my hospital experience

[VikiB]

BTW have went off topic recently I am doing well my wounds are healing beautifully and I doubt I will have much scarring. The iron syrup makes me feel sick but I take it and then have a spoonful of yogurt or dinner to kill the taste. I have to call the doctor tomorrow and ask about not being prescribed fast-tab for prevention of ulcers and a multivitamin. I can walk alot further now and seem to have alot more energy than before, my breathing has improved (despite not having quit smoking yet...please don't yell at me lol), I sleep 7-8 hours a night and have no trouble with going to sleep or waking in the night, I am no longer on insulin or tablets for my diabetes and no matter what time of the day I test (and I test often because I am still shocked) I always test a normal non-diabetic level, my blood pressure is stable without any meds, my feet no longer hurt or swell, and my whole outlook has started changing for the better. It's now been 10 days since my surgery and I am losing currently about a pound a day. I'm never hungry and literally only eat about a half a cup of food (currently soup or yogurt) 3 times a day. I'm on Zinc, calcium and iron (and apparently multi-vitamin) the rest of my life but it's a fair trade-off I don't mind at all.

 

[pandora]

I can walk alot further now and seem to have alot more energy than before, my breathing has improved (despite not having quit smoking yet...please don't yell at me lol),

i think you have enough on your plate at the moment hunni , this will happen in time . you are doing so fantastically well , i admire your grit !!!
xx

 

[VikiB]

That would be so much fun! And in a year, we could be skinny and go shopping!

That would be awsome. I'll work hard to get some money for the trip and maybe look at around say...July/August 2013???

 

[Newmelani]

That would be awsome. I'll work hard to get some money for the trip and maybe look at around say...July/August 2013???

that will give us something to look forward to! Even though we have so many amazing things to look forward to! You're doing so great! A lb a day is phenomenal! Good for you!

 

[hesh]

good luck x

 

[jenny17]

Wish I was near where you are I would deffo meet up with you.

Please don't feel the need to answer, this is just a rhetorical question. Why are you having to find somewhere else to live? You shouldn't have to leave after the way he has behaved! You are a saint for putting up with what you have already.

 

[VikiB]

Where do you live honey I except any reason for a road trip lol I am leaving because the house is in his name I was never put on the lease despite being married to him 11 years now nearly 12 in March and living in the UK for the last nearly 9 years. But the main reason is I don't want to see ghosts of a failed relationship everyday in every corner. There are too many memories of our life together in this house...I just want to start fresh. Does that make sense?

 

[jenny17]

I am in Durham, if you are ever up this way Just keep telling yourself it is HIS failure not yours!

 

[VikiB]

It definitely is his failure I was a brilliant wife who put up with alot for alot longer than I should have in the name of love...he failed me I never let him down at all.

 

[pandora]

Well said hunni , I felt the same when I kicked the ex out . Strange how they never see it that way , these wonderful , perfect men !!!!!

 

[Newmelani]

It definitely is his failure I was a brilliant wife who put up with alot for alot longer than I should have in the name of love...he failed me I never let him down at all.

I did the same thing. I was much happier when I left and wished I had done it a long time before. Your new start will be wonderful!

 

[loubyl00]

Go for it Viki. You are doing great.

What you able to eat now?

Where you from originally, if you don't mind me asking?

XxX

 

[VikiB]

I am still on the liquid part of my post-surgery so am only eating soup and yogurt right now. I eat any kind of soup I can find and blend anything chunky to a smooth consistancy. I am from America. I lived in Ohio for 38 years off and on (lived in Indiana, Maryland and Illinois for a few months here and there) and then lived in Kentucky (which is where I lived before moving here) for 4 years.
How was yor op? Glad to see you're back

 

[Snow White]

I am still on the liquid part of my post-surgery so am only eating soup and yogurt right now. I eat any kind of soup I can find and blend anything chunky to a smooth consistancy. I am from America. I lived in Ohio for 38 years off and on (lived in Indiana, Maryland and Illinois for a few months here and there) and then lived in Kentucky (which is where I lived before moving here) for 4 years.
How was yor op? Glad to see you're back

One of my best friends lives in lexington. I'm from california!

 

[kitkatkate]

Anyone going to Chelsfield Friday night for the support group ??

Kate x x

 

[honeykiss]

Hi Kate, good to see you on the mend, I am hoping to go with another WLS friend, will know for deffinate on Friday morning. But if you can go it is so nice to meet people face to face who are post op and maybe a few others who are pre op.

Wendy x

 

[VikiB]

Today is a bad day. One of my wounds is infected despite my best efforts to prevent it. I'm really blue today and feeling out of sorts. I just want to go back to bed and cry. I don't really know what is wrong I don't really have a reason for the sadness but I feel sad none the less. I'm eating very little today and just really resorting to drinking tea. I have heard others say they got down in the beginning so I guess it's normal but I still don't like it and feel like an idiot for being sad after the 4 1/2 years of waiting fr the surgery and then getting it what do I have to be down about?? Anyhow hope everyone else is ok and has a good day.

 

[Ruthiep]

You have enough reasons to be sad Vicki, and even I, who don't, got sad in the beginning post op. It's very very normal; a reaction to everything. Let it wash over you and don't try and fight it, and it will be gone. xx

 

[VikiB]

Was a the greatest thing I could do for myself or the biggest mistake I've ever made. Will things get better? Will I lose weight or is this just another pipe dream?? Should I have just excepted being fat was who I was meant to be? Should I have been a better person, given more of myself, am I always going to feel like a big failure? Why doesn't he love me anymore? What is wrong with me? God damnit I wish I could just....eat till I explode...sorry just a few thoughts roaming around in my mind today

 

[Ruthiep]

Of course those thoughts are going around your head; it's horrible to find the one you thought was there for you is not who you thought he was. I thank the Lord each day for my old Git, 68 last Thursday, we've been married 44 and a half years, he's hardly a movie star but we love each other to bits. It must be absolute hell to go through a split up; I can't begin to imagine it. HUGS