Mariposa Bella

Thank you all very much. I appreciate it. I know I'm going to be in pain and I'm not looking forward to that part, but maybe I can stay doped up... Well, I called my sister-in-law and she is taking some pictures of me tonight, so I don't get busy and forget, so as much as it will be embarssing to post them, I will cough up the courage to do it. So I'm packing tonight and getting everything ready for my trip. I'm so excited. My husband is being quite supportive, but he is a little scared for me. I pray to God that he takes care of me and lets me come out of this okay.

Thanks Penni, I really appreciate it, especially the pain free recovery part. I'm kind of scared, but as much as I'm scared I want this really bad. So here I go. I'll get my sister in law to take some picures of me, before and after.

Well, have fun, I am headed to Texas (Mexico) on Thursday, to get my plastic surgery. So enjoy,as I too will be enjoying my new body after the pain subsides of course. They better medicate me pretty good, cause I'm such a cry baby. Tks for responding to such an important post for me. Have fun camping. Don't forget the toilet paper LOL

Two days and I head out to get my tt, I'm so excited and only a few of you my band family has any interest in such a life changing event for me. It is really hurting my feelings. Or maybe I have just done overkill on the subject. But please know that I am just so excited and scared and excited all over again. I leave on Thursday and my surgery is scheduled for July 4th, I'm having a redo, my tt, body liposculpture (lipo of upper and lower back, inner & outer thighs and some on my arms) he also want to do some fat grafting on my buttocks since they are so flat, he thinks it would give me an overall better shape. So here I go. Wish me luck and look out supermodels here comes Bella... Thanks you all for always listening and for always giving me such encouragement and helpful advice. I hope I don't die. Pray for me, okay..

FYI there is some Kati girl advertising on here, there are three posts from her offering free one year supply of various products

Okay, so I call everyone and tell them what has happened to me and I get some believers and some disbelievers. Anyways, last night I started looking through some of my papers, looking for my sons birth certificate since we are traveling to Mexico this week and I found the little printout from my grandma's funeral. I opened it and started to read it, she was born December 22, 1927 and date of death was, June 27, 2001. Isn't that the most incredible thing? She passed away four years ago about the time that happened to me, I knew she had been gone for four years, but didn't know the exact date. Well, I told my husband, today is the 27th right, I'm not confused and he said yes, well, right then and there I knew I didn't confuse things earlier yesterday, MY grandma did come give me my hug. This is so incredible that this should happen to me, I feel so blessed that I was able to experience this. Thanks for responding to my thread, lately I've been feeling pretty depressed about no none responding to my threads. Thanks ya'll. :bananaI got a hug from my grandma, I got a hug from my grandma...

Okay, here are mine. When my oldest daughter was two, there was this very popular song about some guys girlfriend being a bitch, I don't remember the words at all, but anyways, my two year old was singing it, and I told her that the song said witch not bitch. Well, one evening she and I left a wedding and I thought she was sleeping in the car, so the song comes on the radio and I start singing it, word for word, she sits up straight in her car seat and says " I knew it said bitch, mom, why are you trying to confruse me" That was so funny.. LMBO In an effort to teach my kids healthy eating habits, so that they don't grow up obese like myself, I often remind them that candy is a no-no and should be eaten in small quantities so that they can grow up to be healthy happy adults. Well we went to a birthday party and Kiara proceeded to ask me in front of everyone if I attended alot of birthday parties and ate alot of candy when I was a little girl and that's why I'm fat and got a big butt, oh my you should have seen me turn red with embarassment. And my son, he loves to grab my boobs in public and say "Mom, you got big chiches?" (boobs), embarasses the crap out of me.. Well those are some of mine.

That does really sound good, especially since I'm starving.

Look at me, look at me.

I just posted on my grandmother and how I truly do miss her. I called my mom and cried to her for awhile, then she told me how I should go to church, so that I can someday see my grandmother again and hug her. Well, I hung up the phone and started thinking how I wish my grandma could walk in the door and give me a hug. Well, next thing you know, the office door flung open and the breeze hit my face. This is too weird. Was that my sweet grandma, or did i not shut the door right when I came in. It is soooooo weird, It frightened me at first, but then I thought, if thats my grandma, I have nothing to be afraid of.

