Been Awhile (Dan update!)L O N G

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Hello Fellow Travelers!

Been awhile for me to post but I have tried to keep up reading over

the last few months as best I can although I have missed much. Just

wanted to check in - kinda sorta in a " touching home base mode. " \

Some of you may know that my wife had RNY Lap last June and during

pre-op testing they happened to overlook that she was about three

weeks pregnant! It has been a very interesting last six months and

at this point I am happy to say that in 23 days if not before we

shall have another princess joining the four year old in residence.

Her first was C Sect and they have scheduled the date. She (my wife)

appears to be relatively healthy, although I suspect anemia and some

other issues and the perinatologist says far as they can tell even

with three hospitalizations and intense hyperemisis gravidarium

(intense nausea) which lasted the whole time and required three

differed hospitalizations, all appears as well as could be expected

at this point. Whew!

May of this year will mark my fourth anniversary for RNY with a

horizontal pouch and expanded stoma. Unfortunately for a variety of

reasons (not excuses) I have regained some 40 lbs from my very lowest

ebb, and since last March labs have gone in the pits in a lot of

areas, some more serious than others. Somewhere along the trail here

in the last year I think I kinda sorta lost me somewhere. I just

finished a surgery on the lumbar portion of my back which has given

me much relief from being nearly bedridden for about four months and

I have to have another on the neck sometime this summer. None of

this, mind you is related to or a result of my RNY. Let me rush to

say once more that without my surgery I would have been dead long

since as I had to have heart bypass (2) in 2002. Unfortunately my

diabetes has returned with the lbs and rotten diet and no

exercise,,,,,blah,,,,I hate this!

I have been attentive as of late and have the glucose readings back

to normal again by decarbing and desugaring, and when I can I will

begin anew my exercise. I have wrestled depression a good bit this

past six months and being a WLS couple has not turned out the way I

thought or hoped it might go but then again having RNY and getting

pregnant just prior is not the most solid foundation for a new start

is it?

So here I am with no clothes to wear (due to my expanded waist and

shrunken arms and legs), looking at bleak labs and a not so hot

future. BUT, I just tell myself each day that today I will try and

not make such bad decisions as I did before and that seems to work.

I would suppose it is like receivng instructions on how to eat an

elephant- - - - one bite at a time!

Sorry that I cannot say anything briefly but I just brushed the tip

of this iceberg and wanted and needed to touch home base to start

anew. You are a wonderful group!

Dan Slone

Surgery 5/2/2000