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And Separ1418, think How many fewer skeins of yarn you,will have to do project with See, I am both knitter and crocheter, I do know how they mount up at times.

Really good Macadamia, you heading in the right direction toward your goal. September 6th,right ahead!

And now you are home and your new live can begin. Congratulations on all you have done and best wishes for the future.

I've Got one! My very Firstest one.I have lost 15 pounds in one month on my liver shrinking diet. Thought I still look FAT! Okay I had to visit my PCP for a presurgical visit. He has in his waiting and exam rooms many chairs with arms, only a few without. I have even been known to snarl " get up and give me they chair" You see the ones with the arms PINCH my thigh and hip flab. Yesterday I wasn't thinking and I sat,down in an armed chair and fit. No pinching, no have to be pulled up out of one, I could sit in it and had 1/8 inch clearance on either side. A chorus please My Rump is getting Smaller My Rump is getting smaller! An NSV a really truly NSV!

And me checking in 6 months later. I am where you dream of when you start your journeys. I am finishing up my presurgical/liver shrinking diet. I have lost 15 pounds since August 1st almost a month ago. And next Wednesday September 5th 2018 at 7 AM EDT at,the Ohio State University Hospital- Wexner Medical Center with my Bariatric Surgeon Bradley J Needleman MD I will receive my RNY gastric bypass surgery. Am I excited? You bet I am, I scarcely can wait. But mote than the mere joy, I am deeply humbled. You see,reader, I was a person who things making it difficult to reach,,this day. You see I completed another facilities program twice and then they refused me my surgery. I had to seek another program, complete some facets for a third time, the saying is: The Third Time is the Charm, this is true except I worked very hard, many times thinking it was without hope, and I grew tired, oh so tired! You see I am 72 years old, far beyond the average age, my resilence isn't what it once was, some things do take longer, but i am stubborn, natural strawberry blonde hair, so red-head stubborn, I am dedicated, commuted and do believe in ME, in the rightness of what I am doing. . And I made it through, swamps, roadblocks and nay-sayers but I made it through. If you are reading and think Oh this is TOO HARD. yes it is HARD but it is so so worth it. And never think, oh it's TOO Late, I live as a witness it is NOT! Come join me, it is the JOURNEY OF YOUR LIFETIME, and a renewed life waits you afterward. If you have the dream, the desire, the commitment, YOUR FUTURE AWAITS

Does,she really need cleaning? I'm sure she is a very nice lady but I get a mental picture of you turning the garden hose on her.👩💦

I believe you will,be doing well Ronnysgal, and let's hope your quality of life improves. You have gone through,so much in your life.

TX4everLinds and SueSaBelle, I feel almost like I'm having Braxton-Hicks before real labor starts. In this case it is our Surgeries, we all know we are close, people who we know ask " Has it happened Yet? No,not yet! Inside you're saying "Nobody wants this more than me!" But we all do, we,know it will be soon, we just want it over so we can get on with life!

And me also, it's like I have brightening sensitivity to victory stories. We are going to do that SueSaBelle and do,it well!

My surgery will be next Wednesday, if I don't have blood in my stool,i would be amazed. Remember all the renovation, realignment, reconviguring, and readjust going,in, my,surgeon is A#1 but no one,yet,has 8nvented a bloodless surgery unless you,freeze someone first. Now,if I was passing blood 3 months from now, somebody better be explaining , and explaining hard. But $,little goes with the territory.💩

Congratulations @newmebithebypss , knew you could do this, sure you would just a matter of time Till you look the way we knew you could! Your surgery down. mine coming up, save me a spot on the Bypass Bench, I've lost 15 pounds this month alone, I think we both are going to fit!🙆💁

26, not 36. sorry

Well,i am also a work in progress, but then most of us are. it's about me, if you are brave near your 60th, I feel led to the same. I am now 72, I promise you and everyone else I will post,on my,75th, December 36 2020, by them,i will have reached a goal,weight even with my sluggish metabolism. Don't laugh but one of my presents to me. will be series of glamour shots. Maybe it's a little "white trashed" but I have always wanted a portrait that way.