Kathy, you brought tears to my eyes, I lost my grandmother about four years ago when my daughter had just been born, and I truly miss her. Your grandmother has a resemblance to her, (maybe all old sweet grandmas look alike), She was very ill with alzeimbers disease and didn't recognize to many of us when she finally passed away. My mom was living here in Florida back then and was taking care of her and I used to go visit her often, I remember she told me what sweet beautiful girls I had. Her father was a general in the Mexican army so she was reliving some war in her head, she was very afraid and thought that the bad soldiers were coming to get her and that my mom was a spy and was trying to poison her. It was really hard for us all. ONe day I was sitting at work and was thinking about her, so I called my mom's house to ask how she was doing and she told me that it was funny I should call, cause her mom was asking about me and my girls and she gave her the phone and she talked to me, told me to take care of my girls and to please help her get home, all she wanted to do was get back home. (She lived in Mexico), later that month my mom took her home and she passed away. We were notified she was back in the hospital and drove down there to see her. She was still alive the day we got there and died that afternoon. I do truly miss her sweet face. I was once in a store and saw this lady that looked just like her, I wanted to go up to her and hug her, she would have probably thought I was crazy, I followed her around the store for a little while because I wanted to tell her how much she resembled my grandmother and ask her if I could give her a hug, but I didn't, maybe I should have. Well, you have brought some good memories to me of my beautiful grandmother, thank you...I started with tears, now I'm sobbing..

My port has remained bruised since I had my surgery in Nov. Not huge, just a brownish kind of bruise. At my last fill Dr. Gomez discovered that my port is flipped and that is why it stays bruised where its sideways hitting my stomach wall. I am getting my port repaired next Monday, so hopefully it will go away. It has also started to hurt, its uncomfortable for me to lay on my stomach and if my husband throws his arm around me in bed and accidently hits that spot it really hurts. But I'm really happy that my surgeon is fiixing it Next monday. Ask your doctor to check if your port is not flipped like mine, maybe that's your problem..

Hi everyone, well three more days and I leave to Texas to get my tt, I'm really excited, but scared as well, there is so much to be done before I leave, have to leave everything done at work, my boss has no clue how to run this office, she shows up, does her meetings, and that's it, Oh well, I"ll get it done... I am so starting to freak our about this, is this the right thing?? Will I die?? Am I ready for all the pain I'm going to be dealing w/? i'm a really big baby so I pretend I'm really brave and then when it comes right down to it I cry like a two year old and want my mommy... Well wish me well, I am scheduled for July 4th... Next Monday....

Thanks, girls for the reminder, I have been kind of lack on posting about my kids and I should stop that, any ways, Janine, I have cancelled my appt w/ Dr. Gomez on the 6th, I'm leaving to get my tt on Thursday and getting my port fixed. So, maybe the next time I go get a fill we can ride together, I can never find anyone to go with me and its a long drive, so it certainly would be more enjoyable with your company. I am really looking forward to meeting all you new bandsters here in SW Fl, can't wait. I'll be gone for two weeks I'm leaving Thursday night and am scheduled for surgery on July 4th in the morning. I'll be coming back on the 15 or 16th of July, so I will check in with you guys when I come to work that following Monday. Please remember to say a prayer for me that morning, I don't want to die, just yet, and especially cause people would say, how stupid of her, she died getting her fat rolls taken off, LOL, its not really funny, but I'm trying to not be so scared, but I am. Well wish me luck girls... Where you able to get a hold of EMilio at Dr. Gomez's office? Did you make an appt. I know he was headed on vacation for two weeks starting today. Well hope you were able to get in and that everything went well. Say Hi to Dr. Gomez for me...

Where are my florida bansters, haven't heard from you all in a while???

I just saw an acquantaince of mine that lives here and she had gps with Dr. Lieberman, she said she was orignally scheduled to have it done in Dec, but somehow the wrong meds with demoral were given and she though she was dying. She had her surgery in march and has lost 80 lbs, looks wonderful She did tell me there was one other complication with her surgery, she had a huge blood blot in her chest that when it came up was really big and really scared her too death. Well she seems to be doing well and I'm so happy for her and wish her all the well in teh world. She is going through the grieving provess for food as most of us do, but I'm happy she's okay, and she looked fabulous.

