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| Before - April 2005 |
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| After - March 2006 |
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| It all started when I stepped on the scale one day and realized that in 20 more pounds I was going to hit 300 pounds. I just knew that I couldn't get that big, if I got that big it was going to be over. I started researching WLS but was just too scared, my PCP thought that hey, you've never tried diet pills before, let's give that a shot before you take the plunge. I started on Meridia and it worked great, for a while, I lost about 50 pounds in 6 months, yippee! but then I started having stomach pains, thinking it may be the diet pills i stopped taking them, but i kept having pains, come to find out my gall bladder decided to stop working in Nov 2004, they ripped it out of me (through my belly button of all places) and i started feeling better, but after the pain of surgery swore I would never have surgery again. I never started taking the Meridia again, thanksgiving, christmas and a couple months later and i was weighing in at 294.5, again, i can't hit 300 pounds, i will just jump off a building if i hit 300 pounds, so I went to meet my surgeon on July 26, after that first meeting, i was terrified, but i went and got all the testing and they gave me a surgery date of August 29, 2005. It still didn't seem real, didn't seem like I was really going to do it, not even the morning I was in the hospital, till they came and got me and wheeled me into that operating room, I freaked out, started sobbing hysterically, they gave me some "feel good" drugs that made me start laughing hysterically, then I woke up to a kind nurse saying, it's all over honey, you did really well and that was that. I'm not going to lie, it hurt, but you know, as i'm writing this, it's 6 months later and I don't even remember the pain now. It has been really hard, but it has been so worth it, I have the energy to work out, go to class, go to work, come home and clean, it's amazing how i don't get all tired and worn out. I would do it again 100 times to feel like this.
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