tinatwoishere
My name is Tina, I'm 51 years old and my life needs to change and change for the better, I hope. I have worked all way my life since I got out of high school in 1982. I mostly worked in food places and at the end loved every minute of it. My last job I had was my favorite job as the General Manager of a Burger King. I started in 2004 as a manager and worked my up to general manager to the end of my time at BK in 2012. There are two major events happened to me that made me so happy. I had my daughter in 1988 and she was and still is the joy of my life. Then in 2001 I met my second husband that he ended up being my the love of my life we married on Oct. 19th of 2002. Things were great for years and then my health went bad because of the weight I gained, so I started looking into gastric bypass and on Feb. 26th of 2008 I had the RYN done. My highest weight before surgery was 436 and by 2010 had got down to 197 and loving every minute of it. Then just as two things that happened in my life that were the happiest to me. Two things happened to me were the worst that ever happened to me. In Oct. 2011, my husband got sick and we took him to the hospital on a Monday and the following Monday the 10th my husband of would of been 10 years of marriage on the 19th of Oct. has passed away. I was right by his side and never left it. Now as I'm trying to deal with his death and trying to keep our house and finally went back to work. All I had was my daughter, family and my job to keep me going. I was so depress from all this I notice with in 4 months I started to gain weight back. I was eating all the time to make me feel better and try to keep my house and just get up everyday. Then I notice what I was doing and so my family got to go see a therapist on Feb. 8th (Wed) and she wanted me to come back on (Sun) but I never got to do that because the second worst thing happed to me when I was on my way home from work on Feb. 10th (Fri). about 5pm I was hit head on by a drunk driver! Needless to say that was my last day of working for Burger King. From the accident I suffered two broken ankles (both having now 3 screws in them), a broken hip and pelvis (with 2 plates in my hip), 6 broken ribs and 4 small bones in the bottom of my back broken. Because of the accident I had to spend the next 6 months in a hospital to recover. I had to learn how to walk again and learn that I will never be the same again and not to do the work I love anymore. While I was in the hospital I lost my house and my family had to pack it up for me. I had to sale things, give things away and put the rest in storage. The guy that hit me had no insurance so this was all on me and I was still working out things from the passing of my husband and insurance was a big deal at that time. So with that I had to move back home when I get out of the hospital with my Dad and him taking care of me. I got a some money from the accident but from my insurance and I don't know what happened to the guy that hit me. Depression sets in again for me because I never really got to deal with my husband's death and now my life was changed again forever. Not being able to get out to do things or work or just be! I lost myself again with eating and never saw it until it was to late. I didn't know what to do so I went to online college and started it in June 2013 and just graduate in June 2015 with in Associates in Business Administration. So here I'm ready to change my life again for the better and I've been seeing doctors since my accident and getting my meds in line and now I'm ready to take the next step. So I went to see my surgeon that did my first gastric bypass and he is willing to do a revision on me to get my life back to where it was before the accident. I'm on a lot of meds, I have lymphedema in my legs from accident, I walk with a walker to short places and any long time walking I'm in my scooter for that. I need help to go anywhere so I have my niece for that. So I have appointments set to see doctor, therapist and nutritionist and he wants me to lose 60 pounds before surgery. I'm trying to do it on my own because I get to see the doctor and therapist on Aug. 18th but I can't see the nutritionist until Sept. 2nd. That is a long time to wait to see them. I'm having what is called a Distal Gastric Bypass procedure done to me. so I'm learning all I can on this. --July 7, 2015
