Ginger L.
Sept 3, 2008
Sep 02, 2008
November 9, 2008I am so excited to say that I am down 57 lbs. I have never felt better! This has been an amazing ride and my head is still spinning. I can cross my legs now. Not exactly with complete ease but they cross!! LOL I sat at one of my favorite rest over the weekend and fit so well in the booth. woooo hoooo!! It is amazing to be able to feel normal for once!!
Oct 15, 2008
2 months post op and down 49.6 lbs. Ahhh how I wanted those last few ounces. LOL It has been a joy ride for me so far!! I dont mean to sound like it has been a breeze because there are times when I feel frustrated or have problems eating certain foods. Its kinda like everyday is a new day! Some days chichen is my friend and others (mostly this one) it is my enemy!! LOL So from one day to the next I dont always know what will agree with me. I find myself eatting to live and no longer living to eat. While I do think alot about food in advance its kinda cool cause I know I can only eat a little so I am not gonna eat something that is just a filler... LOL YOu know like grab something with out thinking about it. Its all just so interesting!! I love my new self and feel great about being alive!! Ofcourse it dont hurt to hear all the ooooing and ahhhing from friends and family! LOL I can cross my legs now!! woooo hooooooo Sex with my husband has never been better!!! I sat on a the top of a pic nic table last night and it was a breeze getting up there.. LOL OH and in my hot tub the lay down area I now fit!! LOL Ahhhh it feels so great!!!
Sept 3th, 2008
ITs been 3 weeks now and I feel amazing. I have lost 27 lbs so far and have so much energy. I have not been hungry at this point which I find so amazing. I never kenw what it felt like to be full. NOW I do. All of my clothes are falling off of me but Im trying to wait to go shop as I know I have tons more to go. This new life is so great. I feel so much better! Thank you Jesus!
August 19,2008
I had RNY Gastric Bypass Surgery at Johns Creek Hospital August 13, 2008. A life changing event! I was up walking the halls in 3 hours after surgery. Surgery was 2 hours long as I had a hiedle hernia
I changed from lapband to RNY because of my hernia with the advice of Dr Hart. I feel amazing. Not hungry
!! Blows me away! I am walking everyday around the block about 1/2 a mile. The hardest part so far has been dealing with the GAS Pains from being pumped full of it. OUCH. Its hard to move it but comes out slowly and each day it feel alittle better.
I go to the Dr on Thursday the 21st. I will up date you then.
July 9,2008
I have been checking on surgery for some time now and have send in all of my paperwork. I was told today that I was done with my paperwork and it would be sent in to the insurance company!!! woooo hooooooo Today is a very happy day!!!
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I have been reading this board for several months now and am finally ready to open up to everyone. Where do I start? Well I guess I will start by saying that I have been overweight my entire life. The first time I remember thinking I was overweight was in 1st grade. I had a mean little girl sit in front of me and make fun of me all day.... this was very hurtful!! She would chew off the erasers of her big fat 1st grade pencils and poke them in my fat little legs. She said she did that because she liked to see my legs giggle. I learned at an early age that being fat was not a good thing. I was always bigger than all my friends and that always bothered me. Later in school live I became popular because I was always happy, smiling and cutting jokes. This was my way of higing behind my weight problem... acting like nothing ever bothered me!! I would even make fun of myself... whats up with that.. is that normal?? I would say things like "I'm allergic to walking because it makes me break out into wet stuff." I seemed to be ok with my weight back then although it really did bother me but I kept telling myself... I could handle it. Its no big deal! Skipping forward several years: Got Married, got PG... Had premature labor and was put to bed.. I gainged more than 80 lbs!! This was horible. I was already heavy and now this. 80 more lbs on my fat little short body was horible. Ofcourse I didn't loose any of the weight. O well.. I said. I became more and more depressed after this. Got PG again.. Divorced husband and tings started to be better for a while. I did had a hard time finging jobs and getting advancements. Being a single mom was very hard but I had to keep pushing myself. I worked very hard and started getting my life in order after my 2nd child. Got rid of the access bagage (X-Husband) and started to work very hard and try and get a grip of my life. Weight is still out of control.... what to do?? Tried every diet known to man! I finally did get a great job in sales and really started feeling good about myself... esteem was much improved but weight still a big factor! I bought a house and met a wonderful man. We were married a few years later. Yet I continue to struggle w/ my weight!! Why can I do all of these thing.. be in total control of my life.. have a great job.. great kids... and have control of so many other important thing but cant control my weitht??? Now heres the clincher...After I was married I guess I was happy so I gained even more weight!! OMG.. Im gonna be a good year blimp!! My husband is very supportive and says he love me the way I am. I know he really does love me and my kids are wonderful.. but it still makes no since to me. I have tried every diet known to man and on some of them I've even gained weitht