Chelseala2002
Hello Everyone thanks for dropping by. I started my journey 6 years ago. I live in Canada and it takes forever to have the surgery here. Unless you can afford to drop the (at the time) $25,000 to do it in a few weeks. If not you could be on a waiting list for years. So I was told about having it done in the states and OHIP would cover it. So I followed exactly what my friend did and I was approved within a week. I hadn't told my parents because I really didn't want to do their pros and cons list. I know I needed it done. They were away at the time so I called them and broke the news to them and they were like well of course we will support you what do we need to do. So it went from there. I found a surgery and had a date. I think for the whole 2 weeks before the surgery I was numb. I was doing the liquid diet and lost the 20lbs that I was supposed to. My day of surgery I wasn't even scared I was in the bubble of wow this is going to happen and my life is going to change. The only time I lost it was when my Mom was saying good bye to me before I went into surgery and said that she will be with me the whole time just sitting on my shoulder. So in I went, Dr Genaw was hilarious and knowing that I was still awake OK lets put in the catheter.....I pop my head up and he was ooohhhh your still awake LOL. So I went off to sleep with a giggle in me. I remember when I woke up the immense pain and the nurse telling me about the morphine pump and all I had to do was press the button...she told me to relax and the last I remember was telling her that it f*ucking hurts....LOL
I had a very rough few days in that I couldn't get up because of severe motion sickness feeling and the sip sip sip wasn't working. But I survived and all turned out ok. I dumped massively on milk in the creamed soup stage then when I got to the "cool" I can have oatmeal that was it. My stoma basically healed shut and I couldn't take in anything at all. There was like a pin hole that let some fluid through. My Mom took me to my local hospital and they admitted me and had no clue what to do. They were so dumb their like here drink this so we can watch what happens on the x ray...well the second it went down it came back up since it had no where to go. After a day I checked myself out and we went to a hospital that actually did the surgery, still not a lot of help. We found a specialist that would try and stretch my pouch and after seeing me once because it was an emergency asked my Mom for a donation since the balloons were so expensive. F*ck you she said. He also had the nerve to say that your the problem of the surgeon that did your surgery and refused to hep me any further. So I asked him to write a letter that he was refusing me care so I could at least see if OHIP would cover me going back down to have my stoma stretched there. Again within a day I was given 10,000 to have as many treatments as I needed. Had my stoma stretched via some wacky xray way which was a horrible experience. So for a year and a half after surgery I was still on liquids and down 175lbs. Things got a lot easier and I was able to progress in what I eat...a lot of trial and error. I can actually remember when I started to gain, it was when I was able to eat bread! My weight gain has been slow over the last almost 3 yrs, dealing with a break up of a man I thought I was going to marry and the death of my youngest 10yr old (my 4 legged child) I have a friend who told me that I was their inspiration to having the lap band done and she is now were I used to be around 150. I do believe that I can start again and I am hoping to find the support and inspiration that I need here. I was told from the beginning that stay connected to a support network....I should have listened. Oh well they were also the same people that told me that I shouldn't worry I could eat a donut again....great support...
