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Ah remembering journeys down the Garden Path, ah yes, I remember it well! Haven't given up hope I will find a new Gardener for,my Sweet Old Fashion Garden. There are Heritage Tomatoes, A lot of people still search,for,them.Maybe,I'm in that viewpoint?😛

That's not embarrassing that's triumph in a very special way!

Thanks @domi, I'll try to keep this in mind if this happens to me. I am impatient to start losing weight after my surgery and maybe will your testimony I'll remember I will,lose at my rate and no one else's!

And you have many Surgery Day Twins on this and several other threads and I'm sure they,noin me in wishing you the best of everything!

Congratulations I hope I do as well 3 days out!😛

Sounds great, sounds workable, and what you delete from the facts is none of their business in the first place.😛

A testimony thought to share from my ❤ MY HEALTH MAY FAIL AND MY SPIRIT GROW WEAK BUT GOD REMAINS THE STRENGTH OF MY HEART, HE IS MINE AND I AM HIS FOREVER.

I have a confession, not exactly a NSV, but hear me out. The last,time I was at the Bariatric Clinic I looked around. And yes, most of , if not all, looked over weight. But some v were more misshapen than me. Now I have put myself down, called myself Elephant, clumsy, fat even stupid. Really I am none,of these. And although I am a BIG girl, I do still have a shape. I still can walk, although slowly with a visible limp, there were ladies and a couple guys who were wheelchair bound because their legs no longer will hold them up. And I felt, a little pride I was speaking mine before that happened to me, because in a year,or 2 gaining like I had been, it could have happened. Now I know and I believe with surgery, I stopped the the slide into furthur ill health. But I cried and prayed for each,of them it's not too late for them, that someday they will have NSVs I know I will and it won't be long before I will report some really NSV because,you know now I do believe in me and what I can accomplish.

Hon, it will be okay. There will be very nice people in the October group, just like there are in the August and September ones. And someday when we are old grizzled veterans it won't matter who had theirs first. It gives you a little more time to get you and your affairs in order. I felt the same way when the June and July people passed me by, I made some really good friends in the JULY group and it really stung when they got their surgeries and I didn't. But most of them still remained friendly, mercmerc just started going back to the gym, maybe someday I will get to also. Just lean yourself back, smile and know that will work out okay. At least you know it still will happen, they could have said NEVER, had that happen to me, took a while to recover.Now give me that Queenly Smile and a wave of your hand!

Way to Go Orchids and Drsgons, you're such a cool "with it" chick even your BP is smooth and low! Yo make up for all the 168/100 people, we need you,in This World!

My blood pressure, for there Will be no "no" in my life!

