karen J.
9/14/05 Well here I am, first time trying to post on my profile. I have been looking at this site for months now, and reading many of your stories and being amazed by your pictures!!!! and they have all been so inspiring in my decision making process!!!so I thought I should start mine now....my surgery was Sept 6 I had a lap RnY and am doing fantastic my weights are.
AUG.22-331 started optifast
Sept.6- 316 day of surgery
Sept.14-304.25 wow thats 26 lbs in 3 weeks amazing!!!!!
Sept.16-297.50
sept.19- 293
sept. 30-289
Oct. 29-282.5
Dec.21-252
March 9- 231 (100 lbs lost yeah!!!!!!)
I was in the hospital until Friday they kept me a day longer cause my potasium was a wee bit low and they wanted to keep a better eye on me which I am gratefull for. I havent been in much pain...now believe me I was in pain and I told my husband I don't want to have surgery ever again. this was my first time to the opertating table ever. what a weird experience they put you to sleep totally rearange your insides annd you have no idea it trips me out to think of it.but when I awoke in recovery I was mainly nauseated and just kept tellin the nurse I just need to get up and I know I'll feel better:) then I looked at the clock and it said 630 pm and I said nurse its 630 my surgery was supposed to be done at 230 and I was supposed to be back in my room by430 tell me what happened all she said was that lap surgery takes longer than open I said I know this but it this 4 hours longer than the already longer surgery.she then said are you in the health care feild and I say yes I am a nurse on an oncology unit and she smiled. when I got back to my room my husband came in and I said ok what happened??hesaid the doctor found scar tissue on your intestines and colon and had to loosen that all up before he could do the surgery.I have never had any kind of surgery and my surgeon said he has only seen about 9-10 cases of this in his 1500 surgeries to have that much scar tissue and never had any type of surgery before, he thinks it had to be there from birth and it was a good thing to have it fixed cause there was quite a bit. since I have been home I have been taking it easy my husband is off for 2 weeks and I have wonderfull friends and family helping me with meals for my family. I am pretty much off the pain meds just at night and eating full liquids very very very very slow....
I am 31 years old,married for 10 years this year, and have 2 beautiful twin daughters.
I have battled with my weight since I was a child...funny thing is though, I look back at my pictures and I don't see myself as fat, but back then I totally thought I was. I was never a petite girl, my family always described be as "big boned" You know I was the tallest kid in elementry and middle school and always weighed more than the rest of the kids but never was considered by my peers as fat.but I thought I was.
I probably began my real problems as early as the age of 8. I remember sneaking food constantly like eating all my brothers candy he was supposed to sell for school, and we had "the cookie drawer" in my house that I raided often. I guess I thought if no one saw me eat the food noone would ever know. I rememeber things being said to me like "if you only ate like sally you wouldn't have a weight problem" my mom said only diet coke, lite yogurt,skim milk etc. and some how over the years my weight steadlily packed on pound for pound. I went to weight watchers with my mom probably at the age of 13. that was my first official structured weightloss attempt and was successful lost 30lbs!!!
But I think back now and wow 13 years old, that was tooo young to be so concerned over my weight.It makes sad thinking of all the time wasted counting calories and comparing my self to my peers and having such low self esteem.maybe if I was just more active as a child i wouldn't of had such a burden to carry my whole life.well I will continue later.
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Surgeon Info:
Surgeon: Aviv Ben-Meir, M.D.
Insurer Info:
Medical Mutual super med plus
