sandytoes
My history
Apr 14, 2009
Good Morning, My name is Susan and I am to be banded on May 22nd, I am 55 yrs old and I read your blogs and thought what a wonderfull mentor you would be for me, if you wanted to. I have been heavy since I was about 6, lost and gained,etc,etc, In high scholl my mother put me on heavy diet pills,they were legal right..black beauties and christmas trees,the big guns, see I'm an only child and mom wanted me to be a model.{her dream, not mine} So yes I got thin and then was put in modeling school and started to get small jobs here and there, that's when I learned about Bulimia.{they didn't have a name for it back then} Eat what you want and throw up and take dieuretics and laxatives....I hated the whole world of modeling. Unless you were a top model it was a cutthroat business and I wasn't made that way. I knew my husband since I was 12 and he was a good friend to me. Someone wanted to sponsor me in the Miss USA pagent,winnere goes on to Miss World. My mother was thrilled,I however was mortified...I am on the shy side and diod not want to do it. So I turned it down..My mother has never forgiven me for that and I have not had contact with her since I married my best friend Joe in 1973. I have four grown children and 2 and a half grandsons the third is due end of April. The weight like you said came and went with the children, my hubby is a tractor trailor driver and was on the road while I raised the four kiddies.I lost this weight soo many times and it always comes back with friends!! I am at last Nut visit 311 and I am 5'6 I was a hairstylist for 20 years till Carpel Tunnel put me out of commission. I had the surgery in both hands in 2001. In 2005 I had my left hip replaced and last May I had discs removed in my neck that were pressing on my spine and the neck was fused. I have a torn rotator cuff in my left shoulder and my right hip is starting to give me trouble. But I have a really good outlook for this Band procedure I have been working on getting it since November and have jumped through all the hoops the insurance Co. wanted.I have been going to support meetings and I really want to suceed doing this. I read the book your doctor wrote called Lap-Band for life and it was wonderfull and he is banded also,which I thought was good. Sooooooo I have seen the sucess you have had and I thought you would be a good influence. I hope to be friends and have enjoyed all your posts. Thank you for reading my book..lol By the way I live in New Jersey but my third daughter lives in NC. she is with the Coast Guard and is in her 11th year.She is in Elizabeth City. Thanks again.
