... DIFFERENT DOCS DIFFERENT ADVICE

[Guest guest]

(Response to the Charlie horse thing) My doctor says I'm not allowed to

eat bananas yet. He did, however, tell me to include Gatorade in my

diet now for the potassium.

You know what's really strange? I sit here day after day, reading these

emails, and all these doctors are saying totally different things as to

what we can and cannot have. For example, I'm not allowed to have ANY

carbonated drinks what so ever, he said that it was a huge " no, no " .

But I see that a lot of other patients are doing it. I was also told

" no sugar and very low fat content " not to mention, low carbohydrates

too. I'm following my doctor's orders right down to the last period.

Let me tell you, I never knew I had so much will power. I failed at

every diet I was ever on, but I'm not going to go through major surgery

and fail this one, I owe it to myself to see this through. Thing that

nobody mentioned about this surgery is that you still get hungry and you

still want certain foods that you can't have.

For those people out there who think that this is " the easy way out " ,

they have absolutely no idea! For some of us, this is the end of the

line. If we don't do this, we are going to die, that's the hard and

simple truth. I'll tell you one thing though, before this surgery, I

wasn't living. I was existing. Just watching the world go by...wanting

to do things but wasn't physically able to do them.

Anyway, didn't mean to babble on and on.