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Do you believe in Fate? Do you believe things happen for a reason? Well if you don't by the time you finish reading this you will believe.
I've been overweight for the past 9 years, and have tried every diet. Being over weight never changed my outgoing personality, I've always been a positive person. Along the way I found true love and am happily married in 2003. We had a beautiful baby girl in 2006, bought a house and are living the "happily ever after". The most important thing in my life is Family. Weather it's my family, my Parents, siblings or my in-laws, nothing is more important to me. As I mentioned, I struggled with my weight and like most people it's been a rollercoaster of skinny days and fat days. In March of 2007, I decided to look into bariatric surgery. (Hoping my insurance would cover the costs of the surgery because I was having "weight related issues". Turns out I was correct, and after all the "red-tape" was cleared I had a surgery date (lap-band), June 2007. So excited about the surgery and having the support of y entire family I couldn't wait for the healthier new me.
The day of surgery was a long, long day....as I woke up from the surgery, the Dr leans into me and tells me they didn't do the surgery. WHAT! The Dr. stated my liver was scarred and they did a biopsy to see what was going on. All the preperation I had done, all the hopes I had - devistation. The biopsy revealed cirrosis of the liver. So how does a healthy 30 year old get cirrosis of the liver? And Why? After a lot of tests and many Doctors, I was diagnossed with auto immune hepitatis, and there is no known cause - It just is. The next 10 months was Dr visits, medicines, medications, and more medications to help control the liver. Unfortunately there is no cure, just control.
It's now April 2008, and I am back on the road for biaratric surgery. This time the surgery should help control my liver. I feel I am in good hands with my Doctor and he knows exactly what to expect. We have decided that gastric bypass is the best option for me. So here I am, again, waiting for insurance clearance and a surgery date. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
So - do you believe in fate now and things really do happen for a reason. If I never decided to have the surgery my liver would have been undetected and I would have gone into liver failure. At that point all options would have been too late for me. So the question is "what made me pursue biariatric surgery?"....maybe fate. But thank god I did. I saved my own life.