WHATS HAPPENING SUNDAY

 

I calculated my BMI this morning and I have 3 more pounds to go to no longer be considered obese. Oh Lord to just be called overweight and not obese. YAH!!!!!!

 

I have to work Saturday night so probably wont do a whole lot around the yard today. I do need to tie up the tomato plants and my lady banks rose that is on the Arbor.

I hope we have a really late frost this fall because my flowers have just now started getting some height to them. My morning glories haven’t even bloomed yet, how about anyone else. The ones that I had around the persimmon tree are all the way up in the tree and all over the trunk of it and still haven’t bloomed.

 

Friday when we went to the nursery for the mulch I found a huge leather leaved Viiburnum that was only 15.00. It was from their last years supply or maybe even a couple of years ago because this fellow is already 5 feet tall and about 4 ft wide. We brought that sucker home yesterday on top of the mulch. We are going to get it planted today. I have just the spot for it. Instant landscaping lol.

 

Im really sorry about Saturday mornings post. I could have just cried when I hit the wrong button. That is what I get when I try to do something about half asleep.

 

Ok my friend that lives in Ga. the one I was telling you all about on Friday. Is having her surgery tomorrow morning. Her name is Renee Brooks. And I would love it if you all would pray for her. She is a really special girl. Craig also knows her. I introduced them because I thought he could help her with some things.

I am going to be on pins and needles till I hear from someone on Monday morning.

 

I was so glad to finally hear from Nutti. I was getting really worried. So glad she is doing well.  

 

I just got home from Work. Busy as usual. Ran most of the night. But only worked from 3 to 9 but it was 10 before we got out of there.

 

 

 

BEVERLY  B: yes you will get lots more energy after you lose some weight. Just push yourself after you get well to get some muscle strength built up and  the more muscle you get built the more energy you will have.

 

I hope your family reunion went really well. And you had lots of fun.

 

No I don’t think you have a certain amount of time on the paper work but you wont get an appointment until you get it back in that is for sure.

 

Smoking is something that really needs to be stopped before surgery. If I can do it you can too. I quit about 15 years ago after smoking for about 30 years. I started smoking when I was about 15 I think and when I quit I just quit. I had tried several ttimes in my life to quit by tapering off and I never had any luck. So the last time I just lay them down and that was it. No more. I know that if I picked up one again I would want to smoke again so I don’t dare do it. And besides part of the reason you are having the surgery is to get healthy again isnt it? Smoking isnt healthy. No way about it .

Good luck and we will help encourage you as much or as little as you want.

 

 

RIANNE:  Glad you are doing better on the liquid diet today. Wont be too much longer now only 8 days now. Can you believe it. The first day of a new life.

Make of it what you can , That is great the 2 pounds lost. You are off to a good start. It is very exciting when you first have your surgery and every day you get on the scale and it has gone down some more.

 

Yummy Popcorn one of my favorites. I had a cup ful the other night. Was sosoooooooooooo good.

 

Where was everyone today. Lol I guess everyone else took off today too.

It shows that 33 people lurked on this thread but only 2 posted

 

JANET: I hope the wedding went great. Hope you get some pictures posted tomorrow.

 

 

LOVE AND JOY AND PEACE ABOUNDS

JAN

Morning Jan, did you get my voice message on your phone? Iam to worried about Renee. I thought she told me she was going Monday Morning not today. I tried calling her and she wasnt there. I'll be praying. Today my back hurts so bad,Iam about to cry. But, Im sure I will be ok. God Bless Craig Lee

