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[Georgia]

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR RETIREMENT

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR RETIREMENT

Hi, Barbara! It's too bad your retirement has to be colored with concern about your surgery. I hope you have a wonderful, silly, carefree day and everyone at work comes to cry on your shoulder.

Do check the good suggestions on older threads around this site. You'll have 10 days to do some pretty neat things.

Besides spending, eating and drinking are also good. It's a sad-but-true factoid that nearly everyone's sense of taste is affected for varying periods (mine was nearly 6 weeks) after this surgery. So you might as well splurge for the next week and eat everything you like. One advantage you'll have is lots of fresh fruit being available (fruit is the one thing that seems to taste good to everyone; mostly everything else tastes like dirt).

Anyway, I do envy you your retirement; I have to work another year to retire. Oh, wait - make that 11 months (but who's counting? ) Make sure you pack your worry about the surgery away and enjoy the day!

 

[Anne-Marie]

It's a sad-but-true factoid that nearly everyone's sense of taste is affected for varying periods (mine was nearly 6 weeks) after this surgery.

I finally have something to complain about! Everything went swimmingly except for this! My appetite came back after only three days! What a bummer. That's just not fair, I had my new wardrobe all picked out, told hubby I'd drop at least two sizes with all that appetite supression I expected! Unfair!

 

[Georgia]

Oh, Anne-Marie - you misunderstood

Oh, Anne-Marie - you misunderstood

Having everything taste like dirt doesn't suppress your appetite - I spent an awful lot of time "testing" food to find something to eat that tasted good.

I think I'm about 10 pounds lower than I was when diagnosed; and that included about 7 pounds of water that came out of my lungs!

I can't even tell you how many kinds of cakes and pies and stuff I tried. Me and Sara Lee