Obesity surgery

Hello everyone…I don’t suppose any of you here
now even recognize my name. I had my surgery April
14th 1999 and just celebrated my 2nd birthday or
perhaps "anniversary" would be a better way to say it. I
came back here from time to time to keep up with
everyone and to let you all know how I was doing, but it’s
been a very long time since I’ve "dropped in" to let
you all know how I’m doing.<br>As previously stated I
am 2 yrs out from my surgery and to date have lost
just over 200 pounds. I have been the same weight
since Sept of last year. Those last 20 pounds are
hanging on for dear life but since I’ve stabilized at
this weight for so long I’m not dreading being 20
pounds more than I "wished" I could be, especially after
losing over 200 other pounds! My life has change so

greatly that to even remember back to my life prior to
surgery is nothing short of a living nightmare. Thank God
for a wonderful husband and a supportive
family!<br>Just a really quick story before I say farwell.<br>We
went home last year to see family & friends in Calif.
No one had seen me since my surgery and many never
knew I’d even had surgery…we stopped by the church
we’d been members at for 4 years and I couldn’t figure
out why no one was saying hello and giving "welcome
hugs" except for my husband. Everyone was hugging him
and excited to see him, even the minister said
something to him from the pulpit…I couldn’t figure out
why everyone was being so distant with me! It wasn’t
until the end of the service when it came out, with
much embarassment on everyone’s faces, that they
thought I was "the home wrecker…the ‘other woman’
"….!!! That was the hi-lite of my trip home!! We laughed
for days over that and it wasn’t until then that I
realized just how much I had changed…no one, not even my
closest friends could recognize me!<br>Much luck to all
of you that have gone thru the surgery and are
waiting to have it! This surgery was a life saver for
me!<br>Wendy Helzer<br>pre op weight 355<br>surgery date
4/14/99<br>open RNY Salt Lake City UT

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