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Hello EVERYONE,
I'm 40 yrs old and have been over weight for some time. When I see people from my past and they would say, girl you put on some weight, I would say yep hold the top of my stomach and say this is Hap than i would hold the left side of my stomach and say this is pi and then i would hold the right side of my stomach and say this was ness. (Happiness.) It was all a lie.
I never had any health issue so I just felt that this is how god wanted me to be. Until a nurse asked me did I have thyroid problems and I said no i'm just fat.
I didn't like going to the doctors cause I felt like they sometime use us as test dummy and Idid not want to be apart of it. when i didn't feel good i would just go to sleep. Then 1 summer my kneed swelled up so bad that i had to walk with a kang. They could not find anything wrong and they never said to loose weight, then that healed. Then when i would get up in the morning put my feet on the floor my feet would hurt, and I knew it was my weight.
I went in for a phyical and found out I weighted 270lbs when I left the dr. office i could not stop crying. I then decided to walk. I walked around my town the whole night crying looking like a crazy women (like I was going to walk off the weight in one night)
I had spoke with my husband the year prior about the surgery but he didn't want me to have any surgery. After my weight walk my husband and I sat down again and we decided I needed help.
So I started my research online the I when to a seminar. I had so many question and every question was answered that night by Dr. Vaimakis. She wanted to answer everyones question in the room. Being the big punk that Iam. My last question to her was will the adjustments hurt. I will never forget the look on face when I asked that question. Her answer was that it is a needle and will be alitte uncomfortable. Well, that's all I thought about from that night on.
I went to the Dr.'s office took all the test. The blood gas test scared me the most, but it did not hurt me at all.
I got approved, and my surgery date. I went shopping for everthing I need and I had watched soany medical show with the band that I scared myself even more. Before I went to the hospital I prayed so hard I keep saying Lord please hear me, lord please hear me. and he did.
The nurse blew my left hand and right hand vein and I told her to call the house doctor and he ran my Iv. As I was being wheeled to the O.R. I was singing to my husband I'm bringing sexy back.
Well everything went well I had NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pain. I knew god had heard my prayers.
My first week i had lost 20lbs that right 20lbs my doctor was even shocked . I was so determined to lose this weight I walked every day and did exercise. I went to a support group and there was people there that had surgery before and after my surgery and they were in pain and I was fine.
I went for my first adjustment it was not bad, but afterwards I did not feel any different. After about 5 adjustments I had a dream that I was in my favorite store and the Nurse from the doctor can up to me and said that I was not crazy that this surgery is mind over matter, that how you loss weight.. I went back to my doctor and told her that I was still hungry.
Well after about 12 adjustments I told my doctor that I failed the Lap Band cause I was losting and gaining and we did not know why and that I was not going to be coming back. She made some sugesstion and it scared me (Changing my port). So I joined a Gym had a personal trainer and my weight went down to 233. I was so excited, but then it started going back up. My Dr. ordered a upper gi and it showed that my band slipped, i had an endoscopy and it confirmed the slip. That meant they had to go back in and re do my band.
my weight was now 242
I had all the test done again and I talked to my regular doctor and I told him I was not going to redo the surgery and he said yes I was cause the lap band works.
When I went to the doctors office to sign the consent form 1 thing stuck out the almost was that there was a possilbilty my surguery would be open. What does that mean-------- Instead of laperscopic iI would get a big cut. Well I don't know if you ever watched the show House you know when people would come into the E.R. hurt really bad they would say CRACK HIM and they would cut the person wide open and this was all i was think about when I saw possible open.
Well, God is good all the time. I had my surgery on July 30th. the surgery was longer because they had to remove the old band and put in a new band and during they found a tumor on my stomach and had to remove that during my surgery and send it for a biopsy.
They will let me know if it is cancerist or not on Monday, but I am Thank God in Advance for the non cancer results.
I sorry my store is so long but I've been reading your stories and they have helped me and maybe my story can help someone too.
I have some pain but its all good
Until next time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