Goodmorning All Boy what a day it has been. We had the reunion and had about 50 people there. I have 5 children, 16 grandchildren and 1 great grandson so most of them there were mine...haha....only 1 of my grandsons was not there and he is in Iraq...He will be coming home in Sept so I will be really glad when he gets back home..Had lots of good food and lots of visiting with everyone. Now my sister and bil have left to go back to VA. She is retiring July 27th so the next time she comes she won't have to hurry to get back to work. And maybe I will be a lot lighter and won't be in so much pain.  I was just wondering about the time limit on the paperwork because I don't go see my pcp until Aug 2nd and didn't know whether I should go ahead and mail my paperwork in before he sends a referral. All so confusing when it really shouldn't be. I am just anxious to get the show on the road but don't really know what to do first.  Janet hurry and post some pictures. We can hardly wait to see..... Darn I looked at the almanac wrong and it is the 10th that is a good day to stop smoking. I think I will call my pcp Monday and have him write me a script for chantix because I have already got it in my head that I can't just lay them down. Darn cigarettes..I am such a pessimest..I have got to start thinking I KNOW I CAN!!! I KNOW I CAN!!!!!  I am going tomorrow and get me some protein mix and start trying to lose some of this weight... Good luck to those of you on your liquid diet. 9 more days that is awesome.. Jan my plants didn't bloom this year either. I have a bed of Iris, they didn't bloom, my clematis has about 3 blooms on them and they have not vined very good this year...they are usually full of blooms. I also have alot of peonies and I didn't get one flower on them this year..I have a japanese lilac that I planted outside my bedroom window (wanted the smell of lilac coming into my bedroom) and it didn't bloom either but it doesn't smell as good as regular lilac. Well guess I will hit the hay....hope everyone has a great Sunday..  

good  morning Jan and gals,  congrats on only 3 more pounds!!!  havent posted in awhile but i am a FAITHFUl daily reader, i started doing protein shakes fri brought me vanilla but was wondering what all younes used to change flavor? some 1 told me to use choc sugar free pudding.... ive did 2 shakes a day and then a light meal for dinner and then maybe popcorn,,, going by the Dr tmrw  to make sure i be doing this the right way cos my 1st appt is AUg 29th and i at least wanna be 2 months the way on the right road. seems alot of my friends and family have to keep telling me negative things about this surgery, why cant they let it be and let me make my own decisions and they stick by me whether they agree or dont agree, its my life my body, ive spent years trying to lose to only gain back more each time and now its my turn to do what i think is best for me and that is surgery. Mona started protein drinks with me and then this week we will start working out 3 times a week, is that enough 3 times a week??? im glad our prayers worked out for every one.... 8 more days Rianna and chell im so excited for younes!!!!!   u give me faith to keep going, actually u all do, i love this board!!!!just almost 2 more weeks to next meeting!!!  and then i can see some of you again and meet more of you. can any 1 tell me how to do the ticker? tks hope every one had a GREAT weekend. tks for every thing love Sheila

Sheila~ Thanks for the congrats, I've been using Sugar Free Nesquik, Sugar Free Caramel Davinci Syrup, Crystal Light, and some fresh and frozen fruit NO SUGAR added....to change the flavors of my shakes.... I just didn't tell most of my friends/family b/c I didn't wanna listen to them....it's my life and I'm the one that wants to live to enjoy it....if they don't support me, then I don't need 'em in my life! I won't get to meet ya at this months meeting but I'll be at next months as far as I know :-) *hugs*

