MY VSG JOURNEY: WHY AM I DOING IT?

Hello!

I thought it was time to have a chat about something massive that’s impending for me, and to discuss the reasons around why I’m choosing to do such a thing. 

That’s me now. Note I never post body shots anywhere online, but you’re about to get some at the end of this post. 

In August I’ll be travelling to Turkey to undergo a gastric sleeve operation. This decision has not come lightly, and follows years of umming, ahhing, and endless research. I’ve chosen to go with Booking Surgery for the procedure, and my surgeon will be Dr Katar.

You Are My Jackson

A couple of weeks ago I finally got a beautiful new addition to my leg tattoo collection!
Some way somehow it'd been almost eight years prior to this appointment since I'd been tattooed, so I was excited, nervous, and more excited to get it underway.

Since he was born I've wanted a tattoo for Jackson. Not all of my tattoos have meaning, and I'm very much an advocate for getting what you fancy simply because it looks good, but there's been a desire to have a Jackson-specific piece for many years.
For as long as I can remember I’ve sang ‘You Are My Jackson’ to him, a song that is – obviously – ‘You Are My Sunshine’with a few words changed for him. I have voice notes on my phone of him singing it with me as far back as 2020, it’s our song, and I'm sure I’ll still be embarrassingly singing it to him when he’s 30. 

Fresh - Healed