Think positive and
everything will go
your way. Do not be
afraid to ask for
help from the
nurses. The main
thing is to get up
after surgery and
start walking. The
more you walk the
better you will be.
This is a new
journey and
adventure to a
healthier life
style.
Catharine
Hi Linda! Two more
days and counting.
Wow! I get so
excited for my OH
friends. I will keep
you in my thoughts
and prayers. I know
in my heart
everything will be a
success. Keep your
OH family posted
when you can. Good
luck on your
weightloss journey!
Open arms are
waiting for you on
the loser bench.
Well, my friend,
this morning I was
thinking of you and
wanted to post
another note to your
surgery page.
Thursday will be
here before you know
it, and you KNOW my
thoughts and prayers
are with you. We
are going to make it
through this! Take
care and know I will
be with you in
spirit. See you
Friday! :-)
It's been awhile since I made a post. I've been so busy. I was already busy, now adding exercising and gym into the mix, my plate runneth over now. My progree may not be like some people here have had, but none the less if you check my data, I have made progress. From 316 to 236, do you think I've made progress??? Progress has slowed down, but it's still coming OFF. Man! Let me tell you, it has been so long since I've been this size, I don't know how to act. Now I,m 5'9", so as always people don't think I weight as much as I do still. I have been loving all the compliments, every time I see someone that new me heavy, I get complimented. My self esteem has went through the roof. I can't pass a mirror or window without checking myself out. The new attention is wonderful. I'll be posting new pictures soon. Now about my closet, I had at least 6 sizes in there. Would you believe I'm almost at the smallest size in my closet. I got rid of the 3 largest sizes. Not that I plan to wear the other sizes. It's just so hard to get rid of some things I've been waiting soo long to get back into and now those things are too large. To all you people that are thinking about this procedure, let me tell you, I would do it in a heart beat, I don't regret it not one bit. I look forward to every day. Doing things I wasn't able to do in the past. I am a totally new person and loving it. And my love life has improve ten thosand percent. It's like we were newly weds again. I look forward to shopping again, were before I dreaded it. I can shop in regular stores....Whooppieeeee I have not experienced any of the horror stories people have told about this method. I beleive the key to that is following what your dotors tell you to do. I am such a more happier and healthier person today. I wished I could have done this years ago.
Thursday 10-25-07, I went in to have my surgery, Everything was on time 6:00 Am. I kissed my husband goodbye and they rolled me off to the operating room. I scooted onto the operating table and laid on my back, and the drug man says I'm gonna insert the meds into your arm. And no soon as he did, all I remember was telling him I can feel the sleep coming. Next thing they were rolling me to my hospital room and I hurt. I find out then, that I went in for my gastric bypass and ended up having a total of 4 major surgeries. They found a large hernia, repaired that, my gall bladder was full of stones, doctor says one of the largest he'd seen, they removed that. My uterus was enlarged, he fixed that. Total overhaul. I only stayed in the hospital 4 days, I want to thank all the people that came to see me while I was there, especially my friend Beth, who had her wls the next day, but found time to come see me regularly. I felt bad that I was in too much pain to make it over to her room. I couldn't resist hopping up on the scale, had lost 8 pounds already. People joke that it was all the other stuff they removed. Yeah ha ha.
This is my last post before in go in. Only 8 hours and counting. I should be in the bed, but I'm busy trying to get all my last minuet chores done. I had to fast after a light breakfast this morning. It was a piece of cake, I was too busy running around doing errands and chores. At 04:00PM I took the compound recommended for cleaning out your system.
I must have spent three and a half hours in the bathroom. Well I'll be going to bed in a few minuets. Next post will surely be Post OP.
I am counting down to the last minuets. I don't have much time left. I ate my last real meal a few minuets ago. I ate Mexican food. I know I probably shouldn't have, but too late now. I'll have my last breakfast in the morning. Something very light. Probably malt o meal with a little slenda. I am mentally ready to do this thing.... I,m gonna take pictures in the morning. I'll be fasting the rest of the day. I'll probably play video games on my computer to keep my mine off food. I want to thank everyone for your support. Because I'm really nervous, anixous, scared, excited, you name it. I was supposed to be following a diet before surgery, I wasn't doing too bad, but not as good as I should have. I hope this won't be a problem. Just one of my concerns at the moment. I went to work tonight and forgot to take my dinner, so I ate with the crew. (Mexican food) Yes I know. Bad Girl! But that's alright, you can bet your bottom dollar I'll be following Dr.s direction from here. I'm not into pain.
