A Minor Bump in the Road.... - Page 3 - ThinnerTimes

Cinerbelle · 09-02-2007, 07:47 AM

Good Morning Claire!

I hope you do not take this the wrong way, but I just love you. You remind me soooo much of my most beloved Grandmother that passed away when I was 15 and she was 64. She had a terminal disease that she just couldn't beat.

I am sooo happy that you got throught your "bump"!! You are a true inspiration for those newbies out there...and us oldies!!

Claire-in-Texas · 09-02-2007, 07:58 AM

Cindy, I love you tooooooo!!!! And what a lovely compliment to be compared to your beloved grandmother.

I hope you know that I truly am not trying to be an inspiration. We all have our down days, and I clearly have mine. But when I surface, and I see the entire picture (over a long life I have learned more and more how to do that), I see hope. We all need hope, right beside our own reality.

LQQkn · 09-02-2007, 10:05 AM

Claire, I applaud you for your positive outlook on things. One thing I want to mention is that what happened to you is not a minor bump as you put it.
A minor bump would be having some dumping over food issues, over eating, pissy pouch once in a while (not daily), minor daily issues. Anything requiring hospitalizations, surgical proceedures, GI tests etc are NOT MINOR BUMPS!

You are 5 months out of surgery and I pray that nothing else happens to you. The symptoms you have are exactly what I have, and I've got a few more thrown in for good measure. A little nexium and it's all fixed up? That's an oxymoron. I was started on minor PPI's early out. Taking PPI's is not necessarily a GOOD thing! The reflux has escalated over the past two yrs. I've been dialated over 5-6 times in past 26 months for stricture. I believe it's the gastritis, reflux that causes the strictures to happen. Janie

Duckie · 09-02-2007, 10:32 AM

Claire, you look AMAZING!!!!

Claire-in-Texas · 09-02-2007, 10:33 AM

Hi Janie!

As Dyann says, it's all about balance and different perspectives.

I know why I had gastritis. It wasn't because of the stricture. I didn't go into it in my post because it wasn't important (to me) to make the points I was making and include all the story. But now I will.

I got a urinary tract infection, something I am prone to (and I see a urologist next week to determine if we can finally get to the source of the issues there), and over time the infections became resistant to the usual meds. This time I had to take Macrobid 100 mgs to kill the infection (which had been cultured in a lab). That Macrobid has to be taken on a full stomach, and the stricture, already formed was preventing that. So it was, indeed, more complicated than I stated. However, I still consider it a bump in the road. It was fixable, I'm fixing it. I do not have chronic reflux problems, and I am feeling fine now, eating well, and enjoying all kinds of new foods that I haven't had for months. I feel fine, better than fine.

The UTIs have plagued me long before wls, and I dealt with them. I should have seen a urologist long ago, but you know how that is - shoulda coulda woulda. But I have spoken to the urologist (this is a small town, he took a class I taught, I called him at home), and he said there are a number of different approaches for it, and I have already had all my UTI medical history faxed to him.

For me that whole stricture/UTI/gastritis/loss of dog crisis is over (although I still mourn the loss of my sweet furbaby). Now we will fine tune the UTI thing (dang it - it's keeping me from aquajogging at the moment!!). One thing at a time, one step at a time. For me, all fixable.

I've lived a long time. I've not been well. I've had major crises that threatened my life big time. Those were NOT bumps in the road. But this one was.

I respect your opinions and perspectives - mine are different. For me this has been a bump in the road, and not a major one. I guess everything is relative.

Claire-in-Texas · 09-02-2007, 10:36 AM

Awwww, thanks, Michelle!

LQQkn · 09-02-2007, 01:49 PM

Perspective .. maybe perspective is la la land, and I live in it! For you Claire it's a bump in the road, your post makes it sound like it's a walk in the park. And I can assure you it's no walk in the park to be scoped, and hospitalized. At this point I'm not going to argue your point of it being a bump a cake walk for you. But let me say one thing clearly.. for every other new person out there reading, I will say it over and over.. it's not a bump in the road let me say it again, it's not a bump in the road for someone to have these kind of complications. Good for u that you have worked them out, and god knows I hope that you don't have any of them reoccur. Janie

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Originally Posted by Claire-in-Texas

Hi Janie!

As Dyann says, it's all about balance and different perspectives.

I know why I had gastritis. It wasn't because of the stricture. I didn't go into it in my post because it wasn't important (to me) to make the points I was making and include all the story. But now I will.

I got a urinary tract infection, something I am prone to (and I see a urologist next week to determine if we can finally get to the source of the issues there), and over time the infections became resistant to the usual meds. This time I had to take Macrobid 100 mgs to kill the infection (which had been cultured in a lab). That Macrobid has to be taken on a full stomach, and the stricture, already formed was preventing that. So it was, indeed, more complicated than I stated. However, I still consider it a bump in the road. It was fixable, I'm fixing it. I do not have chronic reflux problems, and I am feeling fine now, eating well, and enjoying all kinds of new foods that I haven't had for months. I feel fine, better than fine.

The UTIs have plagued me long before wls, and I dealt with them. I should have seen a urologist long ago, but you know how that is - shoulda coulda woulda. But I have spoken to the urologist (this is a small town, he took a class I taught, I called him at home), and he said there are a number of different approaches for it, and I have already had all my UTI medical history faxed to him.

For me that whole stricture/UTI/gastritis/loss of dog crisis is over (although I still mourn the loss of my sweet furbaby). Now we will fine tune the UTI thing (dang it - it's keeping me from aquajogging at the moment!!). One thing at a time, one step at a time. For me, all fixable.

I've lived a long time. I've not been well. I've had major crises that threatened my life big time. Those were NOT bumps in the road. But this one was.

I respect your opinions and perspectives - mine are different. For me this has been a bump in the road, and not a major one. I guess everything is relative.

Claire-in-Texas · 09-02-2007, 02:40 PM

Janie, "la la land"??????

I said nothing to insult you, and I am very offended that you have chosen to discount what i have said as though I were on a different planet.

We can agree to disagree, but I absolutely resent your hijacking this thread, addressing yourself to any who might read it by saying, basically, to discount all I have opined as though I were some nut who had no clue.

If I wish to call my issues a bump in the road, I have every right to do so. It was, for me, a bump in the road.

LQQkn · 09-02-2007, 03:14 PM

aww Claire, la la land is not a bad thing..I live there mostly. Actually I should apologize what I meant to say was perspective is la la land, and I live in it. But I am at work and typed it quickly, and didn't re read my post, and obviously sent it.. It was rude the way it was worded and I'm sorry for that. I didn't hijack your thread... I have a right to post that your complications are not minor bumps... to YOU and to YOU they were. I'm saying they are not minor bumps from GBS. There is a difference.. that's what I'm noting. Janie

P.S.

I'm going to edit my post so I don't start a flame war here with claire supporters.

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Originally Posted by Claire-in-Texas

Janie, "la la land"??????

I said nothing to insult you, and I am very offended that you have chosen to discount what i have said as though I were on a different planet.

We can agree to disagree, but I absolutely resent your hijacking this thread, addressing yourself to any who might read it by saying, basically, to discount all I have opined as though I were some nut who had no clue.

If I wish to call my issues a bump in the road, I have every right to do so. It was, for me, a bump in the road.

Cinerbelle · 09-02-2007, 04:12 PM

This is Claire's perspective...this is Claire's journey...this is Claire's bump...

For every newbie reading...research, research, research and make your own decision. Your decision should be based solely on your life...your situation...your sole searching. Do not base your decision on any one person's journey.