patmaven
Well here is my story I have of course dieted for years and was not able to maintain the loss. I had kept to a size 14 with a stimulant addiction most of my life and have been free of that for 13 years now. My learned coping skill was still not communication or confrontation or any other healthy thing. I resorted to food as my coping skill. So here I was at the age of 36 and enjoying life and by the time I reached 47 I was weighing 290 lbs. That is when I started to seek information for the lapband surgery. My health had started to reflect the exess weight with my knees and breathing becoming labored. In the midst of this I started to hemorage, post menipausal, and had to stop my plans of weight loss. I continued with the need of a hysterectemy for 7 months going in the hospital for blood transfusions bi-weekly. While this was happening my weight went up 25 pds in a week. (I forgot to say I aquired hepatitis C while in addiction.) My gastro doctor put me in the hospital and discovered the gain was from a symptom of Chirosis of my liver. "Lapband good-bye." This was 2 years ago. I was finally referred to Philadelphia for a hysterectomy and a new gyno doc. There is where I became healthy again. I am working on getting on the Liver transplant list and ALL I HAVE TO DO IS LOSE 70 POUNDS!!! Picture that with all the knowledge of what could happen I tried and was getting depressed now cause I still couldn't do it. That's when my liver doctor suggested I think about the lapband surgery. So with Gods direction I am starting my life over again. I am 10 days out of surgery. I have not had a problem with any thing I drink or eat (pureed) so far. I have dropped 20 pds. pre-surgery and 12 pds in the last 10 days. Now just enjoying the journey.
