Thank you so much for your response. I hope your appointment today went well. How do you feel you’ve been doing through this whole thing?
Just a little info on me:
52 year old, 5’7”female. Heaviest weight was 248, day of surgery was 228 and now I’m 218. I had been weighing myself everyday (big mistake, I know) and I was down to 217, then I gained 2 pounds and went into a mental spiral. I haven’t cried this much in 20 years! I feel like I wasn’t really warned about this, how about you? I was prepared for the pre and post op as far as getting everything I would need. (Protein drinks, flavor for water, broth, and heating pad, but wish I knew about having gas-X!). But the emotional challenge has been worse than the healing. the program I’m in, doesn’t seem to deal with the emotional side of this, which I thought I would be fine with. I had one appointment with psychology and was cleared by them with no further appointments needed. So I thought I would be ok. But I am having problems and I can’t get into seeing someone for about 3 weeks. So I am grateful for you answering my post. I hope you are doing well, but if you’re not, please let me know. I think having a support group ( or person) outside of family, can be helpful. I’m lucky in that I have a supportive husband and grown kids, but they haven’t gone through this and they don’t understand the loss you feel. They can’t understand how hard it is not to eat real food for the week before and two /four weeks after the surgery.
Sorry about the rambling, it’s nice to meet someone who knows what I’m going through.
Please contact me anytime and I’ll try to get back to you as soon as possible.
Best of luck with your journey
Jess