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Hello everyone! This is my first blog. I definitely want to take you all on my WLS journey. I have always been overweight. Even as a child and I've finally decided that I want to take control of my weight. Food is an addiction for me. It's like my best friend. Always there when I need it. Lol. It's crazy but TRUE and I know a lot of people can vouche for me. I finally got medical insurance November of 2013 so I've been able to get things checked as far as like diabetes, blood pressure, etc. Well, I DON'T have diabetes. No STDs. No HIV or AIDS. The only thing that I do have is high blood pressure and asthma. Hypertension problems and I just found out I have sleep apnea.

To make a long story short, in about the month of August, I had gone to see the doctor to get a sleep study set up and the doctor I had saw asked if I had ever thought about bariatric surgery. I gave him this funny look (felt kind of embarrassed and offended lol) and said "No." Cause I had it set in my mind that I was just going to lose the weight on my own cause I know I can plus I was scared of the thought of having WLS. I had always heard bad things about it. One of the bad things being DEATH so I said hell no...NEVER! LOL. And just to rewind it a little, back in February 2012, I had lost about 40 lbs. from walking and eating smaller portions. I didn't drink pop or juice. Just no sugar added drinks and water. I didn't eat bread. And I walked 30 mins. at least 3 to 4 days out the week. I was so proud of myself. Then I had became a foster parent to my two little cousins in October of 2012 and I tried to keep up the dieting but I started buying snacks to put in the house for the girls and had started snacking too. Lol. Sweets are my weakness but I should've been stronger and kept up with my good eating habits and walking almost everyday. By April 2013, I had started gaining all my weight back plus MORE. Today, I weigh 564.8 lbs. I told myself I be damned if I get up to 600lbs.

In September 2014, I was at a store shopping for cleaning supplies and a man I had never seen before stopped me and said "hey! Can I ask you something? And if you don't want to hear what I have to say you can just tell me to leave you alone." So not having a clue what he was going to ask I told him to go ahead and ask me. He asked had I heard about something called the ROU-NY. I told him no and he starts explaining to me how he had had the surgery done on him and he just told me his whole WLS story. I really wasn't interested but I listened because I knew I wasn't going through no WLS but I listened anyway. Plus I was a little embarrassed and offended once again lol. But I know he just meant well. I told him I'd research it but never did...until about 2 weeks ago when I was talking to a really good friend of mine and he told me he's having the ROU-en-Y surgery and he gave me SO much encouragement that it made me think twice about having the surgery. And one thing he said that made me change my mind was that either I could die having the surgery or die from being overweight. Having the surgery though, I'll be a lot healthier. So I'M GOING TO HAVE THE ROU-en-Y surgery!!! I'm really pumped about it and I'm so ready with no worries. God is the head of my life so I'm putting it in God's hands and whatever happens happens. All I know is I want to be healthy. I want to live long. I want to live to see my nieces and nephews grow up to be adults. I want to start a family of my own some day. I want to be able to stand on my feet for long periods of time without my back, legs, and feet hurting so bad. I want to breathe better and not have to take blood pressure medicine. I WANT TO LIVE! :-)

So I went to see my wonderful new doctor today (Dr. Julie Vannerson) and she faxed over a referral to the bariatric specialist (St. Vincent in Carmel) so we could get the ball rolling. I'm just waiting on that call to say they received the referral so they can set me up a consultation date. Pray with me y'all!