My Weightloss Journey through Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) : Last Scab Finally Fell on my Incisions

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Last Scab Finally Fell on my Incisions

Only a few days short of being 3 months post-op, the last scab that was still on one of my incisions that opened up and leaked. It is still fairly sore inside under my incisions and it is still difficult to walk or stand for any period of time. It is almost very painful to bend over. I can lean to the side that had no complications, but the side that broke open and leaked still feels like it has hard knots inside and when I try to bend over it makes a burning sensation and pushes up against my rib cage.

My right side felt similar to this right after the surgery, but it went away after a few weeks after the major healing.

I do recall my doctor telling me in the hospital it could take up to 6 months to completely heal and now that I am almost 3 months out, I think it will take the entire 6 months before I am completely healed and can begin all my normal activities. Until then, it is one day at a time.

Here is a picture of before when the incision was open after I returned home from the hospital in mid September and the after photo was taken this morning after the scab fell off.

Before - Mid September 2013

3 Months Post-op

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My Story

Growing up I was always thin and never had to worry about weight issues. I was lucky and thankful. My mother had always had weight issues. I recall being teased in school about having a fat mom. Back in the 1970's it was rare for people to be obese.

Kid's would yell out to me that I was going to be a whale just like my mom when I grew up. It wasn't really nice of them, but they didn't understand. I watched my mother suffer in silence and do the roller coaster with her weight from one diet to another. My mother developed diabetes in her late 30's and her weight loss efforts were all unsuccessful. She is still overweight today.

For me, I was quite the opposite. I had taken after my father at least for most of my life. I was never larger than a size 7, I had five children and was thin again in weeks. I was the woman other women hated. Ironic as it sounds, I was teased in childhood I would be fat when I grew up, and then I was despised by other women because I wasn't fat after I had children.

Then at age 42 I became pregnant with my sixth child. My pregnancy was great without complications other than I had developed gestational diabetes. I weighed 193lbs just prior to delivery and after a c-section I was down to 170 lbs. I didn't have too much to lose to get back down to size.

That is when the weigh gain began. I was tired all the time. I had no energy. I just kept gaining weight. Within a year of my daughters birth I now weighed my per-delivery weight.

What was going on? Not one doctor thought to check that my gestational diabetes had developed in type 2 diabetes after delivery.

I did the norm, I tried all the diets, not one worked. Then my doctor upon my request tested my sugar and was shocked to see it was 362, and confirmed what I was thinking all along. I was now diabetic and could not lose the weight and I was still gaining.

I started Metformin, but still no weight loss even after 9 months of taking it.

Since, it is too difficult to get any type of weight loss surgery in the United States, I have taken control of my life and I am going with the surgery in Mexico.

I have decided to use Roux en Y Gastric Bypass Surgery. This surgery also known as RNY has a 95% chance that I will no longer have diabetes and the weight loss is the bonus to me.

Pounds to Lose.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Last Scab Finally Fell on my Incisions

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