LostMoment
Throughout my life I've always been on the heavy side. In high school when I was finally starting to thin out my parents went through a nasty divorce and my weight skyrocketed. I left high school weighing 240 pounds when in my Junior year I weighed 170. College was hard as I was extremely self conscious and people were extremely prejudice against me. It got to the point where I would only get food to go to eat in my room because I couldn't stand eating in front of people anymore. I had lost some weight by eating every other day but it didn't last long. Graduated college at 270. I've been out now for 2 years and my heaviest weight has been 327. My attitude after leaving college was why watch what I eat when I'm already fat? So I let my bad habits become worse.
I was starting the process of gastric surgery when I found out that a dream of mine had come true- I was accepted into nursing school! That put a tight time constraint on getting the process done. I was originally scheduled for gastric sleeve surgery on 4/4. I was under, expecting to get the surgery when they found a baseball size mass on my liver. They halted surgery and took a biopsy. Needless to say I was devastated. How was I supposed to get all of this done when I started nursing school in June?
Between my amazing surgeons and my determination, I was able to get a double surgery on 4/28 where they removed part of my liver with the mass and they did a gastric sleeve, with my gastric surgeon and my general surgeon working together in an unprecedented procedure. The surgery was open incision which put me in the hospital longer, but my gastric surgeon told me it was the most beautiful sleeve she has ever done since she was able to see everything rather than through cameras.
Timing is tight for this. The recovery time is supposed to be 1 month and I start school 6/2. I've been told by several people who are in the nursing program currently to not disclose my surgery or else I will be kicked out of the program. So I have to work on being as strong and as healed as I can be. The whole thing has been a fiasco, but in the end it seems like everything has worked out