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I am glad to be a new member.

My history:In 2009 I had all of my tests in and visits done and ready to have a Roux en Y in June of 2009. In January I had my usual 3 month lab test done for my diabetes and my bad cholesterol was 75. I was working on weight loss pre-surgery and successfully lost 20 pounds. In late February I had some shoulder blade pain that I attributed to long hours and poor posture while playing the piano and being on the computer, and on a fall I had taken. Early March I had 2 really bad nights with the pain. So I went to work and after work I said maybe I should do something about that pain, so I went to the ER. It was really packed so I put down I had chest pains so I could get done earlier.

The joke was on me. I was in the middle of a cardiac event and left on an ambulance 45 minutes later headed to the nearest cath lab. A day and a half later I had a 3XCABG. After that I lost another 25 pounds and was right on the borderline of the 35 BMI index and in my mind put off the gastric surgery (plus it was way too soon). Here I am 18 months later, 22 pounds heavier, and having problems with lousy diabetes control (as well as sleep apnea, high blood pressure).

I went back to see the Bariatric Surgeon and he suggested the sleeve surgery as our Blue Cross in Michigan recently approved the surgery for people with lower BMI's and because I have to take a daily aspirin.

So I am pretty sure I am point to follow my Dr.s advice and have the VSL.

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I am glad to be a new member.

My history:In 2009 I had all of my tests in and visits done and ready to have a Roux en Y in June of 2009. In January I had my usual 3 month lab test done for my diabetes and my bad cholesterol was 75. I was working on weight loss pre-surgery and successfully lost 20 pounds. In late February I had some shoulder blade pain that I attributed to long hours and poor posture while playing the piano and being on the computer, and on a fall I had taken. Early March I had 2 really bad nights with the pain. So I went to work and after work I said maybe I should do something about that pain, so I went to the ER. It was really packed so I put down I had chest pains so I could get done earlier.

The joke was on me. I was in the middle of a cardiac event and left on an ambulance 45 minutes later headed to the nearest cath lab. A day and a half later I had a 3XCABG. After that I lost another 25 pounds and was right on the borderline of the 35 BMI index and in my mind put off the gastric surgery (plus it was way too soon). Here I am 18 months later, 22 pounds heavier, and having problems with lousy diabetes control (as well as sleep apnea, high blood pressure).

I went back to see the Bariatric Surgeon and he suggested the sleeve surgery as our Blue Cross in Michigan recently approved the surgery for people with lower BMI's and because I have to take a daily aspirin.

So I am pretty sure I am point to follow my Dr.s advice and have the VSL.

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I am glad to be a new member.

My history:In 2009 I had all of my tests in and visits done and ready to have a Roux en Y in June of 2009. In January I had my usual 3 month lab test done for my diabetes and my bad cholesterol was 75. I was working on weight loss pre-surgery and successfully lost 20 pounds. In late February I had some shoulder blade pain that I attributed to long hours and poor posture while playing the piano and being on the computer, and on a fall I had taken. Early March I had 2 really bad nights with the pain. So I went to work and after work I said maybe I should do something about that pain, so I went to the ER. It was really packed so I put down I had chest pains so I could get done earlier.

The joke was on me. I was in the middle of a cardiac event and left on an ambulance 45 minutes later headed to the nearest cath lab. A day and a half later I had a 3XCABG. After that I lost another 25 pounds and was right on the borderline of the 35 BMI index and in my mind put off the gastric surgery (plus it was way too soon). Here I am 18 months later, 22 pounds heavier, and having problems with lousy diabetes control (as well as sleep apnea, high blood pressure).

I went back to see the Bariatric Surgeon and he suggested the sleeve surgery as our Blue Cross in Michigan recently approved the surgery for people with lower BMI's and because I have to take a daily aspirin.

So I am pretty sure I am point to follow my Dr.s advice and have the VSL.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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