jolene_l
I am 32 years-old, I am married and have two little girls (8&6). We are a military family and currently live in Virginia Beach. I use to be active duty and than had my first child and decided deploying and leaving my baby wasn't for me. I have always struggled to keep my weight down.....it didn't seem to be too bad until I had my last child and than I just blew up. It did not matter what I did....took me 2 years to lose 15 lbs....HOW DEPRESSING!!!! About 2 years ago I had a doctor suggest the WLS and I thought she was crazy......I knew that I could do this myself.....I use to run 3 miles a day and was so fit when I was active duty. Yeah....I was so WRONG. So this October I went to the seminar that Sentara Bariatric Clinic offers to start the program. I went to my doctor and told her what I wanted.....so I started the 6 months with her. Since 11-28-2007 until now 02-12-08 I have done everything required by the program including a sleep study. I messed up and thought I only had to go to one support group meeting....nope I have to go to 2 so that pushed everything back to the 12th of March....everything happens for a reason not sure the reason behind this but oh well. This way it gives me more time hit the gym before surgery. I am scared to death.....but I am sure that everyone has that feeling. I just can't wait for my hips not hurt so bad and my feet to feel better. Plus getting off the high blood pressure pills. I feel like I am 80 years old somedays. I ask myself everyday what I did to get like this.....I guess not paying enough attention to myself is how I got here. I have a really bad habbit of putting other people's needs before my own. This is something that I am working on right now. So right now I am just waiting to get the last required support group meeting done with and have everything sent into Tricare. I am so scared that they are going to tell me no.....:(. Well I will update this later......wish me luck!!!
