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  • Name: Elizabeth G.
  • Username: emgoetz
  • Location: RI, USA
  • Member Since: 5/14/2012
  • BMI: 49.4
  • Surgery date scheduled
  • Surgery Type: RNY (10/18/12)
  • Surgeon: Donald Colacchio
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Get My Surgery Approved & Set A Date!

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Right now, just get through testing and get approved.

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My Story
posted on 5/23/12 11:17 am
Hi there. I have been heavy all of my life. I think the first time my parents spoke to me about it I was 4 or 5. I was told that if I lost weight I would be rewarded with a new Cabbage Patch doll. Being only 4 or 5 years old, I certainly had NO idea what they were even talking about.  Needless to say, that new doll wasn’t had. I think that’s beginning. Being fat never really bothered ALL of me. I realized that I wasn’t the best athlete but I could still participate enough which was fine for me… I didn’t need to win. I always thought I was and am beautiful so if no one ever wanted to ask me out, take me to a dance, or be my boyfriend, it usually didn’t (consciously) register as a bad thing with me. So I went through my youth and adolescence like this. My mom and dad taking me to Weight Watchers, a nutritionist, an MSW for counseling, PhenFen (mild, albeit temporary success). And then one day after I got out of college, I decided I needed to change because I was tired of struggling with EVERYTHING. Moving, breathing, sleeping… real basic items were a serious struggle and I wanted a boyfriend!!! Topping the scales at 400.4 lbs., I enrolled again in WW at 23 years old (2001) and over the course of the next 3 years, lost 150lbs. FREEEEEEDOM! I was the fittest I’d ever been. I was loving it and it showed!!! I was able to maintain this reasonably well until I met my sweetheart in 2008. I was so smitten I lost track of ME and my goals and just partied, had fun and love him to pieces. Four years later (2012), I still love him to pieces and I’ve regained 125 lbs. O… M… G. After what I now can see was a weight-related emotional breakdown in March 2012, I decided to get healthy. When I finally got the courage to work out, I hurt my left knee, hip and ankle and was convinced I needed a better tool than sheer determination to get healthy. So here I am. I asked my employer to consider switching to an insurance carrier that covered WLS and in early May 2012 I got the good news that we were switching. Thank goodness! Less than a week later, my sweetheart and I went to the WLS seminar.

My insurance kicks in July 1, 2012 and with that my first surgical consult is July 3rd followed by nutritional counseling starting July 10th. I have a bunch of great supporters in my corner for which I am so darn thankful. People I thought would be against it have been so welcoming.

Am I the only one wondering if this might all be just too good to be true? I want to pinch myself. If all goes as planned, I’ll be a changed woman before Thanksgiving.

My Co-Morbidities as of May 23, 2012:

Hypertension (mild)
Elevated Cholestrol
Elevated Triglycerides
Shortness of breath on exertion
Decreased Exercise Tolerance
Asthma
Joint and back pain
Abnornal Menstrual Cycle
Stress incontinence
Varicose Veins
Leg, Ankle Swellings
Rashes, infections, excess sweating
Lack of self esteem
Social rejection
Loss of job potential
Inappriopriate coping strategies
Depression
Anxiety


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