Dawndee2002
New Member
Hi, my name is Dawn. I am 26 years old. I am married to a wonderful military guy who loves me for how I am and everything but I am not happy with how I look. Two years ago I was planning on getting the lap band done, I went through the whole pathway process until the week before my appointment to meet my surgeon and I chickened out because I would have been one of the first to be getting the lap band done in the hospital. So I gave up and tried to the weight on my way but that didn't happen until my husband deployed and I moved back in with my parents. I started getting really stressed out with living with my parent and my husband was gone so I started to workout 3 hours a day and I lost 30 pounds the year my husband was gone and then I just stop losing weight all together. I never gained the weight back I have maintained my weight other then going up and down 5 Pounds here and there. 3 months ago I started having pains and feeling sick so I went to my doctor and found out that my gall bladder is full of gall stones and my body was trying to pass them and that is why I was in pain. S my doc wanted me to get my gall bladder taken out and sent me to the surgeons (and if you know military hospitals they take forever for you to get in to any speciality clinics) well got I shocked that I got in the following week. I was talking to the surgeon he wanted to take my gall bladder out but he noticed that I once have gone through the gastric pathway and was wondering if I was planning to restart the pathway to go through the surgery ( the funny thing is that a month before I sat down with my doctor about starting the pathway again) so of course I told him. Well he said that he was one of the few that do the surgery and talk to me about all the surgeries and I told him that I was thinking about going to sleeve and he thought that was a really good choice. So the only problem in me wanting to get the sleeve done was that I had to sit with my gall bladder pain for 3 months and I wasn't really happy about that. But I am sitting here today waiting for my surgery that is next Jan 11th and I am so happy that I waited because I rather be cut once rather then twice. The only think is that I haven't told anyone about the surgery other then my husband and so really close friends. I haven't told any family about my sleeve surgery because I really don't think they will again with the idea of it and I really don't wan to hear what they think but they do know about me getting my gall bladder taken out so I don't feel so bad that they don't know what is going on because they know half of what is going on. They only think I am nerves about is that in June when I see my family how am I going to explain to them how I lost the weight.
Thanks for reading and I am looking forward to getting to some of you and learning from you all.
Thanks for reading and I am looking forward to getting to some of you and learning from you all.
Good Luck with your weightloss journey XX
