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I feel so great!  The first 2 weeks after surgery were hard. I had a lot of pain and a hard time getting fluid and protein in, but now I feel great. I can drink and I am learning what temperatures work better for me. i am eating solid food and liking what I am eating! I havent had any real head hunger yet!!! As of today I have lost 27 pounds!! Its amazing! 

I am so glad I did this!!! 

I am literally sitting in the hospital bed wearing my paper gown waiting  for the doctors to come get me!!! I'm excited and a teeny bit nervous!  What an amazing day today is!   Woohoo. 

 I love this amazing team of people.  They really truly care about us! It's amazing! Thank you God for sending me this team! 

 Tomorrow morning is my pre op.  I'm excited and nervous.  This week just flew by, last Friday they said my pre op was the following Thursday and I thought it would take forever but now we are here! So exciting! 

 So I had my final class and my preop is this thursday! I have my surgery date!!! 10-30-12!!! Happy Halloween to me! 
I am so so excited! I have a lot going through my mind right now and I am seriously unable to even picture what it will be like to be healthy. CRAZY!!! The team at Dr. Krahn's office is so amazing! I love everyone of them! They truly care about every single patient! 
Thank you God for seeing me through this process and taking me to the right surgeon! 

 I am so excited. So I went to be weighed today and I wasn't at the goal I met a month or so ago. I've been struggling, I was so proud that I lost 11 pounds but I was nervous that the appointment  would go someone like....thanks for driving 30 miles to get here msee you in the weeks when you lose everything. But it didn't! They said great job and we will be submitting our paperwork to insurance for approval!  Ahhhhhhhh. I was so happy I actually hugged the nurse!  I prayed like crazy about this one and God totally took care of it! I am so excited. The only paper work they didn't seem to get was my cardio release, which I asked the cardio office to fax about a month ago...so I mad a call and the surgeons office made a call. As soon as they get that fax the paperwork is headed out!! Woohoo!!

 I DID IT!!!! WOOHOO... I lost the 15 pounds I needed for preop. I am so so happy. I woke up this morning and walking to the scale thought, probably 2 more days, and viola...there was the magic number 262..... woohoo.. I would have screamed if I didnt have sleeping children.   I am so happy and so proud of myself!!! Thank God for getting me through the first few steps!!!! Now all I have to do is wait until 8 am to call the doctors office and schedule my weight check!!! woohooo!!!!

 So today I am feeling a little "out of reality". I just can't even imagine it being real. That I will be able to finish losing these 15 pounds.. that the insurance will come through and that I will have the surgery. CRAZY to feel this way right??? I know what's going on here. I am concentrating on this way too much! I need to just go on with my every day life and allow this to happen. God is going to see me through this too. I need to just believe and let it happen. It just all seems so close and yet still so far away. I can do this.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me!!!! 
Today I am going to be Dory from Finding Nemo. 
Just keep swimming just keep swimming!!!!!!!!!! 

I just need to sayI am the luckiest woman in the world.  Through every bump in the road and every problem I have ever had my amazing husband has been there by my side loving me! We have 2 beautiful little girls. One who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy. He has been the most amazing father and team mate to me at every turn. And here I am at one of the biggest decisions in my life and my AMAZING husband is here again and crazy supportive. I am so lucky God sent him to me. I love him so much! 

 Today is a great day! I dont actually own a scale...I know so un amaerican.. well I have to lose 15 pounds for my doctor to submit for the approval. I have been doing great on the liquid diet and I knew I lost weight. BUT I had no idea how much. So I borrowed a scale this morning and I am down 9 pounds! I am almost there. I have never been good at losing weight... But I'm doing it! The first few days were hard. I was doing the "whiney little girl" thing.. I was always hungry and Ive never been able to overcome the need vs want problem. Im doing it!! I am so happy and proud of myself. I can totally do this! 
I have to say that I am so lucky that God is taking care of me. He is my rock and my strength. He gave me my amazing husband and 2 beautiful daughters. Because of them I can do this! I can't wait until next sumer when my family can experience the fruits of my labor and we can be running around and having a blast!!