I'm thinking about it.

Last night I watched a show on Discovery Health (I think) about gastric bypass surgery. Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers fame) has had weight problems his whole life, ballooning up to 350 lbs at more than one time in his life. But now, he had diabetes, heart problems, and probably wouldn't live another couple of years.

He had a "mini-gastric bypass" which involves reducing the size of the stomach and rerouting beyond about 6 feet of intestine. It was done laparoscopically. To me, that's the clincher. It used to be a huge major surgery with a long recovery time and I am not willing to do that.

With this surgery, Gil was in the hospital 1 day, and they had him up and walking within a few hours of surgery. The next day he was out of bed and felt good.

I will be checking my insurance to see if it covers bariatric surgery. If it does - I will be talking about it to my regular smart-ass Internist. We will see, but I am encouraged. I simply cannot keep up like this. I feel horrible about myself and am not in good shape at all.