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so I had high blood pressure.
I had sleep apnea.
I was borderline diabetic.
I don't know that I would have been around very much longer had I have left in the way they were.
So food for me became became a crutch.
Basically, it was an addiction and I used it Thio I used it to coat and if ever I was stressed or, you know, I would turn into it I turn the food comfort at the end of the day and look, some people turn to drugs.
Some people turned alcohol, you know?
I turned food, so I took myself to my J.
P.
And I walked in and he'd been my GP for myself.
My life.
And he looked at me and he said Hope on Skiles and I did.
And he shook his head and said to me, How you still a lot.
He said, We need to do some work on.
We need to do it now.
And, you know, I tightly I really, uh I was at a point where I accepted that and when I what do we do?
And there was no question.
He referred me Thio Brisbane surgeon who came down and met.
And then we set a date for the surgery and it was way we set a date and he sent me six months and I said, Please don't let's make it that long because I'll change my mind.
The surgery that was put in front of me a za vessel Thio to use as a tool to use isn't so horrible.
It I worked really, really hard with the dogfish in sorting out completely the wrong idea that suit And so I had to learn again names.
I worked with her a witch with psychologist.
You can reverse the surgery right back where you started if you died, make the correct choice is after the process.
I feel like I actually we've been given a second chance.
So, you know, through the choices are mind to nail I've been given a second chance and I'm very grateful for that.
You can't go back You can't change the pause.