Possible solution...

Just got home after seeing my surgeon. He thinks I have a stricture, which means that I've grown too much scar tissue on the incision between the stomach pouch and the intestine, and now the opening is too narrow. That explains why things I could eat before are now giving me problems.

So, I need to be dilated...which means an overnight stay in the hospital. I guess they have to go in and stretch it back out again. I have an appointment with the GI for a consultation next Tuesday; after that, we'll schedule the procedure, she said for the following day. I'll miss a day or two of work...

Hopefully that IS the cause of my problems, and this will solve it.