wow. i'm sorry to hear about your week. REST and take it easy. I agree- i think you should not go to wor****il you feel even better.. hello- you were just in the hospital.. take care of yourself... thoughts and prayers going out for you jennifer

Last week Monday I was feeling great, did a liquid diet to try and get back on track ... again! Tuesday morning I wake up with stomach cramps and bloating, it hurts, but I can handle it. Get ready for work and still complaining about cramps, so hubby suggests I take some Pepto cuz maybe I have so gas bubbles stuck from the liquid diet on Monday. Get to work and it's getting worse. Someone at work suggests calling my PCP (knowing I had gastric cuz maybe it's related). I call my doc and and she said she doesn't want to see me, I need to go to the ER ... immediately! Ugh, I'm mad cuz I hate being sick and I hate going to the hospital. So, my boss take me since my doc told me I'm not allowed to drive. Hubby meets us there at 9am Tuesday morning. Take cat scan and x-rays AND ... my appendix is inflamed and has to come out! You have got to be kidding me! So they move me to a private room around 3pm (I'm starving and soooo thirsty by then cuz I haven't had anything to eat since Sunday and nothing to drink by 8am Tuesday morning)! They are trying to fit me in for surgery. I finally get in around 7:30am and they did the surgery by lap ... damnit, I should have had WLS by lap, although it still hurts, great scars and not so bad. N e ways, wake up and it feels like I can't breath my throat hurts so bad and my mouth is INCREDIBLY dry. They finally give me some ice chips ... best thing I ever tasted!!!! The pain meds they were giving me was making me itch and wasn't really working so I had to keep on calling them after I press the button for them to give me additional meds! Tuesday night and Wednesday morning was a blur. Finally one of the nurses brought me some Perkiset (sp?) but since I had't eaten in more than two days, she gave me a couple of crackers so the medicine won't burn my stomach ... loved, loved, loved the crackers. That's all I ate until Thursday cuz for some reason I was just craving it. So except forlow blood pressure, I got released Wednesday afternoon and hopefully I can go back to work tomorrow. Still really swollen and actually picked up 10lbs, but eating normally again and feeling better! What a week!!!!! Really didn't think I would have surgery again other than PS!

Thank you, Andrea: Dx from the Men's board suggested requesting the surgeon's notes from the hospital. They supposedly detail the specifics of the surgery and are more difficult to fudge. We'll see. Dave

Ok just thinking about doing this makes me double over in pain. Come on there is no way this guy could pass the psych eval for WLS.

Today I'm at 190.5, so down 129.5 pounds. New Sunday low. Start was 320 Goal is 150 Yesterday I played at demolition. My niece bought a house. Prior owner had put drywall in the basement and false floors. The floors were rotting and some mold in the basement walls. So spent hours helping rip them out. My excercise for the day.