Sam Flick:  

After graduating from Somerset in June of '87, I attended IUP that fall to persue a degree in Finance. That first year was a whirlwind of drinking and debauchery. Then in my second year, I met a pretty young freshman. She got me to straighten up and actually open my textbooks. That was the fall of 1988 and we have been together ever since. I graduated from IUP in 1992 and got a job managing Wendy's restaurants in the Harrisburg area. Amy graduated the next spring. We were married within a couple of weeks on June 6 1992. Amy went to work for Polyclinic Medical Center as a registered nurse in the Emergency Department. In late 1992, I left Wendy's and went to work for John Hancock Financial Services as a financial planner. We moved from Harrisburg to York in 1995. In 1988, I grew frustrated with the "feast and famine" world of comission sales. I went to work for MBNA America in Hunt Valley, MD as a credit analyst. Amy grew tired of the 45 minute commute to Harrisburg, so she went to work for York Memorial Hospital, which was only about 15 minutes from home. After being married for more than 10 years, Amy and I realized that we were not going to have kids on our own without some help. We tried in vitro three times but without success. So in 2004, we started looking into adoption. We completed all the paperwork and went through all the hoops that the state requires. Anyone reading this that remembers me from high school will remember that I was always a pretty fat kid. After getting married in 1992, things got much worse. By early 2005, I topped the scales at around 500 pounds. Even though I had no real health problems, I decided to look at gastric bypa...Expand for more