quintons_mommy2004
My story... well.... I like to believe my weight problems started the day I was born...I weighed almost 11 pounds. I was always a fat little kid, and was ok with that for a long time. As I got older, I was really unhappy with myself. Time went by, I continued to gain weight. In May of 2008, a dear friend of mine passed away. Initially that only made things worse. I ate to cover my pain... but then I realized that I could very well suffer the same fate, and I was someone's mom and someone's wife, and I didn't want our friends to have to go through that again. I started in January of 2009 at 343.6 pounds. I had planned on having the lap band in May of 2009.. then, as fate would have it, my husband collapsed a lung spontaniously and was in the hospital for 9 days.. one of thoes days being the day I was to have surgery. I knew it wasn't the right time.
I lost about 110 pounds on my own, and then lost control. I gained 40 back, fairly quickly. I knew I had to do something, so in July of 2011 I had the VSG. As you've probably caught on to by now, I'm not the luckiest person in the whole world.. and 5 days after my VSG, I got very sick. I was diagnosed with a leak, and spent the next few months in really bad shape. I had to live on TPN through a PICC line. No food or drink by mouth for a few months. I was in and out of the hospital and finally at months number 9 post op, I had a clean upper GI.
I am now 3 years out as of July 2014, and I weigh between 170 and 175 depending on the day. I am so glad I took this step, even though I paid such a horrible price in the beginning.
