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The story continues...
Oct 19, 2005
In 2000 I started have problems eatting and keeping food down.I would go and have my esophagus stretched and given meds for acid..I just learned to stayed away from bulky food mainly meat..
2003 I went to a doctor.. the skin under my arms hung so far down they'd bleed..my stomach hung down and flapped on my legs and was so painful.I could barely walk My insurance wouldn't pay for plastic surgery..the doctor I saw was not a plastic surgoen He had done 2 other surgeries on me and was very impressed I hadn't gained the wt back, He also had visited the church I help build and I mean build ..I mixed cement right along side of the men working on it. He said he could cut off the fat when he took out the hernia I had and do a scar revision..from the scars left from gastroplasy gallblader and 2 c sections and hysterectomy..I was in 7th heaven...He set it up ..But.. and theres always a but...right??the agreement was no belly button he wouldn't have time to do one if he was going to do my arms...This doctor promised yrs ago he wouldn't do any more underarms He saw how I had to bind my arms to keep them from bleeding I do believe this doctor is really an angel..He did the surgery.my tummy could be flatter my arms could be smaller but I'm just thankful. the pain is gone from these things..He cut 4 inches from each arm I have a scar from under the arm to half way down to the elbow..He did a big smiley cut on my stomach. 18 inches of skin in length I lost 15 lbs... one little spot dog earred but I don't care ..I now wear sleeveless tops and if someone else doesn't like the scars I'm sorry for them...
2003 I went to a doctor.. the skin under my arms hung so far down they'd bleed..my stomach hung down and flapped on my legs and was so painful.I could barely walk My insurance wouldn't pay for plastic surgery..the doctor I saw was not a plastic surgoen He had done 2 other surgeries on me and was very impressed I hadn't gained the wt back, He also had visited the church I help build and I mean build ..I mixed cement right along side of the men working on it. He said he could cut off the fat when he took out the hernia I had and do a scar revision..from the scars left from gastroplasy gallblader and 2 c sections and hysterectomy..I was in 7th heaven...He set it up ..But.. and theres always a but...right??the agreement was no belly button he wouldn't have time to do one if he was going to do my arms...This doctor promised yrs ago he wouldn't do any more underarms He saw how I had to bind my arms to keep them from bleeding I do believe this doctor is really an angel..He did the surgery.my tummy could be flatter my arms could be smaller but I'm just thankful. the pain is gone from these things..He cut 4 inches from each arm I have a scar from under the arm to half way down to the elbow..He did a big smiley cut on my stomach. 18 inches of skin in length I lost 15 lbs... one little spot dog earred but I don't care ..I now wear sleeveless tops and if someone else doesn't like the scars I'm sorry for them...
My story begins
Oct 18, 2005
I starting gaining wt in 4th grade...I had 2 sisters older than me and one was model pretty and the other ..was just normal kinda plain.I remember listening to my parents fight.. my dad wanted a boy my mom didn't want to go through another pregenancy..She said something to the matter of .. you have a daughter that you pay no attention to.. she begs to go with you everywhere.. fishing to the store and you won't take her.. why..answer..shes not a boy...OMG that was me they were talking about ..I wasn't wanted so I thought.(I found out later when I was 30 yrs old I finally had enough guts to talk to my mom..she said I was so so wrong..).Then I was sent to live with my Aunt for the summer and I started to school and my brother was born...being that age I didn't understand.. I didn't even understand where babies came from.. So I started eat more.. pototes and gravy (I thought at that time gravy was a meat..) .mac and cheese 5-6 times a week...I stopped at the store every day before school and bought a mud pie (fried bread with choc frosting) 2 cents...then it got to be 2 mud pies I was 200 lbs by 8th grade...Food was my friend... Started hanging out with other fat girls...It was to painful to go to school ..all the teasing guys and girls alike waddling calling me names hitting me putting gum in my hair.. I worked in the lunch room to be able to eat lunch orders of my dad. So I started skipping school,,. .I ended up going to a private girls school with nuns... They feed the girls to make then happy..So my journey to being fat was full speed ahead.Skipping ahead a bunch of yrs I went to school out of state still over wt.. Found a very shy man we married ... 