After thinking I might make May-June-July-or August for my surgery, it turns out I will be singing a SEPTEMBER song. Do I have a surgery twin, someone who will be going through this wonderous transformation with me?

I cannot imagine your heartache and sorrow in losing a child, Frustr8. I am so sorry for your loss. I love your memorial balloon tradition, though - very special. You have an inspiring attitude about your life trials - with plenty of humor. You don't seem to take much lying down...unless you're on a gurney for a test or in OR! Carry on!

18 hours ago, nibble said:

Me, too, but other than that the Hair loss continues and weight does not change. My PA okayed bumping up the Biotin and L-lysine dosages. The other problem is that I live in the land of snow and ice and walking for exercise just is not happening here in the boondocks. I am solving that with my order today for a treadmill -- you know, those metal implements that get converted into a clothes rack after a short time? I surveyed treadmill owners I know who own them...Why did you stop using yours? A. boredom. B. it's in the basement/garage/spare room & I never go in the basement/garage/spare room. So this one goes in the living room, in front of the TV, within good earshot of the music collection. As I've heard before, this weight loss journey is 80% nutrition, 20% exercise, and 100% mental!

Good job in finding something to exercise. I'm having a hard time finding something that will keep me motivative.

Oh that I lost weight as fast as I lose my glasses, keys, cell phone, patience and my mind!
LOL through my tears ?

Well I'm not only can you keep a good woman down, you also can't make her shut up. Endoscopy yesterday , PICC LINE still in place, 12 hours on,12 hours off every day, didn't get Dr Noria, she pulled a" Bait and Switch", I ended. up with her Senior Resident Dr Noah Switzer, I really wanted her. Dr Noria is from Toronto, turns out he is from Just outside of Calgary Alberta, small world isn't it? He said he was able to dialate my stoma somewhat, that the ulcers are responding, notice he didn't say GONE, I will be on TPN 2 more months, unless Dr Needleman, my real surgeon, overruled it . So since he did dialate me, go home and try something p.o. and see how things work -HaHa- made some thin mashed potatoes, stayed down less than half an hour, and we were off to the races again. And puke and s)ime for an hour or so. This morning right subcostal pain, which Dr N told me is my jujenal ulcerations romping and stomping, dad-burn medical doofus woke them up again. Oh I guess, bottom line, I am somewhat grateful, after all I am al8ve and kicking, but 2 more months or so? I did want to be tube-free for my 1/2 year anniversary in March and now it may not happen. My weight loss has slowed down, but I am healthier, 3 pounds in a month, but my " golden honeymoon: of weight loss is being spent on artificial diet. But I shall endure, stay in a positive frame of mind as much as permitted, and I will win this war, for I still am in it to win it, and I Shall. I still think I resemble road kill, I don't look now like me, just a bunch of dead relatives but maybe when I lose enough, guys will look at my body instead of my wrecked face anyway!

And my cardiologist is having me have a MRI on February 5th, turns out I didn't have as perfect an cardiology appointment as I thought. I will update you all when I know how concerning it really is.???

Good Morning September Peeps! Today is my 5 Month Surgiversary. Down 55.4. How is everyone doing. My weight loss is super low right now but I am trying to stay positive and just keep pushing.

And like the Mary Tyler Moore theme song "You're going to make it after All!"

6 hours ago, shoregirl75 said:

Good Morning September Peeps! Today is my 5 Month Surgiversary. Down 55.4. How is everyone doing. My weight loss is super low right now but I am trying to stay positive and just keep pushing.

I hear you sister same here. Honeymoon is over. Scale is not moving that much anymore. I'm having to up my protein and calories to see 1 lb to move on the scale. And working out much more and harder.

I’ll be hitting 5 months post op later this month. I haven’t been active at all until this week but my weight loss has been steady (minus November, -6lbs that whole month smh). Labs were normal at my 4 month check up and my surgeon is happy with my progress. My next appointment is at 9 months post op and I can’t imagine the changes that will happen between now and June. Also I’m down 72lbs since surgery so far.

I don’t eat much, actually I’m transitioning to vegetarianism because eating meat is no longer enjoyable to me. I guess this means I have to cook more.

I’m currently training for a quarter marathon and I believe that this will help me reach onederland in 12 weeks. I have a half marathon in September and October, my first full marathon is in December.

Goals: “overweight” BMI at 6 months post
Run more than I walk
Complete “insanity” workout
Consume balanced high protein vegetarian meals

I’m ready to crush it this year

11 hours ago, RnYBeyhive said:

I’ll be hitting 5 months post op later this month. I haven’t been active at all until this week but my weight loss has been steady (minus November, -6lbs that whole month smh). Labs were normal at my 4 month check up and my surgeon is happy with my progress. My next appointment is at 9 months post op and I can’t imagine the changes that will happen between now and June. Also I’m down 72lbs since surgery so far.

