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Hey MGB friends
I have not posted in quite a while and thought I would catch you all up. Jon, my hubbie, had his MGB surgery in May and has lost 57 pounds so far and is no longer diabetic...he took his last insulin the day before surgery and his recent A1C test shows 5.4 which has astounded his Endocrinologist. I am down 83 pounds in 6 months and my A1C has dropped to 5.7, another success story. We are presently up in Alaska visiting family and getting out of the Arizona heat...sure do feel the… Continue

Hey friends
I am 6 weeks out from surgery and down 31 pounds and that is not including the 7 I gained in water weight the first week after surgery which would make it 38 down. I am trying out different foods and doing well tho I can not eat much of any one thing and meat fills me up quickly. I measured and am down 7 inches in my waist and I am pulling out old clothes and trying them on to find that most of them now fit. I got rid of the much smaller stuff a couple years ago so I guess in a month… Continue

Well, life on the other side is doing good. I am into stage 2 foods and loving it. My husband, sweet man that he is, is spoiling me and I appreciate it. So far things have been doing well and my bruising from the low platelets is healing faster now. I had some fluid retention right after surgery but that seems to be resolved and the scale is going down now. Today we start on the paper work for my hubbies journey for his MGB and then after his surgery, we will both be on the same path to healthie… Continue

Well, I am now officially in the Post-MGB group of great people. I did well in the surgery and didnt lose too much blood, my platelets had actually gone up alot before surgery so now we will wait till I go back to the hematologist to be certain the low platelets are fixed and were caused by my med.s. that I will no longer have to take. I am back at the hotel and am anxiously waiting for the day I get the staples out. So far so good...had abit of a tummy ache when I ate abit too much and too fast… Continue

Hi everyone...Looks like I am finally going to get to Las Vegas. My hematologist has written and sent the Release for Surgery and I am scheduled for Thursday Feb 26th in Las Vegas with Dr Rutledge and I am excited and scared both. I am busy getting last minute stuff done and packed for our road trip from Az to Vegas on Monday and looking forward to clinic on Tuesday. Just think, in less than a week I will be on the 'other' side and off all med.s (hopefully). The hematologist thinks maybe the low… Continue