Life has truley changed now!!!
Well I have not posted in a while now. Guess it is time. I had emergency surgery a couple weeks ago. The herniated intestine that University Hospital said I did not have, almost ruptured. Had to call an ambulance and all. University has been putting me off since last November on making a decision on what is wrong with me. NO one took accountability for my care and just kept bouncing me from Dr to Dr there. With no follow through or follow up whit me. If it was not for my Gastric Bypass surgeon Dr Tillquest and CJ his nurse I would have probably died. He took one look from a fax of the er tests and I was in surgery the next morning. University said for me to wait 3 or 4 weeks till they can FIT me into an appointment and that I had no herniation. When DR T went in he found it and fixed it. I could have died. ALLLLLLL the abdominal pain is gone now. Well almost all. Having a hysterectomy in 2 weeks. But all that gastric pain I have been complaining about for the last year is GONE!!!!! Thank God for Dr T. He has all ways been there for me and proved it yet again. For the last year I have reserved myself to just having pretty bad pain every time I eat. Well I now do not. Do not mean to just carry on but that horrible pain is gone now. I am down -220 pounds in 15 months. Yea WOWW I still can not believe it as well. I look in a mirror and do not see the new me still. I see what I us to be. Though it is getting better. I can go to a mall now and find something to fit me in just about any store I walk in. I can not remember the last time I was able to do that. And yet for another goal I (HAD) I can fit quiet comfortably in a bathtub now. Before I could not even fit in one. As well as I am partially out of the wheel chair now. Started walking minimal in January this year. Lost enough weight then I could start. Had a knee replacement 3 and a half months ago. VERY hard recovery but then that is not new for me. ALL recovered now. I CAN WALK NOW!!!!! and with barley a gimp. That is only there when my other medical issues flair and the pain flairs. Which is quiet often but nothing like it us to be. I finally gave into my GP a couple months ago and agreed to take time released morphine. Well 15 mg 2 times a day has soooo made my pain levels more controllable. It does not dope me up in any way. Probably because I have been on pain meds for so long, I have a high tolerance to them now. But the end product is I am down 220 pounds and walking again. I am getting there step by step. And I thank Dr Tillquest for his awesome and professional care of me. For years I was turned down by all the gastric bypass surgeons here in the Springs because of all my medical issues. Right now I have no doubt I would have died by now if I did not get the bypass. I was sooo sick 15 months ago and could barley move. I was 463 pounds. Last night I went out with some friends to a club. Some old friends of mine from Denver that had not seen me in like 3 or 4 years was there as well. I stopped going to Denver when I got so big. One of them said WOWO you have lost a lot of weight. Well most of them did ;o) I had such a good time with them. I just might start going back to Denver to the clubs again. Someone I usto date a while ago was sooo hitting on me. But I know him too well and I have no interest in him. YES I am getting hit on again!!!!
Not everything is roses but I am getting there one step at a time. I still need nuro surgery on my spine in my neck. I can walk now under the understanding that if I fall I can sever or damage my spinal cord. SO yes I still am in the electric wheelchair. I only walk, when I only walk a very short distance, then sit down where ever I am going. Pretty much glue my butt there till I leave :o) But the nuro surgery truly scares the crap out of me. I do not recover from surgery's well and if there is a small percentage of a complication I get them. Read all my profile and you will see. SO I only walk for certain things. BUT when I do walk I do not have the kind of pain I usto have. Between the knee replacement, weight loss and pain meds I walk quiet well now. Good with the bad, one day at a time. Wish me luck with the hysterectomy on the 20th. Enough rambling for now. Have a good day my friends with the same problems in life I have. As well as the same understanding OF life I have.
Kathy
We are what we eat. We are who we be to ourselves. You will be who you are by your actions. What we do is who we are. DO you like what you see?