Well I went yesterday for my last pre-op/peri-op exam. One of the worst facets was since it was on a mezzanine level, my son convinced me "COME ON Mom , You Can MAKE IT! Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah, I'm going up step by step gasping,and wheezing, as we turned to ascend set # 2 after pausing a moment on the landing, I said " At,least if I fall backwards down these steps they will know to fix my busted hips!" Memo to self, don't seek advice from son half your age! But eventually me and my 2 artificial knees, and broke-down lungs made it to the right area. And what not to see a 13 pound loss from my last weighing the first of the month. Stop your giggling all you young chicks that drop weight like water off a ducks back, this poor old hen don't drop,pounfs that quick and All I could do to keep from fist- bumping someone. And I hope someone can explain why my no was lower after tackling those stairs? But it was fine, so was temp, pulse ox and my breathing rate was Sam as always, 16. Then I met with a nurse practioner, internal medicine specialust who went through a checklist from Hades, only think she didn't ask was how often I prepared and how much. Seemed like we had covered this several times before# Then she asked if I would promise to not get sick in the next,week and a half, duhh! I sure am not going to,look fuf,Ipeople up just to,be with,them? Then shook my hand and off I went to have a chest X Ray, quickest one I ever had, 1 front view, 1 from the left, last stop the lab, funny I didn't know I had too much blood? Must have, because I swear they took a half- pint. CBC, Ekectrolytes, Bun , Creatinine, Clotting time the whole works. Then she proceeded to tell me she had to type my blood, A rhNegative, didn't believe me or the American Red Cross, well okaybee. Then I am presented a large legal sized red envelope containing a special green wrist band, this I'd my Golden Envelope to surgery, if I don't bring it with me on Surgery Day NO OPERATION! This precious object is going in the 🔥 Safe when I get home! But I guess I checked out finer than Frog Hair. Because I am set to go! 6 of 7 sheets all saying RnY Bypass September 5th 7 AM, is,my future Slicing and Dicing is quite Official. And I got special dispensation regarding the Dang- blasted Hibiclens,i may use Dial Gold Antibacterial liquid, I Just have to leave it on my skin a solid 5 minutes after soaping up. And instead of night before and in the,morning I do do mid-day the 4th and just before I go to bed that night. This is because I will have to leave Mount Vernon at 3:30AM to make it to OSU by 5 AM because of overnight freeway closures,check in then for 7 AM surgery on the 5th. So I am now slowly put things in my bag, got a couple pair soft slacks and shorts for under my gown for walking, slippers, a robe, gasX, Biotene, slippers, Brush,comb, denture cup, glasses case , denture adhesive, small noebook and penis I can journal this, the rest can go in later. And maybe, just maybe, after 3 years of sortow, diappointments and roadblocks, my Dream finally Comes True. I Receive my Surgery, things will change for the Better and Joy Lies Ahead!😛💦😛😷

Come December we will still be cheering for,you, we'll remember you were once,ours and we will still love you, okay?

And that inspires the rest,of,us to keep on keeping on.I hope all the diabetics can do so good.

Hope you kept your other fluids up good and high. Dehyration can be a BIG PROBLEM when you are newly operated. I would rather be a moist Terrarium plant than a 🌵. Once I leave my,hospital I don't want rushed back for IVs.

Because your mouth is going to be drier,than the Central Australian desert. The few that didn't suffer,with dry mouth, and dry,mouth seems to be universal, said their mouth tasted horrid.

Wow what a nice group of September 5th/ September 6th people, what a change this will be in your life and mine. I will be a RnZY But I am still c3lebrstingbwith all,of you!😛

He is gong to be fine. , ZTHANK goodness they got in there and for,him fixed up again.

Hey you can keep on, no tears, big smile, in a scaredy world you still have each other, he probably will heal faster but be kind to each other and you'll make through just fine!

Hmmn I have always heard they,do,have to. Mind you, I would much rather do the Xerelto pills, did them after both knee replacements, but this is a different ball game. Maybe doctor knows best here.😛

Congratulations tu you @ Marisol Unda. May you have nothing but beautiful days ahead.

Remember to click on the Preacher's Prayer Thread@ Mass Mom. Now when exactly is your Surgery Date? A week and a little more to my own on September 5th. As other facets of my life aren't great I'm moving forward with this!

Hmmmm I shall give this some thought! Oh FYI I was wide awake for my colonoscopy, didn't know that was not usual, didn't hurt and WAS fun to watch. They put a mo,igor some I could watch it, like a living anatomy lesson. No polyps , no diverticuli,just clean shiny pink colon the whole way! Not due for ,another until September 2020! But I was sound asleep for my EGDs, someone told me in Europe they do them wide awake and sitting up. Not on MY EUROPEAN VACATION !

Well i kinda cheated, I substituted unsweetened applesauce for the old hard 🍎. Would like to slice a pear in thin slices, they are nice and ripe in my market.And I wish,they had plums,nectarines and peaches on that list.

And doggone you guys always lose faster then us chicks🐥 But I'll forgive you because you're fighting the weight war also. And any man who,puts his kids in his pen name is okay by me!👦👨👸