chubidubisgirl
OH MY
Oct 22, 2008
OK so I have been slacking awhile. Well I finally got my phone call about the sleep study they did. And Oh my. They told me that I have Moderately Severe sleep apnea. WTF
Moderately severe and it took them a whole month to tell me this??? 
They said I stopped breathing 41X an hour?!?! OH MY GOD! 
So anyways, I had a appointment to go and get my CPAP machine and mask on Monday the 20th. I did and well I used it Monday night. 
Not too bad but I ended up waking up at like 3:40am and had a head ache 
due to the thing on my forehead pushing hard into me. So I think that I took it off at like 5am so I could sleep good for a hour. Well then that day people could see on my forehead where it was red 
and boy did it hurt to touch. So today I called them up and asked if we could switch to a nose and mouth one that way nothing will be on my forehead. So I go back this coming Monday. So we will see how that goes. 
I have heard from many people that they love there's so I guess it will take about a week or so to get used to. I will keep you posted. I still have no soda, no smoking and am still plugging away, 
but I thin that I might have to change my medical so not sure what that will do but I think the two insurances have the same requirments, loose 5%. but anyways I think that is enough for now. I will keep you posted. 
My check up
Sep 29, 2008
Hello all! Well, I went today and met again with the nutritionist, and the physical therapist. I met first with the Nutritionist. It went well, I took my food logs
, and went over the changes that I have made. I still have had no soda! yeah!! 
that was the biggest challenge for me. I also gave up fast foods. That also has been a big change. I got weighed, and well I am down to 356!!! 
down two pounds! it might be small but I tell you since I started this I have changed so much how I eat. I have even noticed some first time wow's. The first thing was actually going out to Sherry's restaurant with Carlos and I ordered a mushroom burger and fries. I cut the burger in half and only ate half of it, and the fries I ate last and I only had about 12-15 of them. 
And anyone who knows me, I always eat the fries first cause i hate cold fries. So that was a wow moment for me. The other was a big one and I noticed it Wednesday the 24th. I was getting dressed in my Union shirt that I wear every Wednesday, and well for the first time I put my arms through it and put it on with out stretching it out with my arms in it!!! Holey cow!
now that is and was a real WOW moment for me. Well, I am gonna let you go for now, need to get my dinner cooked and lunch for work made. Take care!!!!
Well, I went today and met again with the nutritionist, and the physical therapist. I met first with the Nutritionist. It went well, I took my food logs, and went over the changes that I have made. I still have had no soda! yeah!! that was the biggest challenge for me. I also gave up fast foods. That also has been a big change. I got weighed, and well I am down to 356!!! down two pounds! it might be small but I tell you since I started this I have changed so much how I eat. I have even noticed some first time wow's. The first thing was actually going out to Sherry's restaurant with Carlos and I ordered a mushroom burger and fries. I cut the burger in half and only ate half of it, and the fries I ate last and I only had about 12-15 of them. And anyone who knows me, I always eat the fries first cause i hate cold fries. So that was a wow moment for me. The other was a big one and I noticed it Wednesday the 24th. I was getting dressed in my Union shirt that I wear every Wednesday, and well for the first time I put my arms through it and put it on with out stretching it out with my arms in it!!! Holey cow! now that is and was a real WOW moment for me. Well, I am gonna let you go for now, need to get my dinner cooked and lunch for work made. Take care!!!!
Sleep test....
Sep 21, 2008
Hello all! Well it has been a little over a week since I had my sleep study. So many things going on. I had a funeral in there too. My moms uncle Bud. 
He will be missed! Well anyways, on to the sleep study. I had it done on the 12th. It was a Friday night. I got there and I got checked in then went up to my private room. It was OK, no clocks though. 
I had a very nice technician. She explained things very well, and was very help full. 
So she then had me get in my pj's and then started to hook me all up. Boy are there a lot of wires. I then had then all connected to a box that hung around my neck till it was time to go to bed. It took a little bit for me to go to sleep, and that was only cause i am not used to sleeping on my back. But I finally did, and the next thing I know she came in and said it was time to put the mask on. I chose the full face one due to me not sleeping all night with my mouth closed. So we got all hooked up and i went back to sleep. It only took a couple minutes to fall back to sleep
. Then all the sudden I got a charley horse in my right leg! Boy did that hurt, and I could not sit up due to all the wires hooked to me and I started gasping air,
and the suction of the mask was gone and it was leaking. I thought for sure he machines were probably going berserk
due to my heavy breathing, my leg muscle going crazy and my heart rate beating like crazy. She then came in and said that testing was done. So I had to lay there for a bit to be able to walk on my leg. But I got up and came home. When I got home I had to finish a vest I was making for my step dad to wear since he was playing at the Oktober Fest. Well I got it finished and showered and went to the festival, and about 9:30pm I got home and I crashed till the next day. Well, I did take a picture of all the wired to my head, so check it out in case you have not had it done yet just to see what you will go through. I told the tech that I looked like an elephant with the mask on my nose, and then she grabbed the hose and said "here is the rest of your trunk" 
we laughed. well it is getting late and I still need to finish my laundry and shower to go to bed for work tomorrow. chat more soon!
more appointments....
