Sandy Weicher

Sandy Weicher is a retired business executive who lives in New York City with her husband, Joe, and her mini dachshund, Hazel. Sandy's retired days are filled with morning walks with Hazel, pickleball, strength training, time with friends, and patient advocacy work. She loves to spend time with her adult children, Katie and John, who she is grateful don't live too far away.

Now in her mid-sixties, she is at a healthy weight after being obese since she was eleven years old. She'll be the first to tell you that maintaining a healthy weight can feel like a full-time job and takes a lot of work, even with the amazing help of the GLP-1 she has been taking since 2017. But this journey is well worth it!

In 2022, Sandy had a high-grade, aggressive recurrence of bladder cancer, which she thought she had beaten with immunotherapy in 2015. The aggressiveness of the cancer required immediate bladder removal. While this was a truly difficult time, she was grateful to be at a healthy weight going into such a major surgery. She was also grateful to have an amazing surgeon who recommended her Indiana Pouch - an internal bladder diversion that she empties every few hours with a catheter.

Sandy is a passionate patient advocate in both the obesity and bladder cancer communities. She also volunteers with Bladder Cancer Advocacy as the leader of the New York Walk to End Bladder Cancer and loves to travel with Joe and their kids.

Click here to read all of Sandy's articles on Obesity.net.