Mark Duncan
CONINUATION FROM MY INTRODUCTION:
AT FIRST MY FAMILY DIDN'T WANT ME TO HAVE THE SURGERY. EVERYBODY HAD A HORROR. SOEMBODY KNEW SOMEBODY WHO BURST THIER STAPLES HAD THIS COMPLICATION AND THAT COMPLICATION.....YOU KNOW THE USUAL CAUSE I KNEW WE'VE ALL HEARD THEM. I ONLY HAD ONE COUSIN WHO KNEW THIS WAS THE RIGHT THING FOR ME AND I PROVED HER RIGHT. THE SURGERY WAS DONE AT WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER, WHICH IS NOW ONE OF THE PREMIER HOSPITAL THAT PERFORM THE SURGERY. MY ONLY FEAR ABOUT THE SURGERY WELL THE ONLY MAJOR CONCERN WAS THAT I WOULDN'T MAKE IT OFF THE TABLE BUT THAT I FIND IS A COMMON FEAR BUT AS WE ALL CAN SEE I MADE IT. IASKED GOD IF HE WOKE ME FROM THIS IT WOULD ALL BE ON ME FROM THEN ON OUT. I WOULD LOSE THE WEIGHT AND NEVER GAIN IT BACK. I DID SCARE MY FAMILY BECAUSE I HAD AN ASTHMA ATTACK ON THE TABLE AND WOKE UP AFTER SURGERY ON A RESPIRATOR. MY MOTHER WAS THERE WITH ME AND WHEN SHE CAME TO SEE ME IN RECOVERY THERE I AM WITH I.V.S AND A RESPIRATOR HELPING ME BREATH. MY MOTHER CALLED MY ENITRE FAMILY AND SAID IT DIDN'T LOOK GOOFD FOR ME SO MY ENTIRE FAMILY WAS AT THE HOSPITAL IN ABOUT 30 MINUTES, BROTHERS AUNTS AND ALL MY COUSINS, HOVERING OVER ME CRYING AND FIGHTING BACK TEARS UNITL THE DOCTOR CAME AND TOLD THEM IT JUST LOOKS A LOT WORSE THAN IT WAS AND THAT THEY WOULD TAKE ME OFF THE RESPIRATOR IN THE MORNING. AND THERE I WAS TRYING TO TELL THEM I WOULD BE OK AND WONDERING WHY THEY WERENT LISTENING TO ME....REPEATEDLY FORGETTING THAT I HAVE SOMETHING SHOVED DOWN MY THROAT HELPING ME TO BREATH AND IN A LOVELY DREAMSTATE BECAUSE OF THE MORPHINE (GREAT DRUG BY THE WAY...LOL) MY STAY IN THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF IT WAS ABOUT 6 DAYS. AFTER GETTING HOME I STARTED WALKING AROUND THE COMPLEX WHERE I LIVED IT FELT LIKE MY LUNGS WERE GOING TO FALL DOWN TO MY FEET BUT I KEPT PUSHING MYSELF. THE WEIGHT STARTED COMING OF SO FAST I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO LOOK LIKE TWIGGY BY THE TIME THIS ALL STOPPED...LOL..IN THE FIRST MONTH ALONE I LOST 35 POUNDS IN UNDER A YEAR I LOST ABOUT 130....THE ONE OF THE BEST MOMENTS WAS THE NIGHT I SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT WITHOUT WAKING UP GASPING FOR AIR OF SNORING SO LOUD I WOKE MYSELF UP. WAKING UP THAT MORNING AND REALIZING I HAD SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT MADE ME CRY LIKE A BABY...I WAS ON MY WAY TO BECOMING A HEATHY NORMAL (WELL AS NORMAL AS I CAN GET...LOL) PERSON.
