Hi I am Darrin and new to the forums

Hi my name is Darrin I am brand new to OH, I learned about it from my wife who just had her RNY on 8/6/07.  I have been obese all my life since the age of 7.  I am 38 years old now and feel like I am 70.  My entire family is scared to death that I am going to die, especially because I have a long history of early heart diesea in my family.  My father died at 42 and I don't want to end up like that. I am currently 335 and except for a few exception have been around this size most of my life. I look forward to getting to know all of you and sharing in this journey I am looking farward to taking Darrin

Welcome aboard.   Give our best to your wife.  Hope everything is going well on her end.  I'm 4 weeks out of RNY-open.  Feeling great, no complications.   If you have any questions just fire away. Good to have you aboard.  You will find that on this board, the men do not hold back anything. Mike

Darrin -  Welcome aboard.  It good to have another on this side.  As you will see, they guys dont hold anything back.  We are blunt and sometimes give each other a swift kick in the butt. Take time to read previous posts.  Look at topics that interst you and read up.  It will help.  Also you can ask anything you want. Keep us all posted on the date of surgery, progress, etc. Welcome again and we will save you a space on the loosers bench.

Welcome!!

Hi Darrin, Glad you found us. This is a great place and you'll quickly discover how much many of us have in common, regardless of our ages, backgrounds, etc. Stop by often and don't be hesitant to ask questions and post comments. You're on the track to a better life.

  Welcome Darrin, I , like you learned about this site from my wife.  She had her surgery on 6/4/07.  Sounds familiar doesn't.  Anyway, welcome to the locker room!  My wife refers to it as the most disgusting place in OH.  that;s only because we speak our mind around here.  Feel free to follow that lead, ask questions, respond to post, and hang on for a wild ride!

Hi darrin.  I am new to this as you are.  Welcome and good luck!

Welcome to the men’s locker room, what I think is the best damn board here on OH. There are a great bunch of guys here on this board ranging from pre-ops to guys with many years post-op. They will tell you like it is because they have been there and done that. I know I have learned a bunch from the guys. Also no topic is taboo we share it all. I have been so inspired by the men’s board I trained through OH to become a certified support group leader in my state, and created a men’s only support group and named it the men’s locker room. So Darrin welcome aboard.

Welcome guys. This is a great place to hang out. Lots of info and support are on here daily. Ask anything, there are all kinds of different cases of WLS on here. The good, the bad, and the ugly, but all in all we made it through.

Hey Darrin Welcome!!!!!!!!!!     John