on. Whats up with that?? All of my friends say... you dont really eat more that anyone else I know.. but yet I get bigger and bigger. I can look at food and oops.... there goes 5 more lbs. Moving right along to fairly current stuff: Two years ago I decided to look into having surgery...seems like a great idea. I did lots of research on it and had decided to do it when I found out that my mom also was looking into it. My mom had lots of problems and she too had been overweight all of her life. We all tried to discourrage her because she had so many medical problems that we were afraid for her to have any king of surgery. She had her surgery in AL (that is where she is from). I decided to wait until after hers and so I did. Well everything that could have went wrong did. My mom had to have 3 surgerys because of leaks and was on life support 4 or 5 different times and almost didnt make it thru. In the mean time her kidneys failed and was put on dialisys. She pulled out of it but was so very weak that she could not stand on her own or do anything for her self. She was put in a nursing home for 3 months trying to learn to walk again. This went on for almost a year from her surgery date.. It was a night mare!! My mom didnt make it .. she passed away last Nov from a wound that never healed and tunneled thru to the bone causing her infection throughout her body!! I miss her so very much and part of me thinks if she didnt have the surgery she would still be with us... but in reality she was very very sick going under the knife and she probably wouldnt have made it with or with out the surgery. There is nothing my mom wanted more than to be healthy and smaller so she could get around better. I said all of that to make you understand why I have had such a hard time making a decision. I have finally decided that I am going thru the surgery!!! I know in my heart that if it is my time to go then God will take me home.. besides I would get to see my mom sooner! I am nervous about the surgery but I am also nervous about getting older and going thru life the way my mom did in her last few years. All of her medical problems were due to her weight problems. I do not want to live like that!! I have just found out that I am Type II Diebetic so my problems have already started so Im ready to have this done and become a healthy happier person!! More later!! The steps have just began!! 2004 October 1, 2004 Today I picked up my release letter from my PCP!! WOOO HOOOOOO I think Im on my way!! I am so excited to finally get somewhere that I dont know what to do! I have talked to Nancy at Dr Champions office about Insurance and she said that BCBS requires a Phys evaluation and Nutritional evaluation as well. Their office has this to offer but is alittle backed up on appts. I am in the process in trying to find someond on my own to see if I can speed things up. Atleast I feel like I am doing something to help speed up the process instead of just sitting here and waiting!! Wish me luck!!! Till next time!! G October 4th Brand new week... Brand new attitude and boy does it stink!! I started making calls this am to try and get an appt with a Psychologolist to no avail. So I called the insurance company to try and find out who they had on their list. I just wanted to speed things up! Dr Champions office does this but is a little behind. Insurance company told me that they DO NOT approve the surgery under any circumstances any longer. RRRRRRRRRRR Im not a happy camper! I figure that I will let Dr Champions office handle it and hopefull they will know a loop hole somewhere. I will let you know more when I do.. but for now Im frustrated. GGGGRRRRRRRR Oct 18,2004 Well to make a long story short. Insurance company did not approve my surgery. I have an individual policy and as of Sept 1 they are not making any acceptions to the surgery. The word is that after the 1st of the year they may start covering other weight loss methods ... well I have mixed feelings about that but atleast its better than nothing. I have not given up so far but I am going to have to win the lottery or come into a big sum of money in order to pay for it out of pocket.. OH well Im praying alot and hoping that something happens that will make this happen. I am not trying to push this thru but have not given up either. I was praying for an answer so maybe the answer is NO. So I guess I will continue w/ my weight dr and hope all goes well. If a large sum of money falls into my lap or if the insurance company changes their policy then I will know that it was meant to be. SO much has happened but for now Im just sitting and waiting and hoping and praying!! November 16,2004 I havent had the time nore energy to update my profile lately.. sorry about that but I am making a few min to get some things off of my chest. This time last year my mom passed away with indirect complications of wls surgery. She was very very sick going into surgery and lived almost a year after surgery but lived a horible life that last year. She was on and off of the venalator for several weeks and had a total of three surgerys to stop her leaks. According to the Dr that did the surgery she had diebities so bad that she kept leaking around the insision. He described it like a rotten tee shirt how it tears so eailsy. She was soo very sick and never got much better after surgery. She had no business in having the surgery but she was at a point in her life that if her medical problems didnt get better she wouldnt have lived past another year anyway. I miss her soo sooo much!!! She was my best friend and I would give anyting to have her back. Although I know that she