HutchBiorn
I've always been somewhat big...bigboned. I was always athletic, ate healthy, did the gym and all that in my younger years. At 15 I went into a very abusive marriage that lasted 3 1/2 years...that's when I gave up trying to be healthy..just wanted to live. But it wasn't till years after getting away from that, the weight started coming. I was only 21...held a comfortable 175...even after having a child. But then, I got pregnate again..thinking it would be the same...boy was I wrong. Within the first 3 months I shot up to an astonishing 350lbs. A very huge jump from what I was. I have been battling the weight ever since. I have tried every diet out there...I excersize when my body allows..I eat healthier than I have in years. But still, nothing works. I have managed to get the weight down...but cannot break the 300lb mark. I have been talking and working with my doctor in Ga for several years..only to loose nothing but more selfesteme. He finally referred me for Gastric Bypass, as all other ideas had failed. I did all the prep stuff...changed diet again and again, went to seminars..had a doctor lined up and just waiting on a date. Only to have the doctor back out at the last minute. I had reached my last turning point, one to where the thought of suicide had shadowed all other sensible thoughts.
Then I moved to Mass about 2 years ago. I moved in with the one person who in almost 15 years has stood by me no matter what...held me trough all my idiocities and stupidities. and has supported me through everything. She saw how my health went, watched my mood swings and attitude changes over a few months, watched me go from somewhat walking to barely standing and being put into a wheelchair because I no longer had strength to stand on my own and finally said "NO MORE! This ain't gonna happen." She promptly contacted a doctor, changed my diet and got me back into taking better care of myself and has greatly improved my self esteme. While I still need the wheelchair at times..I can somewhat walk a little better.
The doctor has referred me to the Comprehensive Weight Management program at Mercy Hospital in Springfield to get into a health program and hopefully obtain the Gastric Bypass my Ga doctor tried to get me. So...I have a pile of papers to fill out, need to make a copy of my medicaid card and send everything in, then setup for an appointment and see what goes from there. I know it's gonna be a long hard road...but will be well worth it in the end if this can be accomplished.
