Happy Wednesday Morning.....

Good morning everyone....

I am quickly checking in to say hello to everyone.

I just started my prep for my test tomorrow. I thought before the fun begins I would pop in here. I will be checking in as the day goes by and as I can.

I wish you all a lovely day! I love you all!!!!

Prayers for all our OFF Family and their families as well.

Loads of love and bushels of hugs to all...connie d

Good Morning Connie & OFF Family!

So good to see you start this thread, Connie, but I feel for you going thru that prep. I always hate going thru that. For a few years in a row I had to have yearly colonoscopies due to pre-cancerous polyps. It seemed like that prep time rolled around too fast. But it's worth it if they find something. The test itself is nothing. Anyhow, best of luck! Will be thinking of you!

I had my coumidin check this morning. I am so sick of having to have these done monthly or even more frequently! The nurse wants to see me weekly for the next month due to my post-op dietary changes. I don't know if I ever revealed I have an elevator phobia? I avoid them at all costs, and my cardiologist is on the 3rd floor. Ugh!

Well, I 'graduated' to pureed foods this week. I had a hard boiled egg all ground up, and dang if I didn't feel it get kind of stuck! NOT a great feeling. I think I was so excited I ate too fast. Well, at least I know my sleeve is working...lol! My recovery...except for my never-ending fatigue...has been pretty smooth. I asked my surgeon yesterday if he really did the surgery! He laughed, but was glad of my progress. Down 9 pounds since surgery...I will be happy if I lose about 60+ pounds. I need to post some pictures because I am finally noticing the difference...I just couldn't really see it before.

Vickie, so sorry for the emotional day you had at the lake house. But I am glad you got the help you needed to get the majority of the work done.

Trish, you are such a ball of energy! One of the things I think I am going to have to accept is my fatigue is related more to my a-fib than it was to my weight. Losing the weight pre-op made a small dent in it, but not enough to be as functional as I used to be. I am also sure aging has something to do with it, but then most of you are still running at full steam...

Arlene, I would love to be a fly on the wall for one day in your apartment just to see/hear you and your ex interact! Your description of your living situation just continues to crack me up.

I know others posted, but I am at the CRS stage now so I will sign off.

Everyone have a great day!

Kathy, Next time you feel something get stuck...try laying on your LEFT side...it might help it to slide down...also get some PAPAYA pills and chew a couple of them...they help to dissolve the food to help it go down also...little tricks I learned...hope it helps with the sleeve!!!

HUGSSSSSSSS

THANKS JUDY!

Kathy another trick to eating foods again is using BABY spoons...those TINY ones you used when first feeding your baby!!! Also today on a show they said to use your OPPOSITE hand and you will eat slower!! It is hard to try foods again I know...been there done that!!!

HUGSSSSSSS

Kathy: re graduating to pureed foids, doesn't mean whizzing up dry foods...you need moisture to get a puree, so don't try hard boiled egg, try soft boiled....I did soft scrambled egg with milk not butter, to make it sloppy, and as it toughens up when putting in little processor, instead mashed fine with fork and took teaspoonfulls at a time to make sure ate very slowly. I cooked baby spinach and processed in mini food processor with cooking water to make pureed slop ( smelled like cooked cut grass!) no hard dense dry pulverized stuff or will get "stuck". Other Boards mention papaya enzyme to unstick foods, I never needed it. Found eating with teaspoons limited my mouth intake in early month, so never ate fast, never got anything stuck or the "foamies" which happens when we need to vomit ( but can't anymore as nothing to upchuck, just air and bile).

Good luck as you progress to eating denser foods, always pureed into thick sauce at first, or in a paste like peanut butter which melts in your mouth, and chew chew chew chew chew....

hugs

Jen

Hello Jen....I hope all is good with you. You have given some very good advice here.

I agree smaller utensils or even baby spoons and forks help with keeping or eating portions right. I still use smaller forks. Now I need to work on the size of my portions and back to smaller plates.

Love you...HUGS....connie d

Hi Connie: Best of everything as you do the horrible bowel cleanse for colonoscopy...it weakens those stronger than you , so poor you! My new GP decided not to subject me to colonoscopy, gave me a blood test instead called Septin 9, detects colon cancer but not polips, and I came up negative..otherwise would have had hospital OR and general anaesthetic for painful and normally unbearable colonoscopy, the cleanse is nothing compared to excruciating colonoscopy.

Hope if you come up ok this time, next time you can do the blood test, no cleanse or prediet necessary.

Sweetie, hang in there!

jen

Forgot to mention: the blood test for colorectal cancer, called Septin 9, is as accurate as Fecal Occult Blood test requiring you to play in your poop for 3 days with coffee sticks. I prefer the blood test anytime.

Hello Kathy..... No I don't remember you mentioning a elevator phobia before. That would be awful...so sorry about that! There is no way I could walk 3 flights of stairs. I can't hardly do one flight anymore. That would take me a very long time.

I remember my first soft food meal. I went right from the surgeon's office and ordered refined bean, with cheese and a little taco sauce from Taco Bell. My surgeon approved this. I ate them quite often my first couple weeks. I even crave them once in awhile. I had a really hard time eating eggs. Even now sometimes they are hard to get down. Hang in there it does get easier!

Need to go for now.....love you....hugs....connie d