Hello Missouri, Good to see you all.  Rianne and Chelle - a week from tomorrow.  WOO HOO.   Regarding people being negative to you about surgery - when I told my co-workers I just said I have made this decision and I know there can be negatives but I need your positive support and so please don't tell me horror stories.  I know you love me and want the best for me and this is what I believe will be best for me.  They were wonderful - supportive when I had to go to appointments during the day.  I can never ever thank them enough.  DH was a little concerned at first - thought maybe I could do it myself - but after attending the informational seminar with me he got excited for me and is now my biggest supporter.  I think my DD misses her big Momma but she has never been ugly about it.  You can't really argue with success and I am no longer diabetic or hypertensive and my high cholesterol is gone.  I will always have rheumatoid arthritis but am in remission right now and the rheumatologist says weighing less is a big positive.  I have a family history of gout on both sides so I do take medicine to prevent that but most of my pills now are vitamins!!!  Love it!!! Yesterday we went to the gym and then went out for breakfast.  I am a cheap date as I can make an omlette last two or three meals!!!  I marinated chicken breasts and did them on the George Forman for dinner last night along with a pea/lettuce salad I got the recipe for at WalMart.  It was good and had lots of cheese in it so it was protein rich too.  I am still losing but down to one pound a week where I used to lose two.  That's OK.  Always knew the last 6 or 7 pounds would be the toughest.   This AM we went to the gym again and then I made whole grain pancakes.  Claudette has taught me to eat peanut butter on them - don't know if that's good or bad teaching.  I also like the Smuckers sugar-free syrup from Wal-Mart.  DH likes them too so it makes it easy for me.  He just eats real syrup.   Don't know what we'll have tonight - probably leftover chicken breast.  I'm kind of out of inspiration right now.  Maybe I'll make that Chinese chicken salad/cabbage  stuff without the ramen noodles.  That sounds good and could use up the chicken breasts.  YEAH!!! I see Dr. Edwards this week and am anxious to talk to him about a goal weight and how much more I need to lose before tummy tuck and arm lift.  I hope I can have that done at Christmas break again.  That would only be one year from surgery but would be depend on the goal he sets for me.   Told DH this AM that I never thought I would wear size 8-10 pants/jeans and still think I needed to lose more weight but it is my darned tummy!!!  We'll just have to see what Dr. Edwards says. I will sure be praying for Renee, Jan.  I know you've been such a good friend to her.   Will be anxious to hear from her tomorrow.  Can't wait for those wedding pictures. Hugs and love to all you dear friends, Lana

Dear Jan and OH Peeps~ THANKS for all the prayers and well wishes for a wonderful wedding with nice weather and all of that. I cannot even tell you how beautiful my daughter looked or how wonderful the wedding was. I started crying when she turned around from getting the gown zipped up-until after the wedding-LOL...and I mean-like the nose running from crying-LOL...She looked like she stepped out of a fairy tale book and it just took my breath away!! How gorgeous she is-we wont be getting the pictures back tomorrow-but I WILL post some in here for all of you to see who wont see me at the COF meeting this month!! It was one of the best days of our lives-thats for sure!! So-things leading up to the wedding were not so good~~~Mike and I went to town Friday night-and my ESP told me that Mike had to go with me and drive (thank you, ESP-LOL)  Anyhow-we went to Walmart and did some other errands-and stopped to get ice at the convienence store-and yep, the TRUCK BROKE AGAIN! The hose that he just fixed 2 days before-further back-had broke-were everything hooks to the engine underneath and when I got out of the truck-it was smoking like it was overheating and there was liquid shooting out from by the front tire-actually hit me when I was standing there-so I told Mike to turn the truck off-CRAP-not again-dont have time for this right now-have too much to get done by morning-and had been so freaking busy during the day-I just wanted to crawl into bed-LOL, of course-thats not what was planned-so Megan and Aaron came to the rescue this time-a trip to the auto parts store-for a line and another 6 quarts of tranny fluid-and lots of frozen/refridge stuff in the truck melting away while waiting to get truck fixed and get home!!  I got a call WHILE the truck was getting fixed-and my mom was being rushed to the hospital~she ended up being admitted to the hospital on Friday night and she is still there now. They have done a Cat scan and some ultrasounds and they are doping her with Morphine every 2 hours. She is NPO and they are running more tests on her tomorrow. They believe its renal. PLEASE PRAY FOR HER....She did not make it to the wedding, obviously-but we did go up there after we ate lunch-and Megan was still dressed in her gown and all-so her grams could see her all dolled up!! We stopped at the gift shop and bought her some really beautiful roses and Jon gave her a stuffed frog that makes noise and a butterfly balloon that Steph made....at least if she doesnt remember us being there-she will see the stuff we gave her. Called this morning and my dad said no news yet-and it would probably be tomorrow before they knew anything....I will go up and see her a little later today-although she sleeps most of the time-at least I can see her for myself.

