tmrosenthall
I am the mother of two. My daughter is ten and my son is nine. i am engaged to be married in the fall of 2009. I have always been a person who has been comfortable with my weight. My motto was if you don't like it don't talk to me. I begin to realize that I have a responsibility to my children to stay here and care for them in this life for as long as they need me. My mother died when she was 29. I am the oldest of my four siblings. We were well taken care of by my grandmother. Not many children have the luxury of someone who is willing to take in five children ages ten and under. I guess I can say that we are the lucky ones. My mother was a chain smoker who had three jobs and was seriously overweight. I vowed at a young age never to smoke and I haven't, but the other important thing that I did not latch on to was vowing not to be overweight. At my current weight I am told I should not be able to do the things that I do. I should be laid up in a bed unable to move. However, I have a full time job and I am a college student at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana. I go to campus and take test when it is required of me and I work everyday. Recently, I have suffered for an enormous amount of pain. I kept going to my doctor explaining this pain and I was not getting any results. I was constantly told that i could not have a MRI done to find the problem because of my weight. I finally got tired of going to the emergency room getting shot up with addictive drugs and still ending up in pain the next day. I found a new doctor. My new doctor did not waste any time getting me in for an X-ray and a MRI. The MRI was the scariest thing that I have every had to do but it worked. It showed that I have a herniated disk. I was then sent to see an orthopedic surgeon where once again my weight was a problem. He saw the pain that I was in so he sent me off to pre-op evaluation. I was cleared with the notion of the high risk involved by everyone except the anesthesiologist. After which my surgeon called me back in and say there's not way we can do this unless you are unable to use the bathroom at which time it's an emergency. So we opted to treat it with medicine and therapy. That when it became clear that I had to do something. I am attempting now to take my life back from obesity.
