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Lori thank you to you, your family, and the OH family, what an amazing day!  It was so much fun seeing everyone and all the inspiration of everyone there. It was awesome!

We just found out that my Mom has brain and lung cancer and they aren't sure if it has gone anywhere else.  They found a large cancerous tumor on her brain and they removed it a couple of days ago but she is too weak right not to put her through tests to find out where all the cancer maybe.  If you could keep her in your prayers I sure would appreciate it.  I have to leave for Florida on Tuesday afternoon, need to be home before she gets her first radiation treatment.  I am very sorry that I will be missing the first DS support group and Jess I promise I haven't forgotten about the vitamins I owe you for, thanks for your patience.  I am sorry that I haven't had a chance to see you.  Just pm me an address and I will gladly mail you payment for them.  Thanks DS family for all of your support, caring and for always being there.  Linda

It is 3:30 am, can't sleep :-), surgery is only 5 hrs from now.  So many thoughts and feelings running through my head.  I thank the Lord for prayers and the peace only He can provide.  I can't believe my day is finally here, woo hoo!  I am so excited.  I am not looking forward to being in pain but I am looking forward to starting life again, getting off of medicines, and helping others get to the same place.  6 months ago, I never thought today was going to get here and this morning it seems like it go her super fast... :-) 

This time next week Lord willing I will be Switched!!!!!!!!!
i am so happy, excited and nervous and so much more I can't even begin to express
all the emotions that I am feeling, my insides are just reeling if you know what I mean.
I would like to ask if you guys don't mind that you keep me in your thoughts and prayers and
Dr. Inman also that the surgery will go well and that everything will be okay and that
the healing process would be the best case scenerio...   I am trying to pump up the protein
and cut down on carbs to keep my liver small enough hopefully that maybe I can have a lap
surgery I still haven't been told which way she is going to do it since I have had
some previous abdominal surgery.  I hope this week goes by super duper fast and
doesn't drag along you know.  It kind of makes you feel like your being reborn or given another
chance again that you might have never, ever had otherwise