I have only been a member since 10/5/2007, but my struggle to get here has been almost a year and a half of jumping through hoops for the insurance company to get approved for this surgery. Crazy test, nutritionist appt. 6 months of dieting. Heart test, and other crap they want you to do. But it finally happened. I got a date with the surgeon on the 25th this month. This was not a fly by night decision. I thought on this and read and researched information about this for about 3 years. Now I am patienly counting down the days. I have 7 days to surgery. I did some grocery shooping for things I'm gonna need today to get ready. I'm so close. Every now and then mixed feelings raise their ugly head. Of course I'm nervous and a little scared. But I keep visualizing a new me in that skinny out fit. Oh! Yes I'm excited too. I'm trying to get things done so I don't have to worry so much after surgery. All my family are very supportive. It took me years before I would tell anyone how much I weighed. My own husband didn't know until maybe 6 months ago. I was ashamed. Be I'm talking now. Weighing in on the 12 of this month at 303 pounds. But that's okay, I won't be here long.
I've worked in the Information Technology feild for almost 30 years. I know a long time, right out of High School, I love computers. I have been married for 27 years to my loving husband that I meet in my neighborhood when I was 14 years old. I broke up a year later for about 3 years. Then I was going to my mom's house, the same neighborhood I met him, and ran into Marvin. And we reunited , dated a couple of years, got married. I have 4 beautiful kids. Boy 27, girl 23, boy 22, and oops, girl 12.You see, my first son I threw away the bith control pills too soon. The next child, my IUD stop working before it was time to change it, The next child the IUD didn't work at all so he came 11 months behind my first daughter. So I said I'm closing up shop and had a tubligation. Now you see my daughter WAS an only girl and she wanted a little sister. So she said she was going to pray for one. I told her " Honey, that's one prayer that ain't gonna get answered, cause this shop is closed. About six months down the road, I started missing my period. I said to my husband, well, you know at 35 some woman start going throug menopause, so I ignored it, cause my tubes are tied. They even made me sign papers stating that I understand I could no longer have children and the procedure I had was NOT reverseable. Later on, I got so nauseated, I figured it was the salad dressing on the salad I had. Then a couple of weeks later I felt faint, it was in the summer of Arizona I thought that was the reason. I talked with my husband and we were beginning to think something was seriously wrong, I was scared. I went to the doctor they did routine exames and said they needed to do a pregnacy test, I said, I don't think so, my tube are tied. They said it is just routine. I took the test. the nurse came back, she said you're pregnant. I said that test is not right, I'm not. She said, you could be right, sometimes different things make them false. the next day I did one, she came back and said, it says your pregnant. I said NO. She agreed something could be wrong, they sent me to a specialist, they did test and then they did an ultrasound. He said " You see that right there?" "It's a little girl" I went home and told my husband and cried like a baby. You see, my baby then was 10 year old. So don't be telling me God don't answer prayers. Especially those of children. My daughter got her baby sister. We nicknamed our miracle baby "Angel" The chances of me having a normal pregnacy after a tubul were ultra slim, one in a million and lots are tuble pregnacies end up having to be terminated. Mine was placed right where it was supposed to be. After delivery, the docters performed another tubligation. I had a C section so I was awake. The doctor said I don't know what we are working with, there hardly anything here, I don't know how you even got pregnant.
Now all the weight I gained from child birth and YO YO dieting is stuck right on my butt. You name it I've done it for diets. I wasn't exactly a fat kid, but I wasn't a small kid either. I was always heavier than my piers. Three years ago I lost 60 pounds on the atkins diet, but soon as I stopped dieting, it was like a dry sponge thrown into a lake. I gained it all back plus more. I've always have tried to exercise, go to gyms and stuff. I even lied about my age at 16 to get a gym membership. One thing about it, I truly believe all thoses years I did exercise have contributed to my good health even with all the weight. The only health problems I have are joint and knee and feet pain due to the over weight, light sleep apnea. This is one reason I need to loose weight. If I don't, my chances of developing other health issues are extremely high. I want to live longer and start enjoying life as I remember.