Sleeved, healing, and grateful!

Dec 04, 2011

My VSG surgery on 11/30/11 went very well.  I was able to come home from the hospital the next afternoon. 

I have realized that I got to have 2 Thanksgiving days this year:  the first on the 24th, and the second on the 30th when I got thru my surgery.  I have been blessed:  with wonderful and supportive friends and family (including my OH family), a gifted surgeon in Paul Macik, and a wonderful, awesome care team at Northside Hospital's Bariatric Unit 4C!  I truly could not have asked for a better group of folks to be taking care of me. 

And now, to the loser's bench.  It's taking some getting used to right now, not being able to eat solid food and having to carefully and slowly sip fluids instead of gulping them down.  And I have now realized just how much I used to eat when I was bored/frustrated/upset/happy -- outrageous!  This is an eye-opening experience in so many ways.

As my body heals this week, I'm also taking time to let my spirit and emotions heal.  I cringe when I go back and look at postings from this past summer, when I was so stressed out because someone I was interested in didn't find me attractive!  Sorry, I just don't have time for that anymore.  There's no room in my life for people who can't accept me as I am -- whether that be overweight or not.  I look at the friends I DO have now, and they are wonderful people:  they love me regardless of my weight and regardless of my all-too-human idiosyncrasies!  I hope the future will bring more of these kind of people into my life.  As for the others, I feel sorry for them now:  they are missing out on so much in life because they judge people superficially, and pass up the many gifts others could bring them.  Their loss, most definitely!

This is going to be an exciting journey!  And it's only just beginning!  Here's to a wonderful, happy, and safe holiday for all, and the first TRULY NEW YEAR I've had in my life! 2012 is my time to kick butt.  I think I will!

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