Lets see Im a 27 (soon to be 28) year old wife and mom, who loves God and my family & friends but dont get me wrong I love to have a good time too... lol Currently a housewife, but I hope to go to school soon. Im just not to sure on what for... Im thinking of nursing or maybe real estate well see. Anyway I am in my 6th year of marriage to a really great guy (Matt) who puts up with alot lol... He is my best friend, my lover, my supporter, my provider, he is everything to me. He has made some wrong turns in his life here and there, and has paid for them... Now he is in school at Triangle Tech and wanting to own his own contracting company... Im sooo proud of him!! For The other man in my life my darling little 7 year old son Mason. Who keeps me on my toes. I just can't get over how time has just flown by soo fast... Just yesterday he was only 2 years old and now he is 7 years old .... 

Heres a lil, more about me... I have been over weight since I was about 10 or 11 years old. I think it has held me back from achieving many goals I wanted to accomplish in my life. The biggest that always comes to mind is dancing. I have danced for a little over 17 years. I started out when I was around age 5. I loved it, I lived it, I breathed it. It was my life as I grew up. As I got older I got heavier, and that really pulled me down. When I danced my last year I was heart broken. I thought that my life was over. I didn't know what else to do with my self. I mean that’s all I knew was dancing. I had planned to graduate from high school, and then attend Point Park College for Dance, and at that point I knew that it would not happen. So that is defiantly one of the things I look forward to doing once I have this surgery. I would love to start dancing again one day but well see. :) I am really looking forward to picking up with many of my goals that I had to be leave behind because of my weight. I looked into having this surgery around age 16 like I said before. I was going to have it at the same time, and by the same doctor as a good friend of our family. She had already had Lap-Band surgery years ago (when I was a little girl), but as time went by she had eat threw it. Now she was a lot older and much bigger. So she wanted to try again. This time she wanted to try something a little more permanent. So we were both going for Gastric By-pass. This was great. We studied about it together. Talked about it all the time. Only one thing stopped us from going in at the same time, she was able to go straight threw and get a date. While with me it took a little more time. With me being so young and all back then they wanted to make sure that this was really what I wanted. Also there were many other precautions they went threw with minors. So she went ahead and got her surgery done. Now at the time she was staying with us, because her house which was right across the street had burnt down. Anyways she ended up having some issues with her surgery. They think because of her age and because it was the second time around plus because of how big she was. She had problems with her wound healing. So they had to leave it open to heal from the inside out. So letting her wound heal took lots of time. She had gotten very sick and was unable to eat for months. She was in and out of the hospital for over 6 to 8 months. After all that time she still had issues her wound healing. Once she had hit about 8 or 9 months P/O she was at home and had gotten very ill and had to be rushed to the hospital. None of us thought nothing of it because of she had been in and out so much. About 3 days passed when we got a call from her son saying she had just passed minutes ago. We soon found out that she ended up with some kind of infection. So that stopped me dead in my tracks, and my family really didn't want me to do it at that time. So 7 years later I am finally ready to take the chance. I know now that at that time she was ok with taking that chance. I know that who ever goes to have this surgery they have to be ok with the chance that you might die. You have to be willing to take the chance of losing you life to regain your life, and I am ready. If I die I know that I died trying to have a better life, trying to give my son and hubby a better life because if I am happy then they are. If I am able to get around better, and if I am more active then my son will be too. So I know now that this is all for the best. Yes it will make me happier to love myself inside and out, but this is not just for me its for my family too.

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