To My WLS Story, Page 11! 
This is a very emotional time for us. I try to remember that my support group
is here for me no matter what, good or bad. I had been having a hard time eating before, it's better now. But I have no
interest in food. I was just telling Kelley that there is not one food that I miss. But I miss the eating process, the
emotional statisfaction of the taste or something like that. I was a big comfort food eater and now that I don't have the
comfort food I find that I am more emotional. I cry at commercials now. But I also laugh out loud now too!
I haven't really cooked a meal since my surgery, I can't eat enough to make it worth while, so why bother right? Jennifer is delighted with this, now she's in charge of the kitchen. If I leave it up to her she'll eat salad every night and right now that's fine with me.
I do want to tell you about some of the neat little things that I've noticed since surgery.
1. My blood pressure is down to the normal range and my body can feel it. YIPPEE!
2. There are no more crackles in my lungs (congestive heart failure). I can take a deep breath and not have to lay down.
3. If I wanted to I could pull the seat of the van up, the steering wheel no longer rubs my belly, in fact it's about 4 inches away.
4. I can sit in a chair with arms and not get up with red marks on my hips and I think I need a cushion on my work chair.
5. When I go to bed I can feel every wrinkle in the sheets and my nightgown. Not sure if this is a good thing or not but my body was so bloated before that I couldn't feel them.
6. I can see my knuckles and ankles for the first time in years.
These are a few of the things that remind me everyday of why I had WLS. I want to live a real life and this is my tool to do just that. |
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| Well here we are on the first of October and I've lost 107 pounds in just over
2 months. I can't find the words to describe how I feel. I'm like a new person. I can move easier, stairs are no longer a
device from the devil. My food obsession is a thing of the past, even TV commercials don't bother me. I don't even mind
getting out of bed every morning. |
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| October 6th, 2000 I got home from work and just wanted to go to bed. I
thought I was getting the Flu. So I went to bed. It went down hill from there. The weekend was a blurr of Jennifer trying to
get me to drink orange juice or hot tea. I didn't notice that everything I swallowed came back up. I just assumed I was
still getting enough water. Well you know what happens when you assume! I also had diarrhea. The spit in my mouth was a
thick yellow mucus and everytime I swallowed it made me sicker. It was so gross. By Wednesday the 11th I was in the
ER. (Thanks Barb!) I was so dehydrated they admitted me. They pumped so many bags of saline into me that I lost count. My
potassium was also very low. Dr. S said when you have diarrhea it pulls the potassium from your system, so this was not
unusual. When they put the potassium in through IV it burns your veins, even with lidocane. Let me tell you I cried!
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| I had an endoscopy, 2 cat scans (1 of the abdomen and 1 of the head),
an upper GI (I fainted while standing there), a dozen or so Xrays and so much blood drawn I didn't think I would have any
left. All the machinics of the surgery were fine. They could find nothing wrong other then my nutrition levels. Dr. S and
Dr. O were beside themselves. Dr. S decided to treat me symptomatically and see how I did. The first thing to treat
was the nausea, he tried several things that didn't work and then tried Anzamet which is used for chemo patients with
nausea. It helped a lot. I was feeling a little better, holding water down. |
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| My mom came from California on Wed the 18th to help out at home. They let me go
home on the 19th. The first thing I did was brush my teeth and get into my own bed! Mom bought some Glucerna (Diabetic
Ensure) and let me tell you, it was wonderful, to me it tastes just like Oak Farms Chocolate Milk. I could only take about
three sips at a time and it took me two days to drink the whole 8 oz. can. She tried to get me to eat, I didn't want
anything but trying to argue with her is futile. Over the weekend I had an orange, a piece of bacon and a slice of deli
turkey. By Sunday I was going down hill again. The vomiting started and I still had diaherrea. I was also freezing, I had
on sweats, two pairs of socks and 3 blankets on my bed. |
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I'll finish this story on the next page.
~Jan~ |
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