Natural Goodness
Like a lot of people I've been overweight most of my life. I've lost a ton of weight twice while on Weight Watchers but it came back -- and even more weight. I had my beautiful baby daughter Sarah in February '06 and packed on over 100 lbs in the year after her birth. It was awful -- I couldn't lose any of the weight.
I was lucky to have really good insurance (for once!) and get approved for the RNY immediately with no need for showing 6 months of dieting or all that other rigmarole a lot of people have to go through. I met my surgeon, Dr. Afram, who's affiliated with the Center for Excellence at GW Hospital in Washington, D.C. in August and got my surgery date of 9/25 pretty quickly. My hubby was a little concerned about the whole thing but very supportive.
September 25 came all too quickly. My hospital experience was very good. I had a really nice room -- they kept calling it "Dick Cheney's Room" at the hospital -- it had 5 windows and a couch in it!
