Rusty2
4-24-07: Initially, the dietary workshop we had to attend scared my husband to pieces...and I was quaking a bit myself. After a week of practicing the food plan that I would follow after recovering from my surgery, my husband decided I might be able to do okay with the 'eating thing' after all and he became my greatest supporter. Lots of things have happened since: I melted from a size 24 to a 4-6. I found that the IBS or tummy pains that I had prior to surgery, as well as after, were all connected with an intolerance for glutens. Once that problem was solved, life became much happier, and pain-free, for me. I had a pacemaker inserted a year after WLS; nothing related to WLS but to my father's family genetics. Then, after becoming a real-life 'snow bunny' for the first time, snowshoeing to my little heart's delight, my knee wore out...again...and I had my 6th knee replacement in Feb., 3 years after my WLS. I must admit that recovery was worlds easier this time than it was when I weighed so much more.
