My surgery was at Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake, New York, USA. I was 63 years old, had just had a hysterectomy in March, had attended classes at AMC for 22 months with my daughter and had been overweight my whole adult life. When I was a child, my brothers called me fat, and of all the names they chose for me, that one stuck with me and I always thought I was - even when I got married at 123 lbs., I thought of myself as fat. After 3 children, I got bigger and bigger and when I quit...

Leboire

Well, a week has passed since I posted last. Been a long week. Had to take my 10 year old daughter into the hospital in the middle of the night on the 24th for emergenc surgery. We are home now- but it was really hard to eat what I was suppose to when I didn't leave her hospital room for 3 days.... I attempted to call my doctor today to make sure everything is still a go for the 17th. I was not able to get through. I will call again on Monday... 18 days to go. I am sooooo excited

djjmak

I am so happy to have found this web site... I am so inspired by all of your stories that I want to get my story started on this site...

August 2009 I decided out of blue that I was going to have weight loss surgery- never had even contemplated it before. I attended a free weight loss surgery seminar.

September 2009 I found out that my husbands employer excludes any type of weight loss surgery- I cried, and cried....

October 2009 I found out the gastric...

djjmak

Here I am again folks. Still a 'wanna be'. As you know already I had was just getting over a cold the day I arrived for my surgery and was sent home. Well I was expecting to hear from the hospital this week as they had promised (Dr AJ), but not a 'dicky bird'. The only reason I didn't call him was the fact that have caught another cold again, its just that it's that time of the year, when the weather is so unpredictable, warm one minute and cold the next, this always as an impact on my health....

Hychap2009

my story is one that i have heard so often from people who struggle with their weight. i have never known a time in my life when weight was not an issue. from as young as i can remember, i have been the fat girl. in fourth grade, during our weekly spanish class, we learned our spanish names. mine translated to isabella. by the end of the day i was hearing taunts of "isabella's got a belly!" by the time i was in 5th grade i weighed 135 lbs.

i don't remember any of my...

kovy