heavenboundiwillbe
Where do I begin?? Well I was born on May 26 1962 to my parents James & Lucille. I had a wonderful childhood and I was healthy and slim until my Junior High years. I started gaining weight in my "puberty" years. The summer before I began high School, I weighed about 170. I began seeing a weight loss doctor who put me on Bran Pills and "speed". I lost alot of weight and got down to 115 right before school started. Even though I may have looked good, I felt tired and sick all the time. During that time I met my high school sweetheart and after being together 2 years, I became pregnant and that is where my weight problems began again. I gained all of the weight back. I had 5 children between the years of 79-86. I never gave myself the chance to lose it before I gained more. In between those years I was in an abusive marriage and I began to eat more to help me cope with the pain. I never could see then that I was just adding to the pain. I turned to food instead of the Lord. Now years later, I have learned to turn to Him. But I have many health issues now, COPD, Heart, High B/P, Diabetic and Sleep Apnea to name a few! Because of these, I have trouble losing weight. I have managed to lose 32 lbs in 5 months with the help of a wonderful dietician, but need a more radical step in reaching the goal of better health and a normal weight. This is why and where I turned to Bariatric Surgery..........I had started this journey back in 2005. I had Disability Medicaid and Medicare as my insurances. After 16 years of being divorced i remarried a wonderful man. I was told this would NOT affect my insurance since he was also disabled and on the same plan. I was given the thumbs up to proceed with the surgery and days before i was to do my final labs before the actual surgery, my Medicaid was dropped! I was devestated to say the least!.........Now let's jump to the present. The only way that Medicare would pay for my surgery was if my Surgeon Dr Clark was performing surgeries in a hospital that was a Center of Excellency. Or I had the option of going to another hospital that was all ready, but i did NOT want to do this. I wanted Dr Clark! Well St. Francis is now a Center of Excellency and I can have my Nutritional Shake (no cake for me!, no, no!) and eat it too so to speak! I am told that I should be looking forward to a surgery date around the first of the year....What a way to ring in a new year and a new me! I Praise God that the door that was once closed, He has opened it for me once again....Thank You Jesus!!!! Praise The Lord!!!
