So many things that I couldn’t do before I can now. We lived in a 1-bedroom apartment in Xenia Ohio and as small as that place was just getting up from my couch in the living room to walk to the kitchen which was just right beside each other and just that little bit of distance and I was totally spent and I couldn’t breath. Taking showers sometimes were next to impossible it felt like because I had to take breaks you know, stop and pause in my showers.
Once I had the surgery all the weight started coming off it was just the difference in walking over to a wall and flipping a light switch on and off is just how big of a difference it is. I couldn’t be happier with the results.
Now I take my dog on walks throughout the neighborhood and we walk all over the place and I don’t even get winded even just a little bit at all. It’s amazing. Me and my wife will take our dog out to the dog park and the one we go to has got a big hill that you go up and so we walk up that hill and not a problem at all whereas before I wouldn’t have even thought to attempt something like that because I knew that I would have known that there is just no way that I could do that you know and so walking, just walking is amazing for me. Ahh getting in and out of the vehicles, ah, I play music, I play guitar in my church, ah it got to the point in my church prior to my surgery where I had to get a chair and sit down because my back hurt me so bad and at the same time just from the stress of holding the guitar up you wouldn’t think that just from the stress of holding the guitar up I couldn’t breath I was having problems breathing. And then once I lost all the weight you know even folks at my church were like, they were just astounded, they couldn’t believe it, the transformation you know that took place. It’s just nothing short of amazing as far as I’m concerned.
I think of things you know constantly, sometimes on a daily basis I’m reminded of how things that I couldn’t do before that I can do now and I’m constantly thanking God that you know I’m able to function and do things and actually have a life you know whereas before I really didn’t have a life, my life was spent in the hospital all the time.
Oh I’m very glad I did this and you know one of the things, we fill out a questionnaire, the bariatric patients, when we come in to see our doctor we fill out a questionnaire, it has a whole list of questions on it but one of the questions on that paper, and it’s at the very end, it says “would you do bariatric surgery all over again”. I always mark it absolutely yes because oh my gosh when I look back at what my life was before and how it is now, I wish I would of done it a much longer time ago.
