1/11/2005 
Hiya family. I've deceided to make a whole new change on my profile. That meant just completely starting over on my info. I'm in pending on medicaid and waiting is longer than I expected, but its ok. I hope you like the new layout I have here. The webset here is mine and some of the graphics are mine too. Thats what I do with my time now is design things on paint shop pro. It takes my mind off of so much. Love ya all. Dreamie 

1/20/05(I'm approved) I know that I said I wasn't going to update much but this one is so important....I HAVE A DATE. Im scheduled to have surgery on Feb. 11th and wow is that just close or what. I didnt expect this and im nervous, scared, excited and all the above....I don't know what to say but thank you Jesus for hearing me while I prayed to you.....Good luck to all that have just had or is on the way to their surgery. Muah Dreamie 

2/10/05 Here is a new update for once. I have been set back on my surgery due to serious infections in my lungs. They have now scheduled me for April 14th, and thats ok with me. I've waited over a year to have this done and just a little longer isn't going to bother me at all. I know that God must have a reason for me to be waiting so I'll be patient and care for the ones that are having theirs now. I need to be well anyway when I have it done. Take care family and may God be with you all during your surgeries and to those that have already had theirs may you continue to be blessed. Dreamie 

February 15, 2005 I'm going through this I wanna cry and bawl all the time right now phase. I was so hurt this past Friday when I knew it was suppose to have been my surgery date and they had to postpone it due to my lung infections. I'm beginning to wonder if this is the right thing for me and if it is when is it going to happen. I've been trying to lose some weight on my own but so far it's going no where. I don't eat much anyway but the fluid I hold on my body don't want to come out. Man, if it did though, I would be like 80 pounds lighter in a heartbeat ya know. Might need a river to put all that water in but it wouldnt be laying on me anymore. Hope everyone had a good Valentine's Day. Hugzz to all. Dreamie 

February 21, 2004 My lungs are getting a little better finally, but not enough to brag about. The coughing and backfiring at the same time is gone (lmao) but man that was some funny shit doing that. My son would laugh so hard he would be crying and I would get to laughing with him so here we'd go with the coughing and backfiring again. I lost my voice completely, but when I did laugh, I sounded like a honking goose. It was like hahahaha HONK hahahahah HONK, but the haha's were silent and then this really loud HONK would come out. This has been a comedy show for my family I'm tellin ya. I've picked up sewing again and I've been making those fabric purses that people love so much. They are so cute!!! I'm going to start selling them and put all the money that I make on them into my son's a.a.u. basketball team for them to travel on. I know it may not be much but it's something and I really want to do my part. My own website is about ready to be put up and shown to the world. My surgery is suppose to be in April now so I wish it would come on. I wanna be thinner by summer so people don't mistake me as shamoo again. Hugzz Dreamie 

March 2, 2005 Hey peeps, well guess what, the surgeon that Im going to was going to wait and do my surgery in April but now they sent me a letter telling me that my new date is March 21st. Am I scared? Well yeah, but not to the point that I don't want to have this done now. I've waited so long and I'm so ready to have my life take a whole different direction. My lungs are finally clearing up and I have most of my voice back. Please think of me the next few weeks because I'm going through this emotional crisis now. Ive been told that this is normal before and after surgery but wow this is worse than my pms ever was and I haven't had that for almost 7 years now. sheesh, roller coasters don't have nothing next to my emotions right now..... Love ya'll Hugzzzz Dreamie 

April 1, 2005 they canceled me again, my hemoglobin levels are to low, so i have to take iron for a while. 

July 4th, 2005 So many thoughts and feelings are crossing me right now that I don't really know where to begin with this. I have worked really hard on my own to lose this weight and I'm not doing as well as I thought I was. I went through a messy divorce back in Feb. and it was final in April. Last night was the first date I had been on since that and it was the most horrid thing ever. The guy expects me to lose more weight before he will take me out again. It upset me so much that I walked home from town and just cried myself to sleep. He called me this morning and told me that once I get more weight off I'll be so beautiful and he would love to take me out again. Forget him, I told him he wouldn't even be worth my time of day by then. I think I said that point blank enough. Piss on him. Now, yeah i want to lose more and more and more. I think I might go ahead and have the surgery done now..... Dreamie 

