Bonnie P.
Well, where to begin.......
I have been heavy my whole life. I have always been ok with that too. I was active, involved in sports, marching band, etc. My personality is what I consider not your "typical" fat person personality. I am very outgoing and humorous and I make friends rather easily.
I never dated much, always being told that my eyes were really pretty, but other than that and my personality, no one was really interested in me. I finally met my husband (over the internet), which gave him the chance to know me, before actually seeing me. I guess he fell in love with the real me, because we dated for five years and then married. We have been married for a little over 9 years. We have two wonderful children together, Ashley (age 9) and David (age 5).
My husband has always been the major provider in our family. I raised our kids and worked part time to bring in some extra money. Then unfortunately in 2001, my husband's back began hurting very badly, which ultimately resulted in him needing back surgery in 2002, and put him out of work indefinately. Luckily I was a semester away from graduating college, and upon my husband's becoming disabled, was able to finish college, get my degree in Accounting and get a real job, in order to be the provider of my family.
So now as it stands I am the wage earner, my husband is the disabled stay-at-home dad, and our kids are now in school. Things have worked out pretty good considering all of the troubles we went through during 2002-2004.
I orginally looked into WLS in 2002. I had my first appointment with Dr. O. in Jan. 2003. I was told that I needed to lose 40 pounds. I walked out of that meeting a bit discouraged, figuring that if I could lose 40 pounds on my own, than I wouldn't need surgery. It just so happened that a month later I lost my dad to cancer. This put me in a bit of depression, coupled with anger. My father's death and the problems with my husband's health forced me to put WLS on hold for a while.
Well now it is a few years later. I decided that it was time to start looking into WLS again. I met with Dr. O. in July 2006. At this meeting I was told to lose 25 pounds. I decided that this time I was going to follow through with everything. Well from my first meeting in July until the end of October, it took me three months to get all of my testing done, and to finally get my surgery date. I am very excited/a bit nervous. I am sure that the nerves will progress as the surgery date gets closer.
Where will I go from here? That is yet to be seen. Nowhere to go but up! (or down:)!)
