Emergency

Can you imagine being 5'8" tall and weigh 355# , your ankles loosing feeling as well as some of your lower legs. You go to your doctor and he says you are going to DIE if you don't lose weight and a bunch of it.

My friend Ken and I were golfing last year and he rented a golf cart to manage the course. Steve and I walked . Steve had a pull cart and I carried my bag. Ken became tired and asked if we could sit out a hole and let the next group pass through. Steve said to Ken he better take care his weight because he could die. Ken got an appointment with his doctor that very next week. Ken still played a pretty good game as he and Steve tied and beat me by 10 strokes. The only thing that mattered was that Ken needed to take care of himself.

He made his doctor appointments and after counseling and medical physicals he was cleared for gastric bypass in October of 2008. He started on a pre-surgery diet regimen in November and by end of December he had lost enough weight to be cleared for surgery in the middle of January 2009. Ken was scared now as he had no prior hospitalizations or even close to surgery.

I had to have major surgery in September 2008 and Ken couldn't bare coming to see me. This was not his bag of tea. As they rolled him to surgery he tried his best to cancel it and told them he could lose the weight on his own. Ken knew better but the thought of surgery was terrifying. The operating room was so cold and scary too. The nurses knew better and explained the process and soon he feel asleep. The surgery went well and Ken was home in a day. The weight started to come off right away making Ken feel happy. The intake transition was very hard to overcome but Ken being a perfectionist handled it well.

Ken son Ted was to graduate in late May therefore Ken set a goal to lose all the weight the doctor thought was appropriate. Graduation was drawing near and Ken looked lighter and his attitude was fantastic about how he looked and he accepted his graduation goal was too big and that he didn't need to push himself so hard. When he weight in he had lost enough to be 200#. He had met his goal right on the money. Ken was the hit at the graduation party as almost all of the relatives had not seen Ken for a year or even knew of his operation. The attention really motivated Ken to set his next goal of 185 #'s for our golf tournament in July. He made that goal and the Doctors are satisfied he has done well.

Ken is so happy and rejoicing. His blood pressure was never an issue but that even improved. Ken saved his own life. His loss of feeling in his lower legs won't come back but it has been stopped. Congratulations Ken. He is one of my favorite musicians and I will be posting some of his work shortly.

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