Rose143
The story of my WLS - I guess I would say it started July 2005 when one of my knees gave out on me. Lots of pain with that knee and I made an appointment with an orpethidic doctor. The doctor said I had arthris and had also worn the knee out - I was walking bone on bone. The worst part was that he would not do a replacement knee unless I lost at least one hundred pounds. Now I have lost a hundred pounds twice in my life. When I married I was 112 pounds and then after a 60 pound pregnacy and only a 7pound baby - my weight slowly inched upwards. After a couple of years my best friend was getting married and that is when I lost my first hundred. At this time I ate grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefriut and "walked my butt off". At the wedding I was the smallest I would be for the next 40 years. When my daughter was 19 years old and ready to start college, I found myself 40 years old, pregnant and then discovered my husband of 21 years was "involved". It was at this time I lost the second of my hundred pounds. From this stress, I lost almost everything I ate and went back to "walking my butt off". The day my second daughter was born I was down about 80 pounds and I continued on until I was shed of 110 pounds of me (and a 180 pounds of husband-LOL) Now my baby is a senior in college and planning her wedding and my oldest daughter has given my 3 beautiful grandchildren. And here I am limping along unable to do with my family as I had done in the past. During the past two years I have added more and more pounds. I can't lose without excersing and I can't do that with the knee pain. The more I sat round the worst it has gotten, so on Feburary 22, 2007. I made an appointment at Vanderbilt to check out weight loss surgery.
