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Any nurses on this gastric sleeve journey. How are things going ? How your coworkers acting since your new you appearance negative or positive

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Hello i am not a nurse but I am a doctor [emoji40] and I had my bypass surgery on september 1st. It's been a crazy month of changing of dealing with my new gut ha. But at work everyone has been so supportive I expected something completely different. But as you surround yourself with Healthcare people they know that is best for you and it will improve your life significantly. I hope your journey is going well also.

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I'm a nurse and had the sleeve 6 months ago, and I have to tell u everyone at my job have been so excited and happy for me, I wearing 3x scrubs and am now down to size large, most people where curious, only one person made a negative comment and said i looked better fat I now look like a crackhead, always gotta have one hater in
the crowd. HW 290 SW 250 CW 180. I started the program in June 2016 290 had surgery in April 2017 ,that's a 110 lb loss, 70 since surgery. Good luck to you!!!

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Hi Karen, Carolyn, I do hope to get positive feedback but not sure before I left I sort made jokes about it to see what would be said and like 90 percent of people was total against ire even my husband. I did have the sleeve on 9-19-17 went back into hospital one week later for an another procedure still trying to get over that. I have only lost 8 pounds. I guess I have somewhat of an excuse. No time for getting out to walk yet but maybe next week me and Mygirl ( sleeve ) will rage over the road gym or whatever it take to shed some real pounds. Keep in touch I would like to see both of you ladies outcome. See you around.


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mygirl2017, wishing u the best of luck, stay in touch, be proud of the decision u made to have the surgery, it's a hole new life,

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