July 19, 2005 Well, after me trying so hard to do all of this on my own, I didn't do near as well as thought I would. I gained nearly 40 pounds back in a month and most of that was fluid but so hard to get off. I deceided to go ahead and have gastric bypass and become a loser with rest of ya'll. My surgery date was July 14th, and i was released to come home no the 17th. Pretty good I think, only 4 actual days in the hospital and knowing I had open RNY done was just amazing to me. I'm still very sore, and im tired. Seems like any activity I do at all just puts me to sleep when I get back on the house. I walk and drink lots of water but I've not got the protein drinks yet. I need to go wal-mart to get this today or tomorrow. The surgery itself went well, I was in there for nearly two hours and my surgeon said I did great. I was such a nervous wreck by the time it was my turn to go back that I was acting like a total nut. They gave me a shot of something in my IV that made me calm down so much that I was nearly asleep. The next thing i remember was being on the operating table and they had just wrapped my legs in these things that inflate and deflate during surgery to keep the blood flowing good in them. The nurse looked at me, put my little air mask on my face and said" I'll see you when you wake up a loser" I laughed and that was it lol. I did well on beginning walking and all, but at first I had a lot of dumping symptoms. I was breaking out in a sweat so bad that it would just pour from my face. I was having like dry heaves trying to throw up but there wasn't anything there to let out. I thought I was dying at tat moment and was going to be thrown into hell for even having the surgery done. I did lose a lot of blood but they couldn't tell where it was going or coming from, so I had to have two pints of blood put in me and that scared me some. I had never thought of the idea of me taking blood and what if it had some sort of disease in it? I had my mom call me and I talked it over with her and we both agreed that it would be in my best interest to go ahead and get the blood to make me feel better. I did, and boom all of a sudden my energy was rising and i felt like i could breathe really good. I walked more and more up and down the halls, and even outside to visit with patients that weren't feeling so good. As of today, I feel Ok. I'm home and just so sleepy that I can't stand it. My family and friends have been so good about being here for me and I'm so thankful that God blessed me with loving people like them. My son who will be 13 on the 21st, has been the best. He makes sure that I can get up and down where ever im sitting or laying and he's even helped out a lot on the housework. WOW WOW WOW!!! Thats my update for now, take care and good luck to all of you that are ready for an upcoming surgery. Gina July 25, 2005 It's 11 days post op today and I'm still so far still doing really well. I can now sleep in my own bed and lay on my side and even flop my hinny in my little pool that I lay out in. Gotta keep that tan huh. Im on Mushy foods now, which is so much better than all liquids, but I notice that when I get really full that my my belly just sticks out. Looks like there is a little egg stuck where my new stomach begins now. I drink all that I want and food isn't an object much to me at all. I had to make myself eat something yesterday since I didn't feel hungry at all. My incision is almost completely healed and its looking like a long fingernail scratch. Its so great. I thought for sure I was going to have this big nasty ugly scar but I don't and im so thankful for dr rod knowing his stuff. My clothes are all getting baggy on me and im going to have to go shopping soon to get a few things thats going to fit as i go down. Maybe we should invent some of those adjustable undies and all too. Have a good week ya'll....im near 30 lbs down and still shrinking... Until we shrink again... Gina 

July 28, 2005 Two weeks ago today was my surgery and im doing really well. I miss my food so much though. I crave salty things and wish I could have a big bag of doritos and a turkey breast sandwich smoothered in mayo. Yeah im having the im dreaming of food attacks and bad. I can't have any pop at all and that blows me down since I was a big Diet Coke drinker and would guzzle those things really fast. Now im lucky if i can get in a 12 oz bottle filled with sugar free lemonade down. I can't see much of a difference in me yet, but i can't wait until I do. Others say that my face and all look so much smaller but I can't see it at all. I look the same to me. I go to the Dr. Monday afternoon so I'll know for sure what my weight loss is by then. Update for today complete... please come again Gina 

August 10, 2005 Well I'm almost a month out and im down nearly 50 pounds now. I don't get in any of the protein since it makes me dump and water is just horrid to me. I can drink something one day, love it and can't stand the smell or taste of it the next day. My dr. has put me on solid foods already and there isn't a lot that i like now. My mother cooked a meatloaf Monday and just the smell of that ground beef sent me flying to the bathroom. I'm still eating cereals, oatmeal, yogurt and things like that. I woke up this morning and was amazed to see that i had rolled over on my belly in my sleep and was sleeping so comfortable there. Took me a few minutes to get rolled back over but that tickled the piss out of me knowing that i did that. My clothes are all getting baggy on me and even my panties are starting to sag off my booty. Ive dropped down a bra size already and thats awesome cause i think thats where a lot of my top weight is at. Wonder how I'm going to look 6 months from now? I am still going through these feelings that I wish I had never done this. I watch people eat things and just enjoy it so much and i just sit there and watch. I want to guzzle a diet coke so bad i can just taste it, but i can't even hardly drink a sippy cup full of water. Im still not doing to much at all though. IM BORED!!!!!!! Im going to put a weight chart on here soon or something to show ya'll how this progress is going with me. Happy losing peeps, and prayers to those wishing to have surgery. Gina 

