Surgery Approved!

Jan 26, 2012

Surgery has been approved.  Thank you Jesus!  Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather when they called me today and said that surgery was approved in only 6 days!  I didn't even know they had submitted.  Thought I had to wait until June to submit.  Now I'm on the fast track, with surgery scheduled for February 8, 2012.  Today should have been the start of my pre-op diet, but I didn't hear from Weight Loss Center until this afternoon.  I was still eating my lunch!  So I started pre-op diet this evening.  I am still in shock. This morning I wrote a (really bad) poem, but I will put it here because it's from my heart, and I don't want to forget it.  It's not really a poem:

Do you see me? In here - under all these layers? You've kept me hidden for so long. Do you even remember me?
Do you know who I am? You once loved me, cared for me and wanted to keep me safe. 
So safe that you hid me away. 

I am still here, buried under all your fears.  I still feel what you feel. Love - Hope - Desire
Release me.  Peel back the layers of fear. It's time to become the person we should be.
We can do this together.  We can feel the fabric of life.  Joy - Fear - Pain - Love - Guilt - Sorrow
We might touch the garments of emotion, but we will not wear them.  There will be no more shame.
Exposed to the world, embracing each other, we will re-enter the human race to live, forgive & receive forgiveness.

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