Rae532
8/10/11
I've been reading posts and looking at pictures for a few months now. I origionally became curious because a close friend announced one day that she was having surgery. I thought she was really nuts now. We both have been overweight since our teens...best friends through it all. We are the kind of friends that tell each other the absolute truth...no holes barred, and let me tell you I did...I let her have it. I thought she was going to kill herself. She let me have my say and all she really said is that she understood my fear for her, and that she was just done...she had made her decision, and that I should get more information because all I hear about is the really bad cases. It made me think, and I went looking for information....see I work in healthcare and she was right, I only see and take care of those patients when it goes really bad. I came to this website reluctantly, and found thousands of people that had tons of different experiences. Lets just say it opened my eyes, made me look at myself and gave me something I haven't had in a long time...hope. Hope that I could change....and didn't have to be this way anymore.
Like I said I have been heavy since junior high. I lost a lot in college with phen phen....40 lbs in a month...but after two pregnancies...one with twins...my body and life was a wreck....I'm starting here with a BMI of 40, and 235 lbs at the moment. But being a fairly healthy fat person...isn't that a stupid term....but low comorbidities...Im at an insurance stall. We just submitted the paperwork and his nurse is hopeful, but not certain I will qualify.
Just so you know...my friend is doing very well. Having hardly any problems and down around 80 lbs in 3 months. I had to tell her she might be right once in a blue moon....that was hard....
-Rae
