Hey guys, thanks for all the comments and feedback. I have been viewing this periodically since I posted, though my attention was mostly on the surgery and recovery.
Health update: I had two separate procedures and a third procedure as part of the second. My situation deteriorated a bit prior to the surgery as I couldn't eat anything without a severe attack. Even drinking water made me uncomfortable. Due to this, I ate less than a thousand calories last week through Friday. First procedure was to remove my gallbladder Friday morning, but they found that the common bile duct shared with the liver and pancreas was blocked by a stone. This forced them to keep me under for another procedure by a different surgeon. This is called an ERCP (don't know what that stands for), but they went down my throat with tools and camera to cut a particular sphincter and physically remove the stone that was caught there. Essentially my liver was all backed up and I was a bit jaundiced, etc. While in there, they noticed a polyp and biopsied it. << Can't wait for the wonderful news there.
Anyways, I am home now and recovering nicely. I have had healthy and full meals, provided by my doctor at home (wife), and while she doesn't look quite like the picture above, she's my little hottie.
Pain is slowly subsiding and I'm just happy to be putting down the food. I'm down to 184....Some of you might remember when I started losing weight, I was 340....Back to lifting weights and working out hopefully next week, because the 7lbs I lost last week seem more like muscle than fat. Not eating sucks!
Anyways, thanks for all the comments and I look forward to another 10 and hopefully more!