Sharing your invasive surgeries, long-complicated agonizing recovery, and near death experiences, really made me choke back the tears. It was a real wake up call for me reading about your travails toward a kind of recurring genesis, a rebirth of sorts, when life threw seemingly impossible burdens to surmount.
Your story reminded me about the easily forgotten delicate and fragile nature of our lives, and how little time we have left in the grand scheme of things, and why we must fight on, no matter what.
You seriously are a true inspiration - I know it's a tired cliche, but I've seen too many people give up in the face of morbid obesity and life-threatening disease. Instead of building a wailing wall and wallowing in self-pity, you took total dominating control of your life with a Nietzschean will to power -- literally losing more than your entire current body weight -- Literally never giving up on the surgeons carving table -- and literally remaking your destiny against all odds. I've seen too many people give up.
You gave me new perspective on how fortunate we are to be alive and what a miracle it is to be consciousness. I am grateful to have found you, someone with the bravery to tell their intimate story and brave enough to fight on even harder, someone willing to say, Yes, Yes to life.
And if I may be permitted to be shallow and superficial, you look great, a real head turner. Your spirit is contagious.
All the best.
Cheers.