Anyone else's young children worrying about your surgery incessantly?

My 10 year old daughter is worrying that I will change after my surgery. Anyone else experience this?

You will change after surgery. She needs to be assured that the changes will be for the better.

You will be able to do more things with her because you feel so much better.

You will be making healthy food choices, modeling good behavior for her, so she will learn how to eat properly.

She will be able to reach ll the way around you when she hugs you.

There will be more room on the couch for snuggle time.

Have her help you make a list of the positive changes and post it on the refrigerator so she can read it every day.

Love the list on the fridge idea!

Isn't it great to know that someone unconditionally loves you just the way you are? What a sweetie your daughter is! As already suggested, reassurance in all forms is in order. Tell her that the only thing about you that will change is that you will get thinner and healthier, and that the one thing that will never change is how much you love her.

My 7-year-old grandson doesn't know about my surgery and doesn't seem to have noticed that I've lost 85 pounds! He is intrigued, however, by the loose skin on my arms. He likes to flap it a bit and says (approvingly) that it's "soft."

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I just LOLed in my office. People are probably thinking I am nuts!