I don’t eat much, actually I’m transitioning to vegetarianism because eating meat is no longer enjoyable to me. I guess this means I have to cook more.

I’m currently training for a quarter marathon and I believe that this will help me reach onederland in 12 weeks. I have a half marathon in September and October, my first full marathon is in December.

Goals: “overweight” BMI at 6 months post
Run more than I walk
Complete “insanity” workout
Consume balanced high Protein vegetarian meals

I’m ready to crush it this year

You go Girl!!!!! Crush It!!!

12 hours ago, Liz The New Me said:

I’m ready to crush it this year

Wow, you are DRIVEN. Great to see you being so fierce. I'd like a cup of that elixir, please!

I am sure proud of how she's doing, aren't you? This is one together lady!

Thank you everyone! This all started with my bucket list!

well my PICC line is gone, I am back trying to eat enough to justify its removal, my surgeonthinks i can do it, his CNP Valerie thinks I can do it, even my ombadswoman Kelly at Option Care,my former TPN. company, even Tomkitten my son tho,is I can do it, seems like only 1 person. thinks I can't- ME! Oh well I will keep on with my vitamins, minerals and whatever. Try to eat my mini- meals, and pray I am going to be okay for my endoscopy which isn't until April 12th. Nobody seems to really care or give me any emotional support until then, so I will do what i can, if I can, for myself,by myself and cry myself if and when it all goes wrong. You see, I feel I'm beating my head against a brick wall, and everybody else who should be paying attention is dancing around, patting each other on the back, and telling each other what a great job they are doing for Frustr8 and not a one ever looks my way while they're doing their little Victory Dance. I don't even have a clue what I weigh now, counted on that monthly weight check-in,I am hoping 260, 265 tops. I am Apathetic toward food, nothing tastes good, nothing sounds appealing,might as well eat 2 oz of metamucil every 3 hours, I sip 2 oz of fluid every 15 minutes in between and wonder how I got locked into this life of futility. Not what the shiny fancy Bariatric Folders said this would be . And my food mood is not very happy today. 6 months on Tuesday and I think I still resemble the barrel more than the barrel racer. I know we have each our own path but today it's mud and pea gravel. This Cowgirl has the Blah Blues and I don't see a Happy day of Joy in my immediate future.

And the beat goes on, I got a call from an local number Friday, turns out it is the Wound Care Center at my local community hospital, no one admits to making. such a call, I have no open wounds. Turns out my PICC LINE cultured negative, so why pull it unless everyone was just tired of me having it? Now to the matter of the elusive Fe Infusion, the one OSU said I would require, local yokel PCP said " Don't travel a 100 mile roundtrip to Columbus and back, I can can order it here" today one of his nurses , an LPN I never have liked in the first place, called to tell me it never was ordered, am I deluding myself that I even need it? Now what? Do I call OSU, the lady at Option Care? They both said I needed it , when are my last blood labs at? Local hospital was drawing them here, sending results to Columbus but supposedly my PCP was also getting a copy. Flip HIPAA and all the little legal tweaks, it should have been my body, my choice, my records and I should have been in the Loop on all this, not on the outside knocking on doors trying to get the info everyone is hiding.. I could have had my INFUSION last week in Columbus if I could have found transport, instead I waited for local yokel, who seems to have done nothing.
So let's examine the record, I was hospitalized for pneumonia, nobody knows what the infective agent was? I had fluid build-up in my Right shoulder, Orthopaedic drained the Acrominal space, got what seemed like a small jelly jar of what looked like funky looking fluid. Decided it didn't look pussy, just some sort of inflammation so he decided not to culture it, then my PICC line which I felt was of use to me was pulled, I feel capriciously because all the cultures were negative. I am left with a dressing on my left arm where the PICC was, I can't get it wet until it fully scabs over, a right shoulder that still is painful when I try to move it, and a cough that has still fully resolved. I am weighing and trying to eat something every 3 hours, 2 oz of protein or soft veggies etc although I would prefer being left alone. I feel much more miserable eating than not. Does anyone listen? Nope, my road to recovery is not mine, it seems to belong to all these other people, yet I am supposed to spout the cheery Weight Loss song while they manipulate me? I don't eat junk or fast food, I have tried to be good, I can only pray I show a weight loss, something to be proud of in all this chaos. And I get hiccups, in the old days I could drink water to stop it, sip a carbonated soda, well those 2 are gone so I burp- bump like a car alarm in a parking lot until my side's get sore and I gradually stop. And if my first 6 months are so crappy, will I even be still sane by my year anniversary? IDK what next?!??