I don't know why I let blogging slip away from me, but according to my last entry it was because I had another child, which, at that time, made my small army up to 3....
Lets move forward a little more in time, but also its apparent I have A LOT to catch up on.
Life with my band was pretty much dull after my gall bladder issue. I wasn't working my band and clearly it wasn't working for me. So my weight loss sat at pretty much in the 200's for awhile.
In February of 2013 we found out we would be expecting another child, we were thrilled. My pregnancy was pretty flawless, my weight gain was about 32lbs. I had all of the fluid removed from my band around the 17th week because I was experiencing some pretty bad morning sickness and was afraid of slipping it.
A few weeks before Ryan was born I noticed that my vomiting started increasing more and that I always felt "tight" even though my band was empty. I blamed it on the hormones and the gigantic baby that was inside of me. Ryan was born on October 21, 2013. Another beautiful 9lber. I lost all but a few pounds and was around 221lbs. I knew that I needed to do something to get this off and finally finish what I started 4 years ago...
So fast forward 8 months after he was born (aka June). My vomiting was becoming a "normal" function and for a bandster that clearly is NOT normal. My husband finally looked at me and said "You cannot keep anything done, you NEED to call the doctor." So I finally did. They ordered an Upper GI with barium swallow, and found that my my worst fears had come true....
I slipped my band.
My heart sank in my chest because I knew what this meant. This meant all my hard work over the years was now going down the drain. They would remove the band and I was destined to re gain all of that weight. I asked my surgeons PA if we could put another one back in but he said that's not the norm, and that maybe I should consider the revision surgery to Gastric Bypass.
Gastric Bypass...a surgical bypass operation performed to restrict food intake and reduce absorption of calories and nutrients in the treatment of severe obesity that typically involves reducing the size of the stomach and reconnecting the smaller stomach to bypass the first portion of the small intestine
During the times I researched bariatric surgery I had decided almost right off the bat that bypass was not the route I wanted to go, and now I was faced with that being one of my only options. Mike said I didn't need to decide that day, and I told him I don't make these kind of decisions that quickly, but either way the band needed to come out. I need to feel better.
I didn't take nearly as much time to think as I did when I went through this the first time, but knowing that God had blessed me with two more children that I wanted I knew that I felt a little more comfortable in my decision. I called Mike and asked him to go ahead and submit the revision surgery to the insurance company.
And then we waited....
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