BESS has got to go!!

So.........my 12 year old daughter and I were out clothes shopping.  I picked up a top I liked and checked out the elasticity of the hip area.  My daughter asked why.  I explained that since the surgery I still have the extra skin and I have to accomodate that when I buy clothing so I can camoflauge it.  She asks.............so you mean you're kinda saggy like an elephant or a Shar-Pei?  I said yes.  We moved on.  When I checked out the next shirt she watched me check the hip area for length and asked if it was the cover the "Saggy Baggy Elephant Syndrome".  (She wasn't being mean.  Just making a joke.)  I said yes.  Well at the next shirt I'm checking the length and she looks at me and says........."The first letters of Saggy Baggy Elephant Syndrome are SBES.  If you mix them up you get BESS.  We can just call it Bess."  Well all I've got to say is when the extra skin acquires it's own name it's time for it to go!!  lol Besides all that I did go see the dietician and the surgeon who did my RNY yesterday.  The dietician didn't change anything I was doing.  I'd lost 15 pounds since Feb. 4 so she said what I was doing was working great.  I go back in two weeks to keep me accountable until it all becomes routine again. The surgeon said my blood work all came back great which surprised him since I hadn't been eating right or taking any of my vitamins for over a year.  So no new meds added.  We also discussed my primary care physican.  She goes by that stupid height/weight chart that says for my height I'm supposed to weigh 115.  She says 130 is the max she would settle for.  She was giving me a complex.  Everytime I saw her she would say I needed to lose more weight.........even when I was at the lowest I ever reached.  But she would also tell me not to tell the surgeon that she was urging me to lose more.  I told him yesterday.  He says I am not built to weigh that.  If I got down to that I would health issues from weighing too little.  He's writing her a letter to tell her to back off.  I might be a little more understanding if I'd gone off and done the WSL surgery on my own but this is the surgeon she referred me to.  So why is she questioning his knowledge?  Anyway...........the surgeon and I also discussed a tummy tuck.  He wants me to go ahead and start the paperwork process now since there are letters and what not that have to be sent to insurance to try to get them to pay for part of it.  I'll be researching the two plastic surgeons he suggested over the next few days.   That's my update.  Hope everyone is doing well. 

Hi Dawn, I never thought of naming extra skin, haha, that's pretty funny.   Great job with the blood work!!  I wish I didn't have to take all the vitamins I am on, haha.   That's really interesting about what your dietician has said to you, I don't think  I would feel very comfortable with my dietician telling me not to tell my surgeon information... that sounds really sneaky and wrong.  I believe that your nutritional staff and surgeon staff need to be a team and work together to the same goals for patients.   I hope that you aren't pressured anymore by your dietician.... You are doing a great job! And your surgeon backs you up, which is WONDERFUL!!!   Great job and keep up the great work!  Whoo Hoo for shopping for new clothes! ~Shannon

Thanks Shannon My dietician is great.  She isn't the one telling me not to tell the surgeon what she said.  It's my primary care physican.  She keeps telling me to lose more........based on that ridiculous height/ideal weight scale.  When I told her that the surgeon did not agree with that chart and gave me a different goal weight she said "Well then just don't tell him what I said.".  So now the surgeon is writing a letter to my PCP to tell her to back off the nagging.  He knows better than her what my goal weight should be.

That's funny...your daughter sounds witty...hafta laugh! It's great that you have a surgeon that is so supportive. The last thing you need is to have a pcp giving you a complex, have you thought about changing dr's maybe ? Wow! Definately something to look forward to & help motivate you (getting a tt) How exciting ! Take care