Orca is gonna get more like flipper

Well thursday is the BIG day.. yes All my biggness will get a gentle slap on the butt and new plumbing in the middle. I just hope the PVC they hook up in the RNY will not leak and I can get on with the program.. I have 143 pounds to say goodbye to and cant wait to stand sideways to my wife and dissappear. She had an RNY two years ago and turned into a hot honey so I figure in about a year I wont be able to stand it. I took about four years to finally figure out that I was not going to get healthier by the way I was living and since I gave up about all the vices a man could muster food was the last thing on the chain. I figure Ill manage great in the long run with that restricter stomach helping to keep me on the track and not being able to just take on a table of food seems really nice. No more second helpings.No more people trying to feed ya all this stuff that is not worth it in the long run. If I can get rid of the diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, and hell more of a list than Santa has in the sleigh I will be most happy. I read a post about a guy that did his own marathon and I suppose it was one of the things that got me to thinking Push you could do that to big boy.. now weigh out the options and get with the program. What scared me is I am on Humana Medicare and figured they would take a year or two to get me approved but I about fell out when I got the approval letter in three weeks. I called the Doctor and He was ready the next day.. I still had to wait two weeks for his next available because of Asprin I had been taking. Well anyway I am about to leave the mountains of North Carolina and head to Atlanta and get on with the new life.. Thanks for leting me read alot of helpful posts and I will try to update things now that I am gonna have something other than weight gain to report..

Good luck to you on Thursday and thereafter.  Since your wife has already been there, she will know what you need.  Unfortunately, she will also know when you are blowing smoke.   Oh well, can't have everything.   Let us know how it all goes.  

By the way, you will be pushing some heavy duty wind after surgery.

Good luck
Steve

PnW, I give you four months and I bet you'll be at goal! What a great Christmas present! Good Luck now you and the wife can split a meal! C'ya Bob

Hello NC brother! (waving from the eastern coast)

My wife also had RNY, but only 3 months before me.  I wasn't going to let her be all skinny and sexy without me!  LOL  I'm kidding,   "Sexy" certainly doesn't come to mind when I think of myself, but "healthy" does.  I was also diabetic and hypertensive, but now I am neither.  Best of luck to you!

Well another NC brother here (central). Good luck to ya and let me know when the wife walks by ya and smacks that ass. Take care. Ken

 Well the big Day came and went. Dang I was pretty darn sore but drank the anti freeze for the leakage xray. they thought I might have to stay an extra day since my lower innerds were still in the surgical ward in recovery waking up so day two was just miserable. Finally in the wee hours of the morning I felt the winds of success and much to my relief got to go home yesterday. Im still sore as hell but the scales are already looking in my favor. I have not eaten a whole lot but Im learning how to get the protein in and fluids without gulping like a beer chugger. Thanks for all the encouragements I hope I have not blown any smoke up anyones backside either. The best part of the surgery is that my doctor had this orientation and I expected it to be me and the rest a bunch of ladies. To my surprise it was all men patients. There were a couple of guys older than me and one younger fellow. The younger guys mom was three for four weeks post op and looking great and his dad was working on making it a family thing and getting it done as well. I could well respect a young guy having this done since it means changes for the rest of your life and then you are suddenly in the middle of society. I did have one quick question. Did any of you guys have any problems running into people you had not seen in a while and see them totally change their ways of dealing with you because you were more normal? I am pretty much the same every day and it grinds me a little to suddenly be in the club with the rest of the folks. Not that I dont mind being there it just ticks me off a bit to know I should have had that opening alot earlier.