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I'd cross my fingers and toes for you but it does make it difficult to walk,that way. Certainly,I do wish you well,I am one person on here who does understand your trials, I had to affiliate with a second hospital, I hope this one turns out to be just what you want and need. 🏥😝

Well around here We have to plan things out, lean on each other for support but we will all make it through. The JUNE BUGS are going to win.🐝😝

if you can do it I can too! Very inspiring, maybe one of these days after my surgery I'll get brave also. Until then I'll enjoy looking at yours😝

And Good Luck to both of you. Never thought about it before but it must be like being in a marching band with an artificial leg, it can be done but awfully hard. Keep on girls,it will be worth the work😝

@fingers crossed18 thank you also for your service, yes, family members of an overseasperson also play a very important role. They are able to be all they can be with your love and support. I salute you also. I think all of us here in the US should pray for their safety and a swift return back,of the the people who love,them. Bless you as well. Never give up either in weight loss and life, for love sustains you when nothing else can. Smiles and a Hug🌈😝

Bet it's been around since the days of the Texas Republic, any no I wasn't there, didn't date Stehan Austin, didn't cater Davy Crockett's funeral, Fluffy.Chix or CreekImp might have, they are better cooks. CreekImp might sneak cricket powder in, she says it tastes nutty,a good source of protein, most insects are, And I think she's right about that. High protein, low fat, sounds right up my alley.

Yeah Greg Abbott probably put in an anti-littering law along with all of Texas other ones. Ron White of Blue Collar Comedy tour says other states are trying to abolish the death penalty, Texas has an Express Lane. Thank you for the beautiful,compliment, I don't know when anyone else wanted to hang with me. I'm crying a little and smiling through my tears. Thank you,so so much!😝

ROFLAO , GIVE HIM WHAT HE DESERVES

Hope someone is designated,to,make sure Calgary and the rest don't disappear.

So your Dragon collection could be considered a Family Reunion, other people take pictures--- you collect more dragons

No you can also be called a Celtic Princess, I think we both qualify. Did you,know psoriasis is called the Celtic Curse, it's so exclusive,to us that it is indicative of an Irish or Scottish ancestry. My 2 sons names: Kevin, Bryan , if I hadn't stopped making babies I might have a Declan, Conon, Padraic,or Sean. I wanted a dozen kids, because I was an only. Main reasons I stopped. 1 Late hubby didn't want them, he was the other kind of only, he liked it. 2 My pelvis had gotten so arthritic and narrowed to extent,Bryan barely made it out and any more would be C- Section 3. My then-OB threatened me with a Poro Section, do you know what that is? I forget if you were one of the ones who said they were a nurse? In case you weren't or aren't I shall educate you. A Poro section means C Section and then immediate hysterectomy. Lovely man wasn't he? You go in to have a baby and come out spayed. Bah dump dump dump. I think,my desire to teach and educate is a throw-back to my rotten boy cousins dancing around, pointing at me and chanting "I know something you don't know!" So I set out to become very smart on a multitude of things so they couldn' t, heckle me anymore. Oh often we are scarred or influenced by our pasts. Got to figure they,wouldn't be too thrilled with a cousin who sat and wrote poetry, would they? Dermatology,is one speciality where you never,get too sick and you never get well, that's a reason they rub their hands together,when we show up, we are always good for a rash or 2. 😡

Hi Orchids and Dragons from another Francis the Fluorescent, I am a redhead after all. I am so melanin challenged I came in 3 shades , burn-blister-peel, maybe by the summer's end I might rust. to a pale tan but even then it was more like continuous freckles.😟

Well I never went till my 45th, felt a failure because many of my,plans never came true. Also I am on the high end of the autism spectrum, of course didn't know it then, until the recent psychology type reorganization I fit more as Aspergers except even then until Temple Grand in no body credited there could be female ones. So much of the time I was outsider because people thought me weird. Really hurt, what had I done wrong. One of my former classmates kept apologizing repeatedly, finally told him he was forgiven but nothing I can remember was any different from what others had done. When I went in, a little scared, all these,guys came over, shook my hand, a few tried to hug me, all of them said how great it was to see me,how much they wished they had dated me in high school. I told them not only did that hurt my feelings but also that of my poor dead mamma. Not even the 2 Lesbians in my class asked me out. I would still wish to,look little bit different. It is bad if someone hasn't seen you for that many years and still recognizes you without looking at the name tag. Call me a tad vain, but I would like to go from "Oh Hi",to "Hubba Hubba Hot Stuff" when we meet.I never got that much chance to turn down, let alone shoot down that many guys! I still would be kind and not shoot them down but a "No,Thank,You Very Much" would feel so good. Hey good luck with the 4th, believe things will keep on going forward.

wowee talk about scary,i am glad you are still here to tell the storu. Heal well and keep us updated.

Gosh, what kinds of muck and mire we all have had to wade through to where we are! Reading. your stories, your tales, has only strengthened my own resolve to go forward. I am proud to know such survivors, prouder yet that I am one of them. And folks, our stories are not completely over yet. There may be yet twists and turns, but we shall and will make it through to each of our futures. None of us is requesting a superficial assesment, we each are wonderfully complex individuals, after all. But sunshine☀ trumps shadow, ☁joy trumps sorrow and pain and our tomorrow's shine brightly ahead. Thus ends my little sermonette on Life. 😝👍🌈

Saw a neat one recently Coincidence=God going anonymous.

