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So, here we are. I have been overweight my whole life. Not so bad as a child or a teen but still always needing to lose at least 20 pounds. As an adult, I have just kept continuing to get bigger and bigger. Sure, I would diet and lose weight here and there, but the next thing you know I have put it all back on and then some more. In early 2004, I began contemplating this surgery. I was weiging in the area of 285. I had seen the good it did a coworker and wanted to persue it for myself. But, then ca-ca occured. I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to undergo surgery, chemo and radiation. So, that put any thoughts of WLS on hold. When I was about to go on chemo I asked my oncologist what type of diet should I be on during the chemotherapy. He said I could/should eat whatever I could tolerate. Wrong thing to say to me! So I went on the chemotherapy diet. While I cannot reccommend chemotherapy part of the diet, the food was delicious! I gained 80 pounds in a year. Not good. That extra poundage pushed me into type 2 diabetes which included insulin shots and pills. So, now I am taking tamoxifen (hormone therapy for cancer) and insulin, both of which have the side effect of weight gain. So, I am religiously following the diabetic diet and still putting on weight. I have lost hope on traditional weight loss methods and have decided to take the WLS plunge. I have attended the seminar and gotten a letter of recommendation from my PCP and oncologist. I am trying to get the hospital to schedule my next series of visits until ultimately I have the surgery and become a shadow of my current self. That's my story and I am stickin to it! Thanks for reading along.
