Eva S.

  • BMI 36.2
  • VBG on

Obesity & Me

Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.

Years of frustation, trying, failing. Loosing some gaining more.

What was (is) the worst thing about being overweight?

Not being able to get around the way that I wanted.

If you have had weight loss surgery already, what things do you most enjoy doing now that you weren't able to do before?

I didn't stop doing anything, it was just a lot harder. Although it is nice to be able to fit in chairs and and such again. I now have room between the steering wheel and my stomach for my dog and that isn't a good thing. He doesn't listen any better than my husband does and I have to keep ordering him into the back seat. I can walk and work for hours. I have an incisional hernia and that slows me down and I find myself doing things for the first time in years without thinking. Liking walking down stairs without turning sideways.

How did you first find out about bariatric surgery and what were your initial impressions of it?

That it worked. A friend I hadn't seen for several years had had it and was a different woman.

Describe your experience with getting insurance approval for surgery. What advice, if any, do you have for other people in this stage?

Canadian

What was your first visit with your surgeon like? How can people get the most out of this meeting?

Very reassuring.

What made you finally decide to have the surgery?

I couldn't loose weight anymore. I was over four hundred pounds.

How did you decide which proceedure to have?

VGB

What fears did you have about having complications or even dying from from the surgery, and what would you tell other people having the same fears now?

I was afriad of dying, but had decided that if I did live a long time - as one of the doctors who examined me said I would, even without the operation - that it wouldn't be much of a life.

How did your family and friends react to your decision? Would you have communicated anything differently if you could now? How supportive were they after your surgery?

SO so.

How did your employer/supervisor react to your decision? What did you tell him/her? How long were you out of work?

Was unemployed at the time of the surgery.

What is your scar like? Is this what you expected?

My scar is okay. I had no idea what to expect. I certianly did not expect it to make its way down my chest the way it did. My skin didn't shrink it sort of slid off my shoulders.

Please describe any plateau experiences you have had since surgery.

I plateaued at seventy pounds lost. That was likely due to the fact that I was drinking diet beverages I quit drinking them and have been slowly loosing weight ever since.

Do you notice people treating you any differently now?

I am not so noticable, although people do stare because I am still a big woman(290) and have no problem getting around. One man said with a sort of stunned wonder that I seemed to float. Tonight someone said that I must have really strong legs(undouptably, I do) to be able to walk around like that.
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