Update on me
So much has been going on this year for me. I don't even know how to put some of it in words anymore.
My weight loss is fantastic. I have lost 110 lbs and am in a size 16. My physical therapist who works on my back and lately my butt too (darn sciatica 
) comments way to often that I have no fat back there. Me? No fat? huh? That is hard to grasp. He says as well that I have no muscle back there either. Skin then nerve. Friday he was massaging me and ran across my tail bone. I hear him say.. wow. I said that bone is right there isn't it? He said yes it is. I laugh and said, you should try sitting on this thing! IT HURTS! He laughed and said, I guess it would!
I am now weighing 186 lbs. I figure I don't want to weigh less than 160 at my height. And I will get this belly cut off. So what? I would have about 15 lbs more to lose and the rest would be the belly?
Am I almost done already? That is amazing to me.
My energy level is through the roof and I'm feeling great as far as WLS is concerned. I am done to one ulcer and hopefully that will be gone soon.
As long as I take my prevacid religiously that ulcer does not bother me.
After my back surgery, my surgeon has forgotten that I exist. Calls to the office are not satisfactory. Most of the time I can't get a call back. And I am calling because my physical therapist is concerned about the regression in my leg. Even my physical therapist did not get a call bac****il I called their office and gave them the "what for" about it. And their response to him? Wait two weeks let's see what happens.
So I went to my PCP to see if I could get her to be an advocate for me with this surgeon. She basically said that if I, the one paying couldn't get to him, she wouldn't be able to.
She then examined my leg and was shocked at the regression in it. Stated my movement was better before surgery (yup, that was the concern of me and my physical therapist) and she was even more shocked at the atrophy in my right leg. It is now one inch smaller in circumferance than my right leg.
Because, at that time, I was still in the post-operative stage she didn't feel that any other surgeon in Delaware would touch me. So she asked me where I wanted to go.. Philly? Balitmore? I said philly is fine, there's temple and jeff and penn. I asked her which was better. She said they were all good, but that she may have a quick "in" for me in at Temple. She sent me for another MRI which showed post-operative fibrosis and the suspicions of a disc fragment floating around back there. That was on a Wed. One Monday Dr. Wetzel's (of Temple) office called me and wanted to see me the next day. But we had to wait a week so I could get a copy of all the films.
Dr. Wetzel turns out to be a professor of orthopaedic surgery and neuro-surgery at Temple, as well as being a practicing physician. My PCP was his parent's physician. Dr. Wetzel and Dr. Elener appear to have a mutual admiration society going on. Dr. Wetzel was very friendly and personable. So far I've not even had to go through his front desk. I was given his nurse's direct line if I needed anything.
He examined me and ordered a CT Myleogram to ensure there was no more compression of nerves going on. He said if there is, we'll decide what to do or not to do at that time. He was also quick to say that unfortunately, 3 - 4 percent of the people with the problem I had just don't get the leg back.
My physical therapist said on Friday that he expects it to find something wrong. That this regression is just not normal, something has to be happening.
I am scheduled for the CT Myleogram tomorrow. They will mess with nerves so much that I will be at Temple Hospital all day tomorrow. I have to be there at 9. The actual test is at 11. I won't be released until about 3 or 4. I will have to lay completely still for those hours after the test. It will minimize the spinal fluid that will leak out after the small needle punture they will do to the epidural sac surrounding the S1 nerve root. I will not even be able to drive afterwards. And will have to sleep with my head elevated for two days afterwards.
I am not sure what I want or don't want them to find. I am just ready for this all to end. I was digging through a box yesterday and found a book titled "This is Not the Trip I Signed Up For". I am reading it now and hoping to find something that will help me adjust better than I am.
It's been a long year. But overall. I am happier and healthier. I can't complain though, the facts are just the facts.
But I do ask for ya'lls prayers and positive thoughts for my test tomorrow.
On another front.. I'm dating up a storm! I had decided to take 2005 off from dating to adjust to WLS and the changes in me. But dang I got bored 
I hope all is well with each of you.
Love ya!
Gigee
) comments way to often that I have no fat back there. Me? No fat? huh? That is hard to grasp. He says as well that I have no muscle back there either. Skin then nerve. Friday he was massaging me and ran across my tail bone. I hear him say.. wow. I said that bone is right there isn't it? He said yes it is. I laugh and said, you should try sitting on this thing! IT HURTS! He laughed and said, I guess it would!
