Mykel

Well i have been a bigger guy all my life, been the chubby, fat, big kid..... ive tried all kinds of exercises but my Motivation and love of food always made me fail, the one and only time i was successful was in 2003 when a couple friends became my motivation for me where i weight lifted for a month and a half with a better diet and prior to that for a few weeks i would just walk and jog on the treadmill... after that 2 and half months i went from 280 to 230 and was doing great but i left Utah to move back home and there for my motivation was gone and i kept up with it for a little bit but i slowly fell back into normal mode....... for the longest time ive maintained a 280 weight. but these last few years have been rough for me with depression and where i did not give a ****. and i broke the 300 line a year and a half ago and then came the 315. so i was like wow i need to do somethin so i tried P90X and it was ok but my belly kept me from doing alot of the workouts so that didnt help me keep with it. and next thing i know its a few months ago and im 340 and im just ready to change. My mother was working one day and a lady came in who gave my mom her I.D. and my mom didnt know who the lady was in the photo  and asked her " is this you??" and the lady laughed and said she lost alot of weight and that got the Lap-Band talk and she mentioned a local Doctor whodid it. by this time it had came up in talkes and maybe i should look up some Doctors and check them all out and find the one i liked which we figured would of been a 2 hour drive to the nearest city we thought had a Lap Band doctor, but this lady said In town.. WOW SWEET. so a few weeks went by and i was ready to get it started. i called and they set me up with a Seminar the Doctor has once a month. it was March 16th i think when the Seminar was and i didnt wanna have to wait that long to but ohwell , i was in college taking classes and had stuff to keep me busy. March 15th rolled around and i got a call saying the Seminar was cancelled because there wasnt enough people to go so i got pissed until the lady said we are just gonna set you up with a appointment to see Dr. Brown so its like skipping ahead a little. so i was like Sweet!. i think the following week on March 22? or somewhere around there i met with Dr. Brown and i was ready to get it done that day hahaa but my mom went with me and we took a week or so to talk about it and think about the life changing it is and so i called them up and said lets do it and they set me up with April 20th surgery date. i actually wanted it to be alot sooner than April 20th because i have Finals the week of April 26 but i left it alone. YES I KNOW I LIKE TO GET IT DONE AND OVER WITH lol..... anyways. I ate like a mad man the weeks before surgery, had a fat steak, favorite burritos, my Buddy The Tripple Cheese with fries , lol everything...but a week before surgery i was put on Liquid Diet ( clear Liquids ) and i cut all my food off then and thats when it started. i was 350 the day i started my diet which was 5 days before surgery, i was only needed to do 3 days but i read some stories of people not shrinking thier Liver good enough during their Pre op diet and had to be opened up down the middle... so i did 5 days to be safe. the first few days was ok but the last 2 were pretty hard. Then i had to stop all liquids at midnight before surgery. Always gonna be nervous when your gonna be cut open when its the first time you have ever had surgery so i was nervous but i just blocked it out and went with it. walked in the the room, put on the gown with everything hangin out, sittin there while one lady tries to find my vien for the IV and the other stabbing with needles in the stomach ( to help with blood clotting i guess, it didnt hurt) and taking vitals, getting my hair net thing put on and making sure i was warm, it wasnt too bad, just weird being prepard for that .....Ummm i met the nurse who was going to be in surgery with me, and the guy who was gonna knock me out, and he gave me somethin to calm me down and i got kinda light headed from it after a few minutes and actually was ready for anything hahaha.... they pushed me into the COLD room where i had to move over to the operating bed thing, where they strapped my arms  and waist down, then the Drug guy said " ill see ya after awhile" and the circle lights above me turned into ovals and that was it hahaha...... and thats my story leading up to surgery, im 3 days Post Op now