tazmaddy34
Well, I know it's been said before. I have been overweight all my life. My parents owned a grocery store and we lived up stairs. I had a ball living there. I ate anything and everything I wanted. My friends loved coming to my house. I loved it until I started noticing boys. Then it is not very cool to be the fat girl. I was pretty popular. I had a lot of friends. Just not "boyfriends".
So needless to say weight has always been an issue. I did find a great guy who loves me just the way I am. He married me fat. I just hope he likes the thinner version very soon. We have been married 8 1/2 years. He is 110% supportive of this surgery. He doesn't want to see me suffer with the diabetes and high blood pressure. He hates to see me suffer with even walking a short distance.
I have one step daughter, who I love dearly. She lives with us and I wish I had given birth to her. She is the light of my life. My husbands too of course. She is 11 years old, so teen age years are a coming. She's a good kid though.
I started my WLS journey about 6-7 years ago. My husband and I wanted a baby. We tried for a year. I went to a fertility specialist. We tried and got pregnant twice. I would find out that I was pregnant and then a week or so later. I would have lost it. They just wouldn't stick. My Dr. told me I had a septum in my uterus. We could fix it with surgery, but he didn't want to do surgery on me at my weight. He gave me a packet on Gastric Bypass. I was like "Surgery! No Way!. Not just for my weight". I had never even thought about surgery. Then a year or so later I was exposed to WLS again. I did consider it and went to a couple of seminars to see what it was all about. But we just could not afford it. Then a year or so later I thought about it again. I called our insurance company and they did not cover it. So I put it in the back of my mind, until last fall. I found out in October that I was diabetic. I just can't live with diabetes. I know it. I have saw my father and sister suffer with theirs. I don't want to go through what they are going through. So I started looking into RNY. I went to the seminar by Dr. Boyce in Knoxville. I made an appt. with him and had my consult and had my psych eval. I had started a weight loss program in August. So I was already ahead of the game at this point. Then I came to OH. I found some old paper about RNY that had this website on it. I started reading about the RNY on the main board. I kept seeing people that had the DS. I had to find out what this DS was. Well the rest is history. I knew after researching and researching, it is the WLS I can live with. I just dreaded the thought of living with RNY. I didn't know if I could do. I then looked up Dr. Husted and found that he was in Somerset, KY. Just 2 1/2 hours away from me. And no program fee. I got the best at what he does and saves me money. I could not ask for more.
I saw Dr. Husted on Jan. 26th and had my NUT Consult on Feb. 11th. Ellen is suppose to send my paperwork to the insurance this week. So hopefully, I will be on my way to the DS in just a few weeks.
