Pollyann F.
2 years,,almost
Oct 03, 2010
Well Novemger 11 will be 2 years for me. I am below goal now. Seem to be doing well. Still having dizzy spells from time to time. Not sure what thats about. WIll be getting my blood work done in the next few weeks. I am going through a butt load of stuff in my personal life. Seperated from my husband but still really good friends, just decided we make better friends than spouses. Odd I know. I think I have some kind of issue with men. I feel like I have to be with someone. Told myself i was going to wait a year to get involved and well that didn't happen. I am in a relationship right now with a really good guy but I am questioning everything almost like I am trying to find things wrong. I finished school YEAH..still gotta take the ASCP exam for phlebotomy. Having a hella time finding a job. Just really feel like my life has totally spun out of control. Everyone keeps telling me not to loose anymore weight..My response is always, I am not trying to. I eat pretty much what I want. I should be logging my meals againn to get back on track but I tell ya right now being flat broke, I just eat what I can. My weight stays between 163 and 170..175 was the goal I set, the dr said 165 soo guess my body settle somewhere in the middle. I have some skin issues but the only ones that I would fix if i could would be my tummy and breasts, or should I say whats left of them. I got the tat a few weeks ago. The daisies represent the weight I lost and the butterfly is me. First and last tat I do believe. Thought I was going to go into shock getting it, litterally 3 hours of hell.BUT I DID IT!..lol
one year
Nov 10, 2009
Welp..It has been a year..I am down about 140 pounds now with about 20 left to go. CRAZY I know. I started this journey at 333 pounds on 6 different scripted meds. On the verge of major back surgery, some days I couldn't hardly move. Now I am on NO prescriptions, I walk/jog 4miles a day. I feel amazing. AND the best part is will NOT be needing the back surgery! I have had one complication and that was scar tissue kinked off my bowel but was fixed laproscopically and I am doing fine now. I just want to say I would do this all over again in a heart beat. I wish I had done it a lot earlier in life is my only regret.
Long time no post
Sep 10, 2009
Well where do I begin. ALOT has been going on here with me emotionally and physically. I have been going to school since the lay off in March and am going to be an LNA and Phlebotomy. Husband still no job and searching. Not sure that our disconnection can be blamed on the WLS or just life in general, but it is fading here in that area. I started having MAJOR abdominal pains on Aug 28Th. Felt like all my insides had fused together and were one mass. So I thought if i could just go to the restroom maybe it would help. Not. The pain was soo intense it hurt to even push. Like I had a cinder block in my abdomen. From my rib cage to my pelvis the entire abdomen hurt to even touch. So I try to go back to the bathroom and it only moved a little and was like water. The pain was letting up but I have been drilled so hard that pain is not normal with RNY, and this pain did not feel like normal diarrhea pain or constipation. SOO I call my surgeon and get into see him that after noon. I drive myself the hour to his office the whole time thinking he is just gonna give me meds and send me back home or tell me I have a bug. Almost talking myself out of going. I get back to see him and he looks at me and says " How do you feel about being admitted and running some test?" I said well my son has a football game tomorrow night, will I be out in time for that? OK these are his exact words..."Polly, do you wanna be dead or go to the football game?" I love DR P. lol He pulls no punches just lays it out there. I said well I don't wanna be dead. So any who, I get admitted and they run a CT scan Thursday night, inconclusive. Friday morning they do an ultra sound, GB looks healthy, test inconclusive. In the mean time my BP has now dropped to 88/56 and my pulse is at 44. The nurses are looking concerned and so am I. SO then they do an MRI, shows no stones GB looks healthy but bile duct dilated. Dr P wants to go in laproscopically and see what is going on. He said I was having way too much pain for it to be nothing. So he asks can he push on my abdomen one last time and he pushes on the left side just under the ribs..oh my major pain. He said that's what i have been looking for. The pain had been all aver the abdomen and not been able to pinpoint. Well needless to say he found out that scar tissue had twisted and kinked off part of my bowel. My GB was fine. He removed the scar tissue and move the connection of my bypass in hopes that the scar tissue will not reform. SO moral here PAIN IS NOT NORMAL. I honestly didn't realize how dangerous my situation was. Just very thankful to have the most awesome DR! I went in last Wed for an upper GI to make sure there was no narrowing or anything. I go back to see Dr P on the 17Th of this month. My biggest fear, my insurance runs out the end of the month. Thank God this happened while i was still covered, but i am soo afraid of something happening before I can get thru school and get a job and insured. 
