the beginning...

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Entry posted by hooahwife · July 23, 2011

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Well this is my 1st entry..hopefully I can enter something everyday but I'm never good and keeping up with these things! lol! I have a very busy life with my husband deployed, my 3 year old on the run all the time and running a daycare in my house! I hardly have time to think let alone remember to type about my day...but I will REALLY try because I want to document how I"m doing daily on this new adventure in my life!!

The beginning: I have been talking about getting the lap band with my best friend Johanna for years and it was just something her and I always just 'talked' about!! I think both of us were deep down to scared to do anything but talk about it at the time! We were in Colordo and Texas together while our husbands were deployed to Iraq so we had many years to just 'talk'!! This time around was different though...a year before we moved back to the KS area I found out that I had Hep C from a tattoo I got when I was younger and I started seeing a Hepatoliogist to see what my options were!! When we moved to KS I asked for a refferral for KU bc I knew it was the best hospital in the area and my new hepatologist informed me that I HAD to loose weight before she would even consider putting me on the meds to help the Hep C. She said with the current meds there is only a 50/50 chance of 'getting rid' of it and with my weight those chances were even smaller! I was pretty upset about all this news and that's when I decided that this time I was going to do something. I refuse to even try to get pregnant again until I try to get rid of the Hep C, which is holding our family back! My husband and I want at least 2 more kids and we want them NOW! So soon after talking it over with my husband I went to my PCM here on post and put in a refferral to start the process. It felt like it took forever and I had to make many diet changes to prove to not only the doctors that I was serious but to my husband also! We have been together for 12 years so he has seen my ups and downs and not that he wasn't supportive hes just seen this 'drive' in me come and go....BUT for some reason I had the strength this time to carry on! My son and our future children are my strength!!!

The Process: It was so up and down once I got the 1st approval letter from Tricare!! I wasn't sure who I wanted to tell and was scared about how they would react when I did tell them! I knew some in my family would be 100% opposed because of personal reasons. Over 20 some years ago my grandmother (God rest her soul) had a gastric bypass when it was still a new thing and there were many complications that ended up alomst taking her life. My mother was very upset when I 1st told her and I thought I could possibly eliveate her fears by having her come with me to my information session. I asked her and was told "I want nothing to do with this" so I never mentioned it again, it was just to upsetting to me and I"m sure to her too! My husband on the other hand has been my rock and I coludn't have asked for better!! He went with me to ALL my appointments until the day he has to deploy!! He left for a year tour in Cuba on May 13th, 2011 so the rest was for me to overcome!! I found out May 27th, 2011 that my insurance company had APPROVED my lap band placement and I was overjoyed! It was an amazing moment because I was actually visiting my best friend Johanna before her husband was sent to Iraq again....I had some one to celebrate with me, who was genuinely happy and excited for me!! A week later when I was home I received a phone call with my appointments and I was over joyed to actually be starting the process!!

My EDG was July 1st- pre-op July 7th- surgery July 12th!!! I was very nervous about the whole process but very excited! My mom kind of came around and was there the afternoon of my EDG..I was so glad she was there b/c I had a small set back that day! When I was called about the appointment I was only told NO SOLID FOOD after midnight the night before so for breakfast I had a protein shake...which meant the doctor had to reschedule my EDG AND my surgery! I was very upset and cried for pretty much the whole day!! BUT LaTasha, Dr Selim's awesome secretary, reassured me that she would get me in ASAP and would make sure I had my surgery done before I had to start working again on July 26th!!