Ted K.
I'm fat. Have been for a long time. I'd say I was skinny in High School but about 2 weeks after graduating, and without any warning I was overweight. I figure the day I stopped growing taller, the belly started catching up.
I've been through the usual mess - diet pills, Atkins, Weight Watchers, all the usual suspects. I knew that WLS existed, but I never thought it was for me.
So there I am, cruising around, overweight, not really thinking about all the things I'm missing when I am diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. My first thought was that 38 year old fathers of 3 don't die. My second thought was that, yes they do, every day. So after 8 months of Chemo (I even managed to gain weight during that because chocolate pudding made my belly feel better) I knew something had to change or I'd be just as dead as if the cancer had won.
I have to admit that before researching it, I had always thought that WLS was the easy way out. Since then I've learned quite a bit about my impending new tool. First choice was the lap band but after meeting my surgeon, he suggested that having a foreign body in me permanently might not be the best idea, just in case the big bad "C" cells ever came back, so I'm going with the RNY. Just as well, I always hated having my port-a-cath ( a plastic device to insert long needles into your chest for chemo ) in my chest during chemo. Couldn't wait to get that thing out.
So that's where we are, waiting patiently (yeah right!) for Sept 10. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
