Rick_SoCal
Just a little background on myself and my history of weight loss in the past. I am currently a Licensed Vocational Nurse in Southern California and currently striving to complete my RN / BSN program by the end of next year (2010). I am very active in my community and have been a Reserve Police Officer for over 22 years now. I have never been an arm chair quarter back and wanted to do my best to help my community.
I have been overweight all my life. I have done several of the fad diets and had some short time results from them. Yes I would lose the weight only to gain the weight back along with a few extra pounds. I lost my Gallbladder while I was on the Nutri-System diet several years ago and have been in a major battle with my weight ever since.
I began my journey for WLS about 3 years ago. I had Kaiser insurance at the time and had a ton of support from my doctor and by my family as well. I attended all the classes for 6 months and even lost 50 pounds in the process. I was introduced to Dr, Suh and went through all the pre-op testing and as I was ready to scheduled for surgery, I lost my Kaiser coverage and the WLS surgery.
I had to abandon the thought of having the WLS done until I graduated from nursing school and had decent medical coverage. I finally graduated and was able to get medical coverage again and started the process all over. I am now finally approved for the surgery and am in the process of losing the 10 pounds the doctor wants me to lose prior to the surgery. I go in on Monday Jan 5th, 2009 to get weighed and hopefully will have a surgery date then.
