Second Try...
Apr 20, 2014
First time through, I lost my insurance. But I will say this, the testing saved my life. The colonoscopy found polyps that turned out to be pre-cancerous. So the process saved my life once! Now after going through the whole pre-ops process again, I went through with the DS on Thursday April 17th, 2014! I am now 4 days out and every day I feel more human. I should be reporting more shortly. So far so good!
Bad Day
May 31, 2010
I had a bad day today. Woke up late. Think my sugars are out of whack. Tomorrow is another day. Time to get serious about the big D!!!!!!!!
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Drinking too much at the Knights of the Felt Table
May 28, 2010
Friday night out with the Knights at church. I planned on not eating much tonight, and I really didn't. But I found a bottle of Diet Black Cherry soda, and drank most of the 2-liter bottle myself. By the time I got home I felt so bloated I felt sick. This is a reminder to slf, don't do that again. I had been doing so well with not drinking too much soda...
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Here we go... (Intro)
May 27, 2010
I have started this blog for no one but me. I have flagged it as visible to anyone, and as far as I am concerned, anyone can comment. My surgeon suggested that journaling will assist me in my weight loss journey. So this blog will contain my thoughts, good bad and indifferent.
As you can probably tell from the name of the blog, my name is TJ. And as you can also probably tell from the location of this blog, I am in need of some help for this disease that is OBESITY. I looked into WLS last year. I joined 6 month program at Lehigh Valley Hospital's Weight Management Center after attending their Information Class. After going through their program, I decided to give myself one more chance to lose the weight on my own. Well guess what, as has been the case all my life, I failed. I am now staring at 40 this October. I pretty much had a breakdown when I turned 28, and knowing how I feel about myself at what should be a mid-life point, if I don't lose the excess weight (or at least a significant amount of it) by my 40th birthday, I really don't think I will take that too well. I have lots of reasons to lose the weight, don't we all. There are the obvious reasons my beautiful girls (I have a 4yr old, 5 year old and a 36 year old...shes the mommy...lol). But this time I am being selfish. This time is about me. I need to do this for me. And I will do whatever it takes to get better. Almost two years ago I was diagnosed with the big D (diabetes). A1C was 8.1. I got really strict with myself as far as sugar and whole wheat, and I went the extra mile to get exercise at work. I got the A1C down to 7.1. Yay, me. Then right after Christmas 2008 my boss decided to lay me off for no appearant reason. I have been unemployed now for over a year and a half. After a while my family moved in with my mother-in-law to help her out and us out. Depression, which I was diagnosed with in 1998, hit me real hard this last winter and I BALLOONED up to almost my highest weight ever 383. I said to myself, that's it, no more. I went to the Information Session for Abington Memorial Hospital's Institute for Metabolic and Bariatic Surgey. There I met Dr. G and listened to his presentation. Since I went through the program at Lehigh Valley Hospital, I figured I knew what to expect. Some of the information was similar, but Abington's information seemed more personally directed. They pointed out how this is a DISEASE not just a lifestyle situation. They also offered an option that LV did not, the Bilopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch. After the Info Session I spoke at length with Dr G about this procedure and he answered all of my questions right there. It seems that people with higher BMI can lose more weight and keep it off with this procedure. Naturally I went to my old friend the information super-highway (thanks AlGore) to research it more, and everything Dr G said checked out. So here I am with Dr G moving forward on my WLS journey.
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As you can probably tell from the name of the blog, my name is TJ. And as you can also probably tell from the location of this blog, I am in need of some help for this disease that is OBESITY. I looked into WLS last year. I joined 6 month program at Lehigh Valley Hospital's Weight Management Center after attending their Information Class. After going through their program, I decided to give myself one more chance to lose the weight on my own. Well guess what, as has been the case all my life, I failed. I am now staring at 40 this October. I pretty much had a breakdown when I turned 28, and knowing how I feel about myself at what should be a mid-life point, if I don't lose the excess weight (or at least a significant amount of it) by my 40th birthday, I really don't think I will take that too well. I have lots of reasons to lose the weight, don't we all. There are the obvious reasons my beautiful girls (I have a 4yr old, 5 year old and a 36 year old...shes the mommy...lol). But this time I am being selfish. This time is about me. I need to do this for me. And I will do whatever it takes to get better. Almost two years ago I was diagnosed with the big D (diabetes). A1C was 8.1. I got really strict with myself as far as sugar and whole wheat, and I went the extra mile to get exercise at work. I got the A1C down to 7.1. Yay, me. Then right after Christmas 2008 my boss decided to lay me off for no appearant reason. I have been unemployed now for over a year and a half. After a while my family moved in with my mother-in-law to help her out and us out. Depression, which I was diagnosed with in 1998, hit me real hard this last winter and I BALLOONED up to almost my highest weight ever 383. I said to myself, that's it, no more. I went to the Information Session for Abington Memorial Hospital's Institute for Metabolic and Bariatic Surgey. There I met Dr. G and listened to his presentation. Since I went through the program at Lehigh Valley Hospital, I figured I knew what to expect. Some of the information was similar, but Abington's information seemed more personally directed. They pointed out how this is a DISEASE not just a lifestyle situation. They also offered an option that LV did not, the Bilopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch. After the Info Session I spoke at length with Dr G about this procedure and he answered all of my questions right there. It seems that people with higher BMI can lose more weight and keep it off with this procedure. Naturally I went to my old friend the information super-highway (thanks AlGore) to research it more, and everything Dr G said checked out. So here I am with Dr G moving forward on my WLS journey.
