- Username: jazzylady
- Location: tulsa, OK, USA
- Member Since: 2/17/2008
- BMI: 53.4
- Hoping to have surgery
- Surgery Type: RNY (11/17/08)
- Surgeon: Luis Gorospe, M.D.
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Surgeon TestimonialLuis Gorospe, M.D.The first impression I got of Dr G was that he was very concerned for the health of people with problems with their weight. He was thorough with the answering of questions that I had about the surgery. The staff have been very helpful and very prompt in answering my voice mails or emails. So far I would rate them a very high 9 (I would do 10, but I havent had the surgery yet) Member Interests
- Business & Career - I work for an insurance company
- Cats - I have two cats, Jefferson and Honey
- Poetry - I love writing short stories and poetry
- Christianity - All the way for Jesus
- Basketball - like basketball...dont have a particular team anymore
- Romance - Pretty woman, The Thorn Birds, Somewhere In Time, The Bridges of Madison County,
- Comedy - good comedy without the cursing
- Jazz - love jazz: All kinds...contemp, vocal, old jazz..its all good to me
- Gospel - all kinds of chrisitan music, gospel, love Praise and Worship
- Reading - Joyce Meyer and anything biblical
Latest Surgery Support Comments
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Hey Jazzylady! You
are moving on over
to the losers bench
in the morning! You
take care of
yourself and sleep
well tonight! You
are going to do well
I just know it!
Please save me a
seat! I'll be there
with you soon! Best
of luck and I'm
going to be thinking
of you!!!
Hugs and Prayers!
Kim
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"You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you" Isaiah 26:3
FOUR DAYS POST OP 4 hours ago
Since I got home on Tuesday evening, I have had the awful acquaintance with major gas pains in my abdoment...OUCH! I was not happy and Wednesday nite was not good. I felt miserable. I started taking gas x and mom and I was feeling better Wednesday. Thursday, the same thing...once again was feeling better. I was able to get up and walk more and for more length of time. Friday, felt better in the gas dept than on Thursday, so I am definately on the right track. The abdominal pain has been not too bad. I have cut back on my pain med waaaaay much and today really did ok with tylenol. On liquids, I have been doing great on that also. I have been religiously trying to get 64oz of liquids in and my protein shakes. I have done it few of the days and one, I got pretty close. I just cant believe the good change from Monday evening to tonight. I can lay on my right side now pretty much with ease and the help of a pillow. The left side still needs a little help, but even that is coming around. I refuse to think negative and want to stay hurting....so I walk...then I walk....and walk some more and do that incentive spirometer thing to help my lungs out. I know with each day, my body is getting stronger and normalcy will return, slightly changed though. I am just so used to getting up and doing what i want and going where I want, that to lay around.....I feel lazy...LOL, but its been nice to be waited on a bit. I am looking forward to how I will feel this time next week and see if the scale will move a bit.
Home from the hospital 2 days ago
I got home from the hospital on Tuesday evening...WOW. Everything went good, nothin unusual happened during surgery, I came through it just fine. The only thing now that is bothering me, is the gas pain and abdominal pain...gosh! I am so far able to hold down my liquids including my protein shake..so I think I am doing pretty darn good. I have been walking walking walking trying to get rid of this gas..OUCH! The nurses and staff at the hospital were really nice and very helpful. I am very determined to start feeling better and getting back to some kind of normalcy..lol. Sleeping in the bed has been a chore, I have to prop pillows up behind me and sit straight up to get any kind of rest. So, far everything is going good...and did I mention, its my birthday today?? Yepper, so I had two birthdays this week... 
