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Marcy · 11-05-2004, 09:44 AM

Hi Christina

Thanks, but no - your sis is pretty far off.... Im above New York and Michagan.... but thanks anyways...

Christina · 11-05-2004, 11:19 AM

I tried..

I told you I was geographically challenged!! It was the thought that counted anyway right?? lol

fairydust · 11-06-2004, 10:58 AM

I was reading some of your posts and I have to say.. you all seem so great.. I cried at a few.. because as you all know this is an emotional time to be in,I am a single mom, and I am sooo very scared something will happen to me. I have had surgeries in the past, but nothing is major.. I guess this is normal huh? I so far have done all i need to do to date...i have a few more appointments upcoming and then my surgery should be, (if all goes well,and I get the "green" light) in March...I know that seems far away, but with the holidays it always seems to go so fast....im on month three pre-op.. is it normal to be THIS nervous?????

Lori
29 years old
309lbs, I lost 15 in three months.

rag1061 · 11-07-2004, 11:35 AM

hi Lory!
first let me say, "congrats" for taking a step to a better life. I can relate to your emotional state and belive me when I say that Dr. C and his staff would not let you go through this if all lights were not green. My BMI at surgery was 61 and boy was I scared. I have a loving wife and three great daughters ages 19 and two 15. Just to think that something would go wrong and leave them behind was enough to make Dr. C suggest I could walk away and no one would say anything to me. I had come too long to quit then and finaly stopped crying like a scared baby and gave the ok to take me in. the rest is history. A few month down the road it all becomes water under the bridge and you will be happier than you have ever been, enjoying the small insignificant things in life. My surgery was on March 2nd and I feel 18 again (mentaly and fisicaly) I was 362 at surgery wearing size 52 pants, I now wear 36 pants and as far as my weight,,, I dont step on the scale unless I am in the Dr's office but last I checked I was about 220. 50 more to goal and all in about 8 month.

Just strap on your seat belt and get ready for the ride of your life. There are no words to describe the feeling, youll see!! go get'em!!

take a look at my before and now pics!! do I look happier or what!!! The church ones were taken on October 30th (last week) my daughters 15 year b-day!!

you will be reborn!!!!

fairydust · 11-07-2004, 06:57 PM

Hello, and it nice to meet you, and you do look GREAT and soo very happy and I cant wait to feel that.. I am acutally pretty happy with my life, and i have always been a very upbeat person.. but i want to look the part now.. and the problem is this.. and the reason why i am so never nervous.. i acutally will not be with Dr. C. whom everyone talks so highly of.. I am in a different state, and the doctor i am going to has had one death and two major complications.....I'm a nervous wreck and it seems to get worse every day that draws closer....like i said in another post i have had surgery..breast reduction, and that was a major surgery.. but no one every died in the hands of that plastic surgeron...so finding out this information about this doctor has made me leary.. and that is the only doctor in this area that does the surgery.. i am sure many others have had some complications.. but the whole death thing just does not sit well with me.....
I am soo very ready for the ride.. just not the wall that i may crash into.. if ya know what i mean.....but honestly, being in this group now, does make me look at things so differently.. i have never "met" so many great ppl in one place who are so supportive, to me a stranger....thanks again so much... and I am so very sure I will have many more.. "what if" moments but it is great to know you are all here to support that...