MY LIFE STRUGGLES

Mar 17, 2009

It took me 5 and 1/2 years to finally admit that I'm not strong enough to battle this weight issue on my own.  There were lots of thoughts of I really didn't try hard enough. I sabatoged my own progress, just one more try.  I'm sure there are lots of people who have thought like me over the past  years and not succeeded with their own weight goals either.  My biggest breakthrouh was when I visited Dr. Dent and he urged me to fill in the paper work for Roux-n-Y surgery in the States.  I'd put it off for five years but the conversation kept coming back to the fact that if I really wanted to succeed before the weight KILLED ME now was the time.  I had had a severe asthma attack last April and had spent 3 months on heavy doses of Prednisone, that had resulted in my blood pressure being elevated to the tune of 3 types of blood pressure medicine and my asthma drugs on maximun.  When I started to have to get my son to help me out of the shower becaise I couldn't breathe better the writing was on the wall.  I opted to go with DR. GRABER in New Hartford New York.   THE BEST DECISION I have ever made.  3 days post surgery my asthma did an 85% turn around and I found I was doing things in my own home that I haven't been able to do for 25 years because I was too tired or too sore or I couldn't breathe.  Just came back from my 3 month check-up in the States and I have lost a whopping 71 pounds.  My next struggle is gall bladder surgery that is scheduled for April 16/09. 

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About Me
Nepean, ON
Location
48.1
BMI
RNY
Surgery
12/22/2008
Surgery Date
Jul 09, 2006
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