i forgot to add the date 01/09/08

Well I've been using this site for a month to gather info and now I have a date. So i thought I'd set this up now. So I added what hopefully will be a before pic and can't wait to add a after lol.I'm excited but very scared at the same time. Worried about dieing I know the odds are very low but still you never know and I am scared not for me but for my kids if anything happened to me. I know without the surgery I will be here for them for a long while not happy thou and in pain a lot. But I know that with the surgery i will be setting a great example for them and will be fit and be able to go on walks and play with them now the pain in my knees is so bad i hate to get up and down and  i'll end up like both my parent dead from heart attack stroke and diabetes before i get to see my grandkids. Heck I could get run over tomorrow and be gone right. So I'm doing it before i get bigger and have a higher risk. so thats whats going thru my mind right now. i want to do well and be a sucess story and need all the help i can get for that