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Let me give you the opposite challenge Is It Worth it to Postpone, WhimWah around until the Day your surgeon says you're in too poor a shape to be a Good Surgery Candidate. Do you have the strength and resolution to fight an uphill battle at 72, like me? Do you want to be tilting windmills like an Bariatric Geriatric Don Quixote? Do you want to have to prove you're healthy inside, many people my age aren't, you're committed enough, hear it may take you longer to heal, be told there is a higher risk of you dying than if you were 30 or even 40, to have to impress a medical community than once refused surgery to anyone over 60, to take a chance on you, to have friends and family tell you you're silly, only self-centered, you don't care about the outcome for them? Will you fold, give up this dream, die obese and in pain? Or will you persevere against these odds , go forward and receive your surgery? My battle would have been easier then, but the Victory can and will be Mine. To be brutally honest,if I can do it against all the odds I've faced and beaten, why can't you see IT IS WORTH IT?

8 to 5 your taste buds will change , you won't crave those things, since,they won't taste the same it,will take only 1 time and you'll,go Yuck,what. did I ever Like about Those Things? And you might crave different, more healthy things, as an example although I am still pre-surgery when I ditched cakes and their sticky,little family members I developed a craving,for,veggies. Too early after my Breakfast,protein shake but I'd really like some fresh cooked green or yellow wax beans about right,now. Failing that , some well- c9oked Brussels sprouts , I could pop them like I used to pop potato chips.🍛

Hmmn You were allowed to go to a different hospital/surgeon? One of my Bari-friends in Columbus works at Riverside Methodist Hospital. They require their employees do all their,procedures "in house" . If you do go to another local 🏣hospital, you had better have an air-tight excuse like "you were unconscious and,you next-of- kin signed you in there and you.left as soon as possible."🏣

Hope you all report back to us. The sheer number of Pals put my Worry Wart machine in over-drive!😧💦😧

Having the Butterflies in my Stomach removed, if they say Hunnh? Serves them right for being nibby!

God Bless Crystal Light, Mio and Decaffinated tea, there is NOTHING NASTIER than puddle-warm drinking water, I like cold liquids, hot tea but Please deliver me from room-temp things!

And I fervently hope my nearly,5 week liver-shrinking, sparing diet pares a few more recalcitrant,pounds from my chassis.🚘 If not, I'm still doing,ME to the best,of my ability. If that does not please my surgeon, he can go,preform an anantomical impossibility, something very nasty, to himself. I am strong, I am resolute and after Years and Years of apologizing, being a low-drama MAMA, I am 72,and I APOLOGIZE NO LONGER. I have been a pleaser, an appeaser, I have learned when you turn the other cheek, you get 2 bruised clerks instead of one. Now I Will live up to my flaming-red hair, I TRULY. NOW WILL DO ME!

And my Best Wishes and 🙏prayers for you!

Minor chance of such things happenning, still going to have my. bypass in a month. I feel like continued fat buildup could also block my bowels, kinda strangle them also. And the uncertainty of Surgery scares me far less than continuing as I am. And I shall March into OSU, since arthritis bans me b from ever running again, with my head held high, clear-eyed and hope in my ❤. I know what I am doing, no quibble, no qualm, I know why I am doing,it, because I do want to live, not only for those who love me but for myself. This the ultimate, most wonderful 📦gift,i can give,ME, the chance to live, and live well. And I know who it will benefit the most. True the surgeon and the facility will be blessed with $thanks to my,insurances, but the benefits to ME are beyond diamonds, platinum and Bill Gate's Very Large Fortune, I will have an abundant supply of Life and I will not waste this valuable gift. If somehow I can pay,it forward so frightened newbies are no longer scared, that older seekers will find that there is Still Hope, that ambivalence turns to certainty, then my struggles are,vindicated. And as a believer, if that 1 in 100 million bad outcome happens, and at 72 it is Always in the Back,of the Mind, I will wake up with my Lord Jesus Christ instead of in a recovery room, I will have Victory and everyone will have knowledge I did the BEST for ME!

Look for people who are sincerely are interested YOUR success. Ifbtheu ask How they can make your weight loss journey smooth and uneventful that is an excellent choice. Are they,interested in how you tick, your hopes, your plans, your dreams for the future, you are not merely flesh surrounding a stomach, you are a PERSON.

