Hi everyone! No more lurking! Yay!

Hi Fellow Marchers! No more lurking! Yay! Hi everyone! I have been reading all of your posts for about a month and due to a problem with my old PC I could never join in with responses! Well, I finallly went out and bought a new PC and now I can stop lurking and join in the great support group you have! ( a special thanks to mo and kimmer for all your great encouraging words - you are both beautiful spirits!). So tomorrow is my big day and I'm sitting here stuck in the house close to the bathroom after my delicious phospho-soda ****tail this morning!! I am very excited about the surgery and have not ever had any doubts that I am making the best decision for me. In fact from the time I first met with my surgeon, I have felt a calmness inside and I know I am making the right decision. All I ask is for all of your prayers tomorrow that all will go well - I'm a single mom of a beautiful 12 year old girl who is also my best friend and she needs me to be here for her for a lonnnnnnng time! Good luck to all of my fellow Marchers and I'll see you on the other side! Thanks again everyone!

Wishing you the best and a speedy recovery to be with your daughter. See you on the loosing side. Sugarplum Open RNY 3/16

Hi Debi!!! Welcome to the Marchers! (tho it does sound like you have been one for a while in spirit!!!) I am a week behind you on that delightful ****tail. I get to have one on Saturday AND Sunday a.m. Pretty much foils my weekend plans! LOL (I missed my chance for a BIG breakfast at the truck stop this a.m. and just had my plain old bowl of oatmeal that I have gotten used to.) I am spending today being busy nesting. I am not much of a house keeper, and the last few weeks I have been walking around with a giant trash bag saying .. nope . don't need it .. and into the bag it goes. Yesterday I tore my bedroom apart .. between throwing things away and reorganizing, I have made it a bigger mess. So that is my task for the afternoon to finish laundry and and put it away for a change. You take care of yourself and I will be thinking of you and the rest of the 15's as you make your journey to Newpouch!!! Hugs, Mo doin the ALMOST 7.5 days and a wake up happy Mo dance

Thanks, Mo and everyone for making me feel instantly welcome! You are all great!

Glad to have you.I tell you out of everything, up until the 3rd day after surgery, the ****tail and the after effects were the worse for me. I was so excited to be in th hospital and getting it over with. I know you will be too. Good luck to you and keep us informed. LaDonna -20lbs

Debi, welcome to the Marchers!!! I am glad you are able to post now!! I look forward to hearing from youafter surgery. You will be in my prayers!! God Bless Bethany AKA Da Offishal Riddler and Bertha 12 Days into NewPouch and feeling great! -25 lbs!!!! Yayyyy A riddle a day will keep the Marchers pounds AWAY!

Hi ya, Debi!! I'd welcome you to the Marchers, but you were already one, so it's not necessary. Glad to see you posting now! Howz dat? Isn't it a GREAT feeling walking in to this totally calm? I knew from the moment I decided to do this that it was supposed to happen for me, and I never ONCE had a 'freak-out' moment or second-guess. I'm glad you have the same mindset - it's really going to help you along. I'm now 5 days post-op and my best friend just left from visiting TOTALLY AMAZED that I'm walking upstairs to get something to show her, I'm going outside to yell at the dogs to come in, I'm in no pain, etc. She was truly astonished. I really think it was because I went IN to the procedure 150% positive, I was 100% positive in the hospital (the arm-wrestling I had with the morphine took away some of my positivity, I think, but was still at ~100% positive despite the 24/7 nausea...), and I'm even MORE encouraged now that I sent my Mom home after the 2nd nite she was here...I was ABSOLUTELY FINE and was already back to my single-woman living, wanted to be by myself!! Still am fine...I'm so very blessed!! I'm actually DOING the happy dance today!! I'll be praying for you and all that go this week. You just keep your daughter's face in your mind's eye when they wheel you in, and you'll come out of that surgical suite with happy thoughts, too. This is the best thing you can do for you AND her! Be assured, you're in my prayers, and I'll be turning 'em up a notch tomorrow for ya. I'll be looking for your updates! Kimmer Queen of the Niners, Instigator to All Marchers, High Priestess of Giggles