Oh yes you and everyone does make sense Reenie.

Hi Kim, hugs to you and Steve. Did the doctor advise waiting for surgery? Or did he/she let you two make the decision and then went along with whatever you wanted to do? I don't understand why the chances of dying with the surgery are greater than the chances of dying without the surgery.  Of course, there is the complications factor so I suppose that must be what this is about. It seems the risk factor percentages are pretty low - I think even our WLSies were at around the 2%-8% chance of dying, and look at all of us thriving more than 5 years later! I wish you both healing and health and the courage to work through this together. Please keep us posted. Love to you, Maureen

Join me if you like:
Breakfast - protein shake (this was the best ever, with protein powder, lite yogurt and 3 strawberries - so good!)

Snack - if I need one, I'll have a stalk of celery w/1 tsp. PB

Lunch: small chef salad, w/fresh greens, 1 hb egg, 2 oz. sliced ham

Dinner: 1 Muscle Milk drink, 1/2 C. cantaloupe

Workout: lunch hour, probably 2 mile walk

NO CHOCOLATE, all my H2O, vitamins...

I'm not feeling well, very low energy, very weak feeling. Have a good day, friends. Maureen
 

Pam, I didn't mean for any of my posts to dismiss what you must be feeling about your current boyfriend. I know there is sadness for you in thinking it's time to let this relationship go. Of course, living life with a partner who is supportive and loving is preferable to living life alone. But sometimes the lonliness felt in a relationship without support and without "healthy" love can be much more painful than the lonliness felt without a partner. I don't know if I'm making sense - just want you to know that you have friends here. Take care, Maureen

I think about what will happen to Laela when something happens to me a lot. Jim can't take care of her, he doesn't know a thing about horses (but he's a pretty darn good pooper-scooper-upper). Laela and I have such a bond and I am so happy I got her out of that boarding situation and brought her home. All the time I was thinking I couldn't take good enough care of her on my own, I don't know enough, she's still so young and spooky at times (baby-headed horse brains) that I was afraid I would get very hurt. Horses take all their cues from what their human is feeling; the only way Laela can become a confident horse in her work and on the trails is sensing that I am confident, that I'm not going to let anything bad happen to her. Horses are instinctive animals, they think about two things constantly: what to eat, and how to avoid being eaten. Just those two things dictate their every thinking moment. So Laela has to believe that I won't let anything eat her up when we're out on the trails together. We have come so far in these last three weeks, my confidence level is soaring so guess what - so is Laela's! And she knows when my car is coming down the road, she breaks into a trot to the end of the pasture fence and whinny's her hello to me. And I get out of my car and do my sing-songy greeting, 'LAE-LA!' And she calls right back to me. That's the way it used to be with Sophie when I came home from work. She'd bound up to my car and wait for me to step out, and then she would start howling and I'd start howling and we were both howling our, "Hello my lovely, how was your day, I'm so glad to be home with you!" together. I talk better to animals than to people. I offend people although I never intend to. But somehow I do. Animals love me. And I them. I'm with Connie, I can live without a man easily, but not without my animal loves. They are a part of me. It's why I still ache so much, even though Sophie died over two years ago. Love you guys, Maureen