Message 300 and my anniversary

Here’s to a fantastic week! I know mine will be phenomenal and I affirm the same for each of you.

Saturday was the 300th message but I didn’t do anything special since it was the weekly roundup

I am grateful that you all have hung in there with me for 15 hours! That’s like taking a one hour class once a week for almost 4 months. Maybe it’s time for a final exam. Just kidding.

I have learned a lot and I hope you have too. Your comments certainly have enriched my life and increased my knowledge base. I am in awe of all the brilliant minds out there.

Now let’s see if I can make it to a year in the middle of January. You get to experience another race with me too. Aren’t you lucky. It’s a 6 day race but it’s one of those where I walk around in a mile circle for six days. Even though it sounds crazy, it’s great for practicing mental discipline. More about that as we get closer.

The significant thing about today, though, is that it’s the 15th anniversary of my weight loss surgery. If I hadn’t had that I wouldn’t be here to do this message today. I am 4 11 and I weighed 300 pounds at the time of my surgery. Needless to say my heart was having problems handling that load.

I was extremely fortunate to have a pioneer do my surgery. And as with all pioneers in medicine, he was ridiculed and not accepted by mainstream medicine in the US. And this procedure still isn’t.

But he was welcomed with open arms in countries all around the world and spent his last several years traveling and teaching his technique.

What’s special about it? Well there are different types of weight loss surgery and many are fraught with complications. This procedure has less. It’s done laparoscopically whereas the others are generally done by opening the abdomen. My procedure was less than 45 minutes. I was capable of going back to work the next day. It’s also easily revisable and reversible.

It angers and frustrates me when the medical establishment refuses to embrace new concepts like this and the neuroplastic theory of chronic pain. I’m reading a book titled “Cured” by Jeffrey Rediger and it’s by a doctor who investigated so called miracles meaning spontaneous remissions. And he talks about why this hadn’t been checked out before and when some doctors did have theories they were blackballed.

It’s important when you have something that means a great deal to you that you continue to pursue it and push as hard as you can. Don’t let others knock you off your horse. If they do, get back up and ride away Into the sunset. Even George Strait has a song about that – the cowboy rides away.

Have a diamond week and build on your diamond collection.