Almost 20 months post-op...

Aug 10, 2010

O.K.!  I've noticed that as people get further and further out from their surgery, they tend to post less and less on their blogs here at Obesity Help...  If they are YouTubers they make fewer and fewer videos...  And if they are FaceBookers they tend to drift further and further from their Weight Loss Surgery friends and more towards all those OTHER people...  LOL  I guess all that is part of the normal progression of this journey of ours.  I know in my case it has been...  

Beth and I rarely make videos for YouTube any more because we are more or less THERE and not much changes from week to week or even month to month.  

I hardly ever come to OH, except to update my Health Tracker, because it is a cool way to visualize my journey. 

As for FaceBook, I tend to keep in touch with the weight loss surgery community there more than anywhere.  Beth has over 1000 FaceBook "friends" 900+ that are weight loss surgery patients, and I have over 800.  So we keep our feelers out for "friends" who have questions and just need encouragment.

Have you heard about the Weight Loss Surgery Foundation of America yet?  http://wlsfa.org is the website.  The WLSFA is an non-profit organization that has been established primarily to help people who need WLS, get it...  We get Doctors to donate surgeries, and do fund raising to cover the rest of the costs.  I say "We", because I am currently the President of WLSFA.  We have lots of activities in the works and there are tons of things that we need volunteers for...  Go to the website and join us, please?

Beth and I have also begun to do the Angel thing...  Be at the hospital with people on the day of surgery, and visit them later... We aren't doing that as a part of OH or the hospital...  We are just doing it on our own.  So if you are in the Savannah, Georgia area and would like a couple of formally fat Angels to help you out give us a shout.

We are staying involved...  We are greatfull every day for the chance we have been giving to make our lives better.

BTW, I weighed 157 this morning...  Down from 315.  That's 158 lbs. lost.

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