Grateful For My Health

Jul 10, 2009

July 10, 2009

I am so grateful for the health this surgery has given me.  It has saved me and my family from a future full of sickness and heartache.  As I write this, I have a sister that is in the ICU on a ventilator.  Her health problems are numerous.  She is 17 years older than me, but her health problems started in her 40s. I am 45.  She's been morbidly obese most of her adult life, had a couple of heart attacks, a stroke, open heart surgery, and she's on insulin.  For years now, her quality of life has been terrible.  The doctors gave her up to die in January.  I know she is still here because God is not ready to take her.  Since mid January, she has been home about 8 days.  The rest of the time she has spent in either the hospital or a nursing home.  I've lost count of the times she's been in the ICU.  She is such a compassionate person - always thinking of others.  She's just never taken care of herself. 

Sometimes I feel angry - at her.  But then I stop and think - if it weren't for WLS, I might be like her in a few years.  It wasn't like I was exactly taking care of myself either.  I am just so very thankful that I got off that path of destruction by having gastric bypass surgery.  My life, and that of my family, will be forever changed.

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