BOOH's Journey

Username: BOOH219
Location: CORONA, NY, USA
Member Since: 8/13/2007
BMI: 29.8
Post Op
Surgery Type: RNY (12/11/07)
Surgeon: Paresh Shah, M.D.

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Latest Surgery Support Comments

Comment by Kellie_B on 12/11/07 6:48 pm

Good Luck on your surgery I hope everything went well! God bless!

Comment by Building A Cocoon on 12/11/07 6:04 pm

How awesome are YOU! Congratulations and welcome home. Nothing can get in your way but you! I'm thrilled for you!

Comment by dreamz on 12/11/07 7:15 am

Hi Racheal, i am so very excited for you Sis...may God bring you through a uneventful surgery and a speedy recovery...i'm sending up my prayers for your today. GodSpeed & Many Blessings for the future, Love Dreamz

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2 Months
on February 11, 2008 8:44 am

WOW..... what a ride it's has been 2 months since my surgery and i'm feeling great. I'm down 48lbs and 4 pants sizes. I'm not shopping much but when I do I have so much fun. I can't believe that I can fit into a size 18 pants. I haven't been able to fit into a size 18 since 1997 that was the year my son Kory was born, Kory is now 11. That was a long time ago I guess that's why I was so happy when I was able to get the 18 pants on. My birthday is next week and I wanted a treadmill and my husband got it for me so i'm happy, I figure when I don't feel like going to the gym I can workout at home. I was also able to run on the treadmil at the gym last week. I was only able to run for 3 mintues, but for the first time I was able to run. I sometimes wonder why it took me so long to decide to have the surgery.

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Back to work
on January 15, 2008 5:22 pm

So I returned to work yesterday and it went very well. My job is weird nothing is ever a secert. Not that i wanted my surgery to be a secert, but I wanted to tell people myself. But i knew once i told my boss and her assistant I knew that the word would spread. But i must admit everyone acted surpised and gave me words of encouragement, it made me realize that most of my co workers are not that bad

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1 month post op
on January 9, 2008 2:10 pm

Wow 1 month post op and feeling great. I still can't believe what a ride it has been. I'm getting ready to go back to work next week, i guess i got to get ready for the questions from my co workers. I see the numbers on the scale going down but i don't see it myself. My pants are getting a little big that i can see. My girlfriend (co-worker) is making me go shopping, she called me last night and said she wants to take me shopping as my Christmas gift. I am thankful to have a friend like her she as been a great surport in my WLS journey. However I don't think i'm ready to go shopping, i don't want to be disappointed if my clothing sizes haven't gone down, but i'm going to go shopping anyway so you guys can see my back to work outfit.

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2 Week follow up
on December 28, 2007 3:53 pm

I had my 2 week follow up with my surgeon yesterday. Everything went every well. It's very funny because when i got on the scale I was down 26 pounds, but on my scale at home i'm only down 19 pounds since my surgery. I decided that i will go with my home scale because i want to weight in every Tuesday because i'm keeping a journal. I also spoke with my nut and she was giving me more ideas to eating. She said I have salad which is good for me becaue i love salad. She also gave me the ok to go back to the gum so i will start on Wednesday once the kids are back in school i can go during the morning and come home and get a nap

, I just keep thanking God that everything is going good so far, I haven't dumped, I don't have any pain everything as been great this far i just pray it continues.

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Home from the hospital
on December 14, 2007 2:10 pm

Today was my first full day home from the hospital and everything went well. I got up and walked to the supermarket with my mother ( when i would normally drive.) My son needed some food items to send to school on Monday. So we walked 5 blocks to the supermarket and then we walked 5 blocks back, i felt good. I don't think my husband was to happy with me doing that but explained to him i need to walk.

I came back and made some hot cereal for breakfast which was really good. Even if i only had 5 spoonfuls. I'm ordering pizza for the family so i will make myself some mashed potates. My mother went home so i'm flying solo. I think evrything will be fine. I don't want the soreness to get me down so i'm not even thinking about the soreness, i can push passed the pain. I'm sure it will go away soon.

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My Story

   The new kid on the block
My story is since a teen I have battled with my weight. I was always the BIG girl, and the funny girl. When I started college I started to lose the weight and I met my husband. Never really skinny but I was smaller in size then I had ever been I had my first son, I the lost weight after I had him and I was feeling good about myself. New life with my now new family my son and my husband. About 4 years later I gave birth to yet another son and then the weight came back. My youngest son will be seven this year and I have gained over 100 pounds since his birth. I am now at the point that I am very unhappy by the way I look.  I do not like to take pictures because of how I look. I think the eye opener for me was when my husband was looking at old pictures of me in college and he showed the picture to my son and he didn't know who I was. All my son kept saying is that's not mommy. That really hurt me; I had gained so much weight that my son didn't even know who I was in that picture. So this year after doing diet after diet and it not working I decided it was time I do away with the old me and start 2008 with a new me.  I need a me that I will now be happy with. So I am currently in the process of have the by pass surgery. This is my story!!!!!!!!



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