The worm realized it was a caterpillar and thus a butterfly

Mar 17, 2010

So, my parents and I were talking the other day and realized that it has been a year and a half since I moved back home after leaving my husband. It's been a hectic crazy year in which I have grown and thus gone through growing pains. I came to the realization that I was being abused and moved through that by confronting my abuser and ceasing that relationship through divorce. I went back to school to finish my degree so that I can move up in the world for myself and my children and cemented the visitation for my children over the summer. I was an inchworm, moving slowly but surely through life to a goal that I had not yet realized.

My parents have both had bariatric surgery (laparoscopic Roux en-Y) and after my dad had his toward the end of last year, my PCP made the recommendation that I follow the same path. I began the path to bariatric surgery at the end of December/the beginning of January and realized for the first time that I could weigh less than 180-230 pounds. I am realizing that I am not at all an inchworm, I am instead a caterpillar waiting to change into a butterfly.

This caterpillar has begun to spin its crysallis and hopefully in a little over a month I will begin to emerge from that crysallis a new healthier, thinner person... a butterfly.

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