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| Kay Martin Dover, OK, USA Surgery date scheduled - BMI: 55.1 Surgery Type: RNY Member ID: M1140890102 Contact: Click here to send a Personal Message Surgeon: Ronnie Keith, D.O. | Click here for Kay's surgery support page Click here for the 05/2006 Reunion Page Click here to print Kay's cards (You can print your own cards, and if you're good at it, you can help print cards for your friends as well!) |
 Myspace Layouts Get your own glitter and more at BlingyBlob.com  Get your own countUP at BlingyBlob.com   I want to move again, play and run with my 3yr old little girl that i waited so long to have. 340lbs is too much to do that or be healthy enough to see her graduate. I am doing this for myself, I cant bare thinking about not being there with her though out her life as long as I can. Life has always been full of one vise or another, drugs, cigs, food, i cant wait to find out what will fill the void of food after surgery. Spend my life conquering these things, still wondering what started them all.  3/2/06 Still waiting on phone call, going to call in the mornning just incase I was forgotten. The more I read the more I know I need this as many risk as there is, staying this heavy have far more risk, Im so tired of this way, I know there will be days I think why did or what did I do. I hope to go back and read this and remember the swollen ankles and feet, lack of oxygen, wanting to reach and move and no matter how hard I try I can not do it, not being able to be on knees, not sleeping good and being tired all the time, claustraphobic anxeity feelings wanting to scream, thinkin tomorrow wont be much diffrent, and taking a deap breath and know each day im getting smaller and healthy and getting better able to keep up with my little girl when she says come on mom whats takin you so long.  3/9/06 Last nite I got a special suprise it was a book from my good friend tammy who is 5 weeks out of surgery, Reach for the Stars by Sharon Neva, it gave me a real boost to start this book and just the fact that Tammy cared enough to send it to me. I called Crystal with Dr Keiths office and she sat me up my consultation appt with him March 17 2006, its the start of my ball rolling.... Here I go  3/17/06 Had a great first visit with dr keith and left feeling postive about my choice, I thank god for my sister who is going to go though this with me and made it possible for me to get the surgery. Now I an waiting on call monday to get all other doctors and sleep study set up. my sister drives two hrs to get there from one way and I drive two from the other way to get there so they are going to try to schedule everything or what they can in one day.... Im so excited I went and bought t-shoes so i can begin to walk...thank god for stan helping me try different ones on since i cant get my swollen feet legs and ankles up or bend over to reach them it was really sad... i have wore slip on shoes for years. I bought crystal light lemonade and water in bottles, straws put air in stomach they said and dont gulp down water when your thirsty, have to re train your self to take alot of little sips. Going to start on my multi vitamin twice a day and vitamin c. There was so much that was told to me its hard to take it all in. Im ready to get started but been on the run for two days has taken its toll but when i get these feet down Im off again going to try to walk 20 min a day, at a pace that I can handle that gets my heart rate up.... Im hoping that day is tomorrow but for now my bed is calling me  3/24/06 I go for the most of my pre op appointments on tuesday, they were real helpfull to get it on a day I can also go to the manditory support group in the evening, so it will be a full day. This will work for my sister and me since we both come from diffent ends of Oklahoma, and she is taking off work to be with me, so the less trips we have t0 make the better. Was scheduled for the sleep study for April 7th. Dietitican called and my blood work showed my protein level was 17.6 and needed to be up to 25 because something like that could delay your surgery. Eat protien snacks and drink slimfast low carb meals for my breakfast since i usually miss that meal. still trying to kick the soda habit, have reduced to diet soda and at the most two a day if any, had a "OH ARE YOU SURE PEOPLE DIE FROM HAVING THAT DONE, YOU HAVE A LITTLE GIRL YOU HAVE TO THINK OF conversation this moring as soon as I got up from a friend i hadnt seen in awhile. I stood my cause but i have to admit i was a little shaken. Cryed to Stan and he said what i needed to hear that I was doing a good thing and was postive about things, I started thinking and rememberd I never really ever agreed with any of her opinions about anything. Thank god for my faith in him and Stan to listen to me. I bought a scale today it was hard finding one that will way some one at 350 I was on the border, I got home and stepped up and weighed 347... thats 3 lbs since i saw dr keith for my consultation. I hope it wasnt just clothes or shoes but I hope it was the cut back of sodas..... still need to move more to excersise...rattle rattle rattle  3/29/06 Had almost all of my pre op requirment appointments yesterday, the only thing left is i have a sleep study on the 6th and then when I get out of it at 5am I will wait till 8am there and have my pulmonary function test, this worked out great to only make one trip, Yesterday was very enjoyable it just builds up your confidence to get things in gear and support group was wonderfull, there were few that didnt experience that much pain , I was really glad to hear that. My sister and I were so amazed how good everyone looked and was doing after surgery, the main thing is how happy everyone was, one man said I looked depressed, I told him I was just tired , he told me "well when you get your surgery you will have more more energy than ever " OH I CAN"T WAIT  April 21st 2006 its been awhile.... made it though sleep study, as I already knew i needed a cpap machine..... 