OK. I just gotta get this one off my chest.

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I did not undergo this surgery for weight loss, though weight loss was a byproduct-- heck they took 37 pounds off my front.

But I do think of this time with the complications as "time served," where I am earning that weight loss with as much hard work as a bypass might have involved.

And I do-- of course-- like the more svelte shape that is emerging with the loss from the thyroid meds working.

So after all this I can wear the 3x's I had given my husband when I could no longer wear them, and putting THOSE on is funfunfun-- because I know that I will be able to shop in stores once I am off HHS, not catalog.

I do not mind my 6x tropical shirts being so baggy-- I can wear sweatshirts under them and it's COLD now. I do not mind my 4x jeans trying to fall off when I walk.

But I did find it REALLY IRONIC that in the hospital and nursing home, their gown sizes went as far as 3x with sleeves too tight for comfort-- then the next size was TEN X!!! So I have been swimming in gowns big enough to make a sail to make Fiji.


The various Laundry Dept. workers who brought me several of these voluminous piles of fabric, daily, assured me that the very-thin, over-worn, ties-gone gowns should be pitched. I culled my way thru a lot of bum gowns in the 6 weeks I spent at the Home.

But I couldn't stand the waste-- and they have no sewing department. So I cut the ties off the worst of them to repair the best, with my little camping sewing kit, and sent them back to Laundry to be part of regular stock.....

And I saved a few of the thin, now-tieless ones to use at home as robes.

And they are very damn handy to wear for dressing changes! :~)

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I feel better. I am also taking daily pix of the slimming Susan as I work my way thru a closet full of items on their way to the seamstress.

~S~