I'm A Surgically Altered FREAK!

I've had such a long, long struggle with my weight. Literally my whole life has been focused around gaining or losing weight. It all started in elementary school when my parents put me on amphetamines (diet pills) to lose weight. All I lost was sleep. It was the 1960's and they were all the rage. Yeah, adults might have lost weight on them, it was speed after all!

I joined WW in high school and lost 57 lbs and gained a cute boyfriend. I got to go to the prom and have fun dates and all the trimmings. Yeah! In college I gained about 15 or 20 lbs... then I met my husband and started having babies. On rolled the pounds. I reached a high of 275 at age 23.

In 1983 at the age of 25, I had my stomach stapled. I lost 150 lbs in 10 months. I also lost lean muscle mass, almost all my hair and most of my energy and ambition. I was in poor health at such a young age. I got no nutrition follow up, and there wasn't any internet, so as soon as I could eat, I ate sugar and candy. That went down easiest and that's what I ate.

Over the course of many years I gained all the weight back. When my husband went on the road as a truck driver for 3 weeks at a time (and my son was in Iraq), I consoled myself with ice cream. Not a bowl of ice cream, gallons of ice cream. My weight reached an all time high of 284 lbs.

I tried unsuccessfully for a vertical gastric sleeve. It was impossible due to my previous stapling. I diligently went to the gym and said no to every little thing and got down to 200 lbs. I couldn't get below that number! I counted every calorie here on SparkPeople. I went to the gym and varied my routine. I tried every single tip that anyone gave me, to no avail. Months and months went by without seeing a single pound loss.

I knew I had to do something else when I jumped on the scale for my weigh in and it said I had gained 10 lbs. I was eating 1200 cals per day and burning 700 in cardio at the gym. Unbelievable! I started investigating weight loss surgery again. I found Mexico's president of bariatric surgery, Dr. Aceves.

The good doctor was the one who could give me a VSG. But, as luck would have it, he got inside and looked around and decided that indeed the sleeve was impossible and he could only do the bypass. I woke up to the news that I had a RNY.

My weight on day of surgery was 209.

I'm 5 days post op and already today (6/19/10) I went to the gym and walked on the treadmill! Off to a great start!

Disgusting Islamic "Religion". Bah....

Urgent action is needed to halt the execution of 128 prisoners on death row in Iraq. Many of those awaiting execution were convicted for the 'crime' of homosexuality, according to IRAQI-LGBT, a UK based organisation of Iraqis supporting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Iraq.
According to Ali Hili of IRAQI-LGBT, the Iraqi authorities plan to start executing them in batches of 20 from this week.
IRAQI-LGBT urgently requests that the UK Government, Human Rights Groups and the United Nations Human Rights Commission intervene with due speed to prevent this tragic miscarriage of justice from going ahead.
...IRAQI LGBT is concerned that the Iraqi authorities have not disclosed the identities of those facing imminent execution, stoking fears that many of them may have been sentenced to death after trials that failed to satisfy international standards for fair trial.
Most are likely to have been sentenced to death by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq (CCCI), whose proceedings consistently fall short of international standards for fair trial. Some are likely to have. Allegations of torture are not being investigated adequately or at all by the CCCI. Torture of detainees held by Iraqi security forces remains rife.

More Goodies!!!!

This is one of those amazing tarts from the Vietnamese bakery. Mr. Vuong said he wanted to bring in a chocolate cake.... Mrs. Vuong said NO.... We're bringing in a tart.

Yummy! Maybe I'll eat a piece or 2 of the fruit. NO CRUST!

Shit. More Sweets.

Gifts from patients. More sweets to drive me batty. I can do this. Yes, I can be here and NOT eat these cookies. I Can! I CAn! I CAN!

Cop Killer is a Hero? WTF?

The black community is actually turning Mixon (the cop killer) into a hero. Right. Give me a break. The guy is black, but he's a rapist and a murderer. His DNA matched the rape evidence from a 12 year old girl. Other girls have evidence against him. Do they really want to make him a hero?

Sure, not every cop is "good", but Mixon was pulled over for a routine traffic violation. He was in parole violation and would have faced, at most, 6 months in prison. Are 6 months worth your own life and 4 other innocent lives? It makes me SICK to see the black community rallying around and trying to make this murderer a hero. He's no hero. He's an evil animal that belonged in a cage. At least now he's dead and won't be a menace to society. Good ridance.

Night Shift Funny

We have a registry nurse here tonight named Mark. I knew him from other hospitals and he's a pretty funny guy. Well, he's been talking about his upcoming EHarmony date tonight (and he can't work!).

Mark was feeding a baby who had a particularly rough delivery. It was a face presentation and had a large abrasion on his forhead. I commented to Mark that it looked pretty nasty and that the baby had been "hit in the face with a vagina".

Without missing a beat, Mark replied that he "hopes to suffer the same fate tonight".

Junk Food At Work

This is why it's so gosh darn difficult to stay away from junk at work. People bring in Girl Scout Cookies and leave them sitting on the desk facing me. And these are the really good ones.

People thank us with candy and cookies. See's candy, even. I can't even eat one piece of any of these things. Control. Think.... control. AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!