Four months ago I gave birth to my second child, and two months later I was at my heaviest weight, on 11 pills a day to treat hypertension and diagnosed with chronic kidney stones. I was extremely depressed and upset with my body for not being strong enough. I cried for nearly a week straight because I was terrified of the possibility that if what the doctors told me was true, I was going to have a stroke, be stuck with high blood pressure and have to take pills for the rest