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PennyJ · 12-26-2007, 05:48 PM

Ok, not sure I'm as long term as you're looking for..but I'm 14+ months post op, so hopefully you might get a little bit of an answer from me. First off, the deciding phase of GBS - you need info, and lots of it!! So you're here allllllll the time absorbing as much data as you can to learn and decide what surgery, or if surgery, is right for you. Then the application/insurance phase. Can take a long time and you're here asking questions, relating your "ordeal", and finally celebrating your win and getting your date. Then surgery, Hell week, recovery, any complications, weight loss, stalls, goals, stalls, exercise, protein, etc. There's still a lot to learn here!! Well, then a year or more out, you reach your goal and start to stabilize. Then you realize, you don't have any more questions. You offer advice to the new folks for a while, but then you've answered the same questions 50 times (and thank God for those of you that do!!!!). And you drift away. There's no new, no wow moments, life becomes....normal. Well, as normal as we can. Even my doctor, at the last appointment, told me..."It's time to move on. You're not the fat girl anymore, you're not the recovering girl anymore, you're not the patient anymore. You need to move on to "Life". Get out there and live life. So, I guess that's my explaination. I hope it helps, even if I'm only 14 months or so out! And to those of you long timers, THANK YOU, thank you, from the bottom of my heart for being there as you are, for everyone!