TODAY I CONFESS ALL REGARING MY WEIGHTLOSS JOURNEY

Ok, I should have started this blog back on 8-31-07 when I first started my weight loss journey but I know I am a little late but promise to blog daily about my journey and things that will helps others considering surgery, dieting or the actually had the surgeries and need some support or guidiance.

I have been in the medical field since 1977, started out as an Emergency room tech and worked in that compacity until 1985 when my second daughter was born. At that time I needed a more stable job and reasonable hours to raise my family so chose to try the other side of the fence and went into the health insurance industry.

Twenty of the 30 years experience I worked servicing the Federal Employees BCBS contracts started as a clinical intake coordinator and worked my way up to supervision over the call center of approx 30 individuals serving the states of IN/KY/OH. My last 5 years I worked serving the over 65 and under 65 Individual Polices offered by the insurance company BCBS.

2006 I became very ill with serveral lung infections and many many visits to specialist and findng that I had inherited a gene from my fathers side of the family Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency or, more simply, Alpha-1. Because of this diease and not to mention my obesity my lung specialist along with my primary care physician gave me about 5 years of life if I did not lose some of the weight to take pressure off my lungs and my enlarged heart. I had to be proactive and try what eve the cost to increase my life expectancy so my journey began for weight loss surgery after 1 year and 7 months fighting with the insurance company that I had been loyal to for 30 years and many appeals I was finally approved for the lapband surgery.

August 31, 2007 I was taken in to OR by a wonderful surgeon named Dr. Jorge Rodriquez and had the lapband AP large 14 cc band placed in my upper stomach. The day that I went into surgery my weight at 5'2" I weighed a whopping 353 lbs. approx 210 lbs overweight. My first visit after the surgery was and others were as followed

9-10-07 weight 323 lbs 30 lbs lost in approx 10 days after surgery
10-22-07 weight 313 lbs 10 lbs lost since last visit and had my first fill of 3cc's
12-3-07 weight 303 lbs another 10 lbs lost and 2 cc fill
1-14-08 weight 293 lbs another 10 lbs lost but no fill had fairly good restriction
2-25-08 weight 290 lbs another 3 lbs lost but still no fill
3-31-08 weight 286 lbs another 4 lbs lost and I got a fill of .50 cc's
4-28-08 weight 280 lbs another 6 lbs lost but no fill
6-9-08 weight 271 lbs another 9 lbs lost but no fill and he said lets go 2 months before I see you again and reassess whether we need to do a fill .

I am 18 lbs away from losing 100 lbs and hope that I get rid of the 18 lbs before 8-31-08 which my goal was to have 100 lbs off by my 1 year from lapband surgery
12-3-07