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And doesn't that feel oh so Good? Those are the kind of NSV I like!

Nothing is Perfect but Life Is Good, you know ,we need a pkacque saying that, don't we?

Wow MIZ80, isn't our surgeries wonderful, even changes lives in our end of the Spectrum. And ladies, as you have probably heard , I am 73, be 74 in December and it even,worked for me. Not quite as far as MIZ60, only 9 months to her 1 year but I have lost 115 pounds since surgery, even with setbacks I am starting to,have a Good Life.

Hope they don't feel it might be a blood clot and postpone your surgery. Not now when you are so close! Keep you in my prayers 🙏thatvit does work out in both the important ways.

SO happy to add new people and today we have a Bundle Plan. Best Wishes to you and your Hubby; may this all be what you've dreamed it could be. Yes please update us when you do get a date, tell us more about you and if you have any questions,Please ask . We are always happy to help, maybe give you input on all the small things that come al9ng. I myself have learned so much from the more seasoned veterans, and if it,is my turn to help, I will be honored.

Ah my favorite Lavender-type Lady! So happy happy things went well, I will be listening breathlessly for the next installment, partly because I'm asthmatic. Grabbed my Symbacort and I'M READY! Hugs Frustr8

ALWAYS be what you are no matter what your Age. You were not merely born to impress someone else. Just be YOU- everyone else is already taken.

I just found this again-used have up,on my Journal. 10 RULES FOR HAPPY LIVING 1. What people think of you is not your business and doesn't matter. 2.Stop beating yourself up, you are a work in progress 3 Never compare your beginning to someone else's middle 4. Don't stumble over something that is behind you. 5. Assume the Good and doubt,the bad. 6. Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket. 7.Worrying will never change the outcome. 8,Don't let yesterday take up too much,of today. 9. The secret to havong,it all is to believe you already do. 10.Be yourself, everyone else,is already taken. AND ONE TO GROW ON: WORK HARD AND ALWAYS BE NICE TO PEOPLE.

How are we all getting ready for the Summer that is almost here. Now that I am smaller, I am going to wear shorts more, always felt I would look foolish but my legs are coming back to their early adult-late teen size so I am going to be BRAVE this year. I know it is modest compared with all you planning 4Ks and such but sometimes you start with Baby Steps.

Almost lost mine inctge shower while all soapy, good thing I do have one of those Hair Catchers in the tubs drain!

I sure do, after years and years of obesity my skin is too stretched to bounce back, but better floppy flabby skin and ready to break into Onederland than 365+ piybds, hardly able to move, do my ADLs , crying a lot with pain and just waiting for the Death Angel to show up and claim me as His Own. I am chugging down the path to Victory like a brave little Jalopy, dings,crust, a fender missing, hoping my tires are not too bald, yeah I may not look like a flashy Sports Car, but I am reliable, hard-working, solid made, no plastic or Fiberglass on this chassis, & no matter what I AM ON MY WAY! Beep Beep Baby, Beep Beep, if you're not on this journey, please pull over and let the winning entry through!🚘

Yeo, reputation/ word of mouth means a lot in the Bariatric Business as c well as most of MEDICINE.

I won't hear again from her until the Month has an R in it. Sad isn't it? I was an Only child, even my cousins are dieing off, the ones remaini 's are not close enough to share my journey with. My in- laws, parents, husband. and middle child are all dead. parents and in laws lived into their 80s, my husband was 70 at death inv2012 and my son was 31 when he died in 2008, an unknown ascending aortic aneurysm, thought it an a terrible act of nature, nothing we could protect against, now I found out in FebruarybI also have an aortic aneurysm, farther down into my chest, at this pointv still stable, but ME, someone who would have given her life to save his, my genes may have been the instrument of his destruction. TALK ABOUT HEAVY SURVIVOR GUILT! But I like to believe He would be very proud of me, the Weight loss I have achieved, and that somehow on some level he knows and is cheering me on. And I am ambivilent, 1/2 wants so badly to be a success to honor,him, and the otherv1/2 wishes I could have died to be with him sooner. If, as I was taught from mini-Frustr8hood that there is Heaven I can hope to see him again someday. And,the days when Precious Pouch doesn't want to join the GanePlan of Successful RNYhood and makes me vomit once again I try my best to take comfort there.💦

Well I have two cats, Squeaky and Cassie, each with their owni purr-son-ality. And there its also my son, my best support systems my biggest fan, on here I call him Tomkitten. I have a dayghtercwho lives 1/6th of a mile from here, speaks o only to me when she wants something or to impress me with how sick, miserable, and needful she is. Her code name is R,D. for Rotten Daughter, told Tomkitten since we saw her about a week agol at Wal-Mart

And my favorite is this one, followed by Quora, Tried Facebook for a while, found it terribly childish with the Likes, no Likes, reminded me of a worse facet of puberty so left there. Might try one of the,others someday.