Aug 30, 2008
Hello all! Well I had my last couple initial visits on the 28th. I had to go to meet with a physical therapistto help me put together a plan of exercise. 
Not bad, I have to walk at least 30 minutes a day. I think I can handle that. Then it was onto Dr. Veath the pshycologist. Boy was that not at all what i expected. I knew this was a journey that I would have to work at, but you dont really realize all the things you really have to change till you are there at the appointments and listening to all the info that you get and the things that are going to change ahead. I can see why some people get scared. 
All the feelings just seem to all come together. I can do it, i can change this, will i loose my oomph, can i give up my soda, 
all those things come to you and it is alot to do, all I keep thinking is...My health. I have given up the smoking, gave up my soda, started taking my lunch, and started the eating breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner and then snack again. I am also eating healthier. I am very proud of the things that I have accomplished. I have many more goals to achieve and it seems like I still cant see the light at the end of the tunnel, 
so I am just taking it one day at a time. That is all I can do. So I will continue on. My next appointments are not untill Sept 29th so we will see what effect my changes have made when they weight me then. So till then Chao!
second set of appointments
Aug 26, 2008
hello all! well august 25th I met first with the nurse practitioner. she went over my lab results and uuugh 
I have some problems houston! I have a very high HgB A1c - it is 10.7
that is down a bit from the original 10.9 but still way to high. I am also low in VitaminD so ended up with a prescription for that. Then came the news that I have a ulcer/cancer 
causing bacteria Helicobacter pylori and for that i got another prescription for antibiotics. And oh my are there a lot of them. It is 12 pills a day for 10 days. I guess this is a test for me to see if 1 i can start to take pills on their own, 2 if I can keep up with taking a whole lot of pills. 
She told me I should start them when there is not so much chaos in my life.....???? When is that? I mean I work for the State??? Oh well, I guess I am going to need another lunch pale just for the meds and vitamins. Oh well. Then I went and seen the dietician. She gave me a great site for me to keep track of what I eat and it caculates the calories and does all kinds of things. 
It is fitday.com if you want to try it. I like it. So i guess i will try and keep track of the foods their instead of on paper. I think that this will be easier. I was told that after the last two appointments on this thursday, they are all going to get together and
determine if this is something i am ready for, and what things I need to do to get ready for the surgery. I think my biggest hurdle will be getting all the pills in. well I will let ya go for now and chat more soon. take care!
2 down, 4 to go.....
Aug 20, 2008
Hello again all! Well I survived the fasting with no problem. I made it to the hospital to get my labs ok and before time. They took 4 tubes of blood. While i was waiting i had to go to the restroom like a racehorse,
and didn't cause I thought they might need a sample. Nope wrong on my part. I then went to go do the testing. 
WOW 613 questions?!?!? This shall be interesting to see what happens with that. The staff was really nice, and friendly. I had to have this machine hooked to me for the EKG and that was the first I have had that done. Well is stated "NORMAL"
so I guess that is a good thing. Anyways, when she got me on the scale, I thought for sure that I had gained some weight over the last few weeks since I have been really bad lately. But I guess not as bad as I thought since I had lost another 3lbs.
That was a shock to me. I guess I am eating better and I just really dont realize it. Well, so my oficial start weight for this is 358lbs. So now I can really start to work at it so that I can get down the 5% needed for my insurance to approve me. I am going to try for 20lbs since the amount needed is 17.9lbs So I will be taking my pics and posting them for my start weight. Take care and write more soon.
First set of appointments...
