AutumnR
I don't even know where to begin "MY STORY". I think that mine is like most everyone else on this site. I have been obese my whole life and I have let my weight stop me from doing all the things I have wanted to do in life. Now at my heaviest I am ready to take control and I feel the only way to do that is with the RNY. I think my biggest fear of having the surgery is that it seems to good to be true. I read all the success stories and see everyone's fabulous before and after pictures and I think "Is this for real, could this really happen for me?" I am a single mother of a wonderful 2 year old who deserves to have a mommy who is the best that she can be, so not only is this for me but for my daughter. So I am keeping my story short, I have read many profiles and I cry with most that I read, feeling the pain that you all feel and also realizing that I am not alone and that most everyone has had the same expierences as I. Just the everyday things that most people wouldn't even think about, like fitting in a booth at a resturaunt, fitting comfortably in the movie theater seat, even just being able to go to any store to buy clothes. So I wait patiently for August 22, 2007, My surgery date.
