Thanks for checking out my site. My name is Meeka from Greenville, NC. I'm 34 years old with morbid obesity and hypertension. I had Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 at PCMH. My surgeon was Dr. Chris Mann with Southern Surgical Associates. I'm starting this blog on Day 4 post op so I'm going to attempt to backtrack and include all the details I can. As for me, I've always been big-boned, thick, phat and phabulous and whatever else people have described me as. Out of my siblings I'm the baby but known as the "big" little sis. Over the years, I've struggled with weight loss and wasted money on the newest fad diet products and drugs. I yo-yo with my weight and just could never seem to keep it off. I finally decided that it was time to permanently do something about it. My primary doctor at Wintergreen Medical Center put me on my 2nd blood pressure medicine last year which is a beta blocker. During that visit he mentioned having weight loss surgery as an option to control my blood pressure versus continued medication. I told him that I'd think about it and get back to him. After going back and forth with it in my mind, I decided that weight loss surgery was the best option for me and after that the ball got rolling ...FAST!