What it’s about

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Yesterday I mentioned Susan’s surgery, and said I’d follow up on that. This is the follow-up.

It wasn’t exactly minor surgery, because they kept her overnight at the hospital, and monitored things to make sure she was properly recovered before discharging her. (Compare that to my eye operations, where I was allowed to leave after a couple of hours.) All the same, the single day was sufficient, so I wouldn’t call it major, either.

After trying many things over the years, with some temporary successes but no long-term relief, she researched and then agreed to gastric bypass surgery for weight loss. Over her lifetime, she’s been up to more than twice the weight she was when we met; she’d fought her way down from that, but over the last several years she’s been unable to get below 100 pounds over her desired weight.

It’s been interesting. For the immediate future, her main tasks will be 1) to condition her reduced stomach to accept the new diet she’ll have to follow from now on, and 2) to do enough walking to keep any minor post-surgical internal bleeding from turning into blood clots that might mess her up.

(I’ll be using the same time to try and do something about my own situation. Without me really fully noticing, I managed to put on substantial weight in 2025. Focusing on protein and low-carb, building in some conditioning exercises … I’m not a young man anymore, but nobody says I have to be older AND fat.)

Getting those things taken care of, along with Susan’s continuing improvement in other areas of her physical condition, we may be able to manage a more active lifestyle in the near future. That would be welcome.