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I saw the surgeon today and had a great visit :) I used to hate being weighed and now I am so happy to jump on a scale at the office. I knew I would have lost a little weight (or at least I hoped I had) but I was not prepared for what I saw...I have lost 7.5 pounds!!! In four days no less..I am so thrilled! The good Dr. C was proud of me and told me to keep up the good work. It feels good to be finally beating my weight issues..go me :)

I am Katie..a 30 yr old woman, wife, mother, daughter, granddaughter, friend, and scrapbooker. I have been overweight most of my adult life, never happy with my looks. I have taken two years to come to the decision to have RNY surgery. I wish I could say the decision was easy for me and I just knew it was the thing to do..it did not happen that way for me. I had to pray about it and do research about anything and everything that could happen and was I willing to take the risks. As I was doing all this my health kept deteriorating. I now have high blood pressure, depression, and have to be on medication. This made it even more important to make a decision.

I went to see Dr Christopherson here in Davenport to see if surgery was what I really wanted. It took us a year after taking the information class to actually make the Dr appointments. I say "us" becuase my husband Zachary is going through the same thing right now. He is having RNY as well three weeks after my surgery. So we are totally doing this together. It is scary to think that someone else would have to raise our children if we don't do something about our health. Between the two of us our copays for medication are over two hundred dollars a month now. We just cannot afford to go on living the way we are.  Health wise and money wise we are making ourselves sick.

So back to the good Dr. C and the people at the Bariatric Center at Genesis East in Davenport Iowa. They are so wonderful there..nice and make us feel right at home and comfortable. Everything in the office is bigger and made for plus size people. I never realizd how uncomfortable I was in a smaller chair until I went to the office and sat in a chair that was made for someone my size..what a difference..and what a rude awakening at the same time.

That was another reason I decided to have the surgery..I started to not fit into places that I love to go. The seats at our big civic center where all the big shows come is now off limits to me..I do not fit in the seats. I can't be mad at anyone but myself because I did it to myself. That has been the hardest part of this whole expirience is realizing that I am the one that has to take responsiblity for all of this and get over it and move on with my life. I can't have a constant pity party because that will get me nowhere. If I want to lose weight and be healthier I have to do it myself for myself..not anyone else.

That being said,,doing it for myself does not just benefit myself..but my family and my friends, my church and my community as well, Because I will be a more productive person when all is said and done.

So after many appointments, insurance approval, financial ability, and every other issue addressed..I picked a surgery date. It is offical I am having the RNY surgery. On October 19th 2009 I will start my journey into being a new and improved me. Im excited and scared about the whole process. I have made a scrapbook showing everything from my starting pictures and there will be surgery pics and lots of after pictures. I look forward to sharing this book with my friends and family and one day my daughters who will understand better with age why I chose to do this..not just for me..but for them too.