Lets Play Catch Up

I started the process April 26,2011; the gastric bypass surgery process that is. My weight roller coaster started years ago. So I guess I will start by catching you up on the surgery facts thus far. I have had psychological evaluations (insert joke here), a sleep study, a 3 month tracked diet (lost a few, yay), and cardiac clearance.Yes, even I have a heart. So far so good. BTW my cholesterol is 115!!! Only my cells contain fat, apparently my veins and arteries didn't want any part of it. Luckily I have a job where my employer is paying all of my Cobra benefits from my last job so I can have this surgery. Yay me.

 DOCTOR FIASCO:  I started with the understanding that my doctor was going to be Dr. Sonnastine @ Georgetown Hospital in Georgetown, KY but he decided to leave the practice and move to Ohio. Oh well, next surgeon on list, Jason Rassmussen, again short-lived. My insurance coordinator called me a couple of weeks ago to tell me to lose 8 more pounds so he would feel comfortable doing the surgery. Apparently at that point he was not completely comfortable with doing gastric bypasses (not a good sign). Then last Thursday, Jennifer called back to ask me if I would like to switch, yet again, to a different doc. Dr. R woke up one day last week and cancelled all of his gastric bypass cases. He will only do lap band and gastric sleeves. This brings us to the 3rd and hopefully final doc, Dr. Weiss. Pretty excited though, he returned to this location last week and I have already heard nothing but stellar things about him!! He would have been my first choice anyway.
 
At this point you probably want to know my stats, maybe just out of morbid curiosity, or maybe you want to know if you can "relate". Well either way, its none of your damn business, but I'll tell you anyway. Besides, I like to be the center of conversation so if these numbers put me at your dinner table or in your text messages, so be it. Here goes:
Ht: 5'5 ( yes Tootie the Dr. measured this..lol)
wt: beginning of 3month diet 317lbs
      as of today : 302 lbs
BMI: 51% yes I am twice the woman I should be
GOAL 150 lbs or a size 9ish , currently I am a size Jumbo

I have PCOS (defective plumbing), thyroid disease(aka "who needs energy and where did this hair come from disease", and diabetes(I knew I was sweet). Because of my PCOS, I have never been able to have children. This surgery may be my only chance at that. For a long time I thought God was punishing me for those times (as a stupid kid/teen/young adult, lol) I would wake up after yet another awe-inspiring indiscretion and "pray".. It went something like this: "God ,please don't let me be pregnant and I will NEVVEERRR do that again". OOPs  Ask and you shall receive. I may never get to have children but I want to live life. There are so many things I have put off or not done because of my weight, and that time is over.
I will put up pics eventually, especially when the skinny commences!!!

I hope people find insight, humor and maybe a little inspiration from my nonsense. Here's to the future.