This might be a little tough for me to write because, frankly, it was a little tough for me to hear. Especially coming from such a tough guy.

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I came upstairs to go to bed. I've been staying up too late and I have to leave early in the morning. But a new friend had just posted on Facebook that she was in the hospital with DKA and I wanted to check on her.

The Mr. was already in bed, watching Myth Busters.

"Hey honey do you have a juice?" he called from the bedroom.

I knew I didn't have one in my bedside table and I knew he'd need more than the Bottlecaps I did have. As I ran downstairs to grab some juices I said, "What did you eat?"

He hemmed and hawed before saying, "Those, um, southwesterny things."

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I really try not to let my brain go straight to diabetes when someone describes how they're feeling. I really do. But tonight when The Mr. came to me and said he felt light headed I had a feeling he needed to test his sugar.

It's been a while since I've updated on this and I'm sure there are readers who don't know the The Mr. had gastric bypass on Feb. 3. In the six months since surgery he has lost 150 lb. I know! He has lost nearly half of his body weight. There are plenty of struggles and triumphs but we certainly weren't expecting what happened tonight. Especially not at six months post-op.

So as I sat in our home office The Mr. and I discussed how he was feeling and we chalked it up to maybe not having had enough water today, our afternoon photo shoot with a wonderful family or maybe some sort of bug.

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There are two very important people in my life who are considering weight loss surgery. I won't lie: I've thought about it, too.

I'm not really that excited, though, about the type of lifestyle you have to lead after bariatric surgery. Seems to me there's a lot of liquid involved and the recovery is long and slow. How would that affect my family? My family life? What about my job?

I've thought about a lap band, too. That seemed to be much less invasive and more my style. From what I understand, a lap band makes your stomach smaller and doesn't change the way your food is digested.

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