please come to our party

i know, i'm late, as I have been with everything for 2 years.

Tomorrow Don is 65. Scares the daylight out of both of us. Our staff has decided to help him forget by having sort of an open house all day, 8am to 7PM.

they elected to have a pasta bar, but including salad and at least 1 low carb pasta.

I realize it's a bit late for Liz 'n Charles 'n Gina to get here. But I did want to issue forth the invitation!

Both of us are spending more time and doc offices and testing. Coupla of hints: don't break your neck, then follow up with a fall of an RV roof. Damage that didn't happen that day can suddenly kick in later. I'm pretty sure one cannot "unfall", especially twice.

In my case, the thing that nearly killed me was a med! Fixed now. Most of my clothes fit again! There's a certain panic in not being able to zip my jeans, but I have to keep reminding myself that it is OK to not be able to zip the same size jeans as my 9 y/o grand daughter!

Let me say this again. The illness tha's kept me away so long CANNOT HAPPEN TO YOU. Unless my parents had other kids they didn't mention. These things have nothing to do with my WLS or my TYPE of WLS. In fact, it probably saved me from being in big trouble because they were caught in routine labs.

I really, really want us all to get full labs every 6 months. FOR LIFE. If you need to tweak, you need to check back to see if you tweaked too much, not enough, and how that change affected all the other numbers. Say you adjusted your vit D. What happened to your calcium and PTH? Important to see how everything fits together. We can't count on our docs to do this. My endo wants me D at 50! The lab he uses has a range of 20-50/ He's not interested in the bazillion studies that were hatched since 2007.

Anyway, the 6 monthly labs picked up some genetic issues, 2 of which killed my parents. One each. I've had a coupla things, diagnosed in the 80's, only one of which is monitored by lab work. But having identifiied it back in 1980, my age 30, no reason to check more often than annually, right?

That's where the WLS came in. 6 months nailed the newer issues while watching the old one. I make lousy blood cells. So did my dad. I've tried for 9 yrs to fix it nutritionally, which makes my hema roll his eyes, and he's right. I can't fix it. Any of them.

if you are local to m, please try to pop in tomorrow. love to see you. we could swap labs, but some of mine would make your hair stand on end. LOL But if *I* can control and element, it is a thing of great beauty!

Sorry I can't drop by, but wanted to wish Don a very Happy Birthday!   - Jenny 

 

It's great to see you!  

Happy birthday to Don.     Making all kinds of nifty good wishes for you both.

--gina

Happy Birthday to Don! And glad you are feeling better.

Happy Birthday, Don!

Michelle, unfortunately Charles & I can't make it...not this year anyway. Please give Don a hug from us and wish him a Happy Birthday.

Sorry I can't make it, I'm in the wrong continent It's great to see *you* post and I wish Don a happy birthday.

Thanks for the pointer on 6 monthly labs. I think I'll be able to swing it. Annual labs did seem like a scary idea (was meant to be annual after my surgiversary in July).

*Edited coz I didn't notice the autocorrect on my new phone!!!

Have a wonderful 65th birthday Don!  Make a wish!