I'm home with half of a switch!
Hi, I have Dr. K also and My surgery is scheduled for Sept 20th ... I am just curious as to why it will be in two parts for you. If you don't want to say that is fine I am just so nervous and he did say that could happen but I guess I just want to know what I could do to avoid what happened?
Hugs. Kerri~
Hugs. Kerri~
No, as I said - it's nothing he or I did... he just made the safest decision for me and I'm grateful. It's not his usual decision to split the surgery into 2 parts so if that's the course he takes, you know it's for good reason. Of course it can happen - but either way, you're in good hands!
Best,
Sherry
Best,
Sherry
Sending gentle hugs your way, Sherry. Take one step at time.
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DS on Aug 9, 2007 with Dr. Hazem Elariny
Thank you everyone for all of the wishes... I wish I was sitting here with a full DS but I'm grateful that the time that I'm "waiting" won't continue to be time with no results as the past 4 years have been. I've been perusing some VSG boards some (yes, I'm cheating on you all) trying to suss out what the nutritional requirements / allowances are going to be as time progresses... and I'm curious as to how much weight I can lose in how much time. I really, really don't want to wait a year for part II of this surgery, and I don't want to lose so much that I'm no longer insurance eligible... but I'm happy to report my blood sugars have been btwn 103 and 130 ever since I got home which are numbers I haven't seen since pre-diabetes.
For now I have the liquid diet but I can tell I'm healing quite well... I'm able to swallow more at a time and the acid and gas seems to be all but gone. The Lortab has been a huge relief although the dreams I've had are ridiculously strange!
I really thought giving up the Diet Coke would just about kill me but to be honest, the day after we got home from the hospital - we stirred a CF Diet Coke up really well and let it sit and I never touched it... it didn't seem enough of the bubbles would be gone, and I smelled it and it really didn't smell worth the risk to me. Of course I say that, but a friend of mine told me that she knows someone who had a TACO as soon as she got home from RNY surgery (24 hour release)... she told herself if she smashed it up real small it would be fine :-O what a foolish risk! I guess it's just the mentality though, did you do this thinking it was a magic bullet or did you do this to help you to make positive changes. We'll see where she's at in a couple years.
Court (sentencing) is in a month, and I'm hoping that I can walk in instead of using a wheelchair, and I have Spanx that I bought last year that I've never used yet... I'm thinking some weight loss might make it okay but we'll see.
Thanks again ♥ I'm grateful for what I've got, it's a lot better than where I was last week!
Best,
Sherry
For now I have the liquid diet but I can tell I'm healing quite well... I'm able to swallow more at a time and the acid and gas seems to be all but gone. The Lortab has been a huge relief although the dreams I've had are ridiculously strange!
I really thought giving up the Diet Coke would just about kill me but to be honest, the day after we got home from the hospital - we stirred a CF Diet Coke up really well and let it sit and I never touched it... it didn't seem enough of the bubbles would be gone, and I smelled it and it really didn't smell worth the risk to me. Of course I say that, but a friend of mine told me that she knows someone who had a TACO as soon as she got home from RNY surgery (24 hour release)... she told herself if she smashed it up real small it would be fine :-O what a foolish risk! I guess it's just the mentality though, did you do this thinking it was a magic bullet or did you do this to help you to make positive changes. We'll see where she's at in a couple years.
Court (sentencing) is in a month, and I'm hoping that I can walk in instead of using a wheelchair, and I have Spanx that I bought last year that I've never used yet... I'm thinking some weight loss might make it okay but we'll see.
Thanks again ♥ I'm grateful for what I've got, it's a lot better than where I was last week!
Best,
Sherry
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