It is so hard to believe that 3 years have past since I had my surgery. I am still maintaining and doing well. Life seems so normal now. I do things I never dreamed of, wear clothes I only admired on others and just am generally LIVING my life. So much fuller than I would have believed possible.

My 2 sons are here in Florida visiting and we are all going on a cruise Sat for 9 days. I now know I can go and am confident that I will not gain weight. I am determined to eat healthy. My last cruise in 2004 was just before I made the decision to have bariatric surgery.

I remember eating like a pig and looking and feeling equally as bad. I have a picture here in a bathing suit on that cruise. I plan to try and recreate the shot with Bob and my new body. The old one is the one I use in my before shot. Wowser it makes me ill.

So happy anniversary to me today and my Thanks to Dr. T. Paul Singh and the fantastic staff at St. Peters Hospital (6th floor and especially the ICU) in Albany NY for getting through the complications alive. They were certainly the mosy scarey 19 days of my life.