sad sylvie
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This Buddy last logged in at 13-08-2007
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This is my story
I was born an average sized baby but was overfed as in those days a fat baby was considered to be desired ! I was told that my parents woke me up to feed me ! I carried on getting fatter and fatter, but I never really knew I was fat until I began at primary school aged 5 and the other children made my life a misery with their spitefulness. Unfortunately even though they knew how unhappy I was, my parents still made me eat adult sized meals and looking back, they were unhealthy stodgy meals at that. Mine is the usual story of yo-yo dieting, weight being lost and then returning plus some extra. Over the years I have been on prescription pills, but none of them worked. My doctor actually said that I was a survivor, as if I was shipwrecked on a desert island without food I would live longer than the rest ! I once lost a lot of weight, through illness when I was unable to eat - I actually dropped from almost 16 stone to just under 8 stone, and I was happier than I have ever been (except for excess skin) My doctor referred me for an abdominoplasty (privately, not NHS as he said they would not pay for it) but the surgeon said I was too fat and would die on the table. He offered me an apronectomy to which I agreed then, as I was about to be taken for surgery, said he would be able to remove more fat if i didn't mind a vertical scar meeting the horizontal one. I agreed, who would not ? However, the upside down "T" where the cuts met was a weak point and when the stitches melted it broke open, became infected, and nearly killed me. It took me a year to recover. It did me more harm than good, the weight came back anyway as I could not exercise for a year and was very sedentary, and because of the cutting my stomach is an odd shape. Now - I feel I am trapped in all this fat - too old at 68 for a gastric by-pass which I would go for if I could.
