PhyllisJ.
7/20/07
Today is a great day! But I can't think of really having a bad day since getting my band. I know it is coming but boy am I enjoying everything about this journey. I havent always been over weight. I think it started about the time I turned 8 and I was considered a chubby child not a real heavy over weight child and that continued into high school. I then became real active in Golf and cut back on calories and lost very easily. So years rock on and I meet and marry my husband. I didnt play golf much then and really enjoyed cooking and eating..found out I was a dang good cook! A couple of years after marrying I had my first child, Jennifer then Clint comes along 17 months later and then 3 years later Christopher. So of course the only exercise you get with 3 kids under the age of 5 is changing diapers and cleaning up messes...no more golf for awhile and if I had the time was too tired to bother. Time moves on and the kids get bigger, hysterectomy and low thyroid..and I balloon. But the miracle drug comes along Phen Phen, pondimen. It was the answer to my weight problem..lost lower than I had ever been. It was wonderful but then it was pulled off the market..and back comes the weight.
So one day I met a friend in the store that I had not seen in awhile and she had had the band and looked so good. I could not weight to get home and tell my husband! We decide that I should try for it. So I called the insurance back in January and they didnt cover Lap but did cover RNY so I started backing up. I just couldnt make my self go for that drastic of a surgery. But meanwhile I put on some more weight and realized I had to do something even if it meant the RNY so started agian with the insurance in April..called and as of the first of April lapband was covered! I was beside myself! I so hope at the end of the tunnel! I did all the pre op stuff for insurance I had to do and was approved about a month later and had surgery on the 5th of June.
My husband is my number 1 supporter! I don't think it would have been as easy as it has been if it has not been for him. He makes sure the water is not in front of me when we eat. He reminds me to drink when I am suppose to. He loves our support group and it is our support group because they are there for him too. He reminds me that the scales are not what it is all about. To be proud of what I have lost and seeing it through his eyes does make it easier when the scales dont move as much as I think they should. He says what is the rush..this is a lifetime thing! You know he is right..it isnt a race we don't have a time limit like the other surgeries. I just feel so blessed to have him, my children and my family supporting me in this journey!
