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Hello everybody,
Well I've just had my 2 year anniversary and OH mailed me urging me to update - but although there's only a couple of you left who even look on the uk board, this is the only place I felt like posting.
No proper piccies I'm afraid, cos if I waited till I sorted that, then I'd never end up posting, I'll pop on a new profile pic though. Well I still have a stone to lose, but I'm kinda really happy where I am, I wear a size 12-14 and weigh 11 1/2 stone, give or take a couple of pounds fluctuation, and I seem to maintain this without much effort. I could really do with a tummy tuck, lipo and a boob job, but its only what I expected it all to be like. Anyhow, good underwear works wonders, I have no real inclination to get them done even if I did have money, I'm still kind of in awe at how much better I look and how much more weight I lost than I expected - and if I'm brutally honest, I have ended up with a great pair of legs, and a short(ish) skirt draws the eye away lol! Sounds like I think a lot of myself, I really don't, I'm just impressed with the change.
My real news is that I've had a lucky brush with my health - shock horror. At the beginning of December I started getting stomach pains whilst at work (I'm a classroom assistant) I got myself a lift home and crawled straight into bed thinking I had picked one of the sickness bugs flying round the school. But within 2 hours of my first cramps, things had gone so drastically downhill that I was rushed into hospital in an ambulance with severe abdominal pain.
A&E were pretty useless, I was not in a fit state to go into big explanations, I managed to tell them where my pain was, when it started and also that I'd had a stomach bypass. Shockingly, they didn't know the difference between a bypass and a band and therefore didn't really get the implications, and more shockingly couldn't understand my x-ray, they actually had to come back and ask!! Anyhow, it turned out, I had a twisted small bowel. It is often caused by scar tissue growing and kind of sticking together, probably from the WLS. It was also on a part of my unused intestines, and therefore went longer unnoticed, which, in turn, meant it had turned gangrenous and I was rotting from the inside out. The pain was caused by this rupturing and the infection entering my system - gross I know.
I was very lucky they caught it in time, as my condition was extremely life threatening. They opened me up (I have a 10ins scar to show for it) and I underwent major surgery to remove the offending beast, they put me back together and I'm now fixed (sounds simple huh?). I'm now 9 weeks out, and still finishing off my recovery, things are pretty much back to normal as far as energy goes, and my bypass is back to doing its job as before - if I give it a chance
. I am still not able to excercise and I clearly still have a lot of internal healing to do, as it still gives me discomfort and pains - not so much food and internal workings so much as muscular and healing pains.
As I have relied on excercise to keep my weight steady I have really needed to take care with food, however as a former food addict, I have filled the time I used to excercise in, with bad eating habits, so I am now gonna have to make a huge effort to get back on track. Luckily I had lost a lot of weight with the whole saga, so I had that to buffer the eating effect, and I am now the same weight as before it all went on - I just have to make sure I don't go beyond that!!!
Well I feel like I've rambled on enough for now. I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas, and that the new year brings you some of what you are after ;0)
Well I've just had my 2 year anniversary and OH mailed me urging me to update - but although there's only a couple of you left who even look on the uk board, this is the only place I felt like posting.
No proper piccies I'm afraid, cos if I waited till I sorted that, then I'd never end up posting, I'll pop on a new profile pic though. Well I still have a stone to lose, but I'm kinda really happy where I am, I wear a size 12-14 and weigh 11 1/2 stone, give or take a couple of pounds fluctuation, and I seem to maintain this without much effort. I could really do with a tummy tuck, lipo and a boob job, but its only what I expected it all to be like. Anyhow, good underwear works wonders, I have no real inclination to get them done even if I did have money, I'm still kind of in awe at how much better I look and how much more weight I lost than I expected - and if I'm brutally honest, I have ended up with a great pair of legs, and a short(ish) skirt draws the eye away lol! Sounds like I think a lot of myself, I really don't, I'm just impressed with the change.
My real news is that I've had a lucky brush with my health - shock horror. At the beginning of December I started getting stomach pains whilst at work (I'm a classroom assistant) I got myself a lift home and crawled straight into bed thinking I had picked one of the sickness bugs flying round the school. But within 2 hours of my first cramps, things had gone so drastically downhill that I was rushed into hospital in an ambulance with severe abdominal pain.
A&E were pretty useless, I was not in a fit state to go into big explanations, I managed to tell them where my pain was, when it started and also that I'd had a stomach bypass. Shockingly, they didn't know the difference between a bypass and a band and therefore didn't really get the implications, and more shockingly couldn't understand my x-ray, they actually had to come back and ask!! Anyhow, it turned out, I had a twisted small bowel. It is often caused by scar tissue growing and kind of sticking together, probably from the WLS. It was also on a part of my unused intestines, and therefore went longer unnoticed, which, in turn, meant it had turned gangrenous and I was rotting from the inside out. The pain was caused by this rupturing and the infection entering my system - gross I know.
I was very lucky they caught it in time, as my condition was extremely life threatening. They opened me up (I have a 10ins scar to show for it) and I underwent major surgery to remove the offending beast, they put me back together and I'm now fixed (sounds simple huh?). I'm now 9 weeks out, and still finishing off my recovery, things are pretty much back to normal as far as energy goes, and my bypass is back to doing its job as before - if I give it a chance
. I am still not able to excercise and I clearly still have a lot of internal healing to do, as it still gives me discomfort and pains - not so much food and internal workings so much as muscular and healing pains.As I have relied on excercise to keep my weight steady I have really needed to take care with food, however as a former food addict, I have filled the time I used to excercise in, with bad eating habits, so I am now gonna have to make a huge effort to get back on track. Luckily I had lost a lot of weight with the whole saga, so I had that to buffer the eating effect, and I am now the same weight as before it all went on - I just have to make sure I don't go beyond that!!!
Well I feel like I've rambled on enough for now. I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas, and that the new year brings you some of what you are after ;0)
Hi there. 
Sorry to hear about your troubles, but glad that you're on the mend. Great profile pic!!
I'll post my 2 year progress report soon, but not until later in the month. I'm off on another painting course this weekend, so should come back excited and with some new skills...
The board seems to be very quiet all over, but it would be better if there were more regular posters. Will write some more after my course!
Sorry to hear about your troubles, but glad that you're on the mend. Great profile pic!!
I'll post my 2 year progress report soon, but not until later in the month. I'm off on another painting course this weekend, so should come back excited and with some new skills...
The board seems to be very quiet all over, but it would be better if there were more regular posters. Will write some more after my course!
Binty! How good to hear from you but what a horrible thing to happen to you. Thank Heavens it was caught in time but how alarming that the nhs was clueless about wls!
You have done so well with your loss and look so good!
It is such a shame this group is almost dead! It was good while it lasted!
Kate
You have done so well with your loss and look so good!
It is such a shame this group is almost dead! It was good while it lasted!
Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
please 
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