ok so I'm going to kinda steal an idea from amy (sorry!). I'm going to introduce myself again. I feel like in the month I was MIA I got a few new followers so I should re-introduce myself quickly.
I'm a 22 year old college student. I have been overweight since I was in the 3rd grade. I started looking into WLS when I was 18 or so. I wanted to do gastric bypass first but decided on the lap band instead. I finally found a doctor about 2.5 hours away. I found out that my insurance through work would cover the lap band so I stoped going to school full time so that I could get insurance through work. about 6 months later I finally got insurance. My doctor helped me get all my paperwork together and we sent it in with our fingers crossed. My insurance decided to say no but said that if I did a 6 month doctor supervised diet I could apeal it. So I did the 6 month diet and I lost just shy of 40lbs. We sent in the paperwork again and I got ACCEPTED! I got the ok for surgery at the end of october 2008 and we made my date for surgery 12/12/08. My doctor required a 10 day pre-op diet and then a 1 month post-op clear liquid diet. and then another month of just mushies before I could finally eat solids again!
I started at a size 26/28 and my heighest weight was 324. Now I am a size 14/12 and I weigh 180! This has been such a long journey but it has been so worth it. I have had some complications but nothing major.
for some before pictures check out this
http://sweetheart181.blogspot.com/2009/07/before.html
Monday, August 31, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
SORRY!!!!!
Ok everyone I'm so sorry I've been MIA for so long. This month has been CRAZY! so lets start from the beginning.
-So first of all in march our house burnt down. we have insurance and they payed for an apartment and had it furnished for us. Everything was great until the contractor told us our house would be done by the end of June. well the end of June came around and the house wasn't done. well the insurance company said that because the contractor said it would be done by the end of June he would have to pay our rent and such for anytime after that. He claimed that it was my moms fault that it was taking so long soooooooo he payed for July's rent but refused to pay for august so we ended up having to move into another house in Spokane that we have that is vacant because we are trying to sell it. That was a mess since we didn't have any furniture or anything but we got it figured out and we are finally settled into our house. Hopefully we will get to move into our other house before I leave for Cali on the 9th but I doubt it.
-ok so another big story I have for you. I got a fill around July 15th and it was so traumatic! I got filled WAY too tight(completely my fault I was being to aggressive). Well I started to feel sick but didn't really think anything of it. until that night. I couldn't even drink any liquids. It was horrible. well that night I hard a hard time sleeping because I had a hard time swallowing my own saliva. Well I ended up with severe acid reflux I woke up around 2am and I couldn't swallow at all anymore. I spent the rest of the night sitting up feeling like crap and spitting into a cup and on top of that I still had the horrible acid reflux. So I call my Doctor first thing in the morning and they tell me to come in asap. So I do, too bad its a 2 and a half hour car ride. well on the car ride I just start to feel sicker and sicker, eventually I started throwing up blood. i get to the doctors office and they give me an unfill(they did leave .25cc). I ended up on all this medicine to help my stomach heal. i felt super sick for about another week. I didn't eat anything for about 4 days. Like I said before it was horrible. Well I've learned my lesson and I've decided that I'm so close to my goal that I'm going to try and not have to get another fill and just loose these last few pounds myself. i think I can do it. I've been up and down but each month I seem to go down another few pounds and I'm completely happy with that.
-as far as stats go here they are:
180lbs
shirt size: M
Dress size: 12
Jean size: 32/12
Shoe size: 11 (yup I went down a shoe size! hahaha)
-Other things I've been up to:
-Warped tour(It was amazing!)
-I had a relative have a heart attack so I had to drive to Seattle to visit
with him on my days off. He is one of my favorites so I'm glad he is doing
really well now.
-I went to Seattle for a 3 day trip with some friends it was also great.
-At work they made me the store reticketer for inventory which is a pretty sweet
job but it meant I had to work a TON!
I have more stories and things to talk about so I will have to save that for another time.
-So first of all in march our house burnt down. we have insurance and they payed for an apartment and had it furnished for us. Everything was great until the contractor told us our house would be done by the end of June. well the end of June came around and the house wasn't done. well the insurance company said that because the contractor said it would be done by the end of June he would have to pay our rent and such for anytime after that. He claimed that it was my moms fault that it was taking so long soooooooo he payed for July's rent but refused to pay for august so we ended up having to move into another house in Spokane that we have that is vacant because we are trying to sell it. That was a mess since we didn't have any furniture or anything but we got it figured out and we are finally settled into our house. Hopefully we will get to move into our other house before I leave for Cali on the 9th but I doubt it.
-ok so another big story I have for you. I got a fill around July 15th and it was so traumatic! I got filled WAY too tight(completely my fault I was being to aggressive). Well I started to feel sick but didn't really think anything of it. until that night. I couldn't even drink any liquids. It was horrible. well that night I hard a hard time sleeping because I had a hard time swallowing my own saliva. Well I ended up with severe acid reflux I woke up around 2am and I couldn't swallow at all anymore. I spent the rest of the night sitting up feeling like crap and spitting into a cup and on top of that I still had the horrible acid reflux. So I call my Doctor first thing in the morning and they tell me to come in asap. So I do, too bad its a 2 and a half hour car ride. well on the car ride I just start to feel sicker and sicker, eventually I started throwing up blood. i get to the doctors office and they give me an unfill(they did leave .25cc). I ended up on all this medicine to help my stomach heal. i felt super sick for about another week. I didn't eat anything for about 4 days. Like I said before it was horrible. Well I've learned my lesson and I've decided that I'm so close to my goal that I'm going to try and not have to get another fill and just loose these last few pounds myself. i think I can do it. I've been up and down but each month I seem to go down another few pounds and I'm completely happy with that.
-as far as stats go here they are:
180lbs
shirt size: M
Dress size: 12
Jean size: 32/12
Shoe size: 11 (yup I went down a shoe size! hahaha)
-Other things I've been up to:
-Warped tour(It was amazing!)
-I had a relative have a heart attack so I had to drive to Seattle to visit
with him on my days off. He is one of my favorites so I'm glad he is doing
really well now.
-I went to Seattle for a 3 day trip with some friends it was also great.
-At work they made me the store reticketer for inventory which is a pretty sweet
job but it meant I had to work a TON!
I have more stories and things to talk about so I will have to save that for another time.
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