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I found this article in the Washington Post, Super-size equipment helps D.C. area EMTs move the obese, thanks to a twitter post from Zombar, another post-op dude.
Basically it talks about the increasing need to upgrade and super-size ambulances and other medical equipment to handle the growing trend of a growing girth in the American populace, and as he put it, Thoughts of EMTs dragging me out of the house on a tarp is one of the myriad reasons I chose to have WLS.
As a WLSer, we are given a tool to help us lose weight. Along with that tool our surgeons give us a set of guidelines on how to maximize the effective use of that tool in our lives. If you follow those guidelines, you are all but guaranteed that your surgery will work, and you will not only lose weight but keep it off.
There’s just one problem. We’re human.
For many of us, rules are meant to be broken. We get complacent. We get lazy. We get… Whatever it is, there’s going to come a time where we “break the rules”.
And ya know what? That’s ok.
I recently read on another forum about a bariatric supplement company that came out with some new protein products. Right away people were asking about samples and the company rep said they don’t have any at this time in order to keep production costs, and thusly cost to the buyers down.
By the time I got through the entire thread, something struck me… nobody had asked for a FREE sample.
There’s not enough time in the day for me to keep up with all the reading I like to do online… be it the WLS forums, paintball, tech stuff, food and cooking. Now you add in YouTube videos from all the WLS people I’m getting to know through twitter and such… and it’s… cripes… I need to win the lottery so I can do nothing but exercise and browse online.
Speaking of YouTube, I’ve contacted a few WLS type dudes on there to see if any would be interested in contributing stuff to the FFD site.
