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It is a boring day today. Nothing much going on. Have to clean some and wash clothes. YUK. Been on the over 50 BMI message board this morn. It is addictive lol. Those people are so funny. We cut up all the time. Great Bunch.. i got my results back from my bloodwork I had done Friday. Man my chlorestrol was 177. SHOCKED since the way I was eatting all this time. Says my platelets are a lil high and they want to check that again when I come in there tommorrow for my blood pressure check. Man i hope it is near normal at least because she already said she wouldnt give me a clearance letter till that gets under control. :o( So will update after tommorrow's trip to dr... keeping fingers crossed on the letter thing.

Got a letter in the mail this afternoon from the Nutritionist office. Man it was like five or six pages long. Have one letter to give to my pcp to fill out and fax to them and then two mages of what I eat in five days time and gotta write a short bio of myself and then pages of nothing but about my eatting and my exersicing habits. (that didnt take to long, all bad habits)... So will give to my pcp tommorrow when I go back for blood pressure check and cbc test again on platelets...

Talked to Yakema from Dr. Duncans office today (bariatric surgeon) and she gave me a time to be at the office on the 20th before the seminar. It is 3:00. It will be a busy week for sure. I have to go to Macon Monday the 19th at 10:00 for the psych appointment. Then Tuesday for the Dr.'s appointment at 3:00 in Atlanta and the seminar that late afternoon at 5:30. THEN..... Gave to turn around and be at Phoebe putney(hospital) at 7:45 for the stress test and then 1:00 in another part of the hospital for the pulmanary test!!! At least that part will all be over with after that week. Then on the 28th its back to Atlanta for a nutritional class at 10:00. Insurance will not be paying for this appointment so 100.00 bucks gone there...:o( But I hope all the testing will be over then for sure. I have had all my bloodwork and ekg done this last friday so getting ready to role. If anyone reads this and is as impatient as I am they can go ahead and get alot of the things done like I have and many others have to.

Its been four years since the attack on the twin towers and seems like yesterday.Very sad... I went to town yesterday to get out of the house and was very upset. I guess with myself for sure. My legs and feet hurt so bad till cant hardly go much. Im wiped out but the time I make a simple trip thru one store.I dont feel that I would have been to far from a wheel chair. People say how did they get that way when they get home bound. I can see it.I rarely go at all anymore.If can get someone else to do the town thing, Im all for it lol.It upsets me though because ANYONE that knows me.. SHOPPING is my middle name and it has taken a back seat since I have gained so much weight.Its just to painful to go and get out in the ga heat.

Well today is the day for my PCP physical at 10:45. I am keyed up some I guess. Going to tell her about the WLS and see if she will back me up with a letter. I have went to her for years for panic attacks. I am getting Complete head to toe today including mammogram and all bloodwork. Hoping that will be all I need bloodwork wise with dr. duncan in ATL and can use that. Im gonna tell her I need pulminary and EKG and like I said "whole works" Well nine now so gotta get motivated. Very sluggish this morning. Can't eat or drink after twelve last night and I LOVE my coffee!!!

It's been a long day.Got to the pcp and she was gonna give me a pap and breast exam but I was on my period so she decided to wait ( :o). I got blood work done and ekg ( it was fine) and urine test. She was concerned about my blood pressure because it was high. She put me on toprol xl 50mg. She said she would write me the clearance letter AFTER my blood pressure gets down some. SO.. she wants me to go back next Friday to check it again...Good news is that she has made me an appointment for the pulminary test and stress test on the 21st. So maybe most of the exam test results will be over and all ill need is the nutritional thingy and the coocoo doctor test.... Will have to wait and see what my insurance requires. Hope it is not much.. :o(

Got a letter from the peachtree bariatrics today stating that they recieved my packet that included pics and bio with background info and will get a call in few days confirming they are still gonna see me the day I go for the seminar on the 20th (or surely hope so). Like five hrs away... Have a great labor day weekend !!!

Man, it is already September! Can't believe how this year has flew by. I can't wait till my appointment on the twentieth to see Dr. Duncan in ATL...:o).. I go as I told you next Friday to my pcp at 10:45. YUK! Gonna check me from head to tow (haha) and do all the blood tests and other things that needs to be done by her.Trying to rush up the process some so won't have to wait to long to be on the other side of loosing..:o). It will be like all of the people's profiles that I have been reading. ( A Rebirth day ) instead of a surgery day!!!! I had went to my daughters house last night and when left to get in the car had a bad panic attack ????why ???? Who knows??? Just have been having them for years now and have gotten worse since have gained so much weight.I know that the bigger I get the more out of control it makes me feel. I have a twin sister ( Im the good one ) that has had them to for years and when she lost ALOT of weight (weight and ex husband divorced lol ) she did great. They say there not hereditary but hey, I'm not one to argue!! We are identical twins just five minutes apart and at one time WHERE for real identical but since she has lost so much weight and I have BALLOONED up to 400lbs there is hardly anything left that makes us looks the same. That bothers me alot. We hated looking alike growing up as children and teens but now that I'm (we) OLD at 45, I really miss it. I got us a birthstone ring for our 45th birthday in July just alike and sent her a bracelet just like mine not long ago. I guess that's the only thing left that would fit her and me both that matches...lol. I am so excited about mu surgery. I have told anyone that would listen and don't care how they feel about it. As long as my kids, husband, and sister is supportive, thats all that matters and they are my biggest cheerleaders!!!yeah... I have read so many people being all but disowned over this wls thing. I just can't amagine being treated like that over something you want and need so badly for your health. I feel very fortunate. I have even read where some even change there minds and don't get the wls because of family and friends.. jeez!!

