Here's what I just sent to my doctor:

I’m emailing you (albeit a little late) with my last set of labs, this was at 4 months post-op. At the six month point the weight loss is going slowly but surely, I am down to 308 from 384.

My issue with the hernia mesh resolved itself, magically when the insurance company didn’t want to pay for it any longer ( Read more... )

I'm hovering at around 315 right now, and if the pattern continues, this time next month I'll be down another 10 or 15 lbs. and possibly be hitting "twoderland". Someplace I definitely haven't been since I was in my early teens ( Read more... )

Well, here I am a little over 4 months post op - I'm down 70 lbs. from the date of surgery, and down 107 lbs. from where I was last April, and down 188 lbs. from my highest weight ever. So, now at 314, I'm the smallest I've been since high school (I went from 305ish to 335ish in the summer between my sophmore and junior years). It's really evident ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back at home. I'm getting really confused with all the mixed messages I'm getting. The wound care nurse had me thinking I was on death's door, full of infection that would consume me if I didn't have the hernia mesh removed like yesterday ( Read more... )

Well, I'm headed over to the hospital in a few minutes. The wound care nurse came to my house yesterday to pack the wound, and said that if I wait two weeks to have surgery, I'll probably be dead. She said that the whole entire abdomen is infected, and that there is no way that this will heal at all in its current state. She says I should be on ( Read more... )

I'm tired at the moment, so I'm just going to repost what I posted to the Dr. M list - more details later ( Read more... )

I am so damned frustrated. As I may or have not mentioned previously, I developed a seroma by my incision about day 10 post-op. I had it drained three times sucessfully using a syringe (once in my hotel room, twice in the doctors office) before I left Brazil, with the instructions that I follow up with my family doctor on Friday (and probably on ( Read more... )

...bruised, battered and beaten ( Read more... )

Paul here ( Read more... )

Well, it is now the morning of surgery, and I'm happy to say that I'm not even a little bit nervous. The tests over the weekend went smoothly (especially the endoscopy, which I was expecting to be far more difficult/traumatic than it actually was), and everything came out normal (no fistula, yay!) so it's a go for me. Paul caught my cold, and is ( Read more... )