SIX WEEKS OUT...BACK TO MY ROUTINE

Mar 09, 2011

Well I am six weeks post op and FINALLY feeling like a new person. I have not had any complications,but have experienced extreme fatigue.

My medical team from Grand Health Partners (dietitian, exercise physiologist, PA, and surgeon), told me that most people "turn a corner" at about six weeks and feel great...WELL THIS IS ME!

My weight loss at my six week appointment is 40 lbs. I believe that I hit the dreaded stall the past several weeks. I am not too hung up on it because my hormones are all over the board and along with this comes weight fluctuation with my ole body.

Tomorrow March 10, I head back to work after being gone for nearly three months. The majority of this time off has been related to my lack of  mobility due to advanced bilateral Osteoarthritis in both of my knees. I have noticed a big difference with at least 10 % of my weight gone. I have been moving much better. I am receiving injections in my knees to assist with the mobility and to help me put off knee replacements for a few years.

I am a medical social worker, so I need to be ready to be up and moving as my job is very busy and at times chaotic. I am called to assist with upset patients and families, so I need every bit of energy and mobility that my body can give me.

I have absolutely no regrets regarding having this surgery and feel so blessed to have found Dr. Kemmeter and his staff. I have found this web site and the VSG forum to be a God send. As a past addictions counselor, I know the importance of group support, especially with people who share the same issues.

I realize that my journey has just begun and that it will be life long. It will be full of peaks and valleys. God never promised us a rose garden. Like any thing worth having that is good for us, we must work for it.

I look forward to the day that I can hop up on a horse and ride with ease, take my grand children to the park without feeling like I am going to pass out and die, and most of all, just walk without pain.

Until We Meet Again,

Michelle

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