The Last Supper

My friend Amanda from work has decide to throw me a Last Supper. So a bunch of my co-workers and friends and family are meeting up at Abuelo's to have dinner. I love me some Mexican food. It's so yummy.

My friend Bobbi is putting together a pot luck dinner for me the weekend before I go in for surgery, so by the time I have the surgery I will be damn huge. But oh well. I gotta eat while I still can.

Here ye, Here ye.

I told most of my family and friends and co-workers that I was getting the surgery. They all seem very supportive, and I appreciate that. I am kind of scared of the surgery, but I am also scared of dieing of obesity. I mean I am a total fat ass and I have to do something about it. I have tried every diet known to man. You name it I have done it. The grapefruit diet, cabbage soup diet, slimfast, weight watchers, nutrisystem, jenny craig, simply not eating, I have taken every diet pill available over the counter along with Merida from my doctor as well as xenacal or whatever it called. Xenacal made me have gross poopies. They were orange and oily like. I know that is a little too much info, but you are going to get a lot of that in this blog.

The Date Is Set

I am going to have the surgery on Feb. 17th. So I have to get all my other specialists appointments out of the way before then.

Good News!

I just got the call that I was approved for the surgery! They will be calling me later today or tomorrow to pencil me in for my surgery date and to tell me what appoitments I need to make. I am so excited!

What This Will All Be About

This blog is going to be about my weight loss surgery (wls) journey. I went to Dr. Gorospe on January 7th. His staff is so friendly. Dr. Gorospe took the time to explain every aspect of the surgery to me. The appointment took a little over 4 1/2 hours, but it was worth it. As I was waiting in the waiting room with all of the other new patients, I was feeling very skinny. I mean I was probably one of the smallest ones, all of that changed when they called me back to get my height and weight. I am practically a midget at 5'1". I was lucky and didn't have high blood pressure or anything like that. But I weighed a disgusting 324 lbs. That is grotesque. I couldn't believe I weighed that much! But I do and I have to live with that. I will be posting some pictures of me very soon, so everyone can see what a fat ass I am.

The reason I am opting for the gastric bypass surgery is because I have scoliosis, and the added weight is making my lower back hurt so bad almost every day. And I have noticed that just walking from my car and into my work is making me breathe harder like I have been jogging or something. I am getting winded very easily. At 23 there is no excuse for this. I also want to have a child within the next couple of years. My husband Michael is 32 and longs for children as do I. My doctor told me that at this weight I should not carry a child, it would be entirely too risky. That was a real eye opener for me, so I am doing what I know has to be done.

I realize that the wls is not going to be an over night success, and it is only a tool. I will have to change my eating habbits for life, but I am determined to do it. I want to be able to have a healthy baby and be able to run around with my toddler and have fun. I also want to be live a long healthy life and I cannot do that being this overweight. I am considered morbidly obese, that is such a nasty word, but I am. So in this blog I will document everything I go through in the process of getting this surgery done.