TazRN
Wow, what can I say that many others have not said already. I don't like reinventing the wheel so I am not going to share the same old story. All I can say is that I am ready to change forever more, weighing 355 lbs. is a heavy burden to carry and I am ready to unload the backpack for a lighter version of myself. I want to be healthy with the ability to do anything I want where my weight doesn't hold me back or affect my family. I want to wear the things my fellow thinner/skinny friends wear. I live for the day to ride every thrill ride I can at an amusement park. But most of all, more than anything in this world, I want to change for the sake of my family. I want to be around for a long time to support/comfort my family. I want to be able to grow old with my wife and bounce my kids children on my knee, as my grandfather did when I was a young buck.
Being a registerd nurse has afforded me the opportunity to learn quite a bit as things relate to medical problems and quality of life. Being 39 is a landmark age for me. It is like being at the top of a mountain waiting for seesaw scales to tip over. Honestly, I could live like I do right now (being overweight - living to eat instead of eating to live) for another 10-15 years, but my quality of life will slowly and most assuredly start to decline. Being an ER nurse, I have seen many unpleasant things happen to overweight/heavy set people. You can't imagine the absolute look of terror on a patients face who is suffocating from congestive heart failure or the person having a heart attack, due to the strain on their heart from carrying around so much weight. Suffocating to death is one of the worst imaginable things that could happen to a person. Being heavy set/overweight is a oneway ticket to meet the Grim Repeer by one of the above mentioned medical problems that I just discussed. The great thing about knowledge is power and with this power one has the ability to use great tools to change their future (gastric bypass - RNY - you always hear that gastric bypass surgery is not the definitive solution to one's weight troubles, but merely a very awesome power tool). Hopefully this surgery will be my mighty hammer/chisel that will help me tip the scales back in my favor. Please understand that I mention the bad sideffect of being overweight (death) because my point is that I now will hopefully have control over my future. This wonderful power tool that Dr. Givens will be giving me in the next month or two, will help put the Grim Reeper out to pasteur. I don't want to give that dreadful character any extra ammunition to use against me (which my weight represents). I don't want him knocking on my door until the man upstairs decides it's time to come home. When you really think about it, being overweight is all about control - either you control the food or the food controls you, and we all know what can happen when the food has control over every facet of our lives.
Peace to all. God bless you all. Now lets go do an extreme makeover and lose some weight. Taz
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