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OH held a conference in San Antonio Sept 14-16 and it was wonderful. This is the third conference I have attended and they have all been awesome. Each time you get to meet new people, catch up with friends you have already met, and see the changes in everyone weather its physical or mental. It's so fun to get to hug everyone. It's just like being with family.

The best part about the conference was Sunday. I got a call from my sunshine Debra Flores and she told me that Jackie had announced that Monica was finally going to have her surgery. Monica (from the Texas board) has been fighting her insurance company for several year. The physcian's at NIX offered to do her surgery for her. This truly shows that there are still good people out there that care about us. When Debra called me I literally wanted to jump out of my skin in excitement for Monica. So many tears of joy were shed Sunday for this remarkable woman. She deserves this surgery so much and will be a great success. Good luck, Monica.

On another note, we had a great time dancing, laughing, talking, and just being silly. I got to spend some time with my punkin' Jenn in SA and I was so glad to see her because its been a while.

This by far was the best conference yet. 

I am still doing well from my TT recovery. I still get swollen and the scale is still teeter tottering from PS. My scars are starting look better each week. You can barley see the scar on my right hip and my mid section and left hip are starting to look better considering I had infection and was cut in those areas 3 times. 

I also found out a couple of weeks ago that Dr. Naaman is retiring. I have found myself emotional about this even at 2 1/2 years post-op. Dr. Naaman deserves to enjoy his life because he has helped enrich so many of ours but, how dare him retire on us. LOL (just kidding)

I am still maintaining my weight other then swelling from PS and just trucking along now.

As most of you know these past 3 months have been very hard on me. I have had PS 3 times in 3 months. In March I had a Tummy Tuck and got an infection, a month later my surgeon went in and irrigated the infection and did  some “touch-up” work, it took me a while to recover. I had to have a pick line IV in my arm and administer at home antibiotics for 2 weeks. I got past the infection, lost my job on June 1^st and was very hopeless. I had my surgeon re-do surgery in June while I was out of work to do some more tweaking and I got necrotic tissue in the belly button area. So, back to infectious disease I went. I have been seeing both the infectious disease Dr and the Plastic surgeon once a week. It seems like things in the tummy tuck area are finally starting to turn around.

In the middle of all of this my plastic surgeon told me about a position at a local surgery center. He gave me the surgeon’s phone number to call when I was well enough. Well, last week I had an interview and today (06/28/07) a job offer was extended to me. One I couldn’t refuse. They have asked me to help them market their bariatric program. I think this will not only be rewarding but, challenging for me and open new doors.

In these last 3 months I have realized that life is VERY precious and so are the people around us. We must show our appreciation to those we love and that are near and dear to us. I am really excited and wanted to share this with all of YOU because YOU are all important and special people in my life. Thank you all for being here for me through all of this. I hope to make each and everyone of you proud of me.

All I gotta do is   BELIEVE!