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aand really cracked me up:

Just hit 291 lb, which is 132KG for the metric amongst us (there are americans involved here :P)

Check out the weightloss graph.

This pic is from the day my daughter was born. At the time I was about 200kg.

Just to give you an idea:

I had my final baryium test, to determine whether I still had any leaks in my stomach. As I mentioned in my previous post when they removed the stents they thought they had detected a leak. So.. there are no leaks.. I am NORMAL!!!

Couple of things I have discovered:

1. I can eat bread, whole grain in small quantities.

2. I can eat pasta.

3. I cant eat potato in anything but miniscule quantities.

4. I still sneeze when I cough.

5. Its great sleeping in a bed rather than a recliner.

I havent lost any more weight for a couple of weeks, I am guessing its because I am able to eat more food, and I have been exercising, so some of the muscle I lost in hospital is being replaced.

I thought I would put my new measurements up for interests sake:

…………..Pre-surgery         =>       post surgery  = Loss to Date (cm’s)

Neck:          51                       =>               46             = 5cm

Wrist:         20.5                   =>               18.5         = 2cm

Bicep:         45.5                   =>                40            = 5.5cm

Stomach:    153                    =>                133          = 20cm

Chest:          153                    =>                135          = 18cm

Starting Weight: 205KG

Current Weight: 137KG

made myself a kind of smoothie today… its better, i hvae at least a little energy now..

vomited last night though – although that was because I had to go fox a pc for an old retired guy who was desperate. It was just a bit too much for me.

note though:

Weight when journey started: 205KG (450lb)

Current weight: 150 KG (350lb)

Well here’s the story so far.  After the surgery when I got home I was finding it hard to sleep, there was this pain in my chest and shoulder.  on Monday morning I went to my GP and he didn’t know what the pain was, but referred me to Middlemore after I nearly collapsed on the floor.

Every bump or movement on the way to the hospital was excruciating.  Got to Middlemore, then to a ward.  No one seemed to know what was wrong.  Went off for tests, xrays, etc and eventually got some painkillers, however, by now the painkillers only barely dulled the pain.

Once in the ward they decided I needed morphine.  At one point they had given me the maximum dosage and they said “what’s your pain level now?”  – I said well the shoulder and the stomach are ok, but my chest is 9 or higher.  The nurse responded with “oh dear, this is serious.”  I’m thinking “sheesh this IS serious when 6-8 gm morphine can’t dull the pain.

Early in the morning (I think) I was taken off for a CT scan.  I drand some metallic fluid and then they scanned me.  They quickly determined that there was fluid/gas leaking from the staples into my abdomen.  So next day they took me to gastro where I was put under, tubes shoved down my throat.  They put in a thing called a “stent” to plug up the hole.  Unfortunately I came around before they had finished, which traumatised me somewhat.

The next step then is to wait for the stent to bed in (note: I haven’t eaten since the original sergery).  They determined 5 days should be long enough, the day before the test they even let me have clear fluids….FLAVOUR!!!!  The transition test happened, then went “oops” still leaking.  And off back to gastro I went, this time they refused to put me under and I went through 2 hours of procedure while being awake.  TRAUMA!  I though I was going to go insane.

Back to the ward and then another week of pain, no sleep, nil by mouth and waiting, waiting, waiting.

One week later, off to have another test to see if there is leaking 🙁 yes, still a small leak.  My specialist has gone away for 6 months so now I have a new (but very experienced) specialist – Dr H Rahman.

Dr Rahman says that all we can do now is wait.  It wil eventually heal itself.  So all I can do is sit – wait….pray

Yep, finally home.

I realised my problem was that i thought I had to take tiny little sips of fluid and then wait.. but in reality, you can take a reasonable size sip, and then wait.. So.. I had to wait till I had drunk a litre of water before they would let me have solids, and then go home.

So, I am about to go and sit in my chair, have a pot of yogurt, and watch TV!

YAY

I am still a bit tender, and my calves have locked up due to the compression socks I had on… I did alot of walking in hospital, with not much blood flow :S

I’ll take measurements later and see how we are placed for the down hill run.

well in painn but out of bed, movung to ward,and gonna drink some water…peace