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Im frustrated cause my weight keeps going up and down which is driving me crazy.  However I am losing inches which makes me very happy.  I also went to my diabetic dr. today and I am now on 12 units of lantis at night and stating in August I get to go off insulin and on a pill which is very good news.  Before my surgery I was on 700 units of insulin.  We leave for Branson tomorrow.  I can not wait to spend some much needed time with my family.

My name is Tina Hoyle.  I live in Normal, IL.  I have a husband Ryan.  We just celebrated 10 yrs of marriage.  I have two children.  Brittany is 15 and going to be a sophmore in high school at Normal West.  She has special problems.  She cant completely understand right from wrong.  Thats where a big part of my stress is.  Brittany also has a father who is no help at all but it causes alot of tension in our house.  My other daughter is Renee'.  She is 10 yrs. old and is going to be in the 5th grade at Colene Hoose.  My husband works 3rd shift at Walmart.  Hes been there for 9 yrs.  I do daycare in my home.  My youngest child is 1 and my oldest is 9.  Its also alot of work.  When school starts back I will be a personal assistant for my friends special needs 16 yr. old boy.  Also when school starts I will be a noon hr. supervisor 2 days a week and volunteer in my daughters school library.  Now let me tell you my story.  When I had my youngest daughter in 2000 she weighed 10lbs 10oz.  3 years later I was diagnosed with diabetes.  Thats when my whole life changed.  After a few years my diabetes got really bad and I was taking about 700 units of insulin a day.  I ended up gaining 50 lbs which put me at 300lbs.  I couldnt exercise.  I was so depressed I was eating all the time.  I couldnt go to Walmart without sitting in a wheel chair.  The real eye opener for me was when I had to sit in a wheel chair at six flags a year ago.  So I started the process around December of last year.  I had no support from my family because they thought I could do it by myself.  I kept telling them I couldnt and I needed help.  So I started everything alone.  I had the surgery on May 7th 2010.  I had it at St. Francis hospital.  It was awful.  They did not talk to my family so my family was scared that I died.  They wouldnt let my family see me after.  During surgery my heart was beating too fast so they put me in ICU.  I cried so much cause I was so scared and alone.  I was still in ICU over Mothers Day and I cried all day because they wernt going to let my kids come see me but then they said only my children could so that made me smile.  I had one nurse in ICU that was mean as hell.  The morphine made me hallucinate so I took out my own tube out of my throat and my own iv out while I slept.  The nurse didnt like that so she threatened to take away all pain meds.  She also fed me jello faster then I was supposed to eat it which made me sick.  Another nurse cut an Ibuprofen in half and fed it to me in applesauce which also made me sick.  I complained about them to a manager. I moved to a step down from ICU on May 10th where I stayed for one night.  Then I went to a regular room on May 11th for one night.  I was released from the hospital on May 12th.  I had a hard time at home.  I barely ate anything.  On May 14th my sister spent the night with me so I wouldnt be alone.  I couldnt sleep so I was up late watching TV.  At midnight on the 15th my heart felt like it was going to jump right out of my chest so my sister took me to the er.  They ran test and found out I had fluid around my lungs and spleen.  So at about 8:30 that morning they admitted me to Bromeenn hospital.  They called my surgeon in Peoria and he wanted me there.  So at 4:30 that day I was taken by ambulance to St. Francis.  The next day they did the procedure to remove 1 liter of fluid off my lungs.  Very painful.  I was released from the hospital on May 18th.  I spent a couple nights at my sisters.  On May 20th I woke up unable to breathe.  Went by ambulance to hospital where they said I still have fluid but they said it should go away it self.  I told them I wanted to kill myself and I needed help and they just brushed me off and sent me home.  I had a hard time when I went on solid foods.  I threw up everything I ate.  They found out that my throat was very narrow so thats why I couldnt get food down.  On June 30th I had the procedure where they went down my throat and stretched it and now I can hold my food down.  Today is Fri. July 9th and it has been 9 weeks since I had my surgery and Im doing much better.  My A1C is 5.5.  Im on 16 units of insulin.  Im off my blood pressure and cholesterol meds.  Im on a great depression med and Im happy for the first time in a long time.  I have lost 67lbs and I couldnt feel better.  No more wheel chairs for me.  I hope to meet people on this site and learn about other stories.  God Bless!