Nsg4Him
Hi. As I said in my introduction, I am 50 years old. I have been a registered nurse for about 25 years. I am married to Ron, for 32 years!! I have a daughter, Erin, who is 27 and a son, Matt who is in heaven. He would be 29 years old. He was killed in a automobile accident when he was almost 22. I live in the Great Smoky Mountains area of Tennessee.
I started gaining weight when I started taking birth control pills. I stopped them and the weight came right off. Eventually, I got pregnant and I guess used that as a license to eat. I gained 100 pounds. I only lost about 15 after Matt was born. I attempted all kinds of diets, but couldn't lose more than 20 or 30 pounds. After my daughter was born, she became very ill and spent several months in the hospital. While this was going on, I gained more weight. By the time she was out of the hospital and I started nursing school, I weighed 270 pounds! After my first year of nursing school, I injured my back. While in the hospital for this, a surgeon came into my room and offered to do a gastric stapling. He had just learned how to do them. I agreed to it. There was no follow up, no support groups and no nutritionist involved. I had no knowledge at all about the surgery or post op. Needless to say, I failed, only losing about 30 pounds! I tried again in 2000 to lose weight and I did get down to 240, but then my son died and I gained all the way up to 314. I have lost down to my present 287, but can't seem to go lower. I now have diabetes and severe osteoarthritis. I need a right partial knee replacement, but am putting it off as long as possible. My insurance has an exclusion for weight loss surgery. (Can you believe that, I work for a healthcare organization!!) My husband's insurance has one too. So, we are going to private pay. That is how desperate I am for this surgery.
