PhillyEagles

Hey thanks for the reply! Good luck to you as well. There are support groups around me but I am pretty anti social when it comes to stuff like that so I haven't been to any as of yet. Have you gone? And have you benefited from it?

What's up everybody, long time lurker, first time poster. I have a surgery date of July 6 and I am looking for others as well. This is actually my second time going through this process, I went through the process like 2.5 years ago and stopped my surgery about a week before it was time to go through with it. I am going to do it this time, I need to. I'm prior service Army Infantry and there is a pretty big stigma about how this will be taking the easy way out from my friends who I served with which is why I'm only telling very few people. Not a lot of people I interact with have any knowledgeable information about what I'm getting ready to do so this is why I keep it to myself. I'm pretty young still, 26... and have been married going on 7 years and my wife is my support system, she sees how hard I try to lose weight and she is 100% behind my decision. I worked as a Sheriff's Deputy in a jail near where I live for almost a year and then I had to step down to deal with some family issues, but I really want to go back. How long after surgery will you all guess that I have to wait before being cleared? The worst case scenario is pushing it too soon and getting in a fight with one of the inmates and me tearing stitches or something along those lines. Sorry for the long post, just wanted to introduce myself and if there's anything else you guys wanna know, you know where to find me. 6ft 4in HW: 366 SW: 355 CW: 322 (need to be below 320 by 6/23 for pre op appointment). GW: 220lbs OR LESS!