Pinkpola
I was always a bit chubby as a kid. As adolescence kicked in I began gaining more weight and becoming slightly obese. By the time I was 17 I was shopping at the plus size shops, which at the time were overpriced and didn't offer much for the trend starved teen. By 21 I was morbidly obese and decided to look into bariatric surgery. At this time it was very different than what it is now. So I put it off and figured that i can try to take the weight off myself. I was warned by my doctor that if I didn't do something soon diabetes, hight blood pressure and high cholesterol would creep up. The weight itself never bothered me that much. I never had trouble dating, I eventually found my fashion nitch. All was good. I've always been the ... oh you have such a pretty face buuuuuut.. "girl". So I could deal. I met a great man, got married. Life was good. Except that ...one day I get lower back pain and end up in the ER. They ran some tests. The doctor says... have you drank your diabetes meds today... I say.. what meds i'm not a diabetic...Doctor says what do you mean... you sugar is at 350.. (for those who don't know that's HIGH). Well I walked out of the ER with not one but THREE diagnoses.. take a guess...... ALL THREE.. DIABETES, HIGHBLOOD PRESSURE & HIGH CHOLESTEROL. It was the end of the world and the begining of denial. Me at this age with all those.... HUMPH... So denial can only last so long. I lived with it drank my meds.. and lived.. Until the doctor said I would need nightly insulin. WTF. Ok so that was the kick in the ass.. I decided to look into the miracle cure for diabetes.. Diet and Exercise.. did that and I barley lost weight. So I went to one of "those" seminars.. I hated the doctor. They were seemed to be starved for patients, I mean he offered to schedule the surgery with out knowing ANYTHING. Went to another seminar and this time I liked it. So I thought it through.. finally February of this year I decided to LIVE. I began the process. Here I am in August and I got the call that l was approved. In two days I find out the date. YAY FOR ME! and YAY FOR LIFE!
