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Christmas time 2008
I weigh 130 pounds. Loss of over 100+ pounds. My high was 265. I got down to 230 something to have surgery. How did I ever get so big?
Where has the time gone? It seems like yesterday I was fat. Even tho I'm a nice size 4, I tend to wander back into the plus size womens department when I shop. Can you really break out of the fat mode? It's nice to go shopping now. I can buy anything I like because I can fit into anything I try on. The challenges I once had are all gone. My mother was so dismayed at me alot of times because of my size. In fact, I can remember her being so mad at me one year at Easter when we were trying to buy me a new dress. Nothing fit and she became so angry. I will never forget that or how she made me feel. Even tho she died last year, and I do miss her, I still remember being the fat daughter. My sister was always the smaller perfect child. There was a difference. I often felt the difference and it hurt. But now she is gone and I'm thin. Where is the good time to make different memories now?
I'm getting ready to have plastic surgery on January 6th. My arms flap in the wing, and my breast are basically long tube socks with a small egg at the end. Long and flacid. Not too sexy. I'm hoping for good results so I can have a TT next. Possible a LBL as my butt & thighs are horrid looking too. It's a wonder my DH even looks at me. Thank God the lights are off at night. With this amount of wrimkled skin I don't think that he'd be interested.
Anyway, this WLS has been a life saver. Mentally I feel great. I wish that I'd had it much earlier in my life. I always wanted to be thinner. Isn't it something that you think thin when you think pretty. I wanted to be prettier.

It's the Saturday after surgery. I came thru great. DH said that I was so white & pale when they brought be back from the recovery room. But after spending two nights in the hospital, I came home on Wednesday. I have felt great. So much in fact, that I'm sleeping on my stomach, eating what the doctor has told me to, drank and done pretty much exactly what I've been told to do. I went shopping this morning to get out of the house. DH drove. But it was good to get out away from the house.  I have been to the barn and fed my horses, breathed in their smell and know that spring is on the way. Life is looking good.  DH is having his surgery on April 16th. I hope he has an easy time of it. So far everything has been good. I'm pleased.

Surgery is today. I'm scared and nervous. wish me luck.

Everything is set for a go on March 5th.  Tests/blood work is fine. All I have to do is visit the hospital and pay the man. Then the weekend before, liquid diet/colon cleaning. Down to the wire.

Jan

I have a pre-op appt today with Dr Scott.  I heard that he will send you over to the hospital for pre-registration and any additional testing that needs to be done. Also they will give you a preview of the suite of rooms that the Gastric Bypass patients will stay in and meet the staff caring for them. The majority of nursing staff are previous GBS patients themselves. Therefore, they understand what the patients are going thru. I'm hoping they will be as sympathic too.  There is nothing like dealing with a thin person who use to be heavy. In my dealings, mostly they kinda lookdown on the heavy people now.  I guess they forget from where they come from, where they use to be, heavy like me.
I'll post more later after my appt.

Woohoo, surgery date is March 5th. Pre-op visit is Feb 22. Looks like it's down hill now.  Andy has his scheduled for April 16th. That gives me 6 weeks to get thru surgery & heal to help him thru his surgery.

Weigh in 218-loss of 15 pounds in 4 weeks. She has gave me the go ahead to see Dr Scott. Phew

It seems like Dr Scotts office is making everyone jump thru a series of hoops before getting in to actually see him.  First appointments with nutritionist, Mary Beth. Weigh in at 233. I'm considered a lightweight to some.  4 weeks of diet & exercise. Then back for another consult. She may then let us go on to see Dr Scott himself.