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I am on the "soft food diet" and I just realized that I cannot eat enough....  This is so funny to me.  Between sipping every ten minutes and having to wait 20 minutes before and after eating, how can you get in the protein shakes and the meals as well and still manage to drink more liquid !???!

Oh, and I just realized that I am not "morbidly obese" any longer !

:-)

I'm only "obese" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I know, pretty lame, but I am happ at that change.

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Well, I am three weeks out !  I added some photos from before (303 highest) and after (248.8 current).

I forgot to mention that I can now how soft foods !  I am so excited.

I MUST buy a food scale.  How much is 1 oz of fish?????

I am FULL - but I want to eat more, however..... that will not be able to happen....

:-(

Jeannie - I ate FISH !!!!

Good going me !  I am down to 248.8 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!  This means that I am down 54.8 pounds since January !

I am so thrilled !  thank you OH helpers - it was surely your spirit which helps me do well.

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Well, it's the day before Labor Day.  I made lasagna (2 large ones) last night for my little sister's birthday.  We had 12 people over and we had salad and bread and a big cake too.  And NO I didn't eat anything.  Well, I did lick the spoon from the ricotta, mozarella mix as i was making the lasagna.  But I was fine.  I ate some egg drop soup - which is the only thing that I can eat other than clear liquids....

I am ok though.

I cannot wait until Tuesday when I see the doctor and he hopefully ups me to the soft phase.  I am down almost 25 pounds in 20 days !  I am very happy - and cannot believe that I am not cheating.  I really think it is because I am not thinking ahead - just one day at a time.

In a pound point eight, I'll be under 250 !!!!  This is wonderful to me.

Love my sleeve !

Today, school started.  My students are quite nice, but my "on again, off again" schedule will really kill me.... I teach each odd period and have each even period off....  I suppose it is well and good, though.  I can rest in between.

I am kind of sad today too.  This weekend, a "friend' of mine came over to visit and brought a bottle of opened wine and a plastic bag of beignets (doughnuts).  She also made a comment and asked if I were "doing my little exercises"....  I took this as very condescending.  But I bit my tongue.

Well, today, my oldest child (10 years old) came home and told me that during her class, her friend (this friend of mine's daughter)  said that her mother said that my child's mother was fat!  My child said that she couldn't even concentrate in school this day at all....  I don't quite know what to do...  any advice.

Well, as of today, I am down almost 50 pounds from January (pre-surgery and surgery weight) !  So anyway ....  I am fine.

Any advice from you?  How did you handle (if you had to?) a similar situation?

Jeannie

Today, I ran my department meeting and it went very  well, but I really put myself to the brink of exhaustion....  Not that I will be able to rest again - school starts on Monday - but woah, I've got a lot of work ahead of me....

I am happy to be alive and healthy and in love

:-)

Jeannie

Today, I met Dr. Cantor for the first time since surgery (well, he did come to the sip test).  I was weighed and went down to 262!  (my home scale said 260, though).  That was about a 10-13 pound weight loss since pre-surgery.

So... anyway - the doctor said that I am doing great.  He took out the drain - which was gross...... it felt like it was a 20 feet long..... EWWWWW!  Did I say EWWWWW!

Let's go on....  the good news is I'm doing great.

The bad news is that I had a high pulse of 107 -but I needed an IV of 2 liters - which was just lovely....  it took two hours !

After that, I went to work !  Yes - back to work - I spent from noon to four thirty there... it was  a lot, but I was OK.  My husband and kids came to pick me up and they helped me arrange my classroom.

The day was stressful because of the colleagues I work with - everyone is always quite intersted in everything related to classrooms (I'm the department head).... and I wish everyone would be calm and realize I just had surgery and try to solve some of their own problems....

I am going to try for work tomorrow too.... We'll see what happens.

:-)  smiles to all !

jeannie (who is thrilled that the awful pain from the gas leaving my abdomen)

Five days out (5.5, really) and I'm hanging in there.  I didn't know about the drain I'd be wearing - that is just lovely....  but necessary, I suppose.

I am feeling wrong to be complaining - it is guilt.  I should be so happy to have had this surgery.  With my HMO, I was asked for a $5.00 co-pay when I checked into the hospital.  I am so lucky that I am a teacher with a good health system with great health benefits...  and I'm complaining of gas or whatever this pain is from.

To get personal, I have only been burping it up - no tooting - I don't know if this is normal.  I have tooted a few times since surgery - but truly, only a few... 

I am walking more and today I did the laundry - because my husband  "doesn't like to fold" clothes and I hate the thought of wrinkly clothes....  talk about stubborn. 

I was even able to slowly bend down and pick up kids' toys on the floor.  Good hubby took them out to the fair to play.  They came home happy, he came home nauseated after too many rides.... makes me laugh, because he always used to call me weak!  Ha!

I couldn't sleep last night due to this pain.  I hope tonight I can sleep.  Hubby woke up at one point and accused me of "chatting" with my French pen-pal from the 90s....  I wasn't even - and even so - we are both married (happily - I might add!) people who have no concern for anything but friendship - family friendship.  I was so worked up about being wrongly accused of chatting (which shouldn't be a problem anyway) that I cried, got all stuffy and couldn't breathe well.

So, dummy me - I put on the CPAP mask (thinking how much it would help me breathe) and then, since it was already getting light out - put on a room darkening mask (that my dad bought me before surgery for relaxation) and started to sleep..... Well, funny to me that I thought I was being choked - it was the mask for sleeping covering the air output on the CPAP mask - I could have died (OK - being overly dramatic here).....  but a word of warning....

Please don't think my hubby is crazy jealous - he is so not that type - he is just from a culture where women and men are not "just friends".....  but I am blessed to have this old friend (pen-pal, really, we've never met) in my life again too.

OK - that was a big journal entry.  If you read this - please understand that I am on dilaudid and maybe I even know I should not share so much - then, again - I am not using my real name here....

Take care all !

I'm getting " ready to soar " !!!

Hello everyone,

I am sure that there will be pain - I just had the VSG on Monday.  I have stomach pain, though, at the incision sites when I walk around.  For how many days can I expect that?

Thank you for any "just got home" advice - I could use it, please .

Jeannie

Hello friends,

I am home from the hospital.  I got home last evening at7ish.  My surgery was the previous morning at about 8am - it lasted about 2.5 hours.

The surgeon said all went well.  We did a sip test and no leaks.

It took the cafeteria at the hospital many hours (over 3) to have a tray of bariatric liquids delievered to my room- which made for a miserable morning.  But I made it ok.  They kept me til 5 to have another tray for dinner.

It was just broth, jello, popsicles and crystal light.

My nurses were great and the program has a Bariatric Coordinator who was like an angel.  The unit's doctor manager was also a good guy.

It was good to sleep last night without being woken up once an hour for vitals....

I am ok - pain in belly (upper area) - how long will this last?  I even have an area on the upper left that is numb (skin only) now. Is this normal?

I am on delauded.  I don't tolerate codeine. Can you tell me how I should feel on the delauded - cause I only don't feel the stomach pain as much - but I don't feel "good" or flying... at all.

I think I am fine- but I don't think I'll be able togo into work for a meeting tomorrow or Friday. I thought I would be able to to...

I am still happy I made this decision - but I am wondering when I'll feel a bit more normal again.  Did you all have this drain thingy ?  The JP?

Take care adn thanks for the answers, if you can and have amoment,
Jeannie