Sugical Follow Up appointment

Nov 21, 2011

I met with Dr A on November 18. He is pleased with my progress and weight loss. He wants me to participate in a government interview about WLS and the benefits to long term health improvement. I am so thankful for this opportunity, I will do anything if it means someone else can be helped by my experiences. I am off insulin now and the doc was very pleased to hear that. He had mentioned it may take a long time for that to happen because I have been diabetic for so long. Guess not, only eight weeks. DYNAMITE.
We talked about his post surgery report because I was concerned by the note he had made about a large amount of adhesions on my bowels. He said he was not concerned by it but with history of bowel cancer, he recommeded a referral for a colonoscopy and a follow up every five years for general screaning.
That being said, another family member died yesterday. My uncle Ray passed away from bowel cancer, after my uncle Claude died five years ago from the same thing. My mother has had it, my father died from it (two weeks after diagnosis) and well, its rampant in my family. If there was ever a motivator for this surgery, that right there is it. RIP Raymond.

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