KimRobin
What brings me here.
Aug 29, 2009
August 29, 2009
I had the band surgery back in June 2005 and lost 130lbs. In March of 2007 I had to have the band removed because it had slipped and I couldn't swallow my own saliva. It was a horrible day when my surgeon Dr. Arif Ahmad told me that the band had slipped. I was told it could be repositioned but I had read the chances of it happening again were great, so I opted to have it removed and give my body time to recover.
June of 2008 I was ready to look into having the band surgery again, but was rushed to the hospital on July 4th only to find out I had cancer. So I spent the rest of 2008 and until May 2009 going thru cancer treatment. I had external radiation everyday for 25 days starting in the middle of August, and then I was in the hospital for internal radiation for 3 days. Giving the radiation time to do its thing in November I was back in the hospital to have a total hysterectomy for my stage 3 cervical cancer. I was told while in the hospital I wouldn't need chemotherapy only to go get my staples out 2 weeks later to find out it wasn't cervical cancer but uterine and ovarian cancer. Then my Drs told me I will need chemotherapy for 6 sessions lasting 5-6 hours with 3 weeks in between each treatment. May of this year (2009) I had my first full body scan and told I am finally cancer free.
So here I am again! I am looking to have surgery with Dr. Mehta, I just finished the last of my doctor visits and I am waiting for my paperwork to be submitted and for my insurance company (Empire Blue/Shield) to get their stuff together with the local hospitals (Peconic Hospital..where my Dr performs the surgery) so I can finally have the surgery again and get back to being myself 100%.
This last year has showed me that you don't have anything if you don't have your health! So now that I am cancer free I want to lose weight again and know that I am at my best!
