Update: Bad News

Sep 01, 2012

My friends on here .. thanks for writing to let me know I'm missed.  That really does mean a lot.  Again, I'm sorry for not being around much lately.  As I wrote previously, I've been having issues with nausea and vomiting.  Dense meat does not sit well with me and makes me vomit.  I am so hungry all the time I had been eating a lot of slider food since that would stay down and not make me sick.  Unfortunately, my weight loss pretty much grind-ed to a halt for the last month too other then the 6 lbs I lost during my vomiting episodes that lasted for several days.

Tuesday I went for a barium upper GI and I got to see my sleeve on the screen as I drank that nasty chalk LOL.  It was cool seeing it go down and through my stomach into my small intestine.  I was surprised at how quickly it went right through.  That whole thing about "drink water to help fill you up" .. yeah well ... liquids go straight through and directly into the intestines .. there was no filling up on water LOL .. just so you all know :)  No wonder I'm so hungry all the time just having mostly liquids, protein shakes and yogurt.  I'm quite sure that goes right through as well and does not sit in the sleeve for very long at all.  Wow .. I miss my dense protein to keep me satisfied :(

I also had an ultrasound of my gallbladder and this is where the bad news comes in.  The surgeon called this afternoon and said that I have "sludge" in my gallbladder.  He said this is the stuff that develops into gallstones and it needs to come out.  Another surgery for me :(

I guess this is one of the side effects of rapid weight loss.  Well .. at least I know why I'm feeling so bad now.

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