almost fat?

November 17, 1999

Dott,

I feel for you deeply. I'll be taking in a friend for surgery tomorrow morning.

She is 5'3 " and weighs 250, give or take a lb. She's in her 30's. She's almost

you. She's decided on a distal TODAY, after monitoring so many lists for so

long. Even if your experience isn't a GLOWING one (but certainly not at all

bad), you may have saved JUST one from not getting her full loss.

As much as it hurt me to reveal my staple line disruption, it can still be used

to teach others. So, I must repeat my surgery. So what? I LIVED to have this

problem! Yipee! Where I was, I wasn't going to live past my co-morbities. And

if I hadn't experienced marginal ulcers and protein deficiency, there'd be one

less voice of experience to help the others along.

I think you're doing fabulously and I love your heart. If you need another

surgery to finish the job, then more power to you. If you are OK where you are,

then I'm glad for you, too. Dropping 200 lbs. with a proximal isn't exactly a

failure, you know? It shows how well you've minded your business and it

certainly shows all of US that IF " pushing away form the table " was a real life

solution, YOU have what it takes to have done it. Unfortunately, just as I can't

overcome blue eyes or red hair with will power, I can't overcome my morbid

obesity, either. It just IS. And now with a broken tool, my MO will come out of

remission.

In my roundy way of speaking here, I just wanted to say that I think you've done

smashingly.

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