redwind50
As a youth in high school as was very active in many sports from pole vaulting, tennis, and being in gymnastics. It was not so long ago that I could ski down a slope. But as the years passed by my weight did increase slowly and surely. Now having had some of my friends pass on recently was a wake up call. In the year 2003 I was on vacation visiting my wife's country of Chile.
I thought I would go to see a doctor in Chile and get a second opinion about my health. After several test I was told that I had syndrome X which is borderline diabetes, and the doctor gave me 5 years to live and that was in 2003. Well, I have passed that 5 year mark and now I see that I need to change.
I have a friend that I saw and she hadl lost allot of weight. I asked her how she did it and at first she really did not say how she lost the weight, but later she told me she had bariatric surgery. And I had another friend I was talking to about having this surgery none and he told me he had the surgery none about 15 years ago. I did not know this and he looked really fit and not over weight. When I made up my mind about having the surgery, I started the process that you have to do to be approved. And I was approved May 6, 2009 and my surgery date is July 20, 2009. My friend told me to go for it, the outcome will change your life.
