If you don't want to take iron....just do what I did

Soooo......... I was lying on the couch--chatting with the hubby  passing time when I for some reason happened to look up at our living room ceiling.  I immediately exclaimed, "honey, what IS that on our ceiling?"  Don's a fairly tall (5'11) as well as knowledgeable guy to have around the house, so I figured he would be able to exactly pinpoint what type of mold/bacteria that all of a sudden had infilitrated our livingroom ceiling.  My love says "I have NO IDEA?!"  He's stumped....To me it looked like mold, bugs, or maybe even  a really tall 4 year-old broke into our house and mysteriously made multiple dot marks on our ceiling.  *****ally knows?  DH then says it's almost like you shook a protein shake and it sprayed out!  Uh oh!  I immediately start laughing...hysterically.  Only a little over a week out from WLS, the tummy is very sore and it hurts to do this, but I'm out of control.  Hubby says he'd like to get in on the festivities if I could just calm down enough to tell him what is so humorous.  Okay, so when I finally am able to speak, I tell him that last night after he went to bed I was unconciously poking/prodding on my iron pill while watching television.  What the heck is really inside that little brown capsule?!  As my thumbnail jammed into the side of the pill, the liquid oozed faster than lightning!  I looked for evidence on the coffee table, the floor, the television and all the rest of our furniture.   Nothing.  Nada.  Zilch.  I guess that means it was a clear substance, right?  
Okay, so...what can we learn here, folks?  Red is a pretty color?  Well, anyway, we had a good laugh about it.  DH says I had to post on here just to let my OH friends get a big laugh too!  
I hope you find this funny.  I hope it makes sense.  I tried to copy/paste a pic. of our "iron ceiling", but for some reason it wouldn't paste...I followed directions on the site?  If anyone wants to see, I'd be glad to email it to you...or come to good ol' Muncietown!  Ha!       
As for me, I'm having up/down moments.  Having trouble getting everything in.  I know I don't regret doing this (I think)...but I"m still at that "stop this train, I wanna get off" stage!  As much as I prepared myself for this surgery, I don't think I could have been possibly prepared for this!  The emotional part is almost as difficult (probably even more so) than the physical.  I hate protein shakes, did I mention that?!  They are horrid....every one that I've tried.  Not only do I feel my tastes changing from day to day, but sometimes from one bite to the next!  This is insane!  I've laughed and cried.  I'm just doing the best I can do...and that's it. 
Thank you to all the wonderful supportive people who are on this site.  Just knowing you are here rooting for us newly post-ops gives me hope.  I have been pretty emotional/not posted a whole lot, but I just want to tell everyone thanks for the support/prayers and all you do!  It really means a lot!   

Christina,

I did have a good laugh over your story.  Of all places for it to go.  I am 7 mos. post op.  I still have the emotional problems.  You can do this.  Keep your chin up and keep going.  I still have trouble with my tastes.  I could eat something today and it will be fine.  Tomorrow I could eat the exact same thing and it will not set right or taste right.  I've learned that's just me right now.

Keep it up.  You can do it.

Carol

OMG Christina, that's hilarious! Thanks for the laugh this morning! Glad you're holding up, I have been thinking/worrying bout you!

Melissa

  Christina... tooooo funny!!! 
Thanks so much for sharing.  I needed that laugh today.

Boy do I understand about the emotional part of this whole journey.  I have been kind of down because I miss that instant gratification of eating.  Seems there isn't much for me to have "fun" with now that eating isn't fun anymore.  Yep, that's right.  Eating isn't fun anymore.  Sometimes that really sucks.  Its odd to think of how much pleasure I used to derive from just eating. I am eating now for nutrition only...sustenance. But isn't that what it should have been all along?  Christina... its going to be tough until we can get it right in our heads that this is how we should have been thinking all along.  Food wasn't supposed to be such a glorious event... our lives shouldn't have revolved around it.  At least that is how it feels to me now. I see so much that I was doing so wrong for so many years. 
But you know what.... we have a secret weapon that we didn't have before... EACH OTHER!!! This whole web site!!!!  We will get through it and we will thrive. 

Christina,

That was great, thanks for the laugh!

It does get better! I promise! I still do on very rare occassion have a spell of something not sitting right, that used to be ok! For the most part I have figured out what I will not handle or try EVER again! LOL! I totally understand about the emotional state, as do so many of us! I found about the 4th-5th week, things seemed like a light switch went off and things seemed to be a bit "brighter"! I had some terrible emotional down falls! I hope that you continue to keep your chin up and know that you made the right decision for you! Things will get easier with time- I know that doesn't make the "right mow, any easier, BUT there is light at the end of the tunnel! Your WOW moments will start accumulating and that too will help with some of the emotions! When you as well as others start to see the changes and know that this IS what YOU have ben waiting for and needing to see, it helps!

Please know that I continue to be here for ya! Call me, anytime! If I am at work, I will give you a call back as soon as I get off, or can! I am thinking of you and can't wait to see and share your WOW's with ya! Hugz Dawn

That is so funny.  Just a word of caution, if you find the need to take omega capsules, don't cut the tip off and drink it.  I thought I'd try that as I need to take them, but the capsules are just too big.  BAAAADDDDD Idea!  Really BBBBAAAADDDD!!

Being nearly 4 months Post-OP I am struggling emotionally, and with the whole taking my time to eat thing. I forget to eat until it is late and then I try to hurry up and eat, so I might have time to get another meal in later, but then I am miserable from eating too fast that I can't even think about eating again later.

It just takes time and daily effort, after all this is meant to be a lifestyle change, and not a diet, so I just keep plugging along, and know that the end results will be far great than the struggles I endure along the journey.

Blessing for a healthy new year!

 

I just wish I would have taken Iron to begin with.....ugh.  Now my iron pills are the size of a compact  car.  They are filled with brown powder.  I am sure this powder is disgusting.  I THOUGHT I was going to try to put it in something and eat it.  Then when I saw it....I decided maybe not.  I'll just take the capsule.

The beginning was rough for me, as you know.  Then it got a lot better....and now the holidays have been hard.  I think we all hope that in another year or so this will all be a little easier.  IF not, you will see me chained to St. V's on the news!!!!  I'll be the one screaming for someone to bring me brownies!!!

Thanks all for the feedback...if you want to see the ceiling, I managed to upload it on to my profile.  What a hoot!