Hi Guys I'm going in for a Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy on Thursday. They cut your stomach in the shape of a banana to hold about 4oz of food . At 58 all the damage I've done over the years is coming back to haunt me. It wasn't bad while I was working but not moving around for ten hours a day like I used to, I guess I'm getting rusty. Two hip replacements the electrical problem with my heart and arthritis all over my body I could deal with. But in May I had my blood checked and my readings for the first time were in the high range of 180. I've always pushed my luck with the diabetes that's in my family . Now it came around and bit me in the Butt ! My mother had it, my daughter got it when she was 15, and My oldest brother Died at 56 from complications of diabetes. He went in the hospital in February and passed away on Dec.9th after loosing his left leg on my birthday. When he got really bad he would beg me to take him out of there so he could see his dream house one more time. ( A house on 5 wooded acres he loved horses) He only had it for three years before he died.
I'm no hero but I never thought it would get me ( sort of above the law kind of deal. ) I don't ever want my daughters to hear me ask for something like that and have to live with the fact you could do noting for not only my brother but my best friend, land lord, fishing partner. Thank God I still have my other brother who I'm just as close with.
So I go in Thursday and will be out either Friday or early Saturday. I start my new adventure, They call it a journey. With the weight loss I hope to, as my buddy tells me, be around to drive my Car at least once.
In May I got up to 308lbs and I'm only 5'7". That was a shock Now I'm down to 286. Boy that was hard to type, I never told anyone my weight before.
Well that's enough rambling for now.
Our neighbor had that surgery, best thing she ever did for herself. She dropped a lot of weight and is much more active and healthy now. I wish you well Wayne.
Wayne good luck. My wife had Gastrec Bypass about 2 years ago, and she has never felt better. She had tons of energy. It still is a struggle to keep it off. A few people we know have had it, and a year later they have put the weight back on. You will have fun on your journey.
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