Waiting

Mar 12, 2010

After writing my last post about goal weight and the site about ideal weight, I had a short period of doubt about WLS. Should I do it? Then I looked back on my diet history and how I lost 50 lbs and then put that plus another 20 on after the diet ended despite eating a moderately good diet. Stress was a factor in the gain, as well as a job that had me eating at weird times and no time for cooking like I do now. The wait for surgery is good in a way as it has helped me to think thru all the ramifications if I do it and if I don't.
To add to my reasons are my co-morbidities: High BP, GERD, most probably sleep apnea, and osteoarthritis of my right knee.

My right knee is f*cked due to me being fat. Just my right knee. Yes, it's messed up because the doctors who saw me - emerg and two out of three orthopedic surgeons, only saw a fat, forty plus year old woman. They did not listen to my history or how the knee was injured. If they had, my torn meniscus/cartilage would have been repaired in a few weeks. Instead it took three years. Three years of pain, episodes of locked knee and disability. I couldn't work. So now my knee has damage caused by the ignorance and fat bigotry that exists in supposedly intelligent people.

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