Hi Roz,

Thank you for asking. My surgery went very well. The doctor found that I had an abdominal hernia which is what I suspected. The gas they fill you with really made the hernia painful. After the gas passed so did the hernia pain. I had no other pain at all. I got the rx for pain meds filled on the way home from the hospital but did not take any. This has been great. I am currently on the soft diet and doing great. I was 190 pounds this morning. The morning of surgery I was 211. So a loss of 21# in 3 weeks. I am a happy camper. I will get the hernia fixed later after getting to a better weight.

I am scheduled for my VSG next week on 10/11/17. As you can imagine I am full of excitement and hesitation at the same time. Being 5'3" tall and reaching a max weight of about 245 pounds I have been morbidly obese for a good part of my adult life. Being a man, before I retired, I worked in a profession where suits and ties were common. The last time I bought a suit, the size was a 52-Portly. Due to my weight I have developed severe dry eye issues and glaucoma. My eye specialist referred me to to a pulmonary specialist because she stated that glaucoma in obese patients can quite often be a bi product of sleep apnea. Well a sleep study conformed OSA. I am very compliant with this darned machine but i hate it with a passion. I have also had several hernia repairs and the surgeon told me that if I didn't lose the weight we would meet again.

Not long ago my wife asked if I would consider WLS. Until then I never thought I would qualify but having sleep apnea as a co-morbidity, I do meet the criteria to quality. I am ready for the changes.

In my first post on OH, a person said they hard a hard time relating to lightweights (me) because I am currently at 203#. I have never considered myself to be a lightweight, but I hope to someday.