Guest guest Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Jac.. What a nice story. I'm sure you made that 'old man's' day!!! I hope he comes back too. I was very close to my grandmother and I lost her about 4 years ago and also miss her very much!! Stacey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Cindy, Be careful of your 'snacks'. A detour bar with a cup of decaf tea...you should not be eating and drinking at the same time and remember that detour bars (although delicious) are high in carbs and calories. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to have had the surgery with your husband and be wathcing him melt at a much faster rate than you. I remember when my husband and I would decide to 'watch' ourselves on a diet before I had surgery and I would struggle harder than him and at the end of the week he would be down 10 pounds and i would be down 2. I guess this is a fact of life and there is nothing we can do about it. I do have a suggestion...why don't you stay off the scale. You know that you are losing pounds and inches. If you don't weigh yourself but every month-month and a half. When enayone asks the two of you what your weight loss is...You can honstly answer that you are not sure.. " Last time I weighed my self I was down 52 pounds but that was a month ago " . It might make you fell better than stating the numbers. Stacey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 I know over the past year or so I have read bits and pieces about Davenport but can somebody summarize exactly what has happened to him. Stacey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 In a message dated 10/5/03 8:52:59 AM Central Daylight Time, rykel12@... writes: > I know over the past year or so I have read bits and pieces about > Davenport but can somebody summarize exactly what has happened to him. had his open RNY at least two years ago or so. was a pretty big guy, around 600 pounds I believe. The doctor had given instructions that a minimum of four (I think, maybe three?) nurses assist him when he tried to stand. Two nurses decided that they couldn't wait for reinforcements and insisted that they could do the job alone. Well, got up, lost his balance, and the nurses dropped him. His incision burst open. He developed a serious infection and was hospitalized for a several months afterwards. He had a hernia repair last year and a panniculectomy. He may have still had some wound healing issues from his original RNY (I'm not sure). The panniculectomy went well, but he developed a very serious wound infection with the hernia repair. He was again hospitalized long term, and then later attempting to heal and close the wound at home. Not too long back, he went in to have surgery to completely remove the infected mesh and to revise his RNY to a distal. He has had wound complications from that as well, I believe. The last I heard he is still hospitalized here in Houston. Beth Houston, TX VBG - Dr. Srungaram 05/31/00 - 314 lbs. 11/01/02 - Abdominoplasty 11/29/02 - 160 lbs. 5'10 " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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