August 23, 2005 Well im down 62 pounds since my surgery and it seems like ive become a snow"chick" thats melting in the sun. I love this weight falling off like it is, and I love watching all my clothes just fall off of me now. I walk almost two miles a day and drink lots and lots of drinks with water in them. Vitamins gag me to death so i need to find something that don't make me sick. Food isn't a big option like it use to be and I don't consume my time and energy going through McD's and buying them out like i was feedling a family of ten when it use to all be for me. I can eat solid foods pretty good but somethings I still can't stand the smell or taste of. Ground beef has become my major enemy and we fight every time i get near the stuff. Makes me dump and that is the worse feeling ive had next to childbirth. I can't hardly wait until I'm in my 6th month, I wanna see how much Ive lost and how good I look by then. I'm not having a lot of skin hanging problem since I was really small before I got pregnant with my kid "many years ago" and never did lose the weight back. My dr. says that skin has a lot of elasticity and that since I was so small before that if I work out and do right that i may only need a abdominoplasty done if even that. Im sure that I will want that considering that I went this far to get a tool to lose weight with why not get a cut and take it all off later. That's a long ways from now though. I'll get some new pics up of me soon and show my body this time. I'm starting to feel better about the way I look, but hey where did my boobs start going?????? Someone bring'em back..... Hugzzz. Gina 

September 22, 2005 Here is the most recent pics that i have of me, Im still using my webcam to take pics with so i dont have any body shots yet at all. I'll get a reg. digital camera soon. 

November 17, 2005 So I haven't been here in forever and a day, but here is my latest update. I have finally lost 116 lbs. OMG that is just awesome huh. Here is a before and now pic that i fixed up for ya'll to see. I'm going to need a tummy tuck done as soon as i get down to my goal weight. I work out and walk a lot, but the water and protein thing, i can't handle it at all. I drink a lot of tea with splenda in it and dt sodas makes me so sick that i wanna lay in the floor and die. I still don't eat bread, makes my stomach fill up to fast and keeps me from using the bathroom at all. The only meat i can handle is chicken and thats just like two very small strips and nothing else with it. I'm no longer taking High BLood pressure pills, water pills, or anxiety meds. I have went back to work full time and my legs dont hurt at all when i come home. My energy level is awesome, but yes i still have days that i fall out really fast. I can't eat fast food at all, and thats the main thing here cause i use to hoof down big mac's like they wasn't going to make anymore. 

December 10, 2005 Amazing, wonderful, dream come true, is just some of the things that i can say right now about the way that i feel toward all my weight loss. I have people that i run into now and they have to look at me a couple of times to be sure that it is me. Some of the ones that use to tease me and make fun of me so bad are doing double takes at me. I had one yell fatass at me a few days ago then when i got out of the car i almost busted a gut laughing cause her jaw almost fell to the ground looking at me lol. It was funny, cause now shes bigger than me and for many years now, ive wanted so bad to lose the weight, now here i am. I'm wearing jeans to show off my butt and i work out all the time. I know for sure im getting back into weight lifting now and i would love to work on becoming a fitness model. Yeah i know big dream, but its my dream and i did that when i was younger and way beforei got bigger than the front of a mack truck. I look back now and I wonder why i waited so long to have the surgery done. I was so scared of what would happen and what if's. I would do this 20 times over now. No questions asked or complicating things around it, just do it and get it over with. Sure I understand there are many of you out there still making the decision to do this or not, DO IT. You'll not only see the difference in your body but in your emotions, personality, and all around dispostion toward yourself. I stand in a mirror forever now and just look at how much ive transformed. I see bones around my neck that i swore was a tumor going from one side to another, but they turned out to be collar bones that i hadn't seen in over 13 years. If your questioning this, ask yourself this, what do you want the most, the food or the weight off? I miss some things that i can't eat now, but i compromise and eat what i can. Sure I still cheat, im human, but yes i dearly pay for it. I haven't had any serious complications at all, just a few dumps, constipation, and your normal everyday things that come with having this wls done. I love who im becoming and i finally feel like me again instead of this woman trapped in a huge body that could hardly move. Ok thats enough for now, thanks for all the support and email from ya'll. Take care and good luck on "your" journey. Follow my link where it says website up at the top and you'll see my pics there. There are no graphic ones but you can sure tell the big difference and make sure you go into the folder called before gastric and be amazed like i am. 

December 21, 2005 Here is lil Christmas image for ya'll. Happy Holidays everyone and remember your all loved. Feb. 8, 2006 Well, today I had my 6 month checkup and all was great but I have a hernia and need to have repair done. Umm, for one, i dont have a clue what this thing is in my tummy and how it go there. Any comments and email is greatly appreciated right now. Did I eat something to make it come in there? Yep im a little worried over it, but my dr did tell me that its an automatic approval for my tummy tuck now. YAY ME, I think lol. Heres my pic showing from Nov til now difference, enjoy, I know i am..... Gina

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Powderly, KY
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36.4
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RNY
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07/14/2005
Surgery Date
Aug 02, 2004
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