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Remembering a "Surgical Anniversary?"
Jul 22, 2010
When I look back over the past year, I see it as a tremendously fast blur, that has changed the person that I have become today. July 20, 2009, ouch! I remember thinking back at child birth and thinking, "that hurt bad, but I soon forgot the pain", how bad can it be. I think it is nature that our minds forget the physical but sometimes never the mental pain that we are subjected to in the game of life. My RNY was without complications thanks to the ever so skilled hands of Dr. Jonathan Aranow. My post op visits were great and all I can say to his staff and Julie, is thank you from the bottom of my heart. You guys were all so kind and courteous.I returned to work 3 weeks post op as a Home Care Nurse. I did well, and with each day, I noticed myself becoming more energized. My life was changing though. Little things like my clothes getting too big, being more energenic, wanting to get back doing things that hurt me to do when I was at 308 pounds. Little aha moments, "I didn't know I could reach that part on my body, lol....", being able to get in and out of my car without it being a big deal, walking my dogs without my hips hurting, riding my bicylce and feeling the seat, in a comfortable way. Buying size ((((( 14 )))) clothes!!!!!!!! My God if I could remember them all, all the little moments. I like me a lot better and as a result, all the people around me like me better too. It is hard when you come from a world where people treat you as if you have some kind of comminicable disease, when you are obese. My illness is one of the mind and therefore could never be caught by my sneezing on you. My illness is dark and has taken me through darkness perhaps no one but another obese person could understand.
I keep my former self with me, I have a picture of her on my refridgerator. To remember her is my salvation, to forget her is to relive the past. No thank you.
To anyone out there, this means you Mary, go for it, it is a journey of a lifetime :)
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About Me
WINDSOR LOCKS, CT
Location
26.6
BMI
Surgery
07/20/2009
Surgery Date
Surgeon
Jul 19, 2007
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