Our parents remember what they were doing when man landed on the moon.
Our babysitters remember what they were doing when Michael Jackson first did the moon walk.
We remember what we were doing when 9/11 happened, when certain celebrities died.. but do we remember what we were doing when someothing awesome happened ? (I want to say when Obama won.. but I know that not everyone who reads this was amazed by that... so I won't say it.)
I remember what I was doing when I first learned that gastric bypass existed. It was a warm summer night, and mom and dad were sitting on the porch, because it was much cooler outside than inside the house. A/C window units were still such a luxury back then. Dad is a long haul trucker, he listens to CBC all the time, and that week they had interviewed a barriatric surgeon and someone who had had success with the operation.
My mom yelled at me through the screen door "Nancy, come here please? Have a seat, we have something to tell you." I sat down and they told me everything Dad had heard on the radio about the gastric bypass. It sounded to us all like a miracle. My parents said that they would try to learn more about this and how available it would be, and we would go from there.
That was the end of that.. until now. I'm scared. I'm excited. I'm afraid that if I have WLS, that my weight loss won't be mine. That I won't get the credit for it. Which is ridiculous, I know.
So much work, effort and recovery goes into that surgery that it would absolutely be to your credit!
Of course you would get the credit for it! You still have to do the hard work, not to mention the surgery, to get there. How soon might this be happening?
Well I read in the literature that they sent me that there are like 3 categories.. (If I am an elligible candidate healthwise) The first category is if you have obesity related diseases (diabetes/high blood pressure etc) then you're on the list for a bout 6 months (the fastest). So the fastest this could happen is 6 months... or I could wait 2 years...
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