Re: I'm Home/ crosspost

[Guest guest]

Kathy said: so I have plenty of places to " park " and

> look out at the melting snow on my berry vines and the fresh snow

on the Cascade foothills outside my windows.

>

Where do you live Kathy? I am also watching the snow melt on the

Cascades, but I am on the east side of the mountains. Don't worry

and about the smell and taste thing, it eventually goes away. I

remember thinking I would never be able to drink water again because

it tasted bitter, but now I drink tons of it and it tastes delicious

again. Believe me, you do get back to normal again.

3/23/01

-98 lbs.

[Guest guest]

,

I live 8 miles east of Arlington,Wa. an the way to Darrington.

Where do you live? I have friends in the Twisp area and in Chesaw,

Spokane and Ellensburg.

The water thing was a surprise, but now that I only drink it icy

cold, it goes right down!

Kathy sen

BMI 58, 352.5 lbs at consult

Surgery Nov 19th, 346 lbs

Today, 316 lbs

Dr. Welker

" The only thing different in sinners and saints.... is one is

forgiven and the other one ain't! "

Vipperman, Rudd and Worley

[Guest guest]

Welcome home, Kathy-

So very, very glad to see you're home.. rest, heal, and sip, sip, sip!

Hugs,

Liane

> Dear friends,

>

> Thank you all for all the prayers and kind communications and love

> that you have poured out to me!!! As I improve I hope to pass this

> back to you and on to others.

>

> I am home and able once again to sit at my computer and focus to read

> and post a little. Please forgive me for not posting a " Head's Up "

> sooner, but I have been VERY nauseated, with a really wacked out

> sense of smell, and that horrible " green at the gills " feeling, and

> have had inner ear pain and my eyes not focusing too well. I suspect

> that this is due, in part, to the Vicodan I was taking up through

> last Friday, only half of one tablet at a time, but I am so very

> sensitive to narcotics! And they seem to take forever to leave my

> system. So I haven't been able to handle reading or posting. And dear

> is completely computer illiterate.

>

> An example of the " smell thing " is that a frozen juice bar smelled

> like soap to me, and made me gag (later, in a couple of hours, I

> boldly bit into it and it tasted fine!) And my wonderful well water

> that I could hardly wait to get home to, smelled like strong " iron " ,

> it does have a bit of iron, but I never smelled it like that before.

>

> Yesterday I contacted Dr. Welker's office and they called a script in

> for an anti-nausea med. (which put me to sleep immediately! yet

> another narcotic I suspect!) And Dr. Welker told me to see my PCP

> about my inner ears.

>

> I am comfy in my little cabin, I have my own built-in hospital bed,

> with 6 " of the best foam and a 3 " egg crate pad with my german down

> comforter (from ebay), and a mini trapeze bar, hanging from the

> ceiling, to adjust my position, my trusty stock tank tub, a freshly

> graveled driveway and my walker for walking to the gate and back with

> my cat and two dogs to accompany me on the walks!

>

> I also have a wonderful leather lounging chair, covered with a giant

> sheepskin, and an ottoman, so I have plenty of places to " park " and

> look out at the melting snow on my berry vines and the fresh snow on

> the Cascade foothills outside my windows.

>

> Now, I promise to add time spent at my computer, visiting with some

> of the dearest friends I have ever known.

>

> Love to all,

>

> Kathy sen

> BMI 58, 352.5 lbs at consult

> Surgery Nov 19th, 346 lbs

> Today, 316 lbs

> Dr. Welker

>

> " The only thing different in sinners and saints.... is one is

> forgiven and the other one ain't! "

> Vipperman, Rudd and Worley