Re: Yesterday

[Guest guest]

Oh those days of nausea. Yuk. I remember even regretting the surgery at first.

That ended quickly though. Im so thankful for it. Especially now that I am

losing again from excercise and eating good- one day I week I eat whatever

doesnt bite back. Anyway- I digress. Im so glad her mom is getting through it

and she is so lucky to have Jo taking care of her. What an angel she is.

I hope everyone there is doing better. It isnt a fun time but so worth it in

the end. My prayers for all of them.

Thanks for the update,

Vicki

patricia {pat} wrote:

After going to the fair yesterday,senior citizen day[free]

and walking ALL around it WoooHooo!!!!

I went to Delano to see Jo and her mama, Louise was looking

pretty good and was in good sprites[sp]was having a time

with nausey[sp]but drink her whole cup of broth,good girl,

and may or should get to come home today,,,,if she ever

poops...lol

There were other patients there and they all need our prayers,

some are going thru a difficult time and it is not caused from

surgery...Shucks I even need some prayer, and we all know that

I need it...LOL

Have a blessed Weekend and know that you are cared about

Pat

and Vicki Plough -

[Guest guest]

Sharon, you did a great job. You only left out that Steve shared his story

as a part of the meeting. We also found out that is out of the office

and had some surgery. The fairly young gal with the walker that has lost like

200 pds. that sat kind of at the back. I can never remember her name, but I

talked to her and she has had some major problems and could use some prayers

also. They are not related to the DS, but she has had some surgeries that

went wrong and she is on meds for mental problems and it all was not workiing.

Do you know who I am talking about. Her mother died a few months back. Her

hair used to be real gray, but she had it a light brown color last night. Made

her look much better. She looks great and she is so proud of losing the weight

and she had the TT and panni removal this past year and she is so proud of

being able to fit into the pants, whatever size, I don't remember, that she

had on. She said she came because she was feeling so down that she needed to

feel the support of all of us last night. I hope she did.

I had to leave early because of getting my daughter home to bed, but I am

sorry I didn't get to join all of you for dessert wherever. We had fun in the

docs office and at s I thought. Those that didn't come missed out, thats

all I can say.

Pearl

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[Guest guest]

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> Sharon, you did a great job. You only left out that Steve shared his

story as a part of the meeting. We also found out that is out

of the office and had some surgery.

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Thats because we snuck out before Steve got up to share. I am sorry I

missed that tho-

Sharon in Onyx

who hopes Steve posts his story here on the board....hint hint

[Guest guest]

Just the introducing ourselves, how much we have lost, sometimes how we feel

or small stories about ourselves, and newbies or those there for the first

time or waiting on their surgery dates sharing that info. That sort of routine.

Dee adds up how much weight those of us that are there that night have lost

and shares it. It is almost always well over two thousand pounds. It doesn't

seem like much when I say I have lost 145 pounds, but there are some who have

lost a LOT of weight. I believe the most anyone that was there last night

had lost was a little over 200, but I have seen nights when it was over 400

pds. That is one person!!! I remember there was a young black highschool kid

one

time, and he had lost around 350 pounds, I know it was more than I had

weighed at my heaviest, which was 333. I told him, to think I thought I was so

huge and you lost more than I weighed. Now that is impressive. We discuss

whatever questions anyone needs an answer for. Just like on this board. It can

be

anywhere from questions about hair, gas, poop, well, as you can see, it can go

in any direction. That is what we mean by routine. When you have gone to a

lot of them, then the answers and questions kind of become routine. But like

on this board, we are always willing to share our experiences. Each of us have

had our own paths to follow. Some have had it easier than others. We had a

great time visiting in the doctors office before we went to s. You never

know who you will run into and the great thing is we all share the common

DS, so we have that to draw us together. I have been at meetings where we saw,

in fact I have been the one that asked to see movies of actual surgeries. For

some that is a little gory, for me it was way interesting. I wanted to see

movies of some of the plastics he had done. He has all kinds of things like

that that he will share if people want to see it. So each meeting is different

and you never know what to expect, but there is the " usual " . Getting to know

each other, sharing stories about things that have gone on in our lives

recently. Two guys recently went to Italy and told of what it was like, the one

to

meet his Italian family and them constantly trying to get him to drink wine.

He of course knew as a DS we can't, or shouldn't drink. So he only took very

very small amount of wine.

Thats all. Pearl

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[Guest guest]

For us, the out of towners, would you please describe what the usual stuff is. I

got the poop part, but thought there might be something useful for us to know.

LOL

Blessings,

Have faith. You must think you are not forgotten, that something is happening

for you. That we hold you in the palm of our hand, will not falter, nor will we

ever let you go.

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Pearl,

Thanks for the information. The meeting sounds very much like Dr. 's which

I attend here in Atlanta. I can't wait until the 13th November when I get to

attend one of Dr. K's. I am very excited about that.

Blessings,

Have faith. You must think you are not forgotten, that something is happening

for you. That we hold you in the palm of our hand, will not falter, nor will we

ever let you go.

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Oh Pat- I am so sorry you went through that. I hear that is awful and pray I

never go through it. I hope you are ok and never have to go through that again.

DId they say they just pass? Its amazing how something so small can cause such

trouble.

Healing hugs-

Vicki

patricia {pat} wrote:

I just want you all to know that I had a day ysterday

from hell, yep I said hell. Started around 9-10 in the

morning, had such horrible pains in the right part of my

body starting up by my breast bone and down around the bottom

of my ribs to my back...NEVER had this kind of pain.Pooped,

farted and had dry heaves with burping, felt better, then

around 3 it started again so bad that I called Dee,took her

advice and went to urgent care at 3:30, sat there until

6 pm and by that time the pain had went completly away, but

stayed...After Michell I got scared about the bowles,they

did a urine test and it is kidney stones.

Dee thanks for calling me back I was able to tell the pa

that I had crystals in the urnine...THAT IS WHY YOU GET

YOUR LABS DONE WHEN YOU GET THE SLIP FOR DR.K

I now am going to make a appt with my pc for a ct scan

and see what it says....

I don't want to go thu that kind of pain again, reminded

of my gall bladder attacks.

Tell us about the meeting tonite Jo

God bless,

Pat

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Hi Lilly!!!!!!!!!!

v-

Marta Spaeth wrote:

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Re: yesterday

>After Michell I got scared about the bowles,they

>did a urine test and it is kidney stones.

Pat,

I know what you mean. You're talking to a walking " gravel pit " here,

according to my latest c/t scan. At least that's what my PCP tells me, I

don't have a few stones, I have the whole gravel pit inside my kidneys.

;-)) And I'm passing an average of two smaller stones a day right now.

I'm so used to the process I don't even feel that uncomfortable unless it's

a monster stone, about three times the size of a grape seed. Even then,

with a little help form Toradyl and an anti-nausa drug, I can usually

handle the pain without a trip to the e/r.

Jerry