- Username: ICYMAMMA
- Location: Springfield, OR, USA
- Member Since: 1/15/2008
- BMI: 43.8
- Hoping to have surgery
- Surgeon: Steven Tersigni, M.D.
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Surgeon TestimonialSteven Tersigni, M.D.I met with Robin. She was great. Robin spoke to me and my husband about the lapband and the details. She took her time in explaining everything. She mentioned that she had the band done herself as well as 9 other family members of hers. WOW...They have all had success and are doing well.
After Robin spoke with me, Dr. Tersigni came in and talked to us about some of the guidelines and so on. He mentioned a few things that could come from the band itself and that statistics of that. Other than that he was great. He did go over the risks and was very honest. Let me say this is one tall guy!
Member Interests
- Animals - I have tons of animals at my house.
- Health - I want to have a long life and be healthy.
- Pets - I love my dogs, cats, and turtles.
- Parenting - I have 3 girls, 12,7,9
- Bingo - I love to play bingo, it is best when I win.
- Snow Skiing - I love the Willamette Pass.
- Horses - I love horses, and love taking care of them.
- 4-Wheelers - I like to go to the Oregon Coast.
- Boats - I love taking the boat to Fall Creek and sitting in the sun.
- Avon - I sale Avon, let me know if you want a book! :)
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My own intro.....what is that supposed to be? What is a person supposed to put in an intro? I sit her in the chair starring at the computer trying to think of what to type. I know it can be simple, or short. Is an intro supposed to be about you? Hmmmm I say.
My name is Dawn. I have just been married for 10 years to a wonderful husband named Gary. He is the greatest thing that has happened to me. He is very supportive and I need that these days. If there is something wrong, he tries to help as much as he can, well that is if I let him help.
We have three girls. There ages are 12,9,6. I know wow! I wanted children early in life. There is a time for people to have children and Gary & I thought we would kick it off to a good start.
I work as an Office Support Manager For Allstate Insurance. I love my job. You are probably saying to yourself, yeah right like everyone else. I work with tons of people everyday and I learn new things every day. There is not a day that is the same in my office.
We are not fancy people, or rich.....(maybe one day)
So Please read on and you can learn a lot more about me and what is happening in my world.
Update on October 26, 2008 12:52 am
I still need that fairy to come along. Everyday, I look at the calander or I see the date somewhere and think what could have been. Monday is the day I would have been off to Coos Bay to have my surgery that I have been dreaming of. I still don't understand why? I'm still trying to think how could this of happened to me? Why am I being blamed, did I do something wrong?
I will still keep looking and waiting and praying. Maybe there is someone out there that is going to help me. I just havn't bumped into them yet? I love it when God takes his time, or I say waits until the last minute.
Just one of these it will be my time! :)
Please, I need a blessing and a prayer on October 12, 2008 10:18 pm
Please, I need a blessing.
I really want this surgery so bad. I can see it happening and me getting better. I see how happy my friend Shannon is because she has had the Gastric Bypass- her life and family have changed.
The only thing I can do now is ask for help from others.
I going to start taking little money at a time and stashing it, even if it is a dollar at a time. This is how bad I want this surgery.
1. Please if are a doctor, that does this surgery and can help me or bless me with Gastric Bypass Surgery, I guess I wouldn't know how to thank you!
2. If you know a doctor tell him about me, please. ( I want off my meds,) I have three girls that need me, I need a life changing situation.
3. If you can spare some money to help me, please let me know.....this matters to me so much and this time I don't want to cancel surgery, I wan't to see myself on that table having surgery.
4. The thing that matters the most is PRAYER, please please keep praying me,,, that this is possible.
I know this is possible, and I feel like giving up, but I can't, Like I have said, I'm going to dig again and again.
I know I'm not the only one, that needs help with this. Insurance companies want us to be sick before they help or have a life changing effect before they step in and I think that is wrong. Before some insurance companies pay for the surgery they want you to have diabeties or sleep apnea. Well I don't have those now, but will if I don't get help soon. I already have depression, pain, and adema of the ankles and on medication that can make me more ill if I stay on them forever.
Thanks
The Hardest Thing Again on October 12, 2008 9:56 pm
I had one last step to take, I had to call and cancel my appointment for my preop for that friday and my surgery for Oct 28th.
I couldn't call, I had to send an Email- I was to upset and embarressed because this was my second time doing so.
I went to work that tuesday after I sent the email on Monday and got an email saying that the doctor was willing to work with me and give me another 10 % discount if I was to keep my surgery date.
I couldn't even if I wanted to, why because where was this money coming from?
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Earth Fell, I'm DONE on October 12, 2008 9:38 pm
So I was on the computer at home. Making sure I had the end of the earth played out. This was about 2 weeks after they had said, yes we will help you with this surgery.
I had scheduled all my classes before surgery, I had an appt on
OCT 10 for my pre-op. I scheduled days off work, and that was hard, because we had one girl quiting and that would leave our office short handed for almost 2 weeks.
The phone rang, it was her asking me to come over that they needed to speak with me. I said ok, and began to get dressed to head over to there house.
