THE JOURNEY BEGINS

I had Gastric Banding Surgery on the morning of February 13, 2013.

Here are some of reasons I had to go through with it:
This picture I took of myself on February 7th:

  

And a bad picture of my backside at a party in December 2012.

The bumbling nurse at the hospitalin the Surgical Holding area couldn't get the IV started properly.
The first time she tried it in the back of my left hand.

The second time she tried was in the middle of my lower left arm.  It hurt really bad.  She quit trying and wen to get another nurse.