HutchGarahl
I wasn't always this big or out of shape. When I was younger as a child growing up and into my early adult years, I was always withing normal to excellent health and shape for someone of my size and age. I worked out daily, ate the right foods, did all the right things. But for some reason, after getting pregnate with my second child, all that changed. I hit a whopping 325lb carrying my son. After his birth, which was a rough one because he was so big himself...almost 10 lbs, the weight gained while carrying him refused to go away. I continued with my daily regieme of working out, eating right....everything I did previously, but to no avail. Then came my last child. Once again I reached almost 300lbs and again after birth tried once again to loose the weight with no succession.
Here I am now at age 42, weighing at 265 or more. I have trouble breathing, I tend to stop breathing in my sleep, though I have yet to be diagnosed with sleep apnea....it is believed by several friends and family that is a problem I now have. I have developed numerous medical conditions such as deteriatorive arthiritis, fibrolmialgia, fibrositis, high colesterol, rhumetoid arthirits, severe depression. I have severe back and leg trouble. I can barely stand, much less try to walk. I can only sit or stand for a max of 10-15 minutes at a time if i'm lucky. Much of my time is spend laying down. When grocery shopping, I have to use one of those electric carts because I can't stand long enough to make it from one end of the store to the other without running out of breath and my legs trying to drop out from under me.
What used to take me 10 minutes to do, now take an hour or more, depending how I feel. My inability to loose this weight, and the continuing gaining of more has now brought thoughts of suicide. I went to my doctor last year in hopes of getting help. He signed me up for bariatric surgery. I was told they would contact me to set up a date after the first of the year. Well..six months later and i've heard no word from the doctor who was to do the operation. So I called my doctor back to get the number for this doctor...only to hear that medicaid no longer pays for the operation.
I can't afford to pay for this myself or i'd have done this years ago. I don't wish to continue to gain weight nor to live this way any longer. I don't know what to do anymore. If there is anyone reading this who can help me....please, I am begging.....help me. I will be eternily grateful.
