Tinamarie25
My "new" story starts on May 2007. I got hurt in March and by May I had to have surgrey on my right knee. I have already had surgrey on my left knee and now the same thing with my right. The doctor that did that surgrey was right to the point about my weight. First to do the surgrey I had to go get weight somewhere else becauce they could weight me at his office. When after the surgrey he told me that I have to do something about my weight or I would be looking at knee replacement later in life. He told me to think about Bariatric Surgrey to help me. I knew of this surgrey because my husband of now 5 years; had this surgrey way before I met him. Well, I got to looking and reading all I could and then with his help I decided to get the surgrey for myself. So after I recovered from my knee surgrey I started looking into it more and went to see my family doctor and got me going and we decided to have the surgrey at Cleveland Clinic so I had a workshop meeting on August 27, 2007 and so it began. From there I had to have all the test done. Lab work, EKG, chest x-ray, Ultrasound of abdomen and sleep study done to see if I have sleep apnea. With all the things done the only thing wrong with me besides my weight was that I had sleep apnea. Then I had waht was called an Impact consult at Cleveland clinic for clearance for weight los surgrey. The I had to meet with the Doctor and Both a Psychologist and Nutristist. By time I was done with all the test and ready to have my appionment in Cleveland is was in Nov. 17th. I had to have two appiontments with the Psychologist because when I went to see her nothing was wrong with me but my Mother had just past away on Nov. 2,2007 and I couldn't talk about her without crying and the doctor wanted to see me again to to make sure everything was allright with me. She understood about my feeling. The nutristist wanted to see me twice because my doctor wanted me to get to a goal weight before the surgrey. About my weight: Like I said in May I had to get weight for my knee surgrey and I weighted 426 pounds. I was shock!!!! Well, with everything I decieded to start losing some weight. So from May to August 27th when I had my first visit in Cleveland I weighted 400 pounds. Then when I went in in Nov. 17th I still weighted 400 pounds and that is when the doctor set a goal weight for surgrey of 360 pounds. So when I went to my appointment on Dec. 17th I weighted in at 381 pounds. I lost 19 pounds in one month!! So I'm 21 pounds from the goal weight. They both cleared me because I'm doing something right and to help me more is that I have to go on a 2 week liquid diet before the surgrey and that will help me lose more weight. So now I set waiting for the date for my surgrey since Dec. 17th and it is getting hard to wait. Christmas was very hard to get through without my Mother and I had some bad times but with my husband and family help I made it and still on my deit and waiting for my date.
