(((((((((((((((((Crystal)))))))))))))))))))) Oh honey, I'm so sorry to hear you will have to have surgery. I am praying for the best possible outcome! I know you're going to be fine and ready and rarin' to go in no time! I've had kidney stones blasted in the past. Lithotripsy. No problems....very uneventful. Glad to hear that some the pain has ceased. I'll pray you continue to feel alright until they can do the surgery. Take care of you! Pam

Just thought I'd pop on and give an update on me. It's been quite awhile and I'm sorry. I miss being able to come on and see how everyone is doing. Since I started the new job in January, life has been crazy. I've been learning the new job, putting in lots of hours at work. Have been dealing with my son and his issues and been very stressed with all of that. I haven't been working out very much and am just now starting to get back into it. I ran out of my water pill for my blood pressure and decided not to refill as my blood pressure is normal without it. Well....that added 5 lbs to my weight and it wouldn't go away. It didn't increase any more than that, but it stuck on my for a month. Well....that just frustrated the crap out of me and I figured I was done losing weight and whatever..."I'll just eat some cookies. Who cares any way?!" Hmmmm wonder how I got to be over weight? I know a lot of it was from the stress and all I was feeling already, that just compounded the feelings. Then after a month, the scale finally started moving the middle of last week.....FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! A friend from the MN board said that your body remembers weights that it was for prolonged periods of time and tries desperately to hang on to that weight. Well...that would be right. I've gone from 300.8 to 187 lbs. It hung on to 192 and wouldn't let go....I did weigh that for a long time. So, I've lost 113.8 lbs. I'm happy about that. My goal was to get healthy and I've done that. I feel good. I'm in a 16 and hoping those will continue to get looser. I can pull them down without unzipping after I've worn them. Another frustration has been the skin....OH MY LORD!!!! This was something I KNEW I'd have lots of, but didn't think it would bother me. I don't have anyone in my life to impress and who cares right?! Well...wow, that's another thing that has really gotten me down. I've concluded that I am not going to look in the mirror naked. LOL I'll look after I have my clothes on. *S* Well.....I better get to bed. Work comes early. Take care everyone and hope to get back into posting more frequently, I really miss you guys! Pam

Now I haven't been on here is probably weeks, and this is the 1st post I'm reading so I didn't see the other ones yet but I will be keeping you in prayer! Sorry you have to go through all that, I hope they will keep your pain managed for you. *hug* Get Well soon! Robin

Hi everyone, well I went to see the a surgeon (not my gastric bypass surgeon) My gastric bypass surgeon said I could go to someone local instead of a hour and a half away from home being that this is totally unrelated to my surgery. Well I have a mesentric cyst that is attached to my colon and my intestines that WILL have to be surgically removed....hopefully within 2-3 weeks.I am trying to put it off until april 5th do to a client that i have scheduled to come in the week march 31st to 4/4. Worse case scenario they will have to remove part of my colon and i will be in the hospital about a week.(so that's not to bad) I will be out of work from 4-6 weeks...(ya right LOL) well then i went to the urologist to see about my kidney stone....he will have to shock it to break it up, but doesn't want to touch me until that cyst is out. I am feeling better it hurts everynow and then..but not as bad as it was. I will keep you all updated. Thanks for your prayers and concerns and checking in on me! LOve you guys! Crystal

Hi Denise, I too check the board daily, though I only post every now and then. This week I hit the 100 pounds lost mark!! I lost 33 pounds before surgery and I am now down 102 pounds since surgery for a total of 135!! Just amazing to me. My weight loss has slowed down alot these past few months and it seems to be between 5 - 10 pounds. I have 25 - 35 more pounds that I would like to lose, so I am hoping to get close to that before my 1 year point. Sherri