What Has Changed???

Oh Lori...I got very emotional reading your list. I just KNOW there are others out there who are feeling like you did. I pray they will give themselves the gift of love in WLS like you & the rest of us have.  I am so happy to read that these are no longer issues for you. No one should ever have to feel that way!  HUGS  Jeanine

Ahhh geeze Jeanine....way to set off the waterworks...lol I can't say that depression will never be an issue for me again, but GOOD LORD 100 pounds took a hell of a lot of it away! hahaha and oh yeah, being able to wipe my own ass again probably has a lot to do with it too...lol but i could be wrong....

OOoh ssooowwweeeee. LOL  Geez Louise...ya got me crackin up here, but this is exactly what I mean....here I thought I was the ONLY one who had trouble wipin the butt.  Guess not!  Anyway...that bothered me more than I can ever say. I used to cry over it...my self esteem was in the  toilet along with everything else there!   On a more serious note...if you feel depression creeping back....you now have a board full of friends to vent to and support you! How cool is that?  HUGS Jeanine

Grandson?  You don't look old enough to have a grandson! Kix, astonished

Thanks Kix... I actually turn 34 (gasp) next week, but I got my step-kids when they were 16 and 14, and they are 22 and 20 now.

Lori Those are great.  I can relate to #1. I have two 5 foot mirrors that I look in constantly.......all the time. Sometimes I just stand in front of it in amazement and cry.

Thanks for sharing

 

What a fun post Jeanine! 1  No more diabetes medication. 2  I am able to stand long enough to take a shower...I can even wash spots I couldn't reach before, my feet for example. 3  I can fit in booths and do not have to move the driver's seat back after my husband has used it. 4  I am not ashamed to be seen in public...I can leave my house again. 5  I have a future and I am over my depression for the most part. It will take a while to get past the reclusive life I have been living the last four years and make myself more available to people.  This surgery has given me a very good start on my new goals.  

Well the reason for this post was two-fold. To get others to see our changes as a result of WLS and to make us all aware of how much better/easier life is for us for having done so.  Getting rid of diabetes is HUGE. Congrats!  Thank you for sharing your emotional changes as well. Life is what WE make of it, right?  HUGS  Jeanine

1. I sit on the right side of my desk chair at work just so I can look at the empty space on the left side and smile. Who knew their were sides.  2. I love hanging out with my nieces at the mall. Mainly because I am either the same size or smaller and we can shop at the same stores. 3. I can forget something upstairs and go back and get it myself. 4. I don't mine my doctor wanting to weigh me 5. I wear and buy 3 inch heels every single chance I get. I look so sexy in them and they make me look like......look like I have some azz

Tricie, I can relate to your comment about the desk chair.  I have a "big azz" recliner that I bought when I weighed 530 lbs.  The seat is 26 inches wide, and I used to have to jam myself in it.  Now, there is room for me, plus space on each side for the doxie and shih-tzu to settle in. I agree, who knew there were sides? Kix