My name is Stacy. I'm 43. Mother of 4 boys (1 in High School, 2 in college, 1 in the Marine Corps). I'm from the Philly Burbs and have done animal rescue for years before my Fibromyalgia brought me to my knees (or was it the Fibro AND the 332 pounds??) ... anyway I stopped working two years ago when the pain became too much and medicated my already very over weight body with junk food. I have thought about surgery for years but knew in my heart that I was not mentally ready .... after two years of being housebound and in the past 6 months finding the miracle drug that gave me a sliver of my life back - I now want more and more and more - and I know losing the weight is something that I have to do to get my life back. I have gone through all the months of testing and finally have my surgery date - July 22.
I joined this forum about two weeks ago or so, and have been checking out all the great links/books/comments that Gwen posted about. Thank you SO much Gwen. I have had so much fun ... and learned so much going through it all. And now I am going to try to figure out how things work around here while I read through the board and hopefully get to know you all.
Stacy