12 days later I was able to get the machine... I been on it 3 days, had a bout with more bronchitis so I cant tell if its the machine or the steroids for my lungs that is making me feel more energy.... I know the cpap machine will help the way I feel, Dr Keiths office told me I need to be on it at the least 2 weeks before setting up for surgery.....mark with dr keith office was going to talk to da to see if 2 weeks would be long enough or did they want me on it longer.... im pushing it for the family reunion in june..... so i really want the surgery done in may and im already lookin at the end of may if its done at all ......... its hard but nothing I do will change anything ..... I still have to pass the blood work before surgery and go though two week diet .... Ill have the surgery when im susposed to have the surgery no matter what i want ......... i need to think postive,  April 21st 2006 Well I thought postive and I got what I wanted....My own very special surgery date is May 22 2006, Had a Panic Fear OH MY GOSH, but it only lasted a few min, Im am so exictied, I talked to Rhonda (her date was april 17th) she is doing so great, it was just what I needed to hear... Now I have a whole other list running though my head....what to do with Stormy and how it will all take place.... but I dont know why i even worry about it now it will all go as planned with out my help....... Diamonds are made under pressure  May 19th 2006 Its been awile and I have been though my hospital orinetation and my meeting with Winter at Dr Keiths office. Blood work says Im good to go ......... May 16th I turned 44 I woke up to the ringing of the Doctor office calling telling me they need to change the surgery date, I have to admit I whined to her and still think she didnt know how I had lined everything and everybody up for the 22nd..... by the end of the day I had the schedule all worked out with everyone. I should be happy thats one more day that that liver can shrink and I make it though one more day of diet, one more day to get things in order around this house. My offical surgery date as of today is now May 23rd 2006, I havent had a period in over 6 months well I have one this week I dont know if its stress or Im healthier than I have been in along time. With protien levels low and bronchitis all the time my immune system wasnt that great but now its built up and with the vitamins I do feel healthier... still fat and dont want to move but healthier. I hope the 3 day liquid diet goes good I just want to get this over. Im sure Ill just want to go to the next step after it is over and I will rush it too. Patience I need it.  June 13th 2006 Because I had such heavy long period, and was bleeding for two weeks before surgery, then the surgery made me very anemic, I recieved 4 units of plasma and 2 units of blood. I stayed an extra day in the hospital. I was sent home with out previcid, I kept thinking It was just pain from the surgery, finally on 20 days out I went back to the ER in Norman, with one shot of morphine and shot of protonic I was feeling so much better. My blood work was fine, which I thought was strange because I did have a slight fever. Dr in the ER said it could come on from the stress and the lining of the stomach from the acid and gas that irritated it. Since then I have been taking previcd that I mix in water and drink and I have had no more pain. Its been along 22 days and things are really diffrent, scared to try new foods, adjusting to 2 spoons being a meal. I do miss food with a heavy substance but I couldnt eat it anyway with out feeling yuck. I dont have a feeling of being full, you just know you dont want to eat. Im down from 352 when I started this idea to 338 the day of surgery and now I am 304. I walked a mile tonite, I didnt get wore out, Im hoping I can start doing it every nite. Stan can put his arms around me again. I sleep all night long. This has to be a good thing even though trying to get what you need in your body is a chore and you have to work at keeping out what you want to put in it. I study and read and joined every group I thought I knew and was ready for everything but still its very hard, Ill survive, Its got to get easier, Praise God for getting me though the surgery and all the prayers that everyone said for me. 
You live you learn You love you learn You cry you learn You lose you learn You bleed you learn You scream you learn You grieve you learn You choke you learn You laugh you learn You choose you learn You pray you learn You ask you learn You live you learn Aug 2nd 2006 I dont know when I updated last but its been along time, Im down 84lbs from my heaviest weight the day I walked into Dr Keiths office. I am now 268lbs this morning OMG another 16lbs I will have lost 100 lbs. I have to say its not easy to eat or to be excited about any food, I have good days and bad. But being excited about food is alot of how I got to where I was at 352lbs. This surgery I feel saved my life, I can move and walk now and I have not had bronchitis since I started getting healthy for the surgery. Last year at the zoo I had to use a electric skooter to get around this year I walked all over the place in 102 degree temp and wasnt even tired after I got home, it was truly wonderful. So the reasons I had this surgery are all happening and feel great each 10lbs that goes is another mile stone for me. I do get depressed and want to eat and I have cravings, I have gotten sick at my stomach and hurt from drinking and eating too close together or eating too much or too fast to realize Im full but those are all things I am working on. So far I have had no hair loss but I do have trouble with getting my protien in, Ill keep trying. I have really enjoyed having this website to ask all the questions and just vent my feelings to others who give me much support and remind me this too shall pass. Sometimes its very hard to remember that, but when I get on the scale and Im down another pound I seem to forget now the bad and it gives me a boost to try to do better again with my eating and protien and water. Ill update when I get the 100 lb down mark and I need to figure out how to get those cards on your profile. It does feel good to be on the losing side  Sept 3rd 2006 Having trouble with protien and keeping food down still eating to fast proably. Feeling tired so I know its the lack of protien. I need to get back on track and get rid of this sinus drainage. Im so proud of the weight loss but so fed up with eating. I even saw someone take a drag from their cigerette this morning and I thought how that was so enjoyable looking and I remembered how it felt. It was a passing thought, when I checked my email i recieved this Your Quit Date is:Friday, December 03, 2004 at 4:00:00 PM Time Smoke-Free:638 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes and 53 seconds Cigarettes NOT smoked:12772 Lifetime Saved:3 months, 7 days, 13 hours Im so proud I quit smoking and I want to be able to enjoy my life for along time thats why I had this surgery too. Addictions suck. I hope things start going better, Im ready to feel that energy I felt at first, but that means get with the program and the protein. I just find its easier not to eat than to feel yucky from eating. I enjoy lookin at the before and after pics they help feel better. December 21 2006 Merry Christmas to everyone, Im so happy with the way things are going. Eating sucks still but I have started drinkin profec and my hair has started to slow down on coming out..... and I am under the 200lb mark now. I would have never thought I would live to see the day. I am now thinkin I did the right thing with this surgery. It has been no easy trip getting here but I am so active and feel so much better than I ever did before. I feel like I have so much life to live. Hope everyone can fell this way. bye for now
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