CreekImp said they were crunchy and slightly nutty, rather like an Eco-Crouton!

And I will celebrate being on Day#4 of my liver-shrinking diet and I AIN'T BUCKLED YET! And they said someone,my age couldn't do it. I,must have deep resources no one gave,me credit for!😛👍🍶

How about " My tummy is a little touchy today, didn't want just sip water so I got something with protein and vitamins" and then change the coversation to something YOU do feel comfortable discussing like baseball or 🏈, I'm a bit of a tomboy so I dont usually discuss lipsick shades or eye shadow.. There is an old saying about "tempering the wind to the shorn lamb" I always in this cicumstance felt it meant talking about the easiest, least offensive subjects.

How are you doing with your mesh? You hear such horror stories about on the,media, probably funded by personal injury lawyers. But I get scared for MY friends!

"Relish the Taste of " instead of Love, is that the thin line between Gourmet-Gourmand- and sheer Gluttony? I only know Food was a toxic boy-friend , we needed to break up because he was. set upon trying to kill me . And like the women beaten within an inch of their life appearing on Jerry,Springer, I kept saying " But he said he,❤ loves me, I can't live without him in my life, he's the only true friend,i have!" I didn't think I was strong enough to leave him behind, after all it had been years and years, but I am a strong woman after all. Isn't easy, I still am hearing him in the background, singing, wolf whistling , trying to get my attention. Don't know if he will ever shut up , maybe like an alcoholic has to be very careful--- I am a recovering foodaholic . and will be the rest,of my life?

I did see someone was having theirs in Cary, N.C., not,Georgia, but. a etate away. And I believe there some surgeons in Virginia doing theme Besides there, maybe Missouri, around Saint Louis? And I know Bari-pal Lynn is having one through a hospital/bariatric program in Cincinnati Ohio. Most of the rest seem to be overseas.

The thing that concerns me. about sugar free candies, and I doubt I will use them, too close to real thing, could seduce me back over the "line" to,read thing again. But I fear even more their laxative effects from over indulgence. Be ye Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, Muslim or even atheistic, you will worship fervently,at the Porcelain,Throne and with great repetition !😖

Oops it's the 4th not the 5th, 3 in the morning, should sleep instead of posting. Night Night All!👹💤💤👹!!

Oh Goody Goody! A new friend is joining us. @ luv2terriers is having, her surgery September 5th. A new friend, maybe a forever buddy also ?

One from my Brownies days ever so long ago Make.New friendss*** But keep the old*** One is. Silver*** And the other's Gold.👫👫🙅💁🙋💆💇🙎🙍

Don't really know yet( ( will in Just 1 Month!) But my,gall bladder was "open". Nausea,dizziness when I first stood up, but no ⛽ so this will be a Brand New World!🌏

There are on Virginia, MD , NY , MA and think either New Jersey or Pennsylvania, so see I don't have any Wegmans either. I don't even have Meijer or Giant 3agle, there are at least 30 miles away. I have. Krogers, Wal-Mart and an IGA and we have 20,000 people population.

And Because after all these📝 years I have learned to ❤ myself! after all Body and I have,gone through, I give you the 🎁Gift of Surgery. This is the sweetest thing I ever have done for ME!👄

Well I know my former insurance United Health Care had or still has. a 1 Bariatric Procedure in a lifetime clause. I remember being grateful for Obamacate, when insurances companies were,forced to offer maternity and childbirth coversge, somehow Bariatrics got," grandfathered" in . Before that point Bariatrics was an elective "vaniety" procedure. And I am one to the least vain persons you would ever meet. Except,for a little lipstick, I seldom wear make up, bebop in t-shirts and levis in the summer, sweats in the winter, baby doll pyjamas or gowns in the house, sleep in oversized t-shirts(legacy of the Late Lamented) in transition seasons with cotton bike shorts, and comb my hair by touch instead of looking in a mirror. So Vain? I don't think So. I want surgery to insure I continue living, to lessen arthritis stranglehold on my body, to move freer but most of all as a for,4to my,body for putting up with me and my foibles for 72 years. THESE 5-7 CUTS ARE FOR YOU, BABY!🙋

Well tomorrow,is your BIG DAY. Boy there are a lot of August 6th people, so far there are only me and 2 others on September 5th, but I am sure there will be new ones this week, all getting started on their diets.😛🙏😛