Aug 19, 2008
Hello all! Well I am fasting right now. My first set of appointments is tomorrow the 20th of Aug. I have the lab work at 7:45am and then the pshyc evaluation. I have read so many story's from others her on OH and I get nervouse
at times and yet I am still excited. I am having to face my biggest fear at the same time. I find myself praying every morning for God to keep me, my friends and family safe. I am lucky to have such a great family, and friends and coworkers to stand by me and help me. So I am also going to get weighed tomorrow, and then I will know how much I am looking at to loose. I have talked with my boyfriend about us starting to walk in the evenings, so we will see how that goes. He is going to set up my air walker in the house so that I can start doing that and I think that I will look for my richard simmons tape and start swettin to the oldies. Well, it is 9pm and I am going to go and get me a big glass of ice water and head to bed. I will write more when I get home from my first appointments. Nighty night to all......
The Paperwork
Aug 16, 2008
hello! Well last night I came home and in my mailbox was a packet from Good Sam. I got a letter with my 6 appointments on it and a map and 2 packets of lots of questions. Boy were some of those questions hard.
But hard in the sence of remembering my weight at certain times in my life and my age at times when things happened. Boy I guess my memory is going.... Well I completed them, the best I could. It asked stuff about "binging" and "purging". 
That is one thing that I have never done. Some of the questions got me thinking. I dont ever remember having any problems in scholl with kids picking on me due to my weight??? strange huh? I guess that is a good thing though. I know that I have always had lots of great friends and friends for life and my family, well they are great! They are actually more than great, they are the best family a girl could have!So I have been reading alot of other people's story's and I have heard some bad ones and for the most part they are good, so I am still possative and not to scared. Yet!?!?!?
Well I guess I will let ya go for now, write more later and thanks for reading!
The Phone Call.....
Aug 14, 2008
The date was August 5th at 10:49am That was my first phone call to set up all my initial appointments. I was so excited to here from Good Sam. I have my first weigh in on August 20th and labs and then the Pshyc evaluation. Boy, that should be interesting. I then have an appointment with the diatician and the Nurse Practitioner on the 25th of Aug and then on the 28th I meet with a physical therapist and with the Pshycologist. They also told me that in a few days I should here about schedualing a sleep test. So I at this point am excited to get started.
Well I suppose that I should tell you a bit about me.I am 38yrs old female whom at this time in my life I am finally ready to do something about my weight. I have always been on the heavy side, but when I seperated from my ex husband due to DV I sent into a deep depression. I gaines so much weight I could hardly walk without having to sit down to rest. I got to 425lbs. I remember going to Reno when my mother got remarried and I had to be pushed in a wheelchair the whole time. Boy was that a sad time for me. I had lots of things go bad with my health and almost lost my legs at age 30.
It took awhile but I started to enjoy life again due to a few good friends of mine. I want to thank them too. Jonetta, she is my best friend, like a sister to me. She was with me in the bad times and the good. I remember her having to come over just to put my socks on for me. I so appreciate her for what she has done for me in all the 20+ years I have known her. Then the other is and ex boyfriend whom over the years we have become really good friends. His name is Jose. He was interested in me at my heviest and it gave me hope and I regained my confidence and love in myself.
I also want to give many thanks to my mom whom has been there with me through it all. She is my Guardian Angel!!!
Love ya mom! I just a few months ago went through a diabetes course, and at that time I weighed 361lbs. So when I go on the 20th they will weigh me so that will be my start weight, and then I have to loose and maintain a 5% weight loss within 6 mo to be able to keep the possability of surgery. So I think that is enough for now. Chat more soon......
Well I suppose that I should tell you a bit about me.
I am 38yrs old female whom at this time in my life I am finally ready to do something about my weight. I have always been on the heavy side, but when I seperated from my ex husband due to DV I sent into a deep depression. I gaines so much weight I could hardly walk without having to sit down to rest. I got to 425lbs. I remember going to Reno when my mother got remarried and I had to be pushed in a wheelchair the whole time. Boy was that a sad time for me. I had lots of things go bad with my health and almost lost my legs at age 30. It took awhile but I started to enjoy life again due to a few good friends of mine. I want to thank them too. Jonetta, she is my best friend, like a sister to me. She was with me in the bad times and the good. I remember her having to come over just to put my socks on for me. I so appreciate her for what she has done for me in all the 20+ years I have known her. Then the other is and ex boyfriend whom over the years we have become really good friends. His name is Jose. He was interested in me at my heviest and it gave me hope and I regained my confidence and love in myself.
I also want to give many thanks to my mom whom has been there with me through it all. She is my Guardian Angel!!!
Love ya mom! I just a few months ago went through a diabetes course, and at that time I weighed 361lbs. So when I go on the 20th they will weigh me so that will be my start weight, and then I have to loose and maintain a 5% weight loss within 6 mo to be able to keep the possability of surgery. So I think that is enough for now. Chat more soon......
