Congrats Molly, I am here in BA also.  I am not on the board a lot, but here if you need to ask questions.  You can email me @ [email protected]

Best wishes.  It will be great.

Phyllis

Today, Dr. Broussard did an EGD to take a look at my previous fundoplication surgery.  Prior to the EGD, he said he might be able to leave the wrap (fundoplication) in place, but after the scope he said he would have to unwrap the fundo in order to do the Gastric Sleeve.  As many of you know my wife, Amy, had the sleeve almost two years ago and has lost 180+ pounds.  I very much need to do this also.  To my surprise, when I saw Dr. Broussard a few weeks ago, I found that I am in the morbidly obese category.  Diets don't work - I always put it all back on plus more.   I know from Amy's experience also that the sleeve isn't a magic button - it still takes work (and a great deal of it) on my part.  I had finally come to the decision that I was willing to do this but ran into a bit of a bump in the road today (or maybe a complete roadblock).  Dr. B said that if he unwraps the fundo, that it increases my risk of a leak from 0.5% to somewhere between 5% to 7%.  I know a leak, if detected early, can be managed but can also be fatal.  I also know, that if I continue at this weight, I have great risk of developing diabetes, having a stroke, heart attack, and so on.   I take 10 pills each morning and 4 at night (14 pills a day) plus sleep with a CPAP.  I know a successfull sleeve may do away with the need for CPAP, reduce or alleviate my High Blood Pressure as well as other health issues.  So, I'm stumped.  I certainly want to do the "right" thing but now I'm confused.   Any suggestions, personal experiences, etc. would be much appreciated.     Randy

 How cool is that! I can hardly wait to get there.

last week, 295
this week 293.25

feeling much better and doing more each day.  I'm so glad to see the weight going down again.

Yea Heather!!!  I remember you because my 2 year is on July 2nd and I was watching your progress because you were ahed of me.  I am so happy for you.  Gaining only 34 lbs pregnancy and losing it plus 7 is incredible.  It proves you have changed your lifestyle!  Way to go girl!!