Jen_Bach

[center][size=4][font=georgia][color=#0000cd]Well I guess everyone has their own stories to tell. So here is mine.[/color][/font][/size][color=#0000CD][font=georgia] [/font][/color][color=#0000CD][font=georgia] [/font][/color][/center]


[center][size=4][font=georgia][color=#0000cd]I have been overweight for most of my life. The problem began around the age of 6 and just never got addressed. My childhood was rough. My mom attempted suicide when I was in first grade, by shooting herself in the head, and I was in the next room... We never talked about it, so I think I just stuffed it in with food. Then food became my best friend. It was always there for me. It was also a way to celebrate good things, family gatherings, birthday parties, holidays, etc... Being over weight was acceptable in my family because most of us were/are. In the fall of 2011 I had to have an emergency appendectomy. I almost died on the operating table. I had to be kept on a ventilator. It was scary! I was scared! When I was released from the hospital all I could think about was I could have left my kids with no Mom! I could have left my husband with no wife... They told me I probably had sleep-apnea and that was why I had the complications. So I did a sleep study. Sure enough... On a bi-pap machine I went. Then I started talking to my PCP who was all for me going for gastric bypass. She hooked me up with all kinds of options on where I could go. But then was scared to go any further with it. My aunt had had it done about 11 years ago... She failed the surgery, meaning she didn't do as well as she should have. I was afraid I would fail too! For years I would go to the doctors and would walk by the scale and when they asked me to step on I would tell them no, I wasn't there for a check on my weight. The few times I actually did get on I would tell myself not to look, because I knew it would make me emotional, sad, mad whatever! The few times I did I would instantly tear up and look away! Then I said no more! Its time to do something! Its time to take control of myself! Its time to start living my life instead of watching it all go by and just be a bystander! So I went to the informational meeting. Then I called and made an appointment. That was 5 months ago. I have lost almost 35 pounds all on my own. I had to lose 19 to be in the right BMI to have surgery at the specific place I chose. I go for my surgery on Monday September 23, 2013! I am excited to start my life over! I do know its going to take some time to adjust to my life and new habits! But I know it will all be worth it when I have got it all figured out! [/color][/font][/size][/center]