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Wow it has been a roller coaster 9 days, but finally starting to feel like myself again. I had my revision on 13 March 2014 by a awesome surgeon by the name of Dr. William Rice. He was awesome and made me feel like I could accomplish anything. The surgery went well, a few cardiac hiccups at the beginning they wanted to postpone my surgery due to a ugly EKG reading, I have a heart murmur but I have had it since childhood. After seeing that I had it with my previous surgery and getting the go ahead from the cardiac surgeon we were on our way. I would have to say truthfully there was pain...alot..due to the Gas they use in surgery, but I had my morphine pump and survived. Once home the first week was painful, I was a slave to my Hydrocodone but came off that by day 7. I am currently on Tylenol at night "as needed" but doing ok not to much pain. I have noticed that with this second surgery my hair-loss has already begun, I hope it doesn't last long. Headed to the salon this weekend to get my bob, I figure I know its going to shed why not reduce my stress of how much and this way I can treat my scalp easier and keep it healthy. Trying to get my protein and water in as well as my vitamins and added Biotin for my hair but it is a struggle most day. I am not giving up, I can't this is it I just have to push for a routine. I think once I get to the mushy food stage things will get better, the routine is the most important thing to get and I am pushing to get there. I am down already 11lbs from surgery start weight was 191 and I am now at 197.8 as of this morning Yaay kick-start has begun...hoping to reach goal finally...a little worried about going past but will worry about that if it gets to that point..but as of now everything is going well...more to come in the following weeks. Followup with doc on 25th, will see what he has to say...to be continued

Well I finally back in the United States Yaay!..I have found a wonderful doctor and well as a hospital with a great Bariatric support group, so things are looking up. I finally found out why all the crazy symptoms and problems I was happen overseas..I have a stenosis with a twist that can only be fixed by performing a revision of Gastric bypass...while I am not happy about having to start over and the recovery time..I am glad that I get the chance for a normal recovery. Still learning what all with change with the gastric bypass so progress is to be continued...March 13 surgery date..I will update after that..wish me luck.

My story begins 14 years ago when I was happy, healthy, and had life goals. It would seem that my life took a drastic change and some would see this change as the beginning of the end and feel sorry for me, but the truth is I was happy for the change. The problem that lead to my weight gain and current life without a plan would be that I did not plan for change. From the time I entered Junior Highschool I had my life planned, I was going to college and then into the military and I would just advance from there. What I did not plan for was normal life occurances, meeting my husband, getting out of the military to raise our children and losing my life plan.

My background is kinda ironic. I had to gain weight to get into the military, I remember my recruiter putting me on the train to San Diego with a half gallon of milk and a pound cake and telling me to make sure I finished it before weighin and I still barely made weight for my height which is 5'9. The minimum weight was like 128 and I was 2 lbs shy and I lost even more weight in basic training.

So what happen to make me reach 253 lbs, I would have to say life happened. I really didn't notice the weight gain, I wasn't one of the those people who really looked at clothing size, I hated shopping I was a tomboy. What really opened my eyes is when I went to teach my daughter how to do a cart wheel and my weight came crashing down on me and my husband ended up teaching my daughter something I should have been able to do easily if I was healthy. So the journey began, from diets, to doctors, to finding out I had insulin resistance, pcos, and it goes on; talk about an eye opener. I had closed my eyes to the changes that were occuring to my body and now must face the damage.

On November 3, 2009 I had Vsg surgery, I was pre-diabetic at this time and my insulin resistance was just not working to help me lose weight, the meds for pcos made me sick and miserable and  I needed a change that would turn my life around and allow me to function. I feel the surgery was a success, I dropped 30 lbs within the first two months, but the obstacles started occuring. In February 2010 less then 3 months out from surgery I lost all my support, my support group and doctors and relocated to Germany where I currently write from. I currently sit here over 2 years out from my surgery, 3 years in November of this year and I still have not reached goal. It has been a struggle finding the foods I need to eat that don't make me sick and the protein even supplements have been hard to get here in my small town, but I have not lost all hope. I will soon be returning to the US and hope that my VSG is still in good working order, by next summer I hope to be back on track and find the support I need and to finally reach goal and a healthy life style.

To be continued....