Hi, folks, I got a reminder email from this website saying I hadn't been active for a while. so I thought I'd pop in and give some updates.

I had my first office consult with the NP on April 16 and I got my insurance approval letter in the mail yesterday. I was beginning to wonder about it because my ins. is one of those that pays as long as you are at least 100 lbs. overweight - absolutely no other requirements. Next I call the office to schedule my surgery and then they schedule all the pre-appointments - one four hour class, a physical with the surgeon, the psych eval.

In the meantime I've been packing my house to move, which is a big task for a full time working widow with a five year old underfoot. so I've been a little preoccupied and not on the internet much at all. Movers are coming Sat. the 12th to put all our things into storage, we stay with my Dad for a month or so, then close on our brand new townhouse mid-June.

I decided to schedule my surgery for the first week of August, that gives me plenty of time to get settled into our new place and I want to do it while my daughter is out of school for the summer so I don't have to rush to get her ready in the mornings while I am recovering. she'll still go to daycare, but she doesn't have to be there by 8 am. the nice thing is the townhouse is directly across the street from her school, and 1.5 miles from her daycare. There is her elementary school, a middle school and a high school all on one huge tract of property, all with tracks and sidewalks along the streets - plenty of good walking. I'm getting her a new hello kitty bike and I'm thinking about getting the adult size for myself so we can go bike riding togther!

so that's the latest with me, in case anyone was really wondering . . .

I am excited about all the new changes in our lives, new home, new body soon I hope, and a new beginning for us after some very difficult years.

God Bless to all,

Karen

Congrats on your approval! It sounds like you will be having lots of wonderful things happening in your life, it's wonderful things are turning around and looking up.

Karen.. you really ARE beginning a new life. I'm glad that you have your dad around to help a bit... and hopefully you have lots of supportive friends and family near by. Good luck with everything!

here's the thing. about the only person I have in my life who is "there" for me is my Dad. and he's 77. a very very healthy, good looking, in shape, 77. he's done alot of repairs to my house to get it ready to be sold. little stuff. he has little patience with my daughter is the downside.

I DID have alot of support, right after my husband died, while he was dying, but everyone's gone . . . just not available. it's kinda like the glamour of helping the poor widow and half orphan (she's adopted, she's already been orphaned once) wears off. it's quite fascinating. but I've become much stronger from being totally alone, which is good, but I'm lonely as heck, so I sit around at night in the house by myself after my daughter's in bed, eating. I've had a weight problem but it's really ballooned since the deaths (I say death plural because my mom died of colon cancer six months after my husband died from lung cancer at age 40).

anyway, more rambling from me, taking a break from packing. and looking forward to the new house and new me!

Karen

Good luck with your move and the NEW U...look forward to hearing more from you!!