I've scanned what's written here and I have a lot of filling in to do. I'll probably transcribe some stuff from the journal I took with me to France.

The short version is that my surgery went perfectly. I had basically no pain afterwards (read: I think I took the French equivalent of Tylenol--in powdered form--three times beginning the morning after surgery). My incisions are healing well. I'm eating fine.

I'm supposed to wait two months until I have my first fill so that everything can totally heal and get happy. That fits my plans perfectly! I'm all about taking it slow. Meanwhile, I'm back at work and doing well there. I guess you could say that I'm pretty fortunate! I'm just grateful to be aware of it.

One thing that has manifested in a big way during this process is new friendships! I've met some wonderful women in the online communities related to weight loss surgery in general, as well as agb surgery in specific. Several of them seem like lifetime friends and are the kind of women I'd always hoped to know. It's caused me to step back and realize how much I've become the kind of woman I'd dreamt of being. That insight is worth quite a lot.

The other insight, which is really a larger one, is about the role of love in my life and how, basically, everything boils down to love in one way or another and how measuring the quality of that love is a great way to take a barometric reading of my ongoing health. Who knew?

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