Re: Need Answers lots of Questions

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Hi, I can understand your fear. when I had my surgery i had 3 small kids and

a clueless hubby, so if I did die from surgery those kids would of been lost

for awhile. I did also know that at 378 pounds I was not going to live to take

care of them or take care of them well even if I lived so I checked it out and

decided WLS was for me. I was diabetic for my pregnancies and the doc told me

I was more than likely going to have diabetes when I got a little older too.

Also my Mom died at 67 from a major heart attack, she was 350 pounds and was

big all her life. Mom of 8 kids. Anyways, i was terified to have my surgery but

i did and i cried in the hospital after cause I still had my doubts and I was

still scared and i was uncomfortable with severe back pain, not from surgery

but from my weight and I have degenerative disk space narrowing, so getting

comfy in a hospital bed was not happening, My brother, bless his heart, brought

my recliner to the hospital for me to sleep in and it was ssoo much better.

Anyways, I stayed for 5 days and came home, things were good, i was not sick and

i had hardly any pain, just a small crampiness. i did NOT have to take any

pain meds once I was home and the ones I took in the hospital I took so that it

would possibly help my back. I lost 140 pounds in the first year and kinda

been at a stand still. i was very depressed in month 2-3 post-op and it just hit

me a month ago why. I have been on antidepressants and klonopin for anxiety

for many years and when i had my surgery my stomach was not absorbing the proper

dosage anymore, therefore i was coming of them basically cold turkey. I am

now off all the klonopin and take just 1 prozac a day now, so i guess it was a

good thing to get off them, I just wish I knew that was why I was depressed in

the beginning, that and it was 20-30 below 0 those months But I am

currently pregnant with my 4th and last baby. I am happy, very happy, I gained

35

pounds back but it is all baby from waht I can see. I am huge but I have

absolutely no swelling in my hands, feet or face like I did with my other kids.

I had

to wear sandals with them and take all my rings off early but not this time

around. i am having a very easy rpegnancy, not even mornging sickness and I am

having a big boy, he is measuring big. I would not change anything, I would do

it all voer again in a heartbeat. i do have a hernia near my incision I need to

get fixed later but it is painless and can wait. I can take my kids mroe

places now, we go swimming to the YMCA alot and I fit into a bathing suit, movie

theater seats, resteraunt booths, small toilet stalls instead of the

hadnicapped one in stores, the list is amazing and I love it. I will have to get

back

on track after this baby is born and finish losing weight, I never got to goal

before coming pregnant so i will have to work hard at getting it off and eat

better again, I kinda been slacking with pregnancy, but I know I did not do all

this for nothing and want to still make it to goal. i may even join something

to help me out. Good Luck to you on whatever you decide, everyone is

different and this is just my story, but iw anted you to know how it went.

God Bless,

Robin, NorthEastern, NY

Age- 41

EDD- July 27th, 2004

IT'S A BOY!!!!!!

Mommy to:

&

(twin boys 8 years),

Madison, daughter, 5 years and

Wife to Pup 15 years (October 31, 1988)

Gastric Bypass Surgery-

October 18th 2002

Start-378, current- 246(pregnant)

goal 170 after baby

It's a BOY!!!!!

Emerson Roger