I always strip off as much clothing as possible, take off my shoes, would remove my dentures and glasses if they only weighed more. I always stood to another heavy person in pictures, thought it would make us both look skinny? Many pictures of me looking out diagonally from behind a solid object like a wall, are my shoulders not fat? Paid people to only take head shots of me, well all my high school grad pictures are like that. I was moderately cute then, but I looked like I had a full body amputation. Wore dark-toned clothing, he's anybody told a charcoal briquet they are looking svelte today? Tried not standing full forward but at an angle, surprise --I look thick that way too! Tried wearing heels, now that is pathetic, looked like an elephant🐘on stilts. Shall we just say---been there done most of them. My worst? Considered banking some blood, undergoing full body XRays to induce leukemia, then after enough weight wasted away have my blood retransfuse D. Now that is imagination to a sick sick level.😟

Day-um I so love Key Lime Pie🍝 too. You know as I do, real Key Lime Pie is not green, that is a Northern Abomination. R K L P is pale yellowish but so Uber luscious. Of course nothing is worth the massive backdoor trots you will receive👎💩😕

We don't have to worry girls, I think MIZ60 is a class act, she'll come through this so cool, she'll be doing handsprings going in and singing coming out. Of course it could be "sooner or later, babe I'm gonna get ya" directed at the surgeon. Yellow Rose of Texas or Rose of San Antone we know she' s higher than Cootie Brown, Bringing in the Sheaves, she's had. a "Come to Jesus "moment But if it's "What Part of NO don't you Understand?: they had better tie everything down , cause she is PO'd! 👈😝👉

Sprinkles, I agree with CreekImp, we have an OP on Bariatric Pal, I think her name is Danielle, she was having,bad abdominal pain, getting wirse, running a fever. Nobody medical would pay attention, pushed her callscetc to one side, she turned out to have a very bad absess, story for her still isn't over. Gosh I feel so for the poor kid, they've drained it, packed it and it's still not over. Yours may turn out to be very minor, pray 🙏it is, but keep on being the squeaky wheel, they are the ones who get greased and also there is only 1 you, stick up for yourself. That's a lesson all the longtime posters will tell you I still have trouble with, bought into the " you don't really matter" bunch of crap everyone around told me. Now I'm old and creaky and cranky but, I am standing up and doing it, and it feels D***Good!😝👊

And a determined surgeon can get to and reach everything. If he can't get there easily with catheters, fiber-optic tubes and such, its "Cut Baby Cut" Some of their mothers must have been imprinted by Texas Chainsaw or another ripper-horror movie. Fire up the McCullough, I'm going in!

💩Poppy McTurd says "good morning everyone!" He's says "Even tho I'm,#2 it's good to know. I'm #1 in all your hearts and minds"Well, I guess I'll keep moving along!" ,...😝

Well Hook'Em Horns, honey babe.I should find a team with better colors, scarlet and gray doesn't go too well with red hair, most of my sweats are white or pink with the logo. Last,time I wore the pink one which,is a XXXL somebody made a wisecrack about here comes Strawberry Shortcake, I should only have the money she's made with her happy little self! Maybe I should go out to the college bookshop, Mount Vernon Nazarene's colors are forest green and white. Kenyon College in nearby Gambirr, 8 miles away, are purple and white. Hmm I do have Cleveland Browns, I'd look like a big pile of you know what💩 in those. I do have a Paul Warfield, a Bernie Loser tshirt, but the prize of them a Dante Lavelli, most of them have rotted and turned to compost by now! Too small, its from when I was merely a little pain in the tushie. Well should get up and start my day, a choice, oatmeal with 1% milk, cottage cheese or a bottle of. Premier Protein . No I'm not on liquid but I have started replacing a meal a day, usually lunch, in the hopes I might drop a tad weight before May 24th, want them thinking I'm trying instead laying here letting my fat congeal. Well up and at em, Adam Ant! Very old cartoon series.😝

Yippee Yay Hoo! Step#1:Done! A smooth healing, a rehab that that will benefit him👨 and lot less worry and stress for you.👩 I hope you and your doctor'😷 will think it's okay to go forth with your surgery as well. Don't wait until you're old as the hills before you venture forward again. I got a beautiful letter from OSU yesterday confirming my next very important day, the trifecta appointment with 3 different people, the nurse-practioner, dietician, and my case manager so my,own of care can be formulated, but I have yet to have a face-to-face with the surgeon. What if they don't like me? What if they think I'm too old, too broken down, too worn out to take the risk? I know I can handle it emotionally. mentally because Dr Kramer the staff psychologist said so, but physically? My record of selling refrigerators to Eskimos isn't that good. I should have the skills of my generation-mate Donald J Trump,he convinced a majority of the voting public he would make a good President. Now that was quite a Salesman! My love to you, the hubs and all the little mini-Kay07 at your house😝

My son will be flying over shortly . He has a container of chili, another of lasagna, one of au gratin potatoes, a package of beef baking a and an arrow taped to floor pointing his way to the microwave. Wait until I tell him about Chicken Vindaloo and. Bolognese, he may not even require a plane, he might just start wading! Smiles and super smooth surgeries is my prayer for both of you👉😝👈