surgery for what?

I had a VSG 2 years ago that the surgeon botched, so I developed a number of rare conditions (esophageal paralysis, spasms, motility disorders, vomiting 30+ times daily). I was lucky to get into Mayo Clinic, one of 3 in the country that treats these. So they're going to do a gastrojejunostomy (basically like a bypass), on Monday then proceed with further

surgeries.

The intent is to hopefully keep me off of tube feeding, since I've been doing that on and off the past year via nasal gastric tube.

ah yes now I remember that whole mess

the part about the botched surgery

Yeah it's been really fucked up. I'm just relieved they figured it all out.

hope all goes well

They can't promise it'll be fixed but it'll help alleviate some of the symptoms anyway. So I'm grateful as hell

I'm clinging to the silver lining of further weight loss because I'm vain and I need something to aspire to

Eek - and yeah, hopefully both the silver lining, as well as feeling better over all.

You poor thing. Hope this goes well.

I hope it goes well. They are pretty good at Mayo.

You can read By the Shores of Silver Lake while you're there, since the hospital is about 6 or 7 blocks away.