I am scheduled to have my surgery on 20 October 2016 at St. Mary Mercy in Livonia, MI. So far, Dr. Roberts and his staff have been fantastic. I will post here again once I have the RNY surgery.

Good luck on your upcoming surgery and let us know if we can be of any help.

I guess that I forgot to post after my surgery. Here I am almost 9 months out, 100 pounds down and I have passed my surgeon's weight loss goal. I am doing great and feeling fantastic. I had no pain meds either in or out of the hospital. The only issue that I had is that I ended up in the ER the day after my birthday because I hadn't had a BM in a week. Turns out it was an enlarged prostrate (who'd of thunk it).

Anyways, I can eat what I want (nothing disagrees with me)(meaning what I am supposed to eat), rejoined the Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan State Honor Guard and love the new me.