bubblesrn
I've struggled with my weight basically my whole life. Throughout my childhood, I was always the "chubby" one. I grew up to be a very shy and insecure girl. I was basically taught to speak only when spoken to and to "hide" in the corner or in the back of a room. I was sedentary, didn't move, hence I gained about 50 pounds every summer throughout high school. I cherished the few friends that I had but they too were sedentary. When I hit college, I did fad diets, or even starvation diets. I yo-yoed up and down about 60 pounds a college year. When I became a nurse, my weight just went up and up. All new grad nurses start the night or evening shift. This really screws with your metabolism. I worked on the bariatric/GI unit out of all nursing units to work on. I LOVED the staff I worked with and I really truly love working with the surgical patients... especially the bariatric patients. But I felt like a hypocrite telling my patients that they needed to get out of bed or teaching them their post op diets. The real last straw was when one of my patients had coded (he was not a bariatric patient btw!) and I couldn't run to get the code cart and I couldn't do CPR on my poor patient without tuckering out. I knew I needed help. I finally approached my wonderful surgeons. It was a tough choice to make since I work with a few bariatric surgical groups. After thinking long and hard about it and working closely with my surgeons, we all decided that the Lap Band was right for me. And very proud of the hard work I put into it and I thank my surgeons every day for the wonderful life saving gift they gave me. They will never know how grateful I am to have them in my life. Thank you to Drs. Hans Schmidt, Amit Trivedi, and Douglas Ewing!
