Bari-Tec products are designed specifically for the gastric-bypass patient!

Imagine, you live in Buffalo, New York. It's the tenth of January. The weatherman says that over a foot of snow will blanket the Buffalo Metropolitan area within forty-eight hours. The lake effect from Lake Erie is on a rampage. You may be homebound for days.

You better be prepared!

You go to your cupboards and pantry. You have one box of macaroni and cheese and a dusty can of Spam. Not good!

What do you do? Of course you go to the store and stock up. Big time.

Similarly, you are a morbidly obese person.

Your name is Nathan Wiscala.

You are a thirty-five year old male. You weigh 516 pounds soaking wet.

You have a friend, Gertrude McCully. She too is morbidly obese.

She says she loves you. After all, she is your enabler.

Most of the time you are bed-ridden.

Your blood pressure is out of control. Your sugar is out of control.

Your insulin production is zilch.

You are a type II diabetic. You have been taking 50 units of injectable insulin three times a day for six years.

You have terrible heartburn at night. Your doctor tells you that this heartburn is called GERD.

You can't sleep at night. Your doctor tells you this is because you have sleep apnea.

When you sleep, you sleep in a recliner with a pillow.

You are always short of breath.

This is especially true when you get off the toilet.

You stumble around, bump into walls, and fall into bed, praying someone loves you, cares about you, or at least knows who you are.

You are lonely. Only God knows how lonely you are.

You're not sure much about anything anymore.

You never wanted to be fat. You didn't plan it that way.

It ... just ... happened.

You think there is nothing wrong with your diet.

You never eat red meat. Too much cholesterol.

Yet you live on bagels, cream cheese, chicken nuggets and state fair corn dogs.

Your serum protein levels are low.

You have multiple vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

You have high cholesterol and triglyceride levels.

You are preparing yourself for the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass operation.

Thirty days from now, you will undergo the bypass procedure to save your life. There are presently fifteen million people out there just like you.

You're in trouble, Gertrude's in trouble, they're in trouble.

What do you do?

Of course you do everything you can to prepare for the fight of your life for your life.