragons 9,046]

16 hours ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

22! My other two are 22 and nearly 26!

OK, wish i could edit my last post! My twins are 22, my other 2 "kids" are 24 and nearly 26.

[Frustr8 7,886]

Hi O&D, this is my third attempt to tell the story,of my,parents friends Inez (who was a Fertile Myrtle) and her,husband Max
Freddie Frederic Charles) born,Groundhog,Day
Twins Ronnie(Ronald David) and Donnie (Donald Robert) Thanks giving Same Year so all 3 started school the same year
Peggy (Margaret Grace-Anne) next Labor Day So 4 babies in less than 2 years-Inez had silver hair- wonder why?
Then the Korean War,happened, slowed old Max Down a little! Next baby Tony (Anthony Michael)
Easter 1955
Mary Maxine (we called her Mai, she looked like ole Max in drag)Mothers day 1956
And finally
Suzanne Angelique )who lived her life as Suzie Q )Fathers Day 1957
Then I don't know whether they had Max neutered or Inez 's Uterus threw up its tubes in the air and shouted "No,Mas" but they ceased attempting to repopulate the Earth single handedly. And little Frust8 , the only child ,loved visiting them because it was a circus. Yes you're right, you do remember the name , as well as being friends they were my parents cousins and. Tony grew up to be be Anthony the same one who walked around me and said he didn't see where I was any smaller and I retaliated by telling him his hair, yep this is the Italian looking side vain about,their dark hair, was getting very thin. The sheer number of them all used to render me speechless but not no more. I might not be dark curly hair and medium complected, but the red hair was a gift I intended to use. If I barely make it to heaven because of my mouthiness. I can go sit with St Peter, he shot his mouth off too and he still got forgiven! Still hoping for a chance at👼 your ever lovin'
Frustr8