Finally, the end is in sight!

Jul 24, 2010

My weight loss journey is slowly winding down, at 149 lbs now the end is getting much closer.  My body will let me know when I am done losing I expect, but it has slowed so much I could be quite happy if it stops here!  I just got back from a 2 week motorcycle trip with my husband and another couple, we hit the touristy things like Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse museum, Yellowstone National Park and got thoroughly sprayed there by Old Faithful!  Drove across the high desert in 98 degrees heat through Wyoming and Idaho to Oregon and spent about 3 days on the coast at Newport and Astoria - the ocean is so beautiful to us land locked prairie people!  Then back through the mountains in Idaho and into Montana up through Alberta and back to Saskatchewan for a total of 16 days of riding!  I was fine with all the sitting, did try and wake up early each day and go for a half hour or longer walk wherever we were.
I stopped in at the office of Weight Loss Forever here when I got back and sat in on an (impromptu - for me) interview with a Star reporter and after that they sent a photographer out to get a picture of me with the motorcycle (human interest, I presume?) The next morning it was out and if you are interested here is the link to it:

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/health/Coping+with+weight+loss+just+physical/3307868/story.html?id=3307868 

Now for my sister Linda's upddate:

She has been home now for well  over a month now and yesterday had the drain finally removed from her abdomen.  Her incision is now quite small (from the cavity washes) and they expect in the next week or so it will be closed totally. They will NOT be doing a hernia repair as it is too complicated a procedure with intestines and adhesions etc in the way so she will have to live with an enlarged lower abdomen.  She is losing weight - is now 154 lbs and her waist is about 38 inches.  May never get to a proper size for the rest of her, but she seems content enough with that.  She still struggles with getting enough food into her tummy, finds she is quite uncomfortable after eating period!  Her esophagus valve is probably wrecked permanently her surgeon says and again she will just have to live with that too.
But at least she is alive and gaining strength.  She is able to walk the dogs herself once again and may be able to work by mid September.  So we are grateful that the worst is over and that the end is in sight for her too but in a different way.  She promises to get some pictures soon to send me.  I will ask her if I can share them here with  you.

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