About December
- Sleeved or not sleeved:
- I have had a gastric sleeve.
- Biography:
- New Furniture is Pound Cake for the soul. Conversation is the key to innovation and inspiration.I am Aquarian. I am creative and love to paint and digitally design. I also love photography and my family.
- Location:
- Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia
- Interests:
- Reading, dogs, family, puppies, creativity, photography, dogs,
- Occupation:
- Social Media Strategist
- Name:
- December (yes, really! That is my first name!)
- Gastric Sleeve Surgeon:
- Dr Blair Bowden
- Surgery date:
- 2013-04-30
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- Join Date
- 04-25-2013
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December on 05-26-2013 at 11:43 PM
I never thought I'd feel this way. I wish I had a time machine and was back to being a fat person with a limited expected life span and a ridiculous number of chronic health issues. It was still more manageable than life post-surgery.
Every time I go on to the forums and read about how incredible everyone else is doing, mere hours after their surgery, it makes me want to cry. I read how people have lost 60 pounds in 60 days or lost 150 lbs and here are photos to prove it, I feel
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December on 05-13-2013 at 09:53 AM
14 days. Wow, it feels like a lifetime ago, I was a fat happy-go-lucky girl who really needed help getting fitter and healthier. Now I'd give anything to go back there.
Don't get me wrong, I'm really pleased I had the surgery ... I HAD to have the surgery to have any chance of a normal life. But along with my surgery, I also had my gall bladder removed. And since then, it's been hell. Serious. Complete. Painful. Hell.
With the WLS, when you've eaten enough or too fast
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December on 05-07-2013 at 10:51 AM
It's been one week since surgery and the pain is just starting to be under control. Because I had the gall bladder removed at the same time, I am badly bruised and the pain on my right side has been horrendous.
Up until yesterday I had been coping well with the liquid only diet I'm on, but last night and then all day today I vomit whenever I put anything in my mouth. I'm dehydrating, I can tell.
Since the surgery, I've gained 2.8kgs (hopefully just water weight) but
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300.00 lbs. - before
after - 273.00 lbs.
Member: December
Surgery date: 04/30/2013
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