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All my life I have been heavy. The doctor asked when was my first memory of being overweight. "Kindergarten" was my response. Wow, I really had been fat all my life. I had lost weight over and over, but never was able to keep it off. About 5 years ago I was diagnosed with PCOS and went through fertility treatments trying to get pregnant. I already had a 3 year old at the time and getting pregnant with him was easy. I couldn't believe all the trouble I was having now. Of course every doctor I went to told me to lose weight. Like it's that simple!!!!! Don't you think I would have done it already if I could. Really, I like being this way!!!! (Ha, Ha)
I knew I wanted Lap BAnd, but my insurance would never pay for it and I knew there was no way I would ever be able to pay for it. Finally, one day at work a co-worker informed me that they had added lapband to the clause in our approval surgeries and it was on from there. That was I guess August. Unfortunately, finding out that information was the easy part. I went through 4 doctors who would only do bypass surgery on me telling me lapband would not be successful for me because I was too fat!!!! Can you believe that. Anyway, I finally found the wonderful people at True Results and the office of Dr. Wilkenfeld. After that it was easy. 4 months of medically supervised visits, 2 nutritional consults, and a phych consult and I was done. Dr. Wilkenfeld's office sent in the paperwork and 3 days later I was approved. They did a great job!!!! After a 2 week diet, it was surgery day, December 27th. Christmas was all a blur. All I could think about was surgery. My surgery was at twelve Oaks in Houston, and I bought myself one night stay due to my blood sugars, but it wasn't really that bad. Very little pain and returned to work in 5 days due to the New Year's Holiday not because I could come back sooner. I lost 9 pounds the 2 weeks prior to surgery. Now I am officially a banster and loving it!!!!!!!
