gtortelli
Hello my name is Gina and I have been overweight my entire life. I tried to get the surgery three other times before this and it just didn't work out. This time I am going about it privately because there are many negative people out there, of course ones that are a size 7. Of course I will have to tell the close people in my life and of course people I work with in order to get approved for my leave. People who have no idea what it is like to not be able to walk up a flight of stairs without being able to breathe.
I have been starting to exercise and it is getting better but I am still unhealthy. The reason for this surgery this time is something altogether different. I am a manger for a Lane Bryant and I see women come in every day completely miserable. The thing now is I have been seeing a lot of women who are not healthy and it scares me. I will be 43 in 3 weeks and I would like to live another 43 to see my nieces and nephews make me a great Aunt. I, unfortunately, do not have any children of my own because it just never worked out for me.
My sister had a bypass 2 years ago and I understand everything about it, she however, is too skinny now and if you tell her that she say "Why, thank you". But she is beautiful and even was the day she went in for her surgery, she is heathly and that is all that matters. I do have the support of my entire family so I will be discussing it with them, but that is it. The first time ironically enough I was talked out of the surgery from my sister who had to surgery. She was uneducated at the time and gave me a guilt trip telling me that I didn't have the rite to make that dicision alone, becasue of her daughters, in case something happened to me. Now of course she is my biggest supporter 150lbs later.
