I don't even know where to begin. I was last active here September 2012.
I am lots older, I don't know about being wiser. I am now a grandma to 3 little girls, Shelbie 11, Lyric 10 and Hazel 4. They mean so much to me. My dogs I had back then sadly have all passed over the rainbow bridge. I have a new baby. She is a chocolate lab names Tinkerbell, Tinky for short. She turned 6 in March. We found out in June 2025 that she has Epilepsy. Thankful for medicine she can live a full and happy life. I have a grand puppy named Teddie. Tinky and Teddie are best friends.
This year I have been married 35 years. More than half my life. Never really thought about that. I love him so much, he is definitely a keeper. .I don't think I could get so many of life challenges without him. I hope he knows how much he means to me.
I probably should have read my blog again to catch myself up on what I had told you in Sept. 2012. Well that September I decided to enroll at Steven's Henager College and complete the Medical Assistant course and Audrie joined me. I graduated in April 2014 and was the top of the class. Maintained a 4.0 grade average the entire time. I kinda regret not going to a different college and get a nursing degree because the classes were so easy and I could have spent my time where my credits would have counted at other schools. SHC was over priced and misled so many people. Some people in my classes had no business there but SHC wanted their money, so lets push as many thru as possible even though they will not be employable. That is kinda rude to say but the truth.
Audrie also graduated with honors and was the student of distinction. See in 2013 she almost died. She got a UTI which progressed to a kidney infection, and then she went septic and within 10-12 hours of being admitted her body started shutting down. Organs failing and she was put on life support with machines breathing for her. Her gall bladder also decided it didn't want to work causing more sickness. But they couldn't operate due to she was not stable. Her kidneys were on the verge of stopping to function and she needed a blood transfusion. With so many prayers and her stubbornness, one day when I came back from school and she had gotten the transfusion, she started producing urine. She was far from out of the woods but pulled thru. Once she felt better she caught up in the classes she had missed and still completed everything. She then got pregnant and had Shelbie. When we graduated Shelbie was 5 weeks old.
Currently I am a Medical Assistant at a mental health clinic. Losing a family member to suicide hurt so bad and if I can be a part of someone feeling better about themself, regardless of my role, then that makes me feel better. I have family that unfortunately struggles with their mental health and would do anything to help them.
In 2019 our house burnt down. That was so hard. Robert broke his leg when he turned to turn the hose on to try and put the fire out. Everything seemed to move in slow motion. My dogs, my daughter and my grand daughter were still in the house unaware the whole side of the house was engulfed and windows were exploding and the fire was spreading. Robert again was on the ground unable to move due to the severity of his broken leg, laying right beside a bush next to the house that was on fire. I had to run in and yell for them to get out, Get the dogs in the vehicles and move them across the road. Called 911 and I swear it took them 20 minutes to drive a mile. I wasn't strong enough to pull Robert away from the fire. Some car drove by and thankfully they stopped and we moved him away some.
I had a major asthma attack from the smoke and adrenaline. Robert ended up having a plate to fix the break. Sucked so bad losing everything but we for the most part were not hurt and the dogs were fine.
My friends and people we didn't even know helped us with donations, love and prayers.
All the weight I had lost from the weight loss challenge slowly crept back on back when Audrie was in the hospital on life support. You are what was convenient so you didn't have to leave her side. Could I have made better choices in what to eat? Sure I could have. So fast forward to today, I gained every single pound back +/- 10 pounds. I have been on multiple diabetes shots that also help with losing weight. I would lose some and gain it back. Then Mounjaro happened. Of course the insurance would not approve it because they are idiots. They would want me to try and fail EVERY SINGLE DIABETES MEDICATION before they would approve it. Didn't matter to them that it allowed me to not need insulin injections, or that it dropped my A1c down to 5.7. For awhile I was able to use the copay card even thought the insurance said no. But then it was the newest weight loss fad and everyone who didn't have diabetes was using it. So they quit letting you use the discount card if the insurance said no. Now the insurance said I could use Ozempic. Fine whatever. except it didn't control my blood sugars as well and my A1c rise as high as 7.0. Not horrible but obviously not as good as Mounjaro. The 65 pounds I lost with the Mounjaro came back.
2025 my insurance now that I have covered weight loss surgery. Something with every insurance I had I would always scroll to that section and it was never allowed. Even with comorbidities. So as soon as my insurance was active this year, I scheduled that appointment to start getting approved for weight loss surgery. Another thing I forgot to add was my insurance had NO REQUIREMENTS. The Dr Did though. I had to do 2 online nutrition classes, a psych evaluation, a upper GI and come and see the Dr 2 more times. DEAL. I started that March 28th (I had to wait 6 long weeks for that consultation) and I had my last Dr visit June 26th and insurance approved me a week later.
I start the liver shrinking diet (95% liquid diet) 8/6/25 and my surgery for a gastric sleeve is 8/20/25. I have waited for this so long. I know it is going to be hard. My whole life has been hard, and I have overcome it. I will be successful.
My starting weight 3/28/25 363.9.
My current weight 8/5/25 347.6
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