vetbugs
I thought I had written my story already...but I guess not. So today, July, 25, 2007, I will begin. When I was 28, on my wedding day, I weighed 120 pounds. After I had my daughter at age 32 I weighed about 135, which was still great, however I remember thinking I was fat. It was after my divorce at age 40 that I really started gaining weight. My doctor, at the time, prescribed Paxil for depression. I gained 30 pounds in one month! My doctor was as alarmed as I was and told me to keep on it for another month and see what happened. I was down (same building as my doctor) at the pharmacy to get my prescription and they had run out of Paxil. I thought to myself, everyone must be on this stuff AND if I do gain anymore weight I really will be depressed. So I never took it again. Unfortunately I gained another 15 pounds. During this time I met my future husband who has never said anything bad to me about my weight. Even after my 125 pound gain! About three years ago at age 52 I broke my hip (femor neck)....for unknown reasons! My first x-ray at Emergency did not show a break so for two weeks we thought I had pulled muscles. When I finally could only get around in a wheel chair my doctor sent me to a specialist. Eventually I had a catscan, which showed the break, and surgery a few hours later. I did not get a hip replacement because of my age. I have a rod with screws. Now, to make a long story short I am better, but still have pain in my leg which my surgeon said was because of my weight. This is one of the reasons I am having bariatric surgery. The other reason is I cannot lose weight on my own and have tried every diet in the book.......have to go.....more later
