sportera
As of today, the day before my RNY surgery, I am 62 years old, 5'10", and weighing 333 lbs. I am on a multitude of daily medications for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholestrol. I have sleep apnea and have to use a C-Pap machine every night when I go to bed. About 3 years ago, when I was at my heaviest weight of 346lbs, I was diagnosed with a 30% blockage near my heart and still have shortness of breath just taking a shower whenever I gain a couple lbs.
I was never overweight as a young man. In fact I was quite skinny and took stuff to try to gain weight. It wasn't until I quite smoking around age 37 that I started gaining weight. Moving from an outside field labor job to an inside desk job added to the weight gain. Sure, I tried every diet in the book like most of you and it was always the same. I'd lose a few lbs, then gain it all back "+10 more". As the weight came on, so did the health problems.
So here I am with RNY surgery scheduled tomorrow. I'm somewhat excited but a little scared and nervous at the same time. Changing eating habits I've lived with for 62 years seems to be quite a hurtle to overcome. I'm hoping this will be an adventure that will get me off the medicine and C-Pap, and give me more energy to start living more and dying less. I have 2 teenagers in college that I'd like to live to see finish college, start a family, and be off on their own. I have a 35 year old son, from a prior marriage, that lost his mother last year. We haven't spent much time together in the past years. I'd like to spend the remainder of my life getting closer to he and his family. And mostly, now that all my children have now left the nest, I want to have time to re-kindle my relationship with my precious wife, Ronda. I want to spend quality time in our remaining years together doing things we could not in the past 20 years while raising a family and living for our children.
So the adventure begins !!!
