I’m doing it. On October 29, I am having weight loss surgery using the lapband method. It’s not an easy choice in many ways, but for me, it is the right choice. Over the last 3 months, I’ve done all the official prep with referrals and evaluations from a psychologist and a clinical nutritionist. I’ve [...]
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Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers and concerns. Knowing I have this web of community through the blogosphere is a great blessing and support.
My mom is doing very well tonight. Last night at this time she was in the OR and tonight she’s resting comfortably in the ICU. The infection [...]
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My dad called this morning at 7:30am with a report on my mom. The wonderful news is that she didn’t die. The rest of it is that she had a second abdominal surgery last night to find and remove the source of life-threatening infection. She now has an 11-inch incision and will [...]
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My mom had her appendix out at 10:30pm last night and is resting comfortably in the hospital. She expected to go home today but her white blood count is very low and they want to make sure the levels rise before they release her.
The surgeon told them that her appendix was falling apart and [...]
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All it took was a phone call to change my mood and my focus.
I had an idea of what I was going to write about tonight – a conversation with a thin person on the bus about overeating at the holidays and being fat – but that all went out the window when my brother [...]
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