Thank you

I have walked a mile every day this week and worked out on a Universal style weigt machine each day as well.  My post today on Roll Call seemed to me like a major part of what I would say to encourage Frustrated but also seemed worthy of a post of it's own so please forgive the redundancy if you read the whole board for Illinois.  Things change and sometimes it seems that everything is against us but just keep taking those positive steps and trying to open those doors.  Especially do all that you can do to improve your lung function and to lose weight with the dieticians even though they do not seem to really get it and try to force you to eat too many fruits and vegatables.  Post op that seems so much less important when you are taking your vitamins which it turns out is a lot less complicated than it seems pre op.

After five years of trying to get down this road I really feel now that I am on the feeder road to a major highway.  In Texas I had tried several routes to getting the surgery but with all of my previous surgeries and infections the doctors did not want to touch me and all of the insurance companies, state agencies and legal help I really felt like Humpty Dumpty as all the kings men could not me back together again.  Thank you to all of you for your virtual help in helping me once I moved here.  A special thank you to Christine and Dave for your non virtual world help as well and to the others of you I met at the Kane center support meeting and the pizza place pre op.  It was still what seemed like an eternal process as I went through the year of medically supervised weight loss without knowing if I would be approved and then as I was approved and it turned out the doc I was approved for had left that hospital and then the drama of finding another doctor and his really not wanting to do my surgery either.  I know my surgery means I will be taking supplements forever and eating in a way that seems strange to others.  Especially waiters and waitresses but I am beginning to feel normal at that and thinking of the folks who eat full meals when out to eat as strange.  So much more fun to order a meal and sample from what I will be taking home for another meal or two.

Randy, thank you so much. I have really loved getting to know you and Sherry. You two are such great people of God and YOU add a neat male perspective in the mix on the board.

Not too loud Christine.  Everyone will think God's people are all as weird as me. Thank you for the kind words.