jnp2004
My name is Pam and I am 40 years old and I have been over weight my whole life. I came into this world weighing 11 ½ pounds. I was always the heaviest girl in the class room. I was made fun of all the time for being fat. I can’t tell you how many days a week I would come home crying because of the kids on the school bus. My older sister (who is very slim to this day) doesn’t know what it is like to be heavy and she would tell the kids to shut up and leave me alone but you and I both know how mean kids are.
Then the summer before I went into 6th grade my parents put me into weight watchers. (both of my parents are over weight also). I lost the extra weight and when I went back to school after summer break the kids couldn’t believe it was me. I kept off the weight during junior high and high school but I worked at it everyday. I took three gym glasses while in high school and I was a cheerleader. But then I got married and then got pregnant with my oldest daughter Kelsi who is 17 (born in 1989) now. I gain more then 80 pounds. And needles to say it’s never left. Two years later I was blessed with another little girl who’s name is Kayleigh and she is15 (born in 1991) now.
I have done every diet out there. I work with a wonderful person who had RNY last April and she and I talked about it in great lengths. She also told me our insurance covered it. I had always done a lot of reading about it and knew some people who had done it. But I always didn’t have the money to do it. I was a single mom raising two girls on my own and didn’t have time to be down due to surgery.
But now…JJJ I have gotten remarried (2 ½ wonderful years now) and my kids are older and my husband (Jeff) and I talked about it and at first he was very much against it. I talked him into going with me to the Oregon Bariatric Center for a informational seminar. That’s where everything changed. My husband was so impressed with it he said I needed to take the next step and found out more. Well I did and that’s when I met Dr. Gorrin. He’s is wonderful. I can not put into words the way he made me feel the day I went in and met with him and the other office staff. In fact they are all wonderful.
