TakeII
My story is so much like everyone else's....I have struggle with my weight most of my life. I have been on every diet out there. Typically I will see some short term success only to regain everything I lost and then some!! It seems the last three years I have spun completely out of control gaining nearly 80 pounds. My decision about WLS came the day that I saw myself in a picture from a recent trip to Argentina. I did not even recognize the person in the picture. Further humiliation came the night I had to do my sleep study. As though it's not enough to be watched sleeping all night long when you feel like you look like a beached whale, but then the tech came in and placed the jet fighter pilot mask on my face (cpap)! I felt that I had sunk as low as I could go......but NO I quickly learned that it could get worse.....when he returned a short time later to teether my mouth shut with a band that resembled an ace bandage. While this story has lent itself to plenty of side splitting laughter with my closest friend, it was also the first time in my life that I found myself thankful that I am single!!
