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I'm tired of being excessively overweight.  I'm on my 4th insurance carrier, trying to get approval.  The other ones had exclusion clauses.  Argh!  Supposedly this one provides coverage.  I don't want to get my hopes up, but I sure hope it is covered!

I'm a mom to two extremely busy boys, married to a great guy.  One of my boys is 15 and the other is 12.  I work full-time.  My boys both play hockey, which takes up most of our "spare" time.  They love it.  Plus the 15 year old is raising a steer at the school barn, and the 12 year old is on the school tennis team.
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on May 6, 2007 10:21 am
5/6/2007.  Woo hoo!  I had my surgery!!!  Lap RNY on April 26, 2007.  I'm 10 days out today and feeling good.  I had to do pre-op stuff and my original surgery date was 5/3/2007.  But all the pre-op stuff was good, and they had an opening a week earlier 4/26/2007.

My surgery was around 1 p.m. on Thursday and I was released by 1 p.m. the next day!  I only took my pain medicine 1 time after I came home.  The first night--I was worried I wouldn't be able to sleep because of the pain--and I couldn't sleep on my sides or tummy.  That medicine tasted so yucky to me, that I decided I would have to be in a heck of a lot more pain to ever take that again!

10 days out, I have hardly any soreness left.  I have to go back to work in a week.  Ugh.  But I'm taking it easy and recuperating nicely while I'm off!

I try to take a walk each evening, but that really wears me out.  And I taking a shower, because it absolutely exhausts me.  But I think each day gets a little better.  :)
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As a child, I always felt "big".  Bigger than my friends.  Looking back at my photos, I think I was a fairly normal size.  I don't know.  My parents were constantly dieting.  My mom died of brain cancer when I was 12.  I think that's when I turned to food for comfort.

At 16 years old, I was 5' 5" and weighed about 130 lbs.  I got a job at a health club/gym.  I went on an extremely restrictive diet.  I lost 10 lbs, but gained lots of muscle and fitness.  I taught 2 floor-exercise classes a night, plus 2 aerobics classes a night, plus I did the machine circuit at least once a night.  Best shape I've ever been in.

When I was 17, the health club burned down.  Lost my job.  Started taking over-the-counter diet pills.  Lived one summer on diet pills, diet pepsi, and sloe-gin fizzes.  Stayed skinny, but still felt "big".

I guess that's when the yo-yo dieting started.  I would lose, and then gain it back and more over and over and over and over again.  And now I'm extremely extremely overweight, too ashamed to admit my acutal weight--but it is exremely high (off the scales in most doctors offices...)

I'm tired of not being able to keep any weight off.  I'm tired of being so fat.  I'm tired of fighting my weight.  I'm tired of being tired.  I don't think I'll ever be "skinny" again.  I just want to lose weight and be able to exercise again.  To increase the quality of my life.  And to increase the length of my life.

I think WLS is the tool that I need to get back on track.