Best wishes to you on your upcoming, life saving
                   surgery.  We are both so pleased to be writing to 
                   you and sending all of our heartfelt congratulations
                   to you for choosing this procedure to extend your
                   life and to let you live your life to the fullest extent.
                   We both had open rny's in 2001.  Mine (Doug, 
                   aka: OLD RODEO CLOWN PANTS), was in Oct
                   and I have lost 215 lbs.  I started at 450!!!!   My 
                   sweet wife, Nancy, had hers in June and has
                   lost 110 lbs.  We invite you to go read our profiles 
                   and hope it might help you in some way.  We are
                   not professional writers, but all that we wrote is 
                   true and honest.  Just remember that YOU WILL
                   SUCCEED!!!   BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND YOU
                   CANNOT FAIL.   We wish you all the best, a problem
                   free surgery and recovery and a rapid weight loss.  
                   From:  Doug and Nancy Wilson, La Mesa, CA,