Where to begin, first of all let me say I'm 50 years old and feel like I've been given a second chance to get it right. I have struggled with my weight for years, but the last ten years has just been all down hill. I never realized just how big I was getting until August of 2006 when myself, my daughter and my six year old granddaughter, at the time, went to Six Flags and a water park and I thought I was going to die. I told my husband when we got back home that I could not do that again, I really thought at times I was going to have a heart attack, and those chest pains kept getting worse, my legs hurt me all the time, my back hurt, my hips hurt, I really don't think there was anypart of me that didn't hurt. I would go to bed at night and if I had to get up during the night my feet hurt me so bad I couldn't hardly walk. I knew I had to do something and that it had to be drastic or I was not going to live to see my grandbabies grow up. I had tried Suzanne Summers two years prior and lost 70 lbs. on her diet and it really did work but once I stopped eating that way I packed the pounds back on plus about 20 more. I tried and tried to start it again but no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't get motovitated. Of course I had done WW and other diets all down through the years. I was afraid I was going to die plus I was just so miserable. I hated what I looked like and I felt like everyone else did too. I never felt like getting dressed to do anything. I just knew my life had to change.

I had thought about Gastric Bypass seriously for about the last three years, but I just didn't have the courage it took to do anything, then, I have a very dear friend that had it done. She did so well, lost 125 lbs., looked great and felt so much better. It started me thinking, that maybe, it wasn't so bad. So I thought about it and thought about it and decided I had to do this for myself, as well as for my family. I started to talk to my husband about it and finally talked him in going to see Dr. Jones with me, he was so up and down about it, it seeemed like everyday he changed his mind about the way he felt about it. He wanted me to go have it and then he didn't, until we went to see Dr. Jones. We both had doubts about it till that day, we left his office knowing this was the right thing for me to do. He came out with his examples, and explained everything to us, he was just so great, he left no stones unturned. From that day forward I knew I had to do this. We tried to get it approved through our insurance company but of course they had a clause that kept them from paying for WLS, even though I had health problems that required medications, like HBP, Sleep Apena, Acid Reflux and I was developing some heart problems. But that didn't stop me, we took out a loan and invested in my health and I have no regrets. I'm only nine weeks out but the quality of my life has improved so much over the course of those nine weeks. I've lost 55.5 lbs., no longer take BP medications or Acid Reflux medications and no longer have to sleep with my CPAP machine. I feel so  much better and just keep improving each and every day. I thank Dr. Jones and his staff but mainly I thank my Lord Jesus Christ for bringing me through this and bringing Dr. Jones into my life. Jesus gave me such peace about this whole thing that I just knew everything was going to be fine. I know he's been with me every step of the way, I've had no complications and doing so good, I just can't tell anyone how much better I feel physically and mentally.