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6mo labs
May 22, 2009
well got my 6mo labs and my vit d and platelets were low. SO I have been put on a script for the vit d and was told that unless i start bruising bad or if i get cut and can not get it to stop bleeding in a timely maner not to worry too much. They are gonna check it again in sept. The Dr seems to think it could be due to a medication I may have been on. In all he said he was very impressed with me and that I should keep up the good work. I love my Dr and my RNY!!!!
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NUT appointment
May 21, 2009
Well I went to see my NUT today and she was amazed with me. Said that I had lost 18 pounds since my last visit and my bmi is now at 35. She said I had lost 50% of my body fat and that I hardly look like my picture in my file. When she showed it to me I almost cried. Soo bloated looking I hardly recognized myself! I couldn't be happier with my progress thus far. The "bat wings" are starting to bother me some but I did notice that i can button the sleeves on one of my short sleeved shirts with room that I always had to leave unbuttoned. So that's a plus they are shrinking. I am now in a size 18 down from a 26. I had to get scrubs for nursing school and both top and bottoms are XL. I made sure to get draw string pants so they hopefully will last me for a long time. I can not even remember ever buying a size XL in the past 10 years. AMAZING to me! Tomorrow I will be going to see Dr. P and getting the results of my blood work. Keeping my fingers crossed that all will be with in normal limits! Wish me luck!
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bout time to blog i guess
May 07, 2009
Well is has been a while since i last blogged. I am now 6 months post op. Doing well gotta get my labs drawn and go to my check up next week. Hopefully all will be good. I am really battling depression right now. My 19 year old son that just moved up here in Dec. has decided to move back to Texas. He was adopted and I never thought in a million years i would be able to be this close to him much less have have him live with me. It has been ver hard though. The skills i would have liked for him to have he wasn't taught and I know I can not mother him now. It has been quite stressful over the last few months. Do not get me wrong i am OVER JOYED to have had the opportunity to get to know him better, but me and dh both are disappointed in the parenting he has or should I say the lack of parenting he has recieved. I feel soo guilty but at the time when he was born I had no one. No one to count on and my daughter was 15 months old. I was told you got yourself in it you get yourself out. At 20 years old with no one, what should I have done? Did i make the right descision, could I have raised them both alone and managed to give them all they needed and not live on walefare? I know I should never second guess myself. I know I did what I thought was best for both of my children at the time. It just breaks my heart. Sorry to ramble on and on..but I needed to get this out. I just wish things could have been different. Will blog more after i go to my DR and post updated pics.
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Nut visit 4 1/2 months
Mar 31, 2009
Well today went well I lost just over 17 pounds this month! GO ME!! I asked about my craving for salty stuff and she recommended I try a half serving of pumpernickel pretzels with either humus or salsa. Also asked about my nails peeling and she recommended I start on biotin. Soo to wally world I went. The pretzels are awesome..LOVE em...But I am thinking a half a serving is still too much for me so will do 1/4 of a serving. Walmart has the biotin for like 7 bucks verses the Dr office for less qty for 27 bucks! ALSO found out that the local YMCA is offering laid off workers 3 months of free YMCA memberships. Since me and my DH both got laid off, THEY GAVE US 6 MONTHS FREE!!!!! I bout cried! I was really stressing loosing my outlet. I mean the YMCA to me is MUCH more than just working out. I go put on my ipod and escape. Sooo that's where I am right now. 
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WOW!
