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Met my surgeon!
I had my 1st visit with my surgeon! Now I have many steps to take before surgery will be scheduled but I should be in surgery between August-October. I am so ready to change my life! I know its going to be a struggle but I got this!
Quit Smoking!
I quit! Its been 3 days using a 14 mg patch. I have smoked 1/2 to a pack a day for 22-24 years. I have tried to quit so many times and let me tell you this is the last time. I just know it! I have never been this determined for anything ever. All it took was my Dr. to tell me if I didn't make some drastic changes I would die and realizing she was right! If I can quit a 24 year long addiction, I can do anything!
About a year ago I was experiencing pain between...
About a year ago I was experiencing pain between my ribs. It was severe and at the time thought maybe gallbladder or something like that. I went to the hospital and my life has changed dramatically since that day. My blood pressure was 281/170, I was immediately drugged with dilaudid and a nitro patch and dotted over with those stickers that heart monitors are attached to. My fiancee was horrified and I was in a drugged out state of terror. Eventually the ER Dr. came in and explained that I was in end stage kidney failure and would be admitted into the ICU and that is where I stayed for the next 6 days. Since being released I have been able to go from stage 4/5 renal failure to stage 3 but the cost of this is taking 12 blood pressure medications a day. I have struggled my entire life with weight. I can honestly say I do not remember a time in my life that I was not in some way trying to lose weight. I think anyone who has experienced being severely overweight knows exactly what that does to a person. I have always done my best to accept and love myself as a person. To look in the mirror and love the person looking back. I did this right up until I lost my insurance! There was a filing error and I was left struggling trying to pay the thousands of dollars in prescriptions and vowed that I would not settle to be this unhealthy and at the mercy of my medications EVER again. I finally got my Dr. to agree to refer me to a bypass surgeon! I attended the seminar and made my first appointment! I have witnessed many friends and family members go through this journey with wild success and a couple that lost and gained. I know the risks, I acknowledge that this will change my life in every way. I say this.... Give me the floppy skin, give me the liquid diet, the pain, the vomiting... bring it on because I will NOT live one more god damned day trapped in this fat suit WILLINGLY. Bring on the hiking, bring on the concerts, the days at the mall with my daughters, the soccer, volley ball, the cute heels that I cant wear. Bring on every single thing I have not been able to do because my body will not let me. Bring on the pain and sweat, the tears and the joy. This life is not meant to be half lived. At this point without this surgery I am going to die and I will not surrender to that. On a side note, going through my stored pictures I realize I do not have a SINGLE one that is a fully body picture, I will add one for the before pic, one the day of surgery and then maybe one every month after with updates. For now I will add the most recent photo I have.