Brooke G.
My Story... what an interesting concept... well it's definately not a fairy tale with a perfect happy ending and some prince carrying me away on a white horse... but it's mine nonetheless and here it is:
It was a cold morning in October and mom was in a lot of pain... well let me fast forward to the good parts...
My name is Brooke and I'm a fat aholic... or something like that. The truth is that I've been fat my entire life.... since I can remember. Even now 100 pounds lighter I still feel as fat as ever... the doctor said it's because I've gotten used to my success... but I don't think he's ever been fat. I would have never revealed this at the time, but the true reason that I started to seriously look into this procedure was because someone I had been extremely competitive with had it and I didn't want to be fatter than her. Thats the honest truth and I'm glad it's finally out. A close second was that I was sick and tired of being fat... a distant third was health.
I did the research... I made the calls... I had the evaluations... I was super lucky that my insurance company was Blue Cross Blue Shield of Iowa... I got approved in 1 day. No big struggles there (actually the biggest struggle was that it took 3 weeks for the psychologist to fax the evaluation in).
My surgery date was December 21, 2004.... doesn't that sound like such a long time ago? It feels like an eternity. Sometimes I have trouble identifying with my life before then. Sometimes when I look at old pictures I get really disgusted by the way I look. I was schedule for open RNY with Dr. Eric Vaughn at the Barix Clinic in Belividere IL (which is no longer there).
Everything went well with my surgery... no big problems... I went home on Christmas day...
So here I am 3 years later... 100 pounds lighter... and stuck... so check out my blog for what's going on in my life now.
Wow made for a pretty dull story eh?
