Archive for May, 2007

I just lost my best friend of almost 14 years. »

By Cary Darling on May 29, 2007 in Lap Band Daily Updates | 0 Comments

I lost my best friend this morning, my dog Kerouac.

This dog was part of a family legacy, we lost the last in his line, his daughter earlier this year. He came from a long line of pups that my mother began breeding over 20 years go.
I knew that at his age it could be any […]

I can’t have the gastric bypass, why am I not surprised? »

By Cary Darling on May 2, 2007 in Lap Band Daily Updates | 0 Comments

As I go back and recall that morning, I can’t help but think of the fear I had as I waited on the gurney before they wheeled me into surgery.
So much doubt began to creep into my mind, there is an inherit danger that goes with all surgeries, no matter how “trivial” they may seem.
I […]

To New Beginnings… »

By Cary Darling on May 1, 2007 in Lap Band Daily Updates | 0 Comments

This is an email I sent to friends the morning of my surgery:
Woody Allen once said, “My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
I think my regret in life is that I am someone else, I am not the person I was born to be.
My birth date, September 19, 1966 as […]