Blessings on you with all those children. Did you give birth to them all? A lot of women on here are nurses, which amazes me, that so many from that profession, which strikes me as so physically demanding, could become overweight. To me it just proves that it strikes like other diseases...indescriminitely. I am just starting on the WLS path. My sister-in-law had the RNY and had a good experience and lost tons of her weight and had her stomach skin removed (she had a large apron after much weight and three C-sections.). But I don't want the bypass. It is all scary to me, but that is super scary. I don't want to be put under anesthesia. I had a hysterectomy with a spinal and Valium, so I really have to gear myself up for being knocked out.