Megan and Aaron came over Friday night-spent a couple of hours here-and then Megan spent the night, we stayed up and talked and got some wedding misc odds and ends finished. I couldnt sleep-and neither could Megan-the girl who sleeps like a concrete block-was up and trying to wake her brothers up as the sun was coming up-LOL....We had a 9 am hair appt to get to-well, we got there and no hair stylist! At 9:20 I called her cell phone to see where she was-she said she had Meg down for 10-told her that no, it was 9, because we had to get her all done and dressed and be at the park at 10:45-so I know it was 9. She said she would be right there and we went down to the store to get some cameras and stuff to decorate the car. While we were in there waiting-her 10 showed up-seems she had spilled on her appointment book and when she was re-doing it-she put the wrong times down for the day-by an hour for everyone!! So-we were running late. Yep-we were late to the wedding, but only by  about 10 minutes or so-was a good reason for me to speed-LOL.. She also didnt charge us for the hair!! I gave her some tip money, but gladly accepted the freebie since it made us late and made us a wreck...Acutally, Megan was cool as a cucumber and Mike and I were wrecks-My hubby was so funny-he kept going through all of his clothes-Ironing a lot of dress pants and different dress shirts and ties-and he was so nervous and fidgeting. Of course-every time I walked by him I hummed the wedding march and rubbed it in that HE had to walk his baby down the isle and give her away while trying not to cry!! Yes, he did wear his sunglasses while he walked her-but as soon as he gave her away-he took them off. He fought back the tears a couple of times, but I couldnt!! Instead of the unity candle, we did this sand thing-that was really cool-the pastor poured the foundation (black sand) then Aaron for his life before Megan (blue), then Megan for her life before Aaron (pink) than another layer of black-then together Megan and Aaron poured in theirs for their lives becomming one-and then the pastor sealed it-it was so cool!!! When and if they have children-they can add more sand in another color representing their children.

We took lots of pics during and after-and came back to the house and took even more-and I think my favorites are Megan standing next to a tree here-and Aaron peeking around the tree to look at her!! They all turned out great-and Jon was such a handsome little ring bearer-but quite shy-he didnt know a lot of the people there well, so I had to walk him all the way to the bridge and then give him a push to get up there with the pillow and rings!! Mel and Terry were there-but I could tell that Mel just wasnt feeling good-but she wouldnt say it or admit to it-until afterwards. I knew that no matter what I said-she wasnt going to stay home for this event. I felt so bad for her! She wasnt looking so hot either!! My little adopted daughter was there with Quinton (my little grandson) and so, of course, I had to hold him-and I felt guilty holding him while Mel and Terry were there, but Amanda didnt know about all the issues-and so- I tried to stay at a different table with him and such-and didnt want to hurt her feelings by not holding the little guy, but didnt want Mel to hurt either-so I didnt bring him over to them or anything like that-just couldnt bring myself to do that around her. That was pretty uncomfortable. Mike wouldnt hold him at all-and I knew why-told Megan to tell her to bring him out to the house sometime.

Came home-got everyone changed (I changed in the truck-couldnt stand staying in that beautiful dress and being sweaty-LOL) so anyhow-we kicked back for a bit-Megan and Aaron and some of their friends went out for awhile and then they all came out to swim and then were going out in the evening....So-about 11 pm, things finally got settled around here and I was so tired-I couldnt even sleep!!  We did get some more good news though., Megans friends hubby is bringing almost $300 worth of fireworks out here to do at the reception on the 28th and almost all of it is arial~Thats going to be so nice! I cant wait!! **Shebamae-sweety-I will be praying for you. Congrats on the weight loss so far and I did that same thing for several weeks-where I ate one small sensible meal and 2 shakes a day-and I lost a lot of weight doing that. I was doing that before the doctors told me to do the liquid diet-LOL-or I probably wouldnt have. I ended up on it for 8 weeks!! Anyway-I think starting out slow on the workouts wont burn you out as quick as every single day-and you might find after that, that you WANT to do it every day-but dont over-do it right off the bat-or you will feel punished!! As far as people who dont/wont be supportive-I stayed away from EVERYONE who was negative-this was MY LIFE and my decision and if my SO CALLED good friends couldnt/wouldnt support me-than I just cut ties with them-there were so many negative things that people said out of ignorance-and when I fought to give them the facts and showed them how miserable I was-than they would still come back with something. I just couldnt do that. I didnt want to hear continuously all the bad things about the surgery-I already knew the risks-as do all of us who embark on this journey-but whether someone agrees or not-they should stand by you-and part of that IS just supporting YOU!! So-girl- THE MO BOARD WILL BE YOUR SUPPORT, when you need us-just let us know!! good luck and we will be thinking about you-and hope to see you at the COF group!