I walked in the door and they looked at me, I started crying out loud and felt as if I was going to fall to me knees and vomit non stop.
They explained that they just got a letter in the mail saying that there stock money had decreased over 1/2 my money that they where going to use for my surgery. They lost over $10,000 in a quarter. That they thought that they would never get that back and it didn't seem as if it was going to happen.
WOW, why now lord. I just couldn't control myself. I felt as If I was being punished for something that I did, Why does this happen. I have hit dark black holes and finally see the light at one end and then it closes on me. It wasn't fair.
They where very sorry, as they new that the stocks where not doing so well, but thought they had enough together in CD and other stocks to make it happen. They didn't know if it was going to turn around or not.
I said that I understood, but really I didn't. I really didn't.
I walked home, went to my room and hit the floor, Balling out of control asking GOD why me? Why is this happening to me? What did I do to deserve this? I don't understand. I was so close, my appt for preop was this friday and now this has to happen? Why, I couldn't stop crying. My girls watched me as I cried and cried and layed on my knees moving back and forth asking GOD why?
They tried to console me and said they where very sorry. Sorry mom each one would say. We don't understand mom, we want to see you happy again.
My husband wasn't home at the time that I was told this. When he got home, he took one look at me and knew something was really wrong. He asked and I told as I cried. I asked him as well, why am I being punished? He didn't have an answer for me at all. He didn't know what to do.
The next day was church. I really didn't want to go because of what happened the day before. I was quite all weekend long and I couldn't eat at all. ( I guess it goes to say, like one doctor said to me, in front of my family when she was looking at my stomach,,,,,I would have to basically starve myself in order to loose weight)
We got to church, they started singing songs, and one song just dove deep into me like a arrow....I lost it. I was on my knees again just out of control balling trying to figure out what went wrong and why did this happen to me. I didn't understand. This went on for about 45 min. A good hard heart cry and speaking to the lord of why me lord, please why me. I knew from the bottom of my heart that this was meant for me.
Finally I stopped and the crying was done, however I still didn't understand, but felt like I hadn't had a cry like that for a very long time.
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Wow? Did I hear that right? on October 12, 2008 9:30 pm
All of a sudden, they said why not. We want you to be healthy, you need to be there for your children and getting off that medication that your own would be best for you.
I just busted out crying and I was speachless. The next thing, I know I was hearing lets do the Gastric Band and go all the way. WHAT? Really?
Yes, yes my prayer has been answered. It was so hard for me to come to them and I told them that. They did ask about me paying it back and I had to be honest and tell them that I could, but very hard when things are really tight in our house already. Then her husband says, we might as well give it to you because we are going to loose it anyways the way things are going with money in america right now.
I couldn't pick my mouth off the floor. They where going to give me 25k for this surgery that I have longed for.
It was the greatest week of my life, i was anxious.,, I called and scheduled the surgery and the rest of the classes that I had to take.
Surgery Oct 28th! WOW Gastric Bypass- I took my days off work and scheduled that. I need about a week and a half off due to they type of work that I did. I told my family, in laws and called all my friends.
I told them that GOD is good all the time and helps figures things out.
I was on cloud 9 that was for sure. I couldn't wait! Time wasn't coming quick enough. I look at all my meds and said, you will be gone soon.
Then the earth fell apart under my feet....
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My Story
I want to start off by saying thanks for letting me share a few things with you. I really do want to start a new life and I want things to go better for me.
Let's go back a few years- to my younger period I would say. I have a sister, brotheer. I'm the oldest and then my sister and then my baby brother. We had weird child hood. Why do I say that? Well, I'm going to be honest and up front. I don 't know who my real dad is. I can't remember him. I know that I see him name on my birth certificate and that is it. I do remember that my mom had a boyfriend at one part in her life, they got married. That would have been my step father. I remember very, very little about that child hood as well. I honestly don't know why....... My sister and my brother came from my stepfather. As I said I don't recall much. I remember when my brother was born, I remember living in an apt in
Springfield, OR. I do recall being bounced back and forth from grade school to grade school. Then my step father and mom got a divorce and she became a single mom for a while. Then another man came along- they never got married.
Basically my mom turned out to be out of her mind many years down the road. (drugs and other things) I left home when I was freshman in high school- I was about 14-15. I was thankful that a good friend of mine let me move in with them through my high school years. (I have a more of a history with my mom- and her boyfriend) but to save you time... :) things got really bad for me back then.
I was looking good, doing well in high school. I wasn't a AAAAA+++ student but I did ok. I went through my years, my mom was on my mind. I had a lot of issues because, I had no one that I could go to. I hadn't a place where I could go if I neded it. ( I guess where I felt comfortable.)
I got introduced to a nice guy in my Senior year of school. I had fun we had fun. Things where starting to change for me. I was able to put trust into someone that cared for me. Several months before we where supposed to graduate....I found out that I was going to have a baby before I graduated.
Glad to say that had a healthy child a baby girl. I graduated from High School. The father and I didn't stay together very long after the baby was born.
I gained some weight. Had a lot of stress, school, being on my own and not having anyone to turn to. ( I had rough time for several years)
I kept gaining weight, drepession and just not wanting to do things.
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