I'm still waiting to hear from surgen to see if accepted and new problems...

have cropped up. My legs and feet have swelled up big time. I gained 15 lbs. in three days. I went to PCP and had a ekg, chest xray, blood sugar checked. My heart is enlarged, and I have very low Iron. Blood sugar was 138 with a finger stick and they redid it by drawing blood and it was 106. I had eaten breakfast so they said that was a good number. Now I know why I have been so tired and want to sleep all the time. I thought it was just my sleep apnea making me tired. I have been off of work for 3 days and my DON (director of nursing) insn't very happy. And it gets better. I'm off for monday too. She doesn't know yet. I go back to PCP monday afternoon. I'm suppose to be a couch potato and keep legs up. My house is a mess and my husband is grumpy. He says to rest but his actions say otherwise. I feel very guilty for doing nothing and he works 12-14 hr days. Oh well why not more stress. I have to take 40 mg of furisomide twice a day and 65 mg of Iron 3 times a day. If the iron pills don't help the PCP was saying we may have to think about a hystrectomy. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ok that helped a little

I'm so sorry that things have been tough for you. Hopefully they will figure out what is wrong and get you healthy. Hang in there, hon. I pray that things will go well and you will get the answers you need. God bless, Andrea

Thanks for the pep talk Andrea. I needed that. Now it seems my blood sugar was 145 yesterday! I have to go back to the pcp in a month to get looked over again and now they need to check back 3 months to see what my blood sugar has been. Its making me crazy! I also read on the paperwork from the Uof I that if you accepted for their clinic you will know 1-3 months cause thats how long it takes to go through their program. If not accepted I will here from them sooner. Every day I dread getting the mail thinking they turned me down. They just have to because I at the end of my rope. At 450 Lbs. I don't have much quality of life. Sorry for venting. I have no one to talk to about this. Cindy