Good Luck, Stephx!!

Hi Steph Yes your Thanksgiving weekend is drawing near. I enjoyed mine this year too and it was great to be able to enjoy it I used to have such a hard go of holidays till I got my resection.You gained 4 lbs. already wow that is great. I suppose it won't be long you will be chasing down the girls. lol gail

Geee, thanks Margie11. I am feeling that my mission in life has been renewed and I'll overcome the hardships that life throws at me, truthfully the day before my surgery I was planning on backing out again, but after going to vote something was nagging me. That morning I awoken planning on calling my surgeon and telling them to put it off again, but that didn't happen. That morning I awoke and went to McDonald's to get me something to eat, but the stricture was so closed up at that point I was eating little by then, so I decided that I'll only get a cinnamon melts and a sweet tea. My brother got pancakes and sausage and I was so jealous, after about five minutes of eating my bro was finished and I was still struggling on the first fourth of that one cinnamon roll. At that point I had to go back to my room and be to myself, I ended up not finishing it because at that point my appetite was gone and I barely was even drinking only a couple of sips at a time. I ended up falling asleep playing my xbox. When I awoke again it was 11 am and I told my brother let's go and vote, we waited awhile because earlier when we went to get our food the line was too long. I really didn't get to hungry the whole day, I guess this was happening for a reason. about three o'clock that afternoon I decided to muster up enough courage to try and call my surgeon that I was going to back out of it again on the day before surgery. However when I called instead of saying that I wanted to set another appointment, I ended up expressing my feelings about the surgery to my surgeons nurse and she said that if I wanted to reschedule it would be two days before Thanksgiving. At that point I finally realize that I wasn't going to make it that long eating the way I was, and not having an appetite, after feeling that stricture in my gut something jumped in me and said okay you either try and wait and risk an emergency surgery or you muster up enough courage and go ahead and bite the bullet. I ended up breaking down on the phone and telling the nurse that I was really confused at that point so she gave me an hour to call back with my decision. After getting off the phone I was crying my head off, such a punk huh. So I called my aunt and told her the situation that was unfolding about the stricture and not eating and the fear of the actual surgery. She told me to read Proverbs chapters 3 through 5 and upon reading the first line I was floored and the emotions just were released, tears flowed from my eyes and with every versed read they began to trickle even lesser and lesser, and my faith began to build because at that point it was no longer courage it was faith. After reading it I let it resignated in my mind and spirit for about 20 minutes and after that point I was decided. I called my surgeon back and told him that I was going to go through with it, because from that point on I knew I was going to be okay, and today my FAITH is even stronger.

Yeah GAIL, I wouldn't doubt that within two months I'll be flagging down the women again. Looking forward to finding that significant other, and finishing school is a must. I'm just ecstatic that I am in remission and I am planning on staying that way for a long time with the grace and mercy of GOD.

 

Stephx,

  Our Stephen, flagging down the women We have been gathering in the Crohn's Chat room Tuesday evenings here on Healing Well for a few weeks now. I believe it would be 9:00 pm in your time zone. It has been mostly us old folks, but it would be a pleasure if you would join us, if you can stop eating and growing like the Hulk for an hour. It would be a good thing to have a young fresh prospective, for the newbies who drop by. Who knows, a  gorgeous six foot blond from your area could show up to chat. OK that probably won't happen, but hey you are young, and what's the big hurry. LOL At any rate, we might all enjoy a good interactive chat, now that you are out of the woods.-

  OK, here comes the old lady preaching again.  For now, and over the holidays, please save the sweets for after meals. If you must have seconds on that desert, wait an hour or two, have a turkey and veg snack, then desert again. Try to balance things out (food and activity wise), and avoid the fast food. Save that treat for rushed school days in the future, there will be plenty. Try to give your body as much good nutrition as possible especially during this healing process, and slowly build your core muscles as your Doctor will allow.  Hopefully, this will allow wou to build good strong gut flora, and help keep you in remission for a very long time to come, so you can get a good running start when the women start chasing you down.

Hi Steph did your Dr. mention vitamins yet. You can run that by him when you see him if you haven't yet? lol gail

Hi Steph ensure is a great source of vitamins and a good weight builder. What is grits? I was looking at the net today too for cabbage rolls which I got made for supper. I'am one of those cooks that is called a sometime cook ,sometimes it turns out great, talking turkey here. Unless the turkey weighs a pound don't be ligfting. Why don't you put a post up or maybe some of the good cooks can help you with the turkey cooking. Does your Stepmom make pies?lol gail

OMG. I forgot that grits is a mostly southern U.S. thing. Gail grits is the dried stalk of an ear of corn. They grind it up to like to a constistency of like a little bigger than sugar. But you add water to it and it boils and it becomes a little like oatmeal consistency, while its cooking you season with salt, then when your eating you can add butter, shredded cheese, mostly anythig that you want. Its mostly cooked in the south though, its mainly a breakfast dish. Down here many people satee shrimp with onions and seafood seasoning and place over top of grits, that's excellent. Also people fry fish and eat grits with butter, sounds pretty fattening doesn't it, but its good:) yum. Down here grits is basically a breakfast staple. I go back to see my surgeon probably for the final time Monday at 2:30. Looking forward to what he has to say. I have gain more weight.

Hi Steph Chat was Tuesday night I was on for a bit and they have them Tuesday's. Yes those grits sounds good to me and I do like some fish used to eat a;ot of smelts at one time and fish them too alot of fun. Got a snoestorm here last night and lost my power for 14 hours. I am lucky though I have a small wood furnace when the power goes out and the oil furnace won't work without power. Teen was away so I spend quite a bit of time cleaning off car so got out to shop for grub and pay a bill sure alot of snow on the trees .Very pretty though.Good luck with your Dr''s appointment. and ask him what vitamins you will need once your off ensure. lol gail