I should have started months ago

So i could kick myself for not starting to blog months ago about my Realize band experience so now i can kinda take you back to day one...which was about 3 years ago. My old boss took off from work and the buzz was she was getting wls....ok this was new to me...kinda sounded crazy but i really had no idea what the hell it was. So when she came back she let everyone know she had a lap band placed. She talked to me especially because being a fat girl i guess she knew id understand. She explained things to a degree and it seemed like a great idea to me but sounded really hard to get the surgery. I had no insurance so it wasnt really an option. I asked my mom about it and she told me i was crazy to even think about doing it. So i was only 19-20 years old and i dropped the subject. So for three years the idea was always in the background i guess brewing. This may 2008 the idea popped back up with wls the latest buzz everywhere. I had just gotten insurance but still thought it was soooo hard to get the surgery and i figured my mom would just say it was crazy again. So August rolls around and i had about a month off and my brain got super bored and i googled everything i could on wls mostly lap band....i never heard of the realize band. I told my mom my idea and she said "ok cool i got the guy for you...you should have had the surgery this month while you were off" well needless to say i was shocked but so happy she was ok with it because yes im 23 but i still live at home and she still helps me survive haha (along with my bf...my love...but hes another story <3 ) My mom told me the best surgeon ever and agreed to go to the two hour information session to be my other ears. Thank you mom!