But would you come if I could lasso the other 2? Besides Love Field has such a romantic sound like I am going to HappyTown or Pleasantville.

There are several overseas places I would like to go United Kingdom Ireland Finland New Zealand Australia Netherlands closer :Toronto Ontario, Vancouver B..C. Montreal P.Q. But most of All :Ohio Statehouse and the other 49 States in USA And last of all I would herd Ellie123(Dallas) Orchids and Dragons(Forth Worth) and Fluffy Chix (Houston) into a neutral area. in Texas-- Does Love Field still exist?--'Where I can talk to them all face-to-face

Wanna Whimper? I am one Day30 of 35 but then I I am an OVER-ACHEIVER. My,Bariatric Surgeon said I had NASH I am going to shrink that hepatic chubbiness DOWN! Girls stay strong, YOU will make it!

GOD HAS CREATED A NEW DAY, SILVER AND GREEN AND GOLD*****LIVE THAT THE SUNSET WILL FIND US WORTHY HIS GIFT TO,HOLD! Good Morning on this day HE has created.

Also this phone drops "n" like bread crumbs, people thi,k,i am semi-literate.

You,know My Surgery is Next Wednesday SEPTEMBER 5th, do you suppose,if I asked SWEETLY Ken S. or some nice person could enter IT? On A Beta Android Bariatric Pal app. I have not A Snowball's,Chance in Hades of getting thongs updated. For a reason known only to God and Ken my profile (I amTold) thinks I had surgery in 2004 or 14, wasn't even a Bariatric Newbie the!

Only someone else will say "Enough"is "Enough"-'I am never quite Certai.

And only my smartphone k,own what OVRRPREOSRING is*** it made the word,up itself, I keyed "over pre-preparing" myself!

And its all good, I don't think I'm ovrrpreosring am I? This is my,only weight loss surgery, like to say,it is the last manor surgery but it is not. My left,shoulder is deteriorating, should have already been done,but,i wanted my Bariatric first, 3years up'down-side to side jerking,. Long story,short time. Maybe recover 6 weeks before,that. Then I have a lipoma on the inner surface left arm, just above elbow,fold. Was,like small walnut when I pointed it,out to orthopaedic surgeon, yeah ther one who,wants to do,his,tender,mercies on shoulder. Was almond size,then, now half tennis ball in only couple months. Hello? OCP also interested, General surgeon next? He recommened LOCAL, I am going to OSU for,my "slice and dice the abdomen" Wednesday, maybe ask someone at a Level One Hospital instead of my community hospital "band aid station" oh Columbus does not have much,use for county and community hospitals! And do I deserve "the very best" instead of "make do"?

A thread from 6 years ago but a lot of good info.

No Cranky Magpie --'Next Wednesday. Close but no cigar, and I am so looking forward to it. Been a long (3 year) trek, avoided roadblocks, swamps , unlit paths and an Asshat surgeon death would be too good for. Seriously considered plucking his pubic hairs slowly one at a time. Announced I was mentally and emotionally unbalanced and couldn't comprehend the basic concepts of Bairatric medicine. Figure I could do anything I wanted to THAT MAN after all,I AM UNBALANCED!!! Stupid Son of Slime! Why would they grant a medical licence to such as HE? But next Wednesday I Shall prove him and all other nay-sayers WRONG! THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD BECOMES AN ROCKET, SAILING INTO THE STRATOSPHERE. WATCH FOR MY CONTRAIL. IT IS GOING TO BE PRETTY!

Well folks add my 15 pounds to the ticker! To many who have had astronomical losses that sounds puny, but let me assure you every one of those,16 ounces. was hard to,lose. Folks you have here I 72 year,or person with Basal Metabolism,Rate of a sick 🐌 snail on antidepressant.And still somehow I won this victory. And it was quite an honor,to,make,the total a little higher. HURRAY,FOR TEAM BARIATRIC🎭We Got the Job Done!