One guy's bariatric journey
Posts about me, and day-to-day trials, tribulations, and successes both pre- and post- surgery.
My surgical team told me to avoid straws after surgery. No straws. Straws bad. Straws cause you to swallow air, and air in a freshly rearranged stomach causes problems. This guidance was delivered with the same confident authority as everything else I received: no carbonation, chew thirty times, protein first, don’t drink with meals. A … Read more
I’m a 50-something database administrator from Missouri. I spend my days managing systems that handle millions of records, optimizing queries, fixing things that break at 2am. I’m reasonably good at solving problems. And yet for most of my adult life, I could not solve the problem of my own body. I’m starting this blog at … Read more