I'm Home/ crosspost

[Guest guest]

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