Well, it's one thirty in the morning and I can't sleep. I should't be able to sleep with all the food in my belly right now lol. I have been eatting anything that hasn't eatten me first! :o).. That is the reason that I am this size as of today. I get started doig so good and siked up and BAM!! i'm off the wagon and UNDER it lol.Called today to see if the dr's office got my bio and pic and packet and she said I would get a letter and time for the dr's visit the day of the seminar. I am SO IMPATIENT!!!! Alway's have been. So this will be a long road for me to wait...Will check in later when something more to say...

Well, not alot going on today with me at least. My daughter had to leave her home in Mississippi because of hurricane Katrina. Hoping things will be ok there. I tryed to get into my pcp earlier than next Friday on the 9th of Sept but didn't have any openings (dang it!).. I just thought would get it out of the way and could move on to the next thing at hand. WAITING for the seminar and dr's visit in ATl. I made a reservation for ATL on the 20th that I go next month because I live so far and will be to late to get back home afterwards. I went to Kmart over the weekend and the only reason I went was to weigh outside in the coridor of the store. I don't have a scale that goes up that high. I guess it was right. Say's 389 lbs.. Not alot to brag about huh? Well I am so impatient about all this dr business. Makes the days DDRRAAGGG... later ya'll!

Well today is four months till Christmas and we were planning a trip to the tn mountains but canceled after I decided to go ahead with the WLS. HOPE it happens before Santa time anyway, but if not that's ok to. Just gives me something to look forward to in the new year.I have started "doing the right thing" by eatting right. So when the surgery time comes I'll be more whipped into shape (or hope so). I am taking vitamins and ecotrin (for heart) one a day and drinking 64 oz of water...YUK! Hey, I'm from Ga, we tear up SWEET TEA around here. That was always my water intake. lol So feel better today. Not so sluggish and filled with food up to my eyeballs.To where you have to suck on tum's while laying in the bed because you can't sleep. I am so excited about the surgery till am so keyed up. I think about it at almost every waking moment. I had a long talk with my girls on the phone last night about how it feels to be in the body of a 400 pound person. I had never told them some of the things I said last night. How the reason I never went down to the beach the last time we went because I stayed in the condo instead of watching my granddaughters first time at the water taking pics and filming it like I did with my grandsons first trip. I wasn't able to walk down the flights of stairs and walk all the way down there to see her. So instead I said NO, Im staying in here and sitting on the balcony. My kids thought I was just grumpy.... Or how I have to scope out the seats in restaurants that will fit me and not smother others. Simple things like wearing seatbelts.Or going to someones house and wonder if there furniture will hold you. I never told them this. They got on to me about holding it in but who wants to talk about it. They knew about how I felt with the clothes situation and how "catherines" was the only place that had things that fit but most of them were not age appropriate. So life goes on and Im feeling better as the days go by. I haven't kept it a secret to anyone because I think its liberating for me and need people to be supportive. The only person I won't tell that I am going to have surgery is my four year old grandson. He would worry so bad. He LOVES his nana..:o)

Guess I should tell ya'll (ga thing lol) a little about myself. I have been married for almost 27 years, will be in November. He is so supportive of all the stupid eatting escapades I've been on through the years. Has never said anything about me being so overweight that would change his feelings for me. He is concerned about my health though. One day I'm like Oh honey don't bring any desserts home because I'm eatting right and Im gonna do it this time and the next day I'm calling him on his cell to stop and get "blue Bell" ice cream. Come on ya'll, you know what I mean..;o).. Well I also have three beautiful daughters and they are my life. Great son in laws and two of the most precious grand babies ever!!! And I want this nana to be there for them thru thick and "THIN*.. I can't do much with them at this point being so HUGE.. I want to be able to take them to parks and travel on vacations to the mountains and beaches and amusement places that kids love.And when your four year old grandson comes up to you and says " nana, I want you to loose weight" I can't tell you what that does to you. But those babies are my reason for living longer and healthier. I have a twin sister that is also on the top of my priority list of wanting to stick around for a while too. We were left orphaned at the early age of 15 with neither parents. Our father died when we were 8. He was only 42 and dropped dead of a heart attack. Our mother died when we were 15 and she was only 57 of the same thing. She struggled with her weight her whole life. And I don't ever remember getting to go and do things with either parent. So this is my sob story and I'm sticking to it....lol I have chosen the gastric bypass as a LAST resort for me to live longer. Believe me, If you knew me personally, you would know that this is MAJOR.. I have that "white coat" affect when it comes to doctors or surgeries.Don't even like watching them on tv most of the time. So as Paul Harvey says, I'll pray to have this surgery and have " the rest of the story"