one year and 3 days until bariatric reduex
Joy of Joys. I wish I could be more upset about this. I'm surrently down 150 pounds and my anniversary is on the 18th of this month. That is next Tuesday. Well on Friday of next week I get to have my surgery redone. Not because they screwed up the first time, I'm just (un)lucky. I fall into that 1 to 3% portion that develops one of the weird risks they talk about. right at the jucture of the intestinal track and the part leading out of the pouch (rny) the intestine has herniated. There is a very good presentation about the risks of this surgery on OH's main home page. I think everyone should see that presntation it is excellent. Why I'm not more upset is for a very good reason. It means there is no more fat in my intestinal area. This happens when you lose weight and the fat deposits disappear. It leaves a gap in the spaces they had to enlarge to do it laproscopically. that is where the intestine herniated. So good news is I'm now fat free, bad news is the surgery to correct it. This time they say they might have to open me up instead of doing it lap. Oh well at 52 I was not going to wear a bikini anyway. I just refuse to ever let this surgery go to wast and regain any of the weight. My family eats healthy and I do not have sugar products or refined carbs in the house. No more sodas cross our threshold. Hubby who is scared of needles and refuses to even think of bariatric surgery, is now losing weight just by having switched eating habits. This surgery helped more than just me, it helped my whole family!
Thanks both of you. I've noticed one thing over my years here on Earth. If you give into the crap you wallow in crap. If you pick yourself up and just say ok it happened, now lets just dust ourselves off and go forward, you get through things easier. I personally am too stubborn to let something else run my life. I want the control not some other event. I know I wouldn't make a gambler since I am to cheap to put the money out to gamble. I would make a horrible drug addict because I forget to take the darn stuff. Insurance companies cower when I call, since I will win out against them. I may not win everytime when the crap happens, but my average is very very high. Attitude plays the most important part of life. This surgery we elect to go through is not easy. We have all gotten here due to one reason or another. We al had the courage to face the need to be proactive. It is not a miracle cure. We still have to work at it. We definately have to work at it long term since we can and will gain the weight back if we do no****ch what we eat. This is a major jump start with a new tool to allow us to feel good about ourselves. I've read profiles of people who have only lost 80 pounds the first year to those who have lost nearly 200. We are all different. We all have lost though. To me being a loser is a good thing. Take the steps, follow the path, stay strong, know that you are making it into the rhelm of good health, and as a by product good looks again. We are all beautiful people, we just have to allow ourselves to feel it in our heads.
To think the nurse practitioner at my orginal surgeons ofice thought I had a rotten attitude. She even changed my psych evaluation without the psychiatrist knowing and submitted it in the chnaged form to the insurance company. That nurse has done more to hurt us than any of the bad feelings we develop about ourselves. To this date She is still dealing with patients. When you encounter one such as her, don't silently take it. Get in their faces and stand up for yourselves, and if you need help, call on the pit bull here and I will help you.
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