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What? An Update!? Really?!?

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Category : daily life

Yea, fine… I haven’t updated anything much for awhile, but guess what… I did a video update! And it’s a two-parter! Check it out below.

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Part 1

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Part 2

Be sure to check out the WLSFA (wlsfa.org) and get your tickets for the 2011 Meet & Greet

What More Is There To Say?

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Category : daily life

So yea, you may have noticed a distinct lack of postings by me around here lately. I could go on about how sorry I am, to you, my faithful readers… but ya know… well, let’s put it this way. I do miss writing, but at the same time I’ve just plain been enjoying life lately.

But like I said, I miss writing. I’ve been doing some videos for BTV, but nothing for YouTube and I sort of miss that as well. So, I’m going to make an effort to start writing and maybe even doing some videos again.

It’s not that I don’t have ideas for what I’d like to write, and it’s not like there isn’t more to talk about… it’s just a matter of doing it, right? And maybe the reason I haven’t is part of the whole story in and of itself.

Flashback: Go ahead, call me obese. I dare ya.

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Category : daily life

Originally published April 17, 2009

This posting came about from my thoughts in a discussion on the forums over at bariatrictv.com – I’ll write more about the site later… let’s just say it’s a support forum for folks who have had or are looking in to weight loss surgery. It’s a small, but growing group of some very great folks… I highly recommend checking it out if you have been through WLS or are considering it as an option.

It started out with a sort of mini-rant about the term “morbid obesity” by one of the few other guys on the site. He’s typically pretty light-hearted about things, and I believe he was looking to generate a bit of good-natured discussion. I hope he forgives the fact that my response wasn’t quite along those lines. I’ve tweeked the following a bit from what I posted there, mostly just to eliminate a direct reference or such…

Flashback: Let’s not do that again

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Category : daily life

Originally published April 15, 2009

Yesterday I had a bit of a… well… not tough, but .. it was a day…

I got in another half-hour walk and all, but was just really wiped all day. I took a number of naps throughout the day. Woke up from one around 9pm, and was feeling a bit… warm… but didn’t think much of it.

Hopped online, and a friend of mine that has had lap-band and works in a hospital was online and we started talking. She asked if I’d taken my temp.. and for some reason hadn’t really thought of it. So I did, and I was running a fever. Just over 100.

She asked what meds I had… told her bout the stuff the hospital gave me… she said it had stuff like Tylenol in it so to take some of that. Took the lower of the recommended doses and watered down, like the doc had said to do if I took it… within a few minutes I was sweating. Not much… but I hadn’t been before.

After bout half-hour, checked the temp again and I was at 101.

OK, discharge papers said to page the surgeon if I had a temp over 100.4, so it was time to page.