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Hello everyone!  Wow I feel like I know some of you....read your posts..... decided I would love to be part of this group...
Even though you're a bunch of losers....LOL.....

I have been thinking about having RNY for more than 3 years now......have several friends who have had it and are in various stages and success phases of  postop.....

I am 54 years old and am just plain done with carrying around all this extra baggage.....I am a doer....shaker and mover......and my body is in so much pain.....i don't like to set still....job to be done.......i want to do it.....doesn't matter if the body is huffin' and puffin' and sweat is blinding me.....of course it doesn't take much for me to become this way.....i am looking forward to being able to do things without all the physical strain.

When Dave and I got married 36 years ago i as a very active 108 pounder........a year later i weighed 191 lbs a the delivery of our first son.......lost down to 145 and had our second son 16 months later weighing 194 lbs......got back down to 145.......20 months later our daughter was born and i weighed in at 197.......my thyroid went hyper 3 years later and i got down to 128.........they gave me radioactive iodine and i was 160 lbs 30 days later..........i weighed 190 for about 10 years and then 229 for about 5 years....I have been 260+  a long time now.........

I hear alot of you saying.....i wished i weighed only 260!!!  that's what i say when someone complains about weighing 200........(our wishes will be granted and then some... soon)

Dave and I have 6 kids now.......3 boys,3 girls........and 13 grandkids.......8 boys,5girls......I enjoy them alot........but i know there is alot of things i don't do because i am just not healthy with all this weight....oh to get on a ride at Disneyland with them......a resturant booth is out of the question also......my stomach is so messed up from GRED, IBS, and the constant bloat that bending at the waist (I have a waist??) causes alot of discomfort....

Well i finally took the first step.........attended the seminar in June (32 year old daughter went with because she had concerns about  her mom and all this weight surgery stuff).....it was great........the doctor explained things very clearly......got my nerves settled a little by the phych guy.......heard from some postop patients......questions got answered......and my daughter was more at ease with my decision to have RNY.

When i got my office appointment date i was jazzed.......nervous,excited,waivering and doubting (do i REALLY want to do this?), anxious,happy,etc........my emotions went the whole gammet........and that was just for the consult.........i ended up having to take an antianxiety pill that morning......that was yesterday  July 12, 2007....

I was great......the office staff is just like you all said......great......very up and right on.......i was sort worried they would tell me I couldn't get the surgery for one reason or another......like i wasn't reallly THAToverweight or i needed to go home and lose the weight another way.......

well i forgot about the FACT that i my BMI is 46.........and I AM EXTREMELY OBESE.......those words and Beth just don't seem to mix.....but it's true.......i am in danger of dying as much as someone with some dreaded medical condition.......i AM a person with a dreaded medical condition!......one that i could die from........this is the one fact that helped me make the decision to go forward with this....

I met Barbara at the office....her first visit also.....got her info so we could check in with each other.....

My sister, my baby sister, Sandi has an appt in a couple of weeks to start the process also....
i have all of you to help because you know what the emotional side of this is as well as the physical.......
Patty, 68, is part of my scrapbooking group and she is 2 1/2 years postop and doing well..
Robin,37, super friend, is 3 1/2 years out...i got to go through her postop with all the dietry stuff.
Also, Steve, Rhonda,Shawnessy are all part of my world that have been successful...

But still I spend much of my day  trying to imagine me  100 punds lighter........
LIFETIME  COMMITTMENT
No turning back
VITAMINS, SUPPLEMENTS .......FOREVER.......or else
Like a person who requires oxygen to survive
Am i ready for all that discispline????

All in all i must say YES.......

I have spent many times in prayer......LORD is this okay??......should i do this??....Help me Lord.......give me the wisdom to know what to do.........
and fially I say "Lord, I put my life in Yours and trust that Your will will be done"......

So with that settled.........I have  that "good" insurance......Blue Cross/Sutter Gould...........with my BMI and lack out any serious  heart ,lung, blood , etc problems..........i only have a few more things to do

the head shrink..........Dr. Morgan.....good....he spoke at the seminar
the nutritionalist........in Tracy.....
the 4 hour class covering the material in the "bible" (the book i got yesterday containing all the ins and outs and rules for success)

Hillary told me it would take about a week to get referral to those things and then i could call for appts....

Then the next steps......

Might be looking at surgery end of August......first part of September.........we'll see
 
Thanks for all your posts
 Praying for all of you to be committed and steadfast in your journey to a more healthy you
God bless you.....again