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Yes, I did. The results of the pre-surgery liquid diet were losing the weight I’d gained after my paperwork was completed and submitted to the insurance company (submitted in August, approved in September, but I didn’t have the surgery until December). As I recall, my last appointment with the surgeon was on a Friday, and my surgery was on a Wednesday, and I gained a pound or two in the meantime due to not adhering rigidly to the diet, but no one batted an eyelash when they weighed me at the hospital when I checked in for the surgery.

I went and drank my face off at 10 months post-surgery and it went fine. Better than fine, actually; I had a lot more energy to stay out all night than I did before. So you have that to look forward to n

I’d been on Janumet and Invokana for several years prior to surgery. It was well-controlled with those, but my doctor warned me that they wouldn’t work forever and, when they stopped working, I’d have to use insulin injections to control it. I stopped the Invokana when I started the pre-surgery liquid diet and dropped to one Janumet pill the day before the surgery. I did get insulin injections a few times in the hospital, which I’d never had before. The first A1C test that completely covered the post-surgery period was 5.2, down from 6.3, so they took me off the other Janumet pill and my A1C has stayed there since then. The figure they gave us at the support group was 80% of patients who have been diabetic for less than 5 years prior to the surgery see their diabetes go into remission, so YMMV.

Truth be told I don’t think they even gave me the prescription till one of my post-op appointments.

They won’t give you anything too intense for pain since nausea is a known side effect of painkillers and they don’t want you throwing up with fresh staples in your stomach. They sent me home with Tramadol. Unfortunately I don’t think cannabis is going to be a good option for treating pain immediately after surgery. But they won’t sent you home from the hospital unless your pain is fairly well-controlled.

Lentil soup, I think. Then baby food (the chicken and turkey were good, the beef, not so much). Then applesauce.

No, I have enough of my own **** to work through. Like fitting comfortably in an airplane seat when, four years ago, I watched a couple fight over who had to sit next to me on a flight from Chicago to LA. Or yesterday, when I fit easily onto a roller coaster that I was thrown off of for being too fat two years ago (and after being proud of myself for having lost 60 pounds, no less). Why would I have the time to judge others when I have all this to work through?

Good for you! All that random flirting has to lead somewhere!

Yes, you are right, “break” is something else entirely.

Since pre-surgery men love to ask about extra inches gained thanks to weight loss... Before surgery, I didn’t, um, “break.” Now...I do. To the left, as it turns out. This may just be due to the fact that I’m wearing pants where the crotch sits higher than it used to, but...yeah.

We kinda had an uncomfortable moment recently when the woman who performs at the local music-for-kids performances, which Henry and I attended regularly while I was on leave, told my wife how cute she thought I was. If the woman didn’t look like a gargoyle, it might have been really awkward for everyone involved.

I don't understand the d**k pics. I can't believe anyone would actually want to see mine.

I mean, I do.

A few months ago, I was talking to a single woman in her late 40s, and she said men send her unsolicited d**k pics too.

My dietitian would probably prefer I eat sushi or sashimi since they’re mostly/all protein, but I just prefer rolls.

Not that they’re uniform size or anything, but I’m almost a year out and I can eat an entire small-diameter Philly roll. Before the surgery, I could eat that, plus an entire steak-and-chicken-and-shrimp teppanyaki meal, plus probably stop for a double cheeseburger and fries on the way home.

Thanks! His name is Henry. As luck would have it, they charged me for a kid’s portion.

Not quite, but he had his first puréed food (sweet potatoes) last weekend and loved them.

The card wouldn’t matter, either they’re gonna be jerks about it or they’re not.

We are going to a restaurant with my parents and in-laws. I will ask if I can get a kids’ portion of the food (it’s served family-style), but I’m not hopeful. Will probably just have to nibble on everything.

6 psyllium husk capsules in the morning, 6 at night (I had to have surgery to repair an anal fissure in 2014 and I REALLY need to keep things moving so I don’t get another one). Strawberries. Beans.

To date I've had 3 sleep studies (1 pre-surgery, 2 post-surgery to determine correct titration/whether I still had OSA) and all three have been in a lab. I'd rather do that than at at-home study, honestly, and my insurance has no issues covering it.

It was a rhetorical question.

Why no, she's as skinny as a rail. Why do you ask?