5year anniversary

Apr 30, 2013

Wow this is my first time logging back in since I had my surgery 5 years ago. April 8th was my 5 year anniversary since I had lapband surgery. The first year I lost almost 100 lbs. I went from 220 lbs in April of 2008 to 130 lbs around March of 2009. I was feeling and looking great. I was healthy, I felt good about myself. In 2008 I met my significant other . I fell in love and all that good stuff .  March of 2009 I found out I was pregnant with my first son. Immediately I called my doctor and gave him the news. With it being my first child I was concerned with a lot of things: especially the band. I was concerned the baby was not going to get enough to eat. So I told the doctor to take everything out (all the saline I had to tighten it). I had my a healthy 7 Ibs baby boy in January of 2010. Best day of my life. I waited a few months before I went back to start with the fills again. I want to say maybe 3 months. Within the first year I was losing the weight again. Not as fast but it was coming off. I was not exercising as much as before I had my son. During the first year I went back down to about 150 lbs (not as much as i lost the first year but something is something. Oh btw  I went up to about 210 lbs with my pregnancy). I was feeling so good about the weight I was losing. Even though I was losing it slowly it was still coming off. The beginning of 2011 the unimaginable happened. I went in to see my doctor like any other visit. So I thought. Hmmm. Well it so happened he couldn't locate the port. He felt it but the needle wouldn't go in. We had xrays done. My port had flipped. FLIPPED!!. I had no clue that could happen. Well let me rephrase that. I new it was possible but I never thought it would happen to me. I went in for surgery the following week. I had my surgery, he flipped my port back and actually put in a smaller one. So we had to start once again from the beginning. Start with the fills all over again. My doctor told me to take it easy for the first month. No strenuous exercise. I waited a few weeks before I starting doing my walking again. After about 3 1/2 weeks I added a little bit of power walk. I thought life was great again. Boy was I wrong. It marked a month when I started to feel weird. When I say weird I mean with the port. I would feel it up on my ribs. At first I thought it was just my imagination. But no it was really the port floating around. I had to push it back down in place. I immediately made an appointment with my doctor( which my the way I love my doctor to pieces he has been great throughout this journey of mine). When i say immediately I mean within 2 days of feeling this. I know I know I probably should have called him within the first time I felt it but I really wanted it to be my imagination..lol. I go see my doctor and turns out the staples came out. STAPLES CAME OUT!!. When I heard my doctor say those words I started to cry like a little baby . I could not believe this? I had to have yet another surgery. Two surgeries within a month. I was devastated. My doctor told me that the reason the staples came out was because I overdid it with the exercise. Even though I felt better, my inside was not healed yet. Well after that surgery we had to start all over with the fills again. Everything was great for a few months. Until towards the end of 2011. I started to notice that I was getting up in the middle of the night and every morning vomiting. Nasty acid tasting vomit. I went to see my doctor and he said it was a really bad acid reflex I was having. GUESS WHAT? Yup he had to empty my port again. He said he had to do that so the swelling from me vomiting could go down. He didn't start with the fills until about a month later.

Needless to say it is 2013 and I am at 178 lbs as of 4/29/2013. I never went back to the 130 lbs I was before I got pregnant with my son. I am sad, disappointed in myself, I always have 101 excuses as to why. But really there is no excuse. I have to get back out there and start excising again. Walking, start doing something. My excuse is I work a full time job, have a son, significant other, and school 3 times a week. But really they are just excuses I am making for myself. I will be the first one to admit it. I went to have a fill on 4/29/2013 a Monday. The doctor told me I had not been in since December of 2011. Believe it or not I really thought the last time I had seen him was December of 2012. I didn't realize it had been that long. Well guess what? She gave me to many cc. (I say she because there are now 2 doctors at the location I go to). She only gave me one cc. But that was enough for me not to be able to keep anything down. When I mean anything I mean anything(not even my own saliva). I have not had anything to eat or drink in the past 24 hours. My back is killing me. I called her today, she made me an appointment to go see her tomorrow 5/1/2013- Wednesday first thing in the morning to have some taken out. I think I just need about 1/2 cc taken out and I should be good. Maybe wait about a month and try to go get the 1/2 back in. Wow I hadn't realized how much I wrote..lol. This is my first time ever writing a blog. I just want to let everyone know that even though I went through some tough ordeals I do not regret getting the lapband. I felt I had to write a little bit of what has been going on these past 5 years to maybe not be so hard on myself. Hmmm I dont know but it helped..lol. Sorry if some of the things I wrote are confusing or don't quite make sense. I just started typing non stop. If you have any questions, I mean any questions what so ever please feel free to ask.

ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS 2013 IS GOING TO BE MY YEAR. I will get this weight off again :. Until next time

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