I totally relate, I am the same exact way, I know that my weight has remained the same because I don't excercise anymore, but I am always so damn exhausted. I just don't do it. Sometimes I feel like I'm just making excuses for my laziness. But after getting up, getting the kids out the door, getting myself to work, and going home, picking up the kids and going home and doing EVERYTHING, who feels like working OUT??? I sure don't. And I have a three year old boy that is too active for me. I am seriously thinking of having him evaluated, I don't know if he is just being his normal boy self, or if he's ADD. My girls are not like him and somedays I feel so incompetent as a parent. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. The other night I was trying to get him in the shower and he was running around naked and threw himself on the floor and wouldn't get up, I spanked his butt once and left a red mark on his butt, that is not the kind of parent I want to be. But I am just so exhausted from the whole thing. On the other hand, he is so sweet sometimes and he's crazy about me, he comes and cuddles with me and tells me he loves me. And you should see the look on his face when I come to daycare to pick him up. He used to be so quiet and I don't know if he's just going through a stage or what, anyways I'm off subject, I just remembered that's why I'm so exhausted and don't exercise. Sorry to vent. I love him more than life itself, but I wish he was his normal self again. And he's so darn cute. Oh well. Any takers. He's potty trained. LOL

OMG, I'm so stupid, I can't make it work. I have tried and tried and nothing, it gives me a message that it a bmp file and it needs to be a jpg or something else. Yikes why am I so computer incompetent???? Thanks Kelly for setting the pictures up.. Can you do the rest of my gang and my lover boy Alejandro???

I pulled mine off and made two of my insicions bleed from where I pulled on them.. and those two insicions have keloids (sp?) so maybe you shouldn't take them off until they fall off on their own.

I'm so sorry your mom doesn't see what a huge accomplishment you have done. I don't know what I would do with out my mom's support, she is wonderful. She is the one that stayed at the hospital with me during my surgery and took care of me afterwards. She even thinks I have lost enough and don't need to lose anymore, she says I look beautiful already. She also has been very supportive of me getting my plastic surgery and she will be staying w/ me at the hospital and she will be taking care of me, she is even coming back to Florida w/ me to help me with the kids and the house, she is so wonderful. I love her. If you want I can adopt you, I will be a new improved supportive mommy for you. But you have to keep a curfew and be home by midnight and no cursing or letting boys touch you below the waist, okay... LOl

Hey you all, as some of you know my port is flipped and poking out quite a bit. And it has been really sore, hurting from where its poking out, I don't think its infected inside, its just sore from where its flipped. Well anyways, on the 4th when I have my tt done, the dr is fixing my port, those of you that have had your ports stitched back in place, any advice??? Please give me some insight or advice, so that I can make sure the dr gets it done right. I guess he'll know what needs done, but I just want to make sure.

Its happened to me, and when it does, you just grab anything. The first time it happened --all I had were paper towels and that did not hold it, so it all went down the front of my shirt and down my crotch. It was quite disgusting... it scared one of my kids, fascinated another and grossed out my oldest. But now, they are used to it, and still, my oldest has to close her eyes so she doesn't throw up herself (it grosses her out really bad), my Kiki is so fascinated by it, she stretches her little head to see me from the back seat, and JuJu who sits behind me, doesn't know what the hell is going on in the front seat. I wish I would learn to carry papertowels and a spare disposable cup, but I don't and I sometimes have to pull over and do it---anywhere, it comes so fast, I don't care who is there and who is watching, I just want it out..

Movies, what is that???? We tried going last sunday to see the Star Wars thing ( I don't like those types of Movies) anyways had to walk out, our three year old was being too loud. sigh!!!! We then tried going to eat afterwards and he had a potty accident at Friday's so we had to leave before we had just ordered our drinks, man oh man, the joys of having kids...

Thanks Miss Delarla.

I can't chew gum, it gives me really bad gas and I start gagging and almost pb, so I don't chew gum anymore.