Jennrose32
Figuring it all out...
Apr 08, 2010
So, this is my first blog post. A little about me: You can call me Jennifer or Jenn; if you call me Jenny I will ignore you and pretend I didn't hear it. I am 25 going on 50, ambitious, and have survived a lot of crap in my short years. I'm currently living in Portland, OR, and I'm finishing up my Bachelor's degree. My major is technically Liberal Arts, but I'm focusing on theater. I love acting, and a nice side effect of having WLS is that I (hopefully) won't get cast as the mother all the time. I first stumbled upon the OH site a year ago, and didn't really do much. I was still very much in the "looking for a miracle" stage of my weight loss journey. I looked around a little, realized that there was a lot of information about weight loss surgery, and left. I didn't want to resort to surgery; for me, it was the last option, and it hadn't even crossed my mind. I kinda wish it had, since I would have had the summer to recuperate, but to be honest, I hadn't hit rock bottom yet, hadn't been able to admit that I had a problem. I was obsessed with food. Sometime in September, I finally talked to my doctor about weight loss surgery, and she said she thought I was a good candidate. She referred me to a surgeon, and I submitted all of my paperwork to their program. But every time I tried to call the center to find out what was going on, I was treated very snidely and rudely. I decided that if that was what they were like over the phone, I didn't want to find out what it would be like in person. I chose another WLS program, at the same hospital that my mother works at, and things moved very quickly from there. And I still hadn't heard from the other program (I didn't tell them I was switching). In fact, I didn't hear from them until a week before my surgery date, and that was to tell me that they were ready to submit paperwork to my insurance! Uh, no thanks. Anyway, I had RNY on March 30th, 2010, and I'm still learning. I'm not sure what vitamins to be on , or a lot of the other basics, but I'm here. And I'm starting a new journey, a new life, one that isn't controlled by food all the time.
