Brian's Health

This summer has been like a bad soap opera. Like sands through the hour glass...these are the stones of my kidney. Doesn't flow like the beginning of Days of Our Lives does it? All My Stones? The Not So Young but Very Restless? Those would all work.

Yesterday was going to be a monumental day in my kidney stone battle. I was going in to have the stent removed that runs from my bladder and kidney. I had an ESWL procedure done and we had hoped it had crushed my mammoth kidney stone to dust and it would just flush out...nope, as usual, I have hit a few complications.

Today is the day I have been anticipating for a couple of months now. This is the day I get the kidney stent removed. I have had this kidney stone floating around since early May and have been waiting for it all to end. A lot of people can just pass the stone and then move on.

Well that part is finally done. I have been waiting for two months to have my 1/2 inch kidney stone blasted so I can finally get on with life. This has been a major nuisance and I am ready for the healing part to begin. I thank the UCHealth team for once again taking good care of me.

This is a big week for me as me and my kidney stone are going to finally part ways. I have had this baby for a few years but after I lost all this weight and got active, I jostled it around a bit and jarred that chunk of whatever it is made of, loose. It has been causing me unpleasantness for about two months now

Today is a very special anniversary for me. It was exactly one year ago today that I walked through the doors at Benchmark Medical Group in Windsor and decided to turn myself over to them and try to save my life. I could not be more thrilled with the results. This has been the most important year of my life.

I swore I would never do it. I have had people ask me to do it for years but have always said it would never happen. I caved in but it was out of necessity. I had to cut off my long hair.

It has now been 10 months since I changed my life and hooked up with Benchmark Medical Group in Windsor. This has been the greatest thing I have ever done and it keeps getting better every day. I have been on this earth for 52 years but everything I do feels brand new because I have never experienced it in this body.

What an amazing 9 months this has been. It on May 22nd, exactly 9 months ago, that I began my transformation with the miracle workers at Benchmark Medical Group in Windsor. Nine months. That is how it takes to be created and born and in that same amount of time I was able to be recreated and reborn!

First of all, thank you for following along and for all the support you have shown me during my lifestyle change and personal transformation. This has been the greatest ride of my life and it will continue for the rest of my days.

Time for an update on my health and my battle with my weight. I turned myself over to the angels at Benchmark Medical Group in Windsor in May and had lost 140 pounds...before the holidays. My last weigh in before my Christmas vacation was on December 21 and I was at 196 lbs.

Well I knew the holidays would be a challenge for my new body and new found health and it was. I would say I failed...and that is okay. I planned on it. I decided that since I had been so good for the last 6 to 7 months that I would let myself eat whatever I wanted over the holidays and I did.