Much love to them all! I am something for years denied, I am a female Aspergers so they have a God-aunt also on the spectrum, The positive affirmation I finally received from a professional was freeing, you see for many tears I was told I was weird, I wasn't 5rying hard enough to fit in, I wasn't " normal" lf that means neurotypical, nope I am not. Even had 2 paternal cousins tell me to kill myself because I was of no use to anyone. So I turned to something that wouldn't critisise,-- Food. See I had an extra. incentive to grow obese, So I involuted, became more "shy", read extensively, like many others I became super-learned,in some areas. Mine was Medicine, still a Medical feel even today. Found a positive mor acceptable way to stim, rocking chairs. Often super-sensitive to touch and tight clothing items. When my lymphedema flared a therapist had the Bright(well she thought so) Idea to wrap me legs fairly tightly with elastic Bandages. No No No, don't do that to a Spectrum, person! Oh it was bad, very BAD. Another troubling thing is sound, if you would interview my kids they would bafdurm that I would say" I can't hear" this truly meant There is Too much sensatory stimyou an I cannot center,on which conversation to,listen to , quietly one at a time. So you see , like many female auties I have learned. to "pass" , but know ME little better and it will be evident, hard to for me to wait my turn in conversations, people got irritated often, but I didn't intrinsically know!.Besides if it was something that interested me, I wanted to share my insights, So mine may be more subtle, but they still are there. Made Silly Kitty upset recently, accused me of highjacking someone else's thread, did not see that way to me but laid low on her favorite topics and threads, maybe it will still end up okay?

Its easier peeing through a wet very warm washcloth, maybe more messy But, it will relax things theree

I guess about having to return clyhe3 because the size that you you chose .was wrong. I still,mentally,feed that because I have Fat Brain.and I am still,cetain I am much. bigger, thr,Old Size I was so long.

Yeah hoping to hear a good report on all this and another step on your Road to Surgery will be done! Hope you were upbeat, factual and convinced them that you were a good candidate and this is what you really want to do. Sure there a few risks, but getting out of bed in the morning, walking,across the street even,going to a shopping mall these days-all risky. Makes this surgery look a lot less frightening doesn't it? Keep pisitive, keep sweet and update us when you can,okay?

And you and Grady Cat need to celebrate, dropping all these things is so fine for you both 🙆💇

My weird and probably funny one. To sit down in narrow or plastic chairs, to stand up without help and not to make that embarrassing Sucky noise when I get up. To not have someone ask if they can show their sl7des on my rump because it is so wide. Not wide,no more, and it won't ever be again . A lover would be able,to hold me close with just his 2,hands, not have to get a forklift or find a 10 bushel basket to hold my rump up. Oh I am getting sassy along with sweet disposition, it's sad guys are starting notice me now, the same ones that wouldn't give me the time of day 100 plus pounds ago. And the ones who ignored ME in the past, not too sure I need them now. I may forgive them but my ❤will never never forget!

And that's just what you were looking to achieve, right? Keep moving forward, no matter how sliw, until you get where you want to go.💕😛🌺🍀🌸

And to me, You are Searcys finest, I am told I may have kinfolk down your ways , late hubby first cousin met a Arkansas woman and never looked back, ran right south and married her. Only met him oncen but told they have a good life together!

Well mine Was the opposite. At the OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS you don't meet with the actual Surgeon until your PreSurgical physical assessment. I did all my pre- consultings, met with Dr Needleman July 17th, got my surgical date confirmed yet before I left. Spent the Entire month of August 2018 on a liver-shrink diet. Dr Needleman , when he palpated my abdomen, found the edge of my liver could be felt This meant I had NASH, which translates to NonAlcoholic Steatohepatitis , in lay terms big fat juicy liver, given a choice of 2-4'5 weeks, given the choice, I opted to do the whole flippin"month and it worked well. I lost 15 pounds, me who,had no successes before, and having the natural B.M.R. of a Sick,Sea 🐌 Snail, yes children it can be done. And MY Wonder Wednesday came, on September 5th 2018 at 7AM EDT I received what I had worked towards for 3 long and tearful years---- My RNYI And am I sorry? Wasn't then, am not now and never shall be, It ranks up there with my marriage and the birth of my. 3 Children as a Personal Historic Day, and I will be unceasingly-grateful to Bradley J Needleman MD who took the chance on a 72 year old woman, too old by many program's standards, and performed a beautiful smooth surgery to helped me gain a future. In 9 months I have lost 114 pounds ,multiple dress sizes, and ready to break into Onderland and head toward my goal of 175. Really he and his Head N.P. Valerie who is also his Right-hand woman, w o Ulf be satisfied with anything less than 200, that's an 165 pound loss from my highest recorded weight but I pray I have strength to make it to MY GOAL. Can I make it? I believe I can, it was the making of me to finally believe in and trust my own strength after being my,family's DoorMat for years, never making a fuss and letting walk all over me, wipe their shoes on me and not let out a protest. Not raised,to make waves- Now I am An Motorboat, I stir up waves but I get somewhere too. And Honey, it,is SO FINE!

Am I missing something? Hi back to you, but where is the rest of this topic?