is not in pain anymore and in a much better place I cant help but miss her Every Single day!!! Because of what happend to my mom is why Ive had such a tough time deciding to have the surgery and now that I have decided to have it... its not gonna happen ... the insurance company decided for me not to have it done. Im not saying all of this to scare anyone... Im really sorry if you think that. I just needed to write down my thoughts. I strongly feel that I should have the surgery done for the main reason because I dont want to get as sick as my mom did and live my life the way she had to. She waited too late to have something done to help her and I feel like that will happen to me too if I cant have the surgery done in the next few years. I feel myself going down that windey road where all the problems start to happen. I am so tired!!! Im do not feel good most of the time anymore and that really scares me. I am such a bubbly person and love people and lately I dont even want to be around people anymore because of the way I feel. That scares me too! I dont know what I am going to do... I guess just get fatter and fatter until I explode. Why is it that Insurance companies can decide what is best for you?? Why do they have control of your choices? It makes me really angry to know that some thin bimbo somewhere is making decisions that effect the rest of my life. I pay as much money for insurance as anyone else... almost 800.00 a month and because Im an individual I cant have surgery! Whats up with that. Ok Im mad.... Im sad... Im depressed.. Im confused.... Im crazy I guess. All of these emotions ... Im not sure what to do or think anymore. I miss you mom!!! I love you mom!!! God please help me to get a grip!!! Please help me to have surgery so I can improve my life and I dont have to live my life the way my mom did. Please be with me and my family and keep us Healthy and safe! I love you God! Say Hello to mom for me!! December 3, 2004 Thanksgiving has came and went and the anniversery of my moms death. It went alot better than expected. I think I cried more last month than I have all year! I wrote a poem and had it published in the local paper where my mom lived. The poem made me think alot and I wrote and wrote... I really got alot of things out. I feel soo much better now! I think all of the writing helped me get alot of emotions out that I needed to! Still no change with Insurance so I am just waiting to see with 2005 brings me. I am still praying that I can have the surgery sometime next year God willing. I should be saving every penny to have it done but you know what ... I decided to buy myself a hot tub. LOL I know it sounds crazy but its about time I did something for myself!! So I am!! And that within itself feels good. My step daughter has recently moved in with us and that within its self has been stressfull! So the thought of relaxing in a hot tup and looking up in the sky just makes me feel OHHH SOOOOO GOOD!! Crazy as it may be.. I think it will be good theropy! Trying to improve ME!! The weight is alot but I have to start taking care of my personal needs as well. Family look out theres gonna be some new changes around here!! For now I have a brand new attitude!!! Pray it sticks!!! May 10 2008 WOW Its been a long time. Alot has happened since my last update. NO I never was able to get the surgery but thats all about to change. I am trying not to get my hopes up this time as I was really let down before when I got denied from my insurance company. Since my diabeties has gotten out of control for a while but is back in check again. So much has happened.. I really dont know where to begin. My oldest daughter graduated last year and is in her first year of college. She is really trying hard to grow up. She is a wonderful kid/adult now with a huge hart I know she is going to go far with what ever she decides to do. My youngest is now in night school and working during the day. She is a hard worker and had a great head on her shoulders!!! I am verfy proud of both my girls and know they will succeed in what ever they decide to do in life. As for me.. well Im still hanging in there. I volentier at SCRA non profit softball park where both my girls have played ball for years. I sometimes think the park could not run with out me but I am about ready to try to find out the answer to that questoin.. LOL As much as I enjoy it ...it also makes me crazy at times. I am more than ever ready to have WLS!! My girls are older and dont need me like they used to. It is time for me to take care of me. I am so tired of not feeling good about myself or just plain not feeling good! Fake it till you make it has always been my modo but faking it is getting harder so Im ready to Make it!! Till next time! God Bless! Update May 11, 2008 It's mothers day and ofcourse like everyone else I am thinking aobut my mom!! I am now 43 years old and its been 6 years now since she has been gone and hardly a day goes by with out thinking of her. She taught me so much and so often I reach for the phone for her to teach me more! She was my best friend and the smartest woman I KNEW. Nothing or no one will ever replace her. I pray that I am half the mom she was to me!! Happy mothers day to all of you and those of you who have lost your mom as I have I just know they are all having a big brunch in Heaven talking about how much they miss thier kids and how crazy we all made them!! LOL Hugs!! Happy Mothers Day!! |
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About Me
Woodstock, GA
Location
40.6
BMI
Surgery
08/13/2008
Surgery Date
Jul 22, 2004
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