Obesity surgery

I am in an interesting place. I have completed all my tests required for my
surgeon, and I assume in the process of getting insurance approval. I say
"assume" because all I get when I call the doctor’s office is a message
machine, and I don’t really know. I have not yet cut way back on carbs,
though I am supposed to have done that. I look back, and know that I have
left that way of life in pursuing this radical treatment to my inability to
keep weight off. I look forward, to the surgery and the post-surgery life,
and it is hard to imagine what it will be like, existing with a stomach the
size of a thumb. I am excited, scared, afraid of somehow failing, and also
feeling a kind of grief of leaving some of the basic things that I have
enjoyed (to my own destruction) in the area of food. So, I guess it is a
mixed bag of emotions, and by faith, I am proceeding forward, knowing that
my weight has given me bad back, sciatic pain in my legs, diabetes, sleep
apnea, social fears and issues, and has shortened my life. So, I am going
forward, but must admit there is part of me that wishes that the doctor’s

office never calls, and that the surgery date will be postponed forever.
Anyway, I just wanted to share my thoughts with people who probably have
gone through similar paths. I am sure that you will be hearing more from me
in the future.

Danny Groveman

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