HAPPY SURGI-VERSARY TO ME!

Oct 05, 2010

I haven't gone to sleep yet so it's still my surgiversary in my eyes.  One year later and WHAT A DIFFERENCE!  I will weigh in on Thursday but even accounting for the bad scale on the last weigh-in, according to my pcp's scale on the 25th, I was down 205 pounds in this first year.  I am sitting in my son's rec room upstairs (couldn't get here often before) relaxing with him after returning home from a 5 day trip to NY that I was able to do on my own without the wheelchair, a walker or even a cane.  I took the train and bus without concerns about fitting on the seat or through the aisle.  I sat at a booth at a restaurant while I was there and used a non-handicapped bathroom without concerns about fitting there, either.  I bought new boots TWO SIZES smaller than the shoes I wore before surgery and am wearing a skirt and shirt 10 sizes smaller.  I am sitting here with the laptop on my LAP---- I have one now, and a neck, too, for that matter!  You know, there are even slight protrusions that I understand are collar bones LOL.  I cannot believe the differences in my life and if you could only have walked in my shoes a year ago, you'd understand.  Very few people really understood the impact all that weight had on my quality of life, not just my health.

Oh, by the way, for ha-ha's, since I haven't taken one bit of insulin or diabetes meds since one week post-op I checked my bloodsugar while with my partner this weekend.  Fasting (am) reading?  101.

Thank you Dr. Barba for giving me my life back!

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