Susan T.
I have been overweight for just about as long as I can remember. When I was in grade school my nick name was, "MOO". In high school, I was the "FAT" girl that was really "FUNNY", and made everybody laugh. I got married at 20, and had a daughter at 21. My first husband told me that "I was too disgusting to look at, (after I hadn't lost my pregnacy weight 3 months after my C-section surgery), and he would not have sex with me until I lost the weight".
SO, I DIVORCED HIM!!
I guess it was about this time I noticed I was having back problems. It just started out with soreness, muscle aches and pains, and ajustments with a chiopractor.
Fast forward to husband #2, (who is still one of my bestfriends, and to this day, rents my basement), another baby, more weight gain, lose a little, gain alot more, so on and so on, and then the next thing I knew my weight was around 220. Now my back problems had become so severe, that I had to have a disk surgery. They gave me injections, and I was on just about every pain killer/narcotic you could thing of.
ANOTHER DIVORCE
We just became diffrent people, (now that I am a christian, I know that was a stupid reason for getting a divorce). Not that I am against all divorces, it's just that I feel that was not a good reason for me to divorce him).
More weight (up down, up down, up down)
So I got married again. My back has become so bad that I was bed ridden for 7 months. I needed help to do anything and everything. I could not walk, sit or stand for longer than a few minutes or my back seizes up and I can't move.
Now at 288lbs., I have read just about everything there is to read about this surgery. I never quit searching the internet and talking to people who have had the surgery or knows someone that had it done. I have heard alot of horror stories and alot of success stories, and it took me quite a while to make the decision to go a head and try to have the WLS.
So here I am, I wish everyone luck who is trying to have WLS, and I hope that you wish me luck also.
