Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven
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I don't know what I'm going to do about my weight. I just sent an email to the doc in S Dak. I lost another 3 pounds. I'm a wreck I also included a photo which I will show you guys too since your are my friends. Don't know how much longer I can keep going.
Pat, could they/would they do a bypass reversal? Time to visit an apothecary, they usually are quite well educated re: which "meds" help which problems. Appetite, pain, neuropathy, if the person you are speaking with isn't well educated, ask for someone else. My son post chemo couldn't gain weight, so appetite booster helped, as well as slowed the motility of his gut, which allowed all the calories to be used. Don't lose heart! There are answers, just need to ask the right questions of the right people.
I'd lose em, replace em and then when I cleaned the garage find em. After a while I had about a dozen of em. Would still manage to lose em all agai and have to replace em.
Oh my, our dearest Patrick,
Although your photo was somewhat disturbing, I truly appreciate your willingness to share with us! Thank you, our cherished friend...
Your tribulations are only exceeded by your, and your bride's, unbounded spirits!
We pray for a near future successful treatment(s)...
Can't like this, Legs. Not a bit. Are you eating like you are supposed to? Do you need to see a nutritionis? Are you drinking your protein shakes?I don't know what I'm going to do about my weight. I just sent an email to the doc in S Dak. I lost another 3 pounds. I'm a wreck I also included a photo which I will show you guys too since your are my friends. Don't know how much longer I can keep going.
I'm eating about 4 meals a day and taking 2 high protein shakes a day. My problem is not my appetite it's malabsorbtion I am not absorbing hardly anything. That's why I had to have an iron infusion.
There is a revision that can be done but have only found one doc right now that will do it with my insurance. There is only one doctor in the state of WA that even does this type of procedure and he won't even talk to me because I'm on Medicare. He wants the big bucks.
The surgery I had is only given to people who are extremely morbidly obese. He was a quack and I didn't know it at the time. The only thing that can be done is by changing the procedure and lenthening the part of the intestine that absorbs the good out of the food.
If the quack did it right they surgery I had he removes 2/3 of the stomach and reroutes the intestine so the food empties into the intestine way further down the line then it normally does which causes the malabsorbtion. So it lets you eat fairly normally only not quite in the quantities you did and it also works by malabsobtion. He was supposed to have left the part of the intestine that was bypassed in there so if a revision is necessary it is there. But not sure what shape it would be in after 17 years of non use.
They also remove the gallblader. It is for people that are a lot more overweight then I was. I was about 110 pounds over, it is used on people that are 3 or 400 over. You can eat all you want and still lose weight.Very few docs do it because it is more complicated and can have more complications. I wrote to the doc in S Dak again and sent him the pic which is about where I was when I was in the coma and lost my legs.
He did the amputation plus he pulled me out of the malnutrition and I was good till I had heart surgery. Don't know what that did but it's been downhill since this is the worst I have been since the coma. Difference now most of my labs are good except iron and HGB. He will do it but I need to get a complete cardiac work up but like he said the problem is if I had problems most docs aren't willing to do anything with someone elses surgery.
(formatted for easier reading, still thinking of you)
Sorry it is a pretty disgusting picture but just wanted you to see what I'm talking about. That's why I need all the pain meds. I can't even sit on my recliner without a pillow, plus after the fall a week and a half ago I have to sleep on my back and my tailbone starts hurting even with them about 3am every night. We got a twin size memory foam pad and going to try that but I need to sleep with my head and back up. Might have to get another bed or put me in the other bedroom with my hospital bed. I had a special air mattress that I got from the hospital that has a compressor to keep the air circulating but we haven't been able to find it. They used it in the hospital during the coma cause I was this skinny then also. They can't be reused so they give them to you.
That is also why I am on fairly high quantities of pain meds because the pills I only absorb maybe half.
That is also why I am on fairly high quantities of pain meds because the pills I only absorb maybe half.
I gave up and switched to LPG. 90c per litre dont ask me what that is in Gallons US. We haven't used Gallons of any sort since 1966 when we went metric.
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Definitely more expensive there - maybe in areas like CA or NY they might be paying those prices... That's about $3.40 a gallon...
Our gasoline is $1.395Aud per litre in Tasmania but its cheaper on the mainland not sure by how much.
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Legs, do you think concentrating on high caloric foods would help at least in the interim?
If you think it would - maybe the foods in this link would help.
The Most Deceiving Foods
I filled up today. $2.899 for Texaco 93 Octane. But, my tank capacity is only 8.7 gallons, and that'll last two weeks. Cheapest I can recall was 23.9¢
Call me crazy, but I'm not rooting for lower prices. And no, I don't have financial interests in the oil industry. Don't want crazy prices either low or high. But, too low and development of alternative, non-fossil, energy sources lacks incentive (and encourages reckless consumption).
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about 6 weeks. It's hard to get it smooth and feeling good in the hand when you leave any of the bark on.
Please do. if nothing else, it may give me some ideas.
Fortunatly, I don't. yet. I just like making them. It's a fun hobby to do, and doesn't require very much in the way of tools.
I use a utility knife, an exacto knife, a dremmel, sandpaper, and polyurethane.
Definitely not healthy there. you may want to up the "bad fats" just to get enough weight to eat right.I don't know what I'm going to do about my weight. I just sent an email to the doc in S Dak. I lost another 3 pounds. I'm a wreck I also included a photo which I will show you guys too since your are my friends. Don't know how much longer I can keep going.
and even better set of suggestions.
Expedition to the End of the World, a 50-minute documentary on BBC (on right now, in fact), is totally captivating to me. It's about an expedition to the Arctic.
I don't know of a bread that's labeled as wheat bread. Whole wheat bread, yes, but just plain wheat bread, no.
I wish I had told you before you did that to not do that.
It's time for the doctor to be clear, and it's time for the doctor to put it in writing. Or, it's time to see another doctor. There's no way to know whether the doctor has any sound basis for the opinion, or if it's based on a personal (unprofessional) personal bias.
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