**Bev-I went to my seminar on July 8th and didnt see my PCP until Aug 1st-and got my paperwork in then-I think you will be fine-as long as you dont have a lot of testing done and let it sit for more than 6 months-there were some tests I had to undergo again because they were over 6 mos old. I had some done while I was trying to get my old insurance to pay and they expired. SO-I would send the paperwork in WITH the referral/letter from your PCP so it ALL GOES together and nothing gets lost. Also-maybe if you ask them before you go in to have the letter written and what it needs to say-they can have it ready for you when you go to the appt and you can just pick it up at that time. Give them a week to do it-so they have plenty of time-as I had to wait for mine for 3-4 days because I gave it to them WHILE I was in for my appt.  Good luck!!  Also-good luck on the not smoking-I will keep you in prayer.

**Susan, Mel and Nutti-I am praying for all of you. I hope you ALL feel better soon. Susan-I didnt even have my phone turned on yesterday-I kept it on silent from the time of the wedding on and knew if something happened with my mom that one of my daughters would be called-but I just had so much going on-and my phone started ringing at 7 am-and I bet I had 25 calls between 7-10 am....so I put it on silent when we got to the park and forgot all about it. Im sorry. I will try and give you a call today. **Jan-I will be praying for your friend, Renee. I know she will do just fine!! Let us know as soon as you hear something. Its Denise L's b-day tomorrow too-and then I dont show anything on my calender until the 16th when we have Chelle and Riannes surgerys. YAY.... Well, all, I am getting off here-getting some laundry done today and getting some things out for dinner tonite-then I have to go through some more stuff for the sale and go and see my mom at the hospital. I will see you all tomorrow-I hope!! Mike goes back to work tomorrow after 11 days at home and so I dont think Mr. Jonathan will be doing too hot-he has been enjoying having his daddy home with him every day the past week and a half. I may just take him on a field trip tomorrow to get his mind off of it-and cant take him to the fish park-which is his favorite place to go-because Mikes work is right down the street and I know Jon will be really upset IF we go there and cant stop and see daddy-so we will find something else to do. I hope all of you has a wonderful Sunday-and take a minute and tell your loved ones that you love them!!  Love and prayers to all, Janet 

Happy Sun OH and Jan

Is everybody getting their day of rest in??? Well 8 more nights of sleeping and a wake up and then Rianne and myself will be on the losers bench!!! WOOOOOHOOOOO!!  Jan, I will be praying for your friend. Hope everything comes out okay. I weighed 303 yesterday after weighing 319 since quitting smoking. Today, I weigh 299.   Yeah in the 2's already thats a plus. Now, I know about being a slave to the scales so I won't weigh again unil Sat. But heck 20 pounds lost can you believe that??? Janet, glad the wedding went well. Everything sounds great. I hope your mom gets to feeling better and will be praying for her. Lana, congrats to being so close to goal. good luck at the doctors. Let us all knwo how it went. Mel, hope you're doing okay. I miss u girl!!!!! Sheila, Lana is right ask your people for support and tell them nicely if they can't suport you then lets not talk about it. Unfortunately, a lot of us lose friends during this process. The way I believe is that if they can't support me then maybe they weren't my friend in the first place. Then on the other hand I have to remember that maybe they are scared. Good luck and we will always be here for you. his is our life and we get to make the choices on how to live it. Have a great Sun. Love y'all Hugs Chelle

Hello to everyone.  I am new to the board and have just attended the seminar....I am hopeful, anxious, and excited all in one.  I have a busy schedule during the week so will probably on post on weekends.  I love my weekends!  I too will be praying for your friend Jan.  I enjoyed reading about the wedding and the successes!  Have a great week folks. Linda72