Re: SC people joining into 1 pancreas

[Guest guest]

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I have a daughter who is 9 and a son who is 12. They fight all the time too!

Every now and then they can be so sweet to each other and I think why, oh why

can't you do this all the time! I actually like it when they have friends

over to keep them occupied so they don't fight all the time. So my house usually

has at least 2 extra kids on the weekends if not more. Unless, I am having a

bad weekend then my friends will take my kids and let them come over so I can

rest up a little.

I love what you said about our pancreastine. I would like to use it tomorrow

night. My kids will be gone and me and my hubby could go eat somewhere with

really greasy stuff!! LOL! And Hey my last name starts with an H so I could be

near the top of the list. LOL!!!

I am going to miss out some on our camping and stuff early in the summer

because of my surgery. But hopefully I will be recovered enough by the middle of

July so we can hit the lake! We camp alot in the summer and it is so relaxing.

But I know right after having surgery I won't want to sleep in the hard bed

of the pop-up we have. Maybe I can borrow our pancreastein then so I can camp!

But then someone would have to have my old hurting just operated on one!

Angie in SC

" The happiest of people don't necessarily have the

best of everything; they just make the best of everything that comes along

their way. "

[Guest guest]

Well if we all put in our good parts does that mean we can take turns

with the good " pancreastein " . Can I have it on Sunday, there is a big

family event with tons of food and stuff, sure would be nice if I was

up to snuff. But I guess since my last name starts with " r " I would

be at the end of the list, unless we go by who is the shortest, then I

might be closer to the top...LOL

How old are your kids Angie? I have 3, a girl 19 a boy almost 15

(that stinker age) and my baby girl is 9. the boy and the youngest

girl drive me crazy. They fight and pick at each other like a bitter

old married couple. They have been home all week and I tell you what

I better find a job before summer because if I have to spend all that

time with them there is going to be trouble!!!LOL

[Guest guest]

Actually Angie if you have the surgery in early june by july you

shouldbe feeling pretty good. Probably better then you have in a

while. It will take about 6-10 weeks to really recover fully but

you should be feeling a lot better. No heavy lifting or anything

for about 12 weeks tho. Maybe you can get an air bed to put ontop

of the harder bed of the camper.

We used to camp alot too. We would go up to ville NC; its

a ggreat spot and then to Huntington Beach and camp right on the

beach. That was a long time ago tho. I had filed for separation a

while back then my mother died a few weeks later and I was executor

of the estate. It was too many lawyers in my life at that time so I

withdrew the complaint. Then as I got sicker and sicker I needed

the insurance and then when I tried to Cobra at my job I was told it

was a pre-existing condition and that I was uninsurable anyway

because I had gotten so sick. Lucky thing too, tho, because I had

to resign my position and would have lost ALL the insurance.

I am still legally married and really dont see any reason to change

that. Its not likely I will ever marry again. I wasn't married in

my church anyway, so it never really felt real to me. We are very

good friends now and he has taken great care of me while I was sick

and we sort of have a pretty good system down. they say time heals

all wounds but I dont know if that is true.

How long did it take you to recover from the bypass? It might be a

good idea to try to strengthen yourself as much as you can

nutritionally. Increase your dietary protein as it will helps the

cells to regenerate and heal. I know protein is hard to take, I

could only handle boiled eggs and slimfast. Slimfast actually uses

soy protein so its is easier on the body to assimilate. There are a

lot of good sources of protein, but that would be a wise move. I

even took amino acids pills I got at the health food stores. Also I

stopped eating all processed foods and switched to brown rice, 100%

whole wheats and real butter instead of margerine it was easier for

me to digest acutally, odd as that may sound. Shoot sug, I took so

many vits and mins every day I rattled when I walked...LOL

Ive lost about 100 pounds since all this started and am still

loosing even tho I eat everything now. I do have a problem with

edema that I never had before. I am down to about 156 now unless I

puff up then I will add about 5-7 pounds, really ticks me off. So I

am watching the sodium, which for a southerner is hell...LOL

Ohh yeah, you may want to look into a laxative or stool softener. I

swear by Miralax, it is the best and nonaddictive. Hawes was the

first one to give it to me a couple of years ago and its great. I

added a little colace when Istarted on the iron, but next time I get

some I will definetly get the carbonyl type. Colace can be

addictive to the bowells. But you wil more then likely need

something after the surgery so you dont strain.

This is a funny story, when I was in the hospital after the Beger I

think, I was really bloated and gassy and couldn't move my

bowwells. So I asked for Miralx to help with that, anyway the

resident didn't really know what it was so I tried to explain it and

he just pooh-poohed me like I was some kind of idiot. I told him

its a powder Imix with juice. Well that genious wrote for Maloxx

mixed with apple juice, YUCK.. talk about looking like some kind of

idiot. The nurse and I had a really good time laughing about that

one.

Email me at cdrrn@... and I will give you the number to the OR

desk. You have plenty of time to do that tho.

Your lucky you have neighbors that can take your kids, I hve no

neighbors to speak of and my kids pretty much have to fend for

themselves for fun. They do get along well sometimes and your

right, its nice to see that. But theyjust pick and pick and it just

drives me nuts. Our kids would probably get along well, especially

the girls. Maybe we can meet sometime with them, that would be nice.

Talk soon,