tammyparker07
My story starts out probably like most on this site....I've been heavy all my life or as long as I can remember. My fondest childhood memories are me as the chunkiest kid in my family. I remember my sister, in particular, calling me fatso! I hated that!!! She was a bean pole then. I was probably as big around as I was tall when I started first grade. At the age of 12, I was at least 100 #'s overweight. But I was always active too! I wasn't one of those kids that laid up and watched tv all the time....I worked, played hard and went to school. Through the years I've went on numerous diets to lose weight. Some worked...for a few months.....some didn't! YoYo dieting I think they call it. Then came the PhenFen out! Wow what a drug that was! My life saver!!! I'll give that drug 10 stars! In less than a year I lost 162#s. Life as I had never known it was finally MINE! I had a figure....which I had NEVER had before! It was like seeing someone else in the mirror......that wasn't me! A stranger! Then in Feb.'98 myPCP found cancer! Hodgkin's Lymphoma Stage 4B..I was given a death sentence with less than an 8% chance of living. I've been through chemo, radiation, miscarriage, more chemo, a stem cell transplant, transfusions and pneumonia several times. From the chemo I've ended up with CHF and from the pneumonia I have scared lungs. And I have no cartlidge in both knees and 3 spurs in my right one. Anyway..now I'm in remission for 2 years. While going through all this chemo and stuff I DID manage to gain 300#'s from all of it. I was on alot of steroids too! This brings me to were I'm at now. I went to Centennial to a seminar on Nov. 4, 2006 given by Dr. Olsen.
