Last Post For A Bit
At the beginning of this journey I looked at the surgery as a "Prison". It was all for my own good of course, but still I would be shut out of the old life I had. You know what I mean, the chinese buffets, all you can eat ribs, and all of the other all you can eats out there. Just recently did the light finally come on for me. I am not being put into a prison where my choices are limited and dictated to me because of the size of my stomach or the intolerance of sugar. I am being set free from the "Prison". No longer will I be trapped in an overweight body, that can't resist the temptation of being able to eat enough food to feed an Ethopian village for a week , for only $5.95 drink included. I will no longer be forced to sit under the air conditioning and fan just to stay cool during the summer. I won't be left out of leisure activities because, I just get too tired. I won't have to wait for that great new movie to come out on video, because soon I will be free to go to the theatre, and I won't have to cram my butt into a seat designed for a 12 year old.
Today is my last day to be locked up. I have marked the last day on my prison cell. Tomorrow I am released. There will be adjustments, someone doesn't just walk back into society after being locked up for 10-20 years. There is a lot of work ahead for me. I have to learn how to live on the outside again. This is true freedom.
I will have my wife come on here and post my condition, when she comes home to check on the Cats. I want to thank everybody for their support and words of wisdom throught my journey, and I look forward to many more days, weeks, and years on continued friendships on and off of this board.
Dennis,
You have no idea how right you are. Tommorrow is the first day of the rest of your life.
You are being freed. Freed from the awful thing that has controlled your life and the choices that you have made.
I am one year out now, and I have lost 128 lbs., I would do this all over again in a heartbeat no questions asked.
For the first time in years I am alive!
God's Speed and Many Prayers,
Janna
Good Sir!! I want to offer congratulations on your "release from prison", your surgery! I do pray this finds you doing well!! I am so glad that you printed this. I just sent an email to a friend of mine not 10 min earlier stating i was so scared of not being able to change my thinking as i dread not being able to eat the way i have, what will i do. you put it in perspective for me. So if it helps to know, I am printing this and keeping it with me. My surgery is not until 10/26/04 with Dr Floyd. Family obligations and a wedding have caused it to be so far away. I have time to get truly good and scared.
I wish you the best and do thank you again for your message!!!
Let us know how you are doing!
Susan Herrin
Shawnee OK
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