• Username: 50andready
  • Location: concord, mi, USA
  • Member Since: 7/24/2000
  • BMI: 43.7
  • Hoping to have surgery
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My Story

Well, after four long years of debating, searching, I have got a surgery date!  It's February 14th with Dr. Poplowski from the Barix Center in Ypsilanti Michigan.  I weigh 254 and I am just a little over 5 feet tall.  I am now 56 and have so many health issues it's embarrassing.  I have always been overweight, since I can remember.  I have rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, diabetes type 2, hypertension, and I am in alot of pain most of the time.

I have a pretty good self esteem dispitebeing so fat, but the health issues are catching up to me and I have to do something.  I want to play with my grandkids!  I want to feel normal!  I want to look normal!  I don't care about being super thin, I just want to look like a normal person.  I am becoming a burden to my friends from high school that I travel with each year.  They have to change plans or things we want to do as a group to accommodate me!  They are all a pretty normal weight and I feel I drag them down.  My knee was so bad one year we had to bring a wheel chair...  They are so wonderful to me.  I have tried to back out going and they just won't let me.  I am very lucky to have them.  I have a great husband and a son and a daughter.  I have 4 grandkids and I love them so much!  I want them to have a grandma that plays with them.

I know the surgery won't cure my rheumatoid arthritis, but it will cure my diabetes, help my hypertension, and the weight loss will help my painful joints!  I am so excited, and so worried that I will be a failure, just like I have failed at all my other weight loss attempts.  I have family members that have had this surgery and 2 of them gained all the weight back!!!!  I will NOT let this happen to me.