Surgery 04.27.06 -- update 7 years later
Hello All
I noticed it's very very quiet around here, and just wanted to stop in and say hello and let you know how I am doing, 7 years later. I've had some direct health problems as a result of the surgery specifically the fact that I do not absorb iron so I had to have iron transfusions, and will for the rest of my life. I gained a little with emotional issues because that's my "comfort", and boy, i've had a lot of them in my short time here. The most heart breaking of all is that mixed in with an amazingly happy occasion, which was that my husband and I bought our first home together, I then find out my beautiful older sister has terminal lung and brain cancer. She has stage IV lung cancer that metastasized into her brain and turned into Stage IV brain cancer. Her cancer is terminal, not treatable and not curable. The doctors can give her "palliative" care to ease her pain, but, that's it. I never learned how to cope with difficult situations without using food prior to surgery, and that was my downfall after surgery. I have used other ways to cope that are not healthy, but, not food. Because I have this unnatural fear of being who I was before....
anyways that's me -- I had a car accident(s), severe ones, one seizure, iron transfusions, I am back in my size 10's and can get into my size 8's...and 12's are easy.
good luck!
