Traveling overseas/being a missionary after wls

This week at my (wonderful) church it is Missions week. Today I had lunch with a missionary and heard many missionary women speak. One was working with street children in Honduras to try to help them get small businesses started instead of stealing and another lady from India was adopting/finding placement for baby girls to give families an alternative for killing the babies because they were girls (female infanticide). <br> These women were so brave and inspiring! I have such mixed feelings; I would love to be able to go on a short term missions trip and do whatever I could to help. But sometimes I feel like gastric bypass would limit me from doing anything like this. I am scared to consider traveling overseas after surgery; what if the food made me sick. Or worse, what if I got sick and was accidentally intubated by medical personnel.<br> I would like to hear from post ops who have traveled overseas and/or possible gone on short term missions and been successful in avoiding problems. Am I being a worrywart or should I seriously consider the fact that I may only be able to support these people financially and not in person? Thanks so much in advance! :)

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