to want Hecatewatsit not to................

[shivermetimbers]

smoke when she is weeks away from surgery.
You lot tell her cos she wont listen to me.Pleeeeaaase.

we sent nearly 20 computers plus books etc etc to Mangu Mukuyu-Ini school, (just before you get to Thika from Nairobi you take Mary Hill Road then follow that, past Mary St Francis school, to Kamwangi and it's on the Kamwangi to Gatundu road).

Most stuff was kindly donated by MNers, plus a couple of kind donations towards cost of shipping.

DH is from Mangu originally.

Hecate best of luck for your op. I had a gastric bypass four years ago almost to the day and it is the best thing I ever did. I do have longer term complications, but nothing compared to the magnitude of health problems I'd have now without the op.

what complications, Geepers?

Well done in giving up the fags, Hecate. I think you are doing the right thing about the OP, I think it will transform your life.

Good luck xx

Well done Hecate! Bloody well done.

(Also interested in Geepers complications as wondering if surgery would work for me. Well I know it would work but you know what I mean!)

Oh nothing major Hecate. I have a stomach ulcer at the new join of my tummy, which is very common but easily controlled with medication. Your op is different so may not be a risk factor for you.

The more common side effect is an inability to eat, which sounds like common sense when having an op of this nature, but sometimes it is really demoralising to not finish a meal, ever, when eating out.

Oh, alcohol effects me very quickly now, not that I drink, but on the rare accassions that I do it is absorbed into my blood very quickly because of my altered tummy.

On balance these will all be things you will have thought about and discussed already. It's one of the best things I ever did for myself.

crikey. I hope I don't get an ulcer!

I must admit I am worried about how I will cope not being able to eat. I know I won't care during the day, but I do eat in the evening to fulfil an emotional need. I am hoping that, because it is the feeling of fulness that I crave, I will be ok because I'll be getting that same feeling on half an egg!

If not, I'm fucked.

I do have a big pre-op counselling session to attend before the op, so I will have (yet another) chance to whinge about it then!

Well done on giving up Hecate, you've done the hardest bit now. I always thought giving up was so hellish that I never relapsed because I didn't want to go through the whole giving up crap again. Onwards and upwards!

Good luck with the op

Well done stopping smoking Hecate. I've been off them 18 days now and it gets easier and easier. Now the smell of ciggie smoke makes me want to gag and you save a fortune.

Good luck for your op

congratulations, what a big thing to have done.

It gets so easy that you eventually turn into the worst of the lot... an ex-smoker [arrghhh]