LaDetra
surgery day tomorrow!!!! 5 days ago
Well tomorrow is the big day!!! I have endured 4 days of clear liquids and let me say it has been quite a different thing. I thought that I would be real grouchy, but actually I have been ok for the most part. It is the times when I got emotional that I wanted something to eat. I have been fall cleaning in my place, getting the house together and getting all the laundry done. I couldnt have done all this without the help of my awesome kids, they have been good helping mom get things in order. Gosh, my world is getting ready to change for the better in less than 16 hrs..I am just in awe. I am not afraid or fearful nor am I panicking. I am at peace and thank the Lord he gave me such a peace regarding this. This was a decision that I didnt want to make without him. I hate that this was a decision that I had to make and have asked myself why I couldnt just diet like everyone else and lose the weight and keep it off. I realized that I couldnt and for me to keep dieting and losing and gaining would be worse for me in the end. I have had some kind of love affair with food all of my life, and it has come to an end this past Thursday. I have rested in the comfort of food for so long that it tried to define who I was as an individual and whenever things were wrong, happy or sad, I knew I could run to it and in my mind I just knew it could make it all better, that food wouldnt let me down and I could find all the comfort I needed in it. The bad thing about this, is that it lied to me all these years...making me believe a lie..it deceived me. It led me to believe if I ate all I wanted and when I wanted things would be ok and that it didnt matter what anyone else did or said to me, that food would be there to save the day for me...but it didnt. It only covered up problems that I should have dealt with long ago and was destroying me slowly...slowly chipping away the person that the Lord had created me to be and wanted me to be. This past month I have been shown just how addicted I had become and that this is one of the enemy's tactics to try and destroy me. I have self control in me and I want my life back and I will not settle no longer. I will not listen to voice of overindulgence no longer as it only wants to steal my life from me. I will live and not die to declare the works of the Lord. I know I have a ways to go, but I am on the right track and will not be deceived no longer. I have been given a second chance by God, and I plan on using it. I will deal with these issues that got me in this mess to begin with. November 17th is my birthday, and I live again....and longer
LaDetra
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FIRST DAY OF CLEAR LIQUIDS on November 13, 2008 5:22 pm
Ok...I have had my first day of clears and protein shakes. I did really really well today at work, I wasnt like grumpy or anything..just stayed busy. I had a sad spell on the way home tonight. I passed by Carl Jrs and I almost started to shed a tear I can see that I may have issues with mourning food more after I have the surgery bcuz I am starting to a little now. I got to thinking, what am I gonna do now, now that I cant eat what I want. I want to use these next days as an opportunity to find out why is it that I have been letting food be the center for all these years. On top of all of this, I have a slight headache....carb withdrawal probably...lol. Going to lie down and rest and think.
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I will fear nothing!!!! on November 5, 2008 6:41 pm
Dont be afraid, for I am with you.
Dont be discouraged, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you.
I will hold you up with my victorious right hand
Isaiah 41:10 NLT
Yes, I am getting nervous about my upcoming surgery...and yes, at times I get a little fearful about the surgery and the days after, but as I think on this verse and meditate on it, I know that God will bring me through and that I have not one thing to be afraid of. I have 12 more days, and I know that they will be here in no time. My God has allowed me to have this surgery to bring restoration into my life, and for that I am grateful and in deed loved by him. He has not brought me this far to leave me, he has an awesome plan still for my life.
"For I know the plans that I have for you" says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."
Jeremiah 29:11 NLT
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I am 35 yrs and have always been overweight. Even in elementary school, I was known as the fat girl and being tall didnt help it at all. In high school it was pretty much the same story, and I remember going on a crash diet the summer before my senior year and coming back having lost weight, but gained it all back and then some right after graduation. I can not remember when I was under 200 pounds....I believe it might have been when I was 20 or 21 yrs old after coming off of a strict strict diet that made me look really sick. I think that I have been on every diet that has came out...nothing really worked for me in the long run. I have used food to comfort past issues and heartaches, but have realized that overeating has caused me a lot of grief as well as the things that it was supposed to have comforted me from. This really came to be noticeable after I lost my husband four years ago. I battled depression and relied on food to help me out as it had for so many of my younger years. As each year passed after my husband died, I ate and became sedentary and not caring about anything. It was after giving my life to the Lord, that I realized that I was valuable and that he wants me to healthy and take care of the body that he has given me to steward over. So, I found myself in a position to take care of myself and get back my health....and thus weight loss surgery was my choice after great thought. I am now ready to enjoy the rest of my life and be around for my two children and enjoy this life that my Lord has given me. I have made up my mind that my second half of my life will be greater than my past and that my God has put me here for a reason and he has a great plan still for the rest of my life, and being unhealthy in weight and having the sickness due to being obese is not the plan. I want my health back and live the life he wants me to have and set a good example for my two children.
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