Mom_of_Chaos

This quote hangs in my kitchen near where we come in and out as a reminder to myself and to my family to always live in the ring, to never sit the bench in your own life. As I sat here drinking my protein shake waiting to get the kids off the camp so I can go to bed (Night Shift) I really started to reflect on how this quote relates to us and to all of you in our WLS journeys. We've all faced adversity, failures, judgement and yet we are here, still making the conscious decision to change our lives. How many times have people outside the ring made hurtful comments about not needing surgery, but will power, or about taking the easy way out? They do not stand in this ring they don't know your struggles and they don't know how NOT easy this road will be. I can't take credit for the quote itself, it's from my girl Brene Brown but it's hung in my home for a long time and its brought peace in many situations I have face especially the journey I am on now! I wanted to share because I thought it may help someone else to see that those critics don't matter. Their words are painful but their words cannot stop us from achieving all that we have set our minds to. Have a great Wednesday everybody! ❤️

I am so excited for all of us it is getting SOOOO close! Hopefully this time next year we are all half the people we are today!

Until I can figure out how to edit my main post I added them this way

I see your replies guys! I just can't remember how I edited my post the other day ... technical difficulties haha

I’m a few weeks behind you but I’m here if you need me!

Mine says no red really big but only for the 2 days preceding surgery so I guess it depends on your Dr

Hey guys I know we have a July 2019 topic we can talk to each other on but I thought it might be neat to have a schedule so we know who’s going when and we can check on each other! Comment below with your date & surgery and I’ll edit and add you! We can still keep up on our other topic I’m not trying to hijack. Just making a schedule for us to keep up :) July 2019 1- 2- @amaynard 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8- 9- @mom_of_chaos (VSG) 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- 16- 17- 18- 19- 20- 21- 22- 23- 24- 25- 26- 27- 28- 29- 30- 31-

FMLA paperwork complete! PreAdmit Testing on Friday. Although the time is crawling it’s finally getting close! #14Days #werelosinit ?

Awesome!

We’re all getting close! My preop visit was June 10 Our Preop Testing is June 28th. Time is CRAWLING but 18 days til July 9th!

Thanks for the tips!

I will be printing out the scale one for my bathroom mirror and the other for the pantry lol

The 6 months flew by .... now it’s CRAWLING

Did you get your date ?

Did you get your date?

Congratulations!

Baton Rouge , Louisiana here! Hope y’all are all doing great! 19 days til sleeve day!

I’m sorry that y’all are going through this. I hope that being sleeved together will help us not to go through a similar fate. I’m sure there will be jealousy at some points because it’s only natural to have those thoughts watching your spouse go through such a change but I hope that we can be open and talk about it and that we both take the the “new” attention from all the people who ignore us as we are now with a grain of salt.

So you do the bariatric twice a day and the regular women’s multi once a day at the same time at the bariatric? I noticed it has the calcium in it so I’m guessing we can’t use it until a month post op

Can’t wait to do this ! I won’t fly again until November but hopefully I’ll have lots of extra room!

Ahhhhh congratulations and good luck tomorrow! I can’t wait to read how it goes! 19 more days for me!

A post op friend sent these to me and they made me laugh so I decided to share with you guys too.

Yep ! We will go through all the shitty parts together! We gained it together and now we will lose it together!

Lucky! Our process started Dec 10

Any other patients of Dr Hargroder in Baton Rouge?