Happy New Year!

Dec 31, 2009

Hello to all of my DS brothers and sisters. I know it has been a very, very long time since I’ve posted. I cannot really explain what drove me from active (gung ho) participant to extreme lurker.  The only thing close to an explanation I can offer is that at first I just didn’t feel up to it.

I came out of my surgery on 11/06/09 and sort of started out on the wrong foot. I spent 6 days in the hospital whereas I should have been out in 3 to 4. This was not a horrible six days for me because frankly I hardly remember any of it. I can remember Dr. Husted saying that my blood pressure was pretty high and he would not let me go until it came down. He also told me at one point that I didn’t have “the look” of someone that was ready to go home.

I did make it home on November 14 after spending two additional days in Somerset, KY to make sure I was out of the immediate complications window. I can honestly tell you that there hasn’t been many things easy about my progress up to now. Nothing has been unexpected, but nothing has been easy. When they say this is a big surgery, believe it. You will be hoping someone got the plate numbers off that dump truck than ran you over. Seriously it is not that bad, but I do not want any newbies or pre-ops not fully understanding the scope of this or any weight loss surgery. This stuff is big time, so do not fool yourselves otherwise.

I think during the first two week after being home I probably had enough gas to fully supply a space shuttle mission to the international space station. That has subsided now and I have no more gas now than I did pre-op. My bathroom issues are DS normal. They are different than before surgery, but actually they are better. I would go probably two to three times a day pre-op at random intervals. Now I usually go twice in the morning then 85% of the time I’m done for the day. When I do have another trip later in the day it has yet to have a sense of urgency to it. So yes, the “you’ll shit yourself do death” BS is just that for most of us…… BS!

Now on to why I’m popping up in here today. 2010 is literally hours away from us now. My new year’s resolution is to be more active and to do my DS duty in “paying it forward”. We have to get the message out about this wonderful WLS option. I’m down 61 pounds and tomorrow I’m just 8 weeks out! Some of you might say that is great, and even though I’m not totally complaining, I’m slightly concerned it may be too fast.

I always said I would do my part, so damnit here I am to do just that.

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Prattville, AL
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11/06/2009
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