Chris V.
Hello. My name is Chris and I am waiting for my surgery date. I have been thinking about this surgery for at least 2 years and I decided that I needed to get it done in Nov. 06 because I fell and broke my left leg and ankle and sprang my right ankle. I was in the hospital for 11 days and it was the worst experience of my life. I spent thanksgiving in the hospital and cried all day. I really was so depressed. I had to have surgery on the left side of my leg and a 5 inch plate with 12 pins and on the right side of left ankle I have 4 really big screws holding my ankle back onto my leg. It was the most humiliating experience of my life. I didn't cry when I fell, or even when I tried to stand. But when the rescue came to get me and put me in the ambulance, I freaked out saying how fat I am and that I couldn't believe they had to lift me and on and on. I had to have a cathider(sp?) for a full week because I couldn't get out of bed except for physical therapy, and then I had to have a bedpan and assistance in cleanup. That was the most embarressing thing ever. I even had to use a comode at my home because I was in a wheelchair for 13 weeks and still couldn't get in and out of the bathroom easily. I had to have my wheelchair with me in it carried up and down decks to get into grandparents houses for christmas. I couldn't get downstairs though for the christmas parties so I sat upstairs and cried pretty much. I really decided at that time that I needed to lose weight and it was obvious I couldn't do it on my own. I have been overweight since 1997 when I had my 3rd child. Before kids I wore a size 3, and now am a 30. My husband and I have been married 14 years. We married at age 18. He has seen me thin and then all the way to this. He doesn't want me to get the surgery to look better but so we have a future together after the kids are out of the house. I really love him more than I could ever love anybody or anything. He is my rock, my best friend, my air that I breath. Anyways, I have all my stuff done so far that the weight loss center has asked and my pshych eval is this wednesday morning and then my 4 hour appt with the weight loss center is that afternoon, and so I see that pshychologist regularly and so she is gonna try to write my eval that morning so that she can fax it over to the weight loss center and hopefully I can get my surgery date. I only have left 30 days on my cpap machine for at least 4.5 hrs a day and I am halfway through that so it's looking hopeful. I am so glad to see this website it has given me so much more of a positive insight on this and knowledge of what to expect afterwards. Thanks and hope to hear from you.
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