4 yrs later i had a baby girl..Not any easy preg..I was in bed for 3 months the only thing that seem to work was the fork going from plate to mouth.I gained 120 lbs..A yrs later I was still over 300 lbs I remember sitting on the porch and some young boys drove by and yelled cows belong in the field..I cried for several weeks I didn't leave the house.. only went outside to the back yard...I started to diet again.. this time i was eatting nothing only water Ended up in the ER..weak and confused.. after seeing a doctor in the ER He told me of a surgery gastroplasy..My husband checked into his insurance and it covered it ..Made an appoitment and saw a doctor.. 2 hours drive away..Had a gastroplasy done in 83 ,yes I had it done in the horse and buggy days.I was 347 .It was pretty much experimental then But because I was MO I qualified..I didn't have to go through any testing I went to see Dr Lemmon and they set up the time..1 week..I remember him talking directly to my husband and I'd asked the questions..It gave me a very strange feeling like I needed permission from a man to have this surgery but at this point I didn't care..I was so excited.. Had the surgery no classes or tests involved ..I talked with my friend she dicided to have it too she went to see Dr Lemmon she had her surgery 4 days after mine..I was in ICU for 3 days then to a reg room for 7 days..Found out Nell Carter was in the next room went and visited with her she had the surgery too..No water till we were out of ICU then we were allowed 1 oz of water an hour.. I was in so much pain didn't care.love the pain med button..We were watched very closely by the staff input and output was measured to the drop.. they tested my pee if I did a poopy I had to save it ..that didn't happen till day 8 (about) watery sticky stuff..When we got home we were told to eat baby food... every 2 weeks we made the trip to see the doctor.the wt slowly melted off.. after a yr I had to have my gallbladder out..then my friend did too She lost the wt faster than I did and the doctor thought I was cheating he didn't say much though just give me the look over the top of his glasses...At yr 3 I was at a wt that made me happy 168 but I guess I thought it needed to be lower so I pushed the diet thing harder ..had to stop.155 I felt terrible . gained back a few healthy lbs and was happy at 165.I got pg again even though the doctor said no.. I had a son I was in bed half of the 9 months and only gain 24 bls..Hes was healthy and so was I..then in 1990..started to have alot of pain..kept going to differant doctors..Had a hysterectomy.. then a couple yrs later 1 1/2 the ovarys...They said I had the house wife syndrome..to many acks and pains.they said it to my face..I was upset..Then I went to a doctor and he said you have a hernia while were inside we'll look around...They found my insides glued together..They lasored them apart when I woke up the doctor was telling my husband.. she would have died in 2 weeks probably..her liver was glued up between her lung and intestine and was tearing apart..My insides were just cover in scar tissue..He zapped them out.. That doctor is my hero..Dr Thomas Donald.I was in surgery 6 hours they could only lasor 1 side I was asleep to long they had a few problems,,(I remember feeling like I was looking at the doctor and hearing them talk I always just thought maybe I woke up early or they gave me really good drugs)..he said one day I would need the other side done..Months maybe yrs down the road, I hurt for about 6 months but the doctor said thats from the swelling.. from the lasor (they don't do it that way anymore) My breathing was better I was told I had asthma.yrs before..but the release of the scar tissue let me breath again..One sad thing ..I lost parts of my memory..I don't remember being in college or some of the time period of working as a dialysis tech at the Cleveland Clinic and all the learning that went on then Also my when my daughter was a baby I look at some of her pics and draw a blank.. Pets I loved I don't remember ever having So much information lost But I was told thats one problem with being put to sleep for long periods of time... I hope I never lose my pics they are all I have..I spend time thinking so hard to remember when my daughter walked what she ate when..I just can't,.. parts of her life are totally gone from my brain..I understand how confusing life must be for people with memory problems now..I also have problems learning now..I have taken classes on how to absorb what you read taken herbs for memory nothing has seemed to work..I just have to remember to be thankful I'm alive...
