Boy, if that doesn't make you sit up and count your blessings, nothing will!! I'd been told several times that if I didn't lose the weight, my future was pretty grim, and the details of what was waiting were scary, but it wasn't until I heard about WLS that I found a tool I could use to address the problem. And then Peanut used the same tool. Now we're both sickeningly healthy!!
I'm sorry about your friend, but I'm glad for you to have found the way forward.
CT
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Dare to live your dream!! If you want to be healthy for life, do for life the things that get you healthy!! Living healthy takes work. Dying fat is easy!! "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed, but that our capacity to do has increased." - HJ Grant "Do, or do not. There is no try!" - Yoda |