As McNee said, this is a new venture for us both. I plan to write about my all the struggles and victories in my new WLS altered life.
To begin with my name is Roadblock I’m a biker and live in the great northeast. Because of this, I feel like my wife (The lovely Mrs. Block), and I are the only conservatives in our county. Not only that, we are Bible believing, born again Christians, so that pretty much bans us to like the 5′th level of liberal hell, and makes me responsible for all that is wrong with our society today. And some how I end up being a tea bagging, slave owning, racist that suffers from homophobia.
When in all reality I’m a nice guy who’s happily married to a wonderful woman, and we have a grandchild on the way.
Hey there… this is the first posting, and I suppose I should come up with something profound and earth shattering here, but… well, I’m coming up blank.
Basically, I had weight loss surgery (WLS) on April 8, 2009. It’s about five weeks later and I’ve lost a bit over 40 pounds… and that doesn’t include what I lost on the regime I went through pre-op. All in all, I’m down close to 100# in the last year.
I did a LOT of reading online prior to taking the WLS step, and there is a LOT of great information out there, much of it by other WLS patients. The biggest problem though, is the vast majority of WLS patients are women, over 80% by most estimates, though this is slowly changing. So lots of those great sites out there by default end up geared towards women and the things they go through. There’s a few sites by guys, but not many… so as I got further and further in to this, I decided there should be a site that can help focus on stuff us dudes go through… for example, watch out the first time you take a leak after surgery. They really should warn you about what it’s like after they take that catheter out.
In the Spotlight
Category : site news
Tags: bariatrictv.com, comments, interview, questions
As we get moving along here, one of the ideas I had was to do some “email interviews” with some of the more infamous folks around the WLS scene. And since it’s partially the fault of the folks over at BariatricTV.com that this site is here… I figure we’ll start with Lynnda, Toni and Mike, the group that put the word Freak in “Surgically Altered Freak”.
But…. I’ve never done this sort of thing before. So I’m asking for your help dear readers. Register and post some comments with the questions you want them to answer…. I can’t promise we’ll use yours… but more than likely we won’t be able to come up with our own so we’ll have to.
Your first time commenting it needs to go through approval, so don’t despair if you leave your comment and it doesn’t show up right away… it just means I haven’t checked my email yet.
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