I am now weighing 186 lbs. I figure I don't want to weigh less than 160 at my height. And I will get this belly cut off. So what? I would have about 15 lbs more to lose and the rest would be the belly?
Am I almost done already? That is amazing to me.
My energy level is through the roof and I'm feeling great as far as WLS is concerned. I am done to one ulcer and hopefully that will be gone soon.
As long as I take my prevacid religiously that ulcer does not bother me.
After my back surgery, my surgeon has forgotten that I exist. Calls to the office are not satisfactory. Most of the time I can't get a call back. And I am calling because my physical therapist is concerned about the regression in my leg. Even my physical therapist did not get a call bac****il I called their office and gave them the "what for" about it. And their response to him? Wait two weeks let's see what happens.
So I went to my PCP to see if I could get her to be an advocate for me with this surgeon. She basically said that if I, the one paying couldn't get to him, she wouldn't be able to.
She then examined my leg and was shocked at the regression in it. Stated my movement was better before surgery (yup, that was the concern of me and my physical therapist) and she was even more shocked at the atrophy in my right leg. It is now one inch smaller in circumferance than my right leg.
Because, at that time, I was still in the post-operative stage she didn't feel that any other surgeon in Delaware would touch me. So she asked me where I wanted to go.. Philly? Balitmore? I said philly is fine, there's temple and jeff and penn. I asked her which was better. She said they were all good, but that she may have a quick "in" for me in at Temple. She sent me for another MRI which showed post-operative fibrosis and the suspicions of a disc fragment floating around back there. That was on a Wed. One Monday Dr. Wetzel's (of Temple) office called me and wanted to see me the next day. But we had to wait a week so I could get a copy of all the films.
Dr. Wetzel turns out to be a professor of orthopaedic surgery and neuro-surgery at Temple, as well as being a practicing physician. My PCP was his parent's physician. Dr. Wetzel and Dr. Elener appear to have a mutual admiration society going on. Dr. Wetzel was very friendly and personable. So far I've not even had to go through his front desk. I was given his nurse's direct line if I needed anything.
He examined me and ordered a CT Myleogram to ensure there was no more compression of nerves going on. He said if there is, we'll decide what to do or not to do at that time. He was also quick to say that unfortunately, 3 - 4 percent of the people with the problem I had just don't get the leg back.
My physical therapist said on Friday that he expects it to find something wrong. That this regression is just not normal, something has to be happening.
I am scheduled for the CT Myleogram tomorrow. They will mess with nerves so much that I will be at Temple Hospital all day tomorrow. I have to be there at 9. The actual test is at 11. I won't be released until about 3 or 4. I will have to lay completely still for those hours after the test. It will minimize the spinal fluid that will leak out after the small needle punture they will do to the epidural sac surrounding the S1 nerve root. I will not even be able to drive afterwards. And will have to sleep with my head elevated for two days afterwards.
I am not sure what I want or don't want them to find. I am just ready for this all to end. I was digging through a box yesterday and found a book titled "This is Not the Trip I Signed Up For". I am reading it now and hoping to find something that will help me adjust better than I am.
It's been a long year. But overall. I am happier and healthier. I can't complain though, the facts are just the facts.
But I do ask for ya'lls prayers and positive thoughts for my test tomorrow.
On another front.. I'm dating up a storm! I had decided to take 2005 off from dating to adjust to WLS and the changes in me. But dang I got bored
I hope all is well with each of you.
Love ya!
Gigee 
WOW girl. I'll keep you in my prayers tomorrow, if you keep me in yours Tuesday. I go to philly to see an orthepedic Dr regarding my knees. I hope he can shoot a needle full of cortosone in each one to fix me up. Congrats on the dating. Just remember to practice "SAFE S_X" please. . Don't need any little ones running around at this time of your life. ((HUGS)) Elissa
. Don't need any little ones running around at this time of your life. ((HUGS)) Elissa 
I will definitely pray for you on Tuesday! Let me know how it turns out!
Gigee 
Gi, hope they can help you and stop this regression and maybe reverse it. My prayers go out to you.
Elissa, same to you with your knees. I have torn/frayed cartiledge in both of mine and work very hard to keep them from getting worse. The cortizone worked wonders for my foot, I hope it does the same for your knees.
Ellen, woooo sexy momma picture! You look 10 years younger! LOVE IT!
Hope to see everyone at the meeting tonight.
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