Hey Sweetie, I'm glad to hear you're feeling better. I was so overwhelmed by your last post, that I wasn't even sure how to respond, and I didn't want to accidentally trigger anything, so I stayed quiet, but I'm pouring over your journal anxious for any update.
RE: the skin thing. My mother had a gastric bypass surgery a few years ago. She was in her late 40s, so almost all the elasticity in her skin was gone. Her doctor prescribed lots and lots of shea butter, because it supposedly has the same sort of stuff that her skin was missing. Not retail stuff, like, proper, nothing but shea butter, morning and night. She still has a little sagging in her mid section, but her thighs and arms tightened up fairly well. You're several years younger than she was, so I bet you'll have good results.
Aw, thank you sweetheart. Yeah, it's intense, any wonder why I can't work full time? I've been writing on and off about what it's like to live with diabulimia, I wrote like 10 pages last night just on random thoughts. It's so fucking hard, and I never get a break from it - 24/7 that's what I'm hearing in my mind, it even permeates my dreams.
As for the skin thing, well, I'll deal with it when it becomes a problem I guess. *shrugs* I just don't have too much faith in my body's ability to modify its shape and keep it slimmer.
Thank you for being thoughtful about the trigger thing; and it IS a hard thing to tiptoe around, even for me! It's terribly frustrating and I feel bad that everyone is concerned... but then even *I* am concerned when it gets like that. This is an aspect to diabulimia that I just absolutely hate like poison.
You're such a sweetheart, any wonder why I love you to bits? ^_^
I've got no subtlety and no ability to read people. If I wander near triggers, you'll just have to tell me to back off. But perhaps it's like using a flail-wheel to clear land-mines. Find the triggers and set em off when you're ready for them -- friends nearby. Bull inna china shop, that's me. But sometimes the analogies work. Or maybe they don't. I don't really have a good internal model for how "triggered" diseases work
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I'm glad to hear you're feeling better. I was so overwhelmed by your last post, that I wasn't even sure how to respond, and I didn't want to accidentally trigger anything, so I stayed quiet, but I'm pouring over your journal anxious for any update.
RE: the skin thing. My mother had a gastric bypass surgery a few years ago. She was in her late 40s, so almost all the elasticity in her skin was gone. Her doctor prescribed lots and lots of shea butter, because it supposedly has the same sort of stuff that her skin was missing. Not retail stuff, like, proper, nothing but shea butter, morning and night. She still has a little sagging in her mid section, but her thighs and arms tightened up fairly well. You're several years younger than she was, so I bet you'll have good results.
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As for the skin thing, well, I'll deal with it when it becomes a problem I guess. *shrugs* I just don't have too much faith in my body's ability to modify its shape and keep it slimmer.
Thank you for being thoughtful about the trigger thing; and it IS a hard thing to tiptoe around, even for me! It's terribly frustrating and I feel bad that everyone is concerned... but then even *I* am concerned when it gets like that. This is an aspect to diabulimia that I just absolutely hate like poison.
You're such a sweetheart, any wonder why I love you to bits? ^_^
HUGZ!
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