Mar 20, 2009
All I Can say this morning is WOW! I had been teetering just under the 70 lb lost mark and then this morning BAM! 256.8 down from 330! In just over 4 months! AMAZING!! That's 73.2lbs! 
GO ME AND MY FOBI POUCH!! I am now down from a tight 26 jeans to a 20. I feel amazingly better. My back bothers me alot less. I feel sexy, I never thought I would say that about me again. I hold my head up when i walk rather than trying to avoid eye contact. I laugh ALOT more. This has been the best decision I have ever made concerning myself. I would do it again in a heartbeat. Draw backs right now my nails are pealing and my hair is coming out a bit more. But I have really thick hair so not too worried about that just yet. As far as the nails go, I am gonna ask around. Will be calling my NUT and asking her if there is a vitamin I might be lacking or what to cause this. As far as work goes, I will be looking into the TAA benefits and more than likely going back to school. I think i might look into social work with the hospital or government in some capacity. My days of being in a plant are pretty much done for. I want to be doing something that is more full filling than that. They said I scored EXTREMELY high for being an Exceptional Children's Teacher. But in order to do that i will need 4 years of school and I know that the TAA benefits will only pay for 2years. So i need to get some kind of associates degree that will get me in the door on a job and then i can HOPEFULLY continue the next 2 years on my own and get a BA, or even work for a MA. Who knows where i might end up just yet. ALOT of decisions to make. Keep me in your thoughts Lord knows i need all the help I can get!
Day from Hell!!!!
Feb 23, 2009
OK so today started pretty good..I get up get ready and go to the YMCA to work out. No biggy. Well I had to call my place of employment because they are docking 2/3 of my paycheck to find out why and for how long. They got some crazy friggin idea that i got payed workers comp and disability at the same time! They want to dock me $9000!! WTF!!! I start to panic and I end up getting sent to another woman to talk to about it, well she sends me to a third woman who was my actual comp adjuster. This lady said she saw NO double payment periods and that she thinks they are taking my settlement for my partial disability back from me.I am like WTF they can't do that right? She said OH no hunny that's illegal. Sooo she copied an email to me and the other ladies I had spoken with to see if we can't get this resolved. Soo i am in limbo as of this subject to date they have take $1300 from me already. My checks are sucking and i only have 2 actual work weeks before the lay off..sigh soo was/am needing to make what i can to catch up.
OK then ..I have to talk to a couple of bill collectors about not debiting my account because the money will not be there and low and behold i am talkin to someone in friggin India that can hardly understand me or me them..omg i was livid! OK then I get all that straight...
So my middle son is gonna go to the store...is gone like 15 min and we get the call he has been hit and in a car accident..WTH!! OK first question...are you and Josh OK? Yes...second was it your fault...No she hit me....shew..ok on the way....his car might be totaled but that could be a blessing in disguise. BREATH POLLY
Just been a hell of a day. So if i seem a bit stressed..well now ya know why! whats that saying when life gives you lemons stuff your bra?..lmfao
OH and i forgot to add...i tried to cancel my NUT appointment and they said noo come on in and we will work with you hun...you need these appointments...so i was like ok...so thats a possitive to the day. anyways..lol
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OK then ..I have to talk to a couple of bill collectors about not debiting my account because the money will not be there and low and behold i am talkin to someone in friggin India that can hardly understand me or me them..omg i was livid! OK then I get all that straight...
So my middle son is gonna go to the store...is gone like 15 min and we get the call he has been hit and in a car accident..WTH!! OK first question...are you and Josh OK? Yes...second was it your fault...No she hit me....shew..ok on the way....his car might be totaled but that could be a blessing in disguise. BREATH POLLY
Just been a hell of a day. So if i seem a bit stressed..well now ya know why! whats that saying when life gives you lemons stuff your bra?..lmfao
OH and i forgot to add...i tried to cancel my NUT appointment and they said noo come on in and we will work with you hun...you need these appointments...so i was like ok...so thats a possitive to the day. anyways..lol
About Me
china grove, NC
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25.1
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Surgery
11/07/2008
Surgery Date
Oct 08, 2008
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