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| I had my surgery on July 29, 2003. I was really scared and cried alot just wondering if I was doing the right thing. The morning of my surgery I really hated saying good-bye to my family and friends but I had to so that I could get prepped for surgery. I cried and cried and cried and still wondered if I was doing the right thing. Well I had to change into a gown and take a pregnancy test before we could get started. They even gave me these little paper slipper things so my bare feet wouldn't get cold from walking from the bathroom to my bed. They were not stylish but they did help a little. I got into my bed and had a nice nurse give me warm blankets fresh out of the dryer and made me sign some paperwork. Luckily there was a friend of my parents that was a nurse there also that helped comfort me because I was still scared and shaking. I signed alot of paperwork and put on my pretty bracelets all personalized just for me with my name on them. So far so good. Well then the dope doctor from hell came into my life. Dr. Brazwell.....also known as.........quack with a degree............came in with another quack. They inspected my throat and nose and said that they will have to do an awake Nasal Intubation....I said....WHAT?? I am suppose to be asleep for all of this.....they said it was routine and it wouldn't hurt. Those bastards lied!!!!! They started puting in my IV and ART line and then is when the horror began. He put some drops in my nose and some sort of cream stuff and then took a blue nasal dialator and ramed the damn thing up my nose. Instantly broke my nose and blood was everywhere. I didn't have anything in me to calm me or anything. I couldn't believe what he had just done. No numbing stuff, no valium, no NOTHING! So after they cleaned up the blood and THEN gave me some stuff to calm me....they hooked up my IV and left me there. They were going to try the other nostral this time but they were going to wait a little bit first. It was time for me to be carted into the Operating Room and I was still aware of everything going on. I got onto the hard table and immediately Dr. Brazwell started shoving that thing up my other nostral again.....I was gasping for air and clawing them......I went out...........and thought I died. |
| Well I did survive surgery but I still had a broken nose, busted blood vessels in both my eyes, black eyes, and busted blood vessels in my eye lids. The tube they used in my nose was WAY too large and caused alot of problems after the fact....but I am alive. They ended up having to do my surgery open instead of lap but that really didn't matter to me at that point. I was out of it for 2 1/2 days....basically the whole time I was in ICU I was out. I do remember that they had my hands tied down and I was singing some stupid song to my friend Tasha when she wouldn't hit my pain medication button. I guess I thought I was Britney Spears singing "Hit me baby one more time". Drugs do crazy things to you. But I don't ever want to be on them again. My stay in the hospital was one week and they said that everything went just fine except the other crap. Dr. Brazwell knew that he screwed up because he even visted me in my room to say that they had to do it that way or I would have been vocally paralized.....Sounds like a bunch of bologna to me. |
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| Mama and Daddy ~~ Thanks for Everything! Alan ~~ My Sugar baby ~ I love you! Joe ~~ Ladies...He's single!!!! Billie & Richard ~ Love Ya'll To all my old friends and all my new support group friends...........Thanks!! |
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| A little bit about me.....Well I am from Mobile, Alabama. I am a single mother of the greatest 8 year old alive! I have been overweight most all of my life...thanks to my granny's fried chicken and Sara Lee Frozen Coconut cakes we ate every afternoon after school. Me and my cousins would stay over at our granny's everyday and just eat and watch cartoons. Years of this finally took a toll on us and well I was the only one who ever stayed "chubby". The years have passed and due to our quick eatting on the run we mostly ate out alot. Instead of asking what is for dinner...the question was where are we going for dinner. Trust me I am not complaining at all. I woke up one day and realized that I was about to turn 30 years old and I can't do anything with my child. My other self that is hidden away inside me....the thin me....wanted to come out. So I decided that I was going to have surgery. I just said one day....I'm going to do it. So that next Monday I called and made an appointment with Dr. Christopher Dyas to see if I can have it done. I know that I qualify because I am what they consider Morbid Obese. Man what a name......it sounds like a disease....well technically I think it is....anyway..........this began my journey: |
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| January 5, 2004 (5 months)~~Well a new year for a new ME!! I am down 132lbs and feeling great! I had a wonderful Christmas and a pretty good New Year. My parents got me some clothes that fit and some that were too big. That was a great feeling in itself. I have never gotten clothes for Christmas that fit. I was Happy happy happy! I joined a gym this past week. I am going to go 4 days a week while my son is in his Taekwondo class. That gives me about an hour to do what I gotta do. I am starting off slow but will increase it every day. Hopefully it will boost my weight loss up and I can get more off. I'm not sure if you noticed that I have moved some of my things on this site. If you want to read the stuff from last year just click here....I will also post a link so it will be easily accessed for future reading. I hope that everyone enjoys my site and please email me with comments. |
| January 27, 2004~~(a few days away from 6 months)~~ I have been doing great. I have lost 147lbs so far and I feel wonderful. I have more energy to do more things and I look at things alot differently now. My confidence has been boosted tremendously in the last week....~snicker~ Ok...off my "squishy" wagon (he will know what this means when he reads it).....The past support group meeting was outstanding! I welcome everyone that is interested in joining us at our meetings. We have learned alot from each other and I look forward to learning even more. If you want to visit the support group website it is www.oocities.org/aslimchance |
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| January 30, 2004~~(6 months)~~ I finally hit 150lbs!!! I feel GREAT! Everything seems to be going good and I can only hope for an even better months ahead. Not a whole lot of new news to report but I did post a new picture up if anyone is interested in seeing the progress! ENJOY!! |
| February 12, 2004 ~ (6 months) ~ The weight loss has slowed down a bit but is still going strong. I am very pleased with the way everything has turned out surgery wise and I feel great. I have been going through a few personal issues that have really put me through the test as far as emotional eatting. The fact that I can't depend on a pint of ice cream to make the pain go away is hard in itself. But I will get through whatever God puts in my path. I am posting some more recent pictures of me on my photo page so be sure to check them out. |
| June 10, 2004 ~ (10+ Months) Well I know it has been awhile since I updated and I need to get some new pics up but I have been majorly busy here lately. I accomplished a few of my goals so far this summer. I made it to Disney World for my son's birthday and I was able to ride all the rides excecpt for Hulk at Universal IOA. Which for me is a MAJOR deal since last time we went 3 years ago I couldn't even ride Back to the Future or half anything else. I walked the whole park(s) with no problem but did get blisters. Oh well! I started taking Taekwondo this week and I tell you I am so sore I think my eyelids hurt! I have lost a total of about 193.5 lbs so far and I feel so much different than just a year ago. I'll try to keep you posted more often and wish me luck on the weight loss! TTFN! |
| I finally hit a 200 lb weight loss |