The surgery went off without a hitch. I never took pain medicine once it was stopped 1 1/2 days before I left the hospital. The 18 months since surgery have been an interesting journey! I have felt all sorts of odd things like missing shopping the larger size racks and hating how hard toilet seats and most chairs are now! My sense of taste seemed off until about 6 months ago. I thought...
Overweight since I was a child, I had tried and failed with many other weight loss attempts. I knew I needed that extra tool, and gastric bypass was it. It is not a cure, it simply motivates you and forces you to truly think about everything that you eat. I made the decision to have weight loss surgery when I was 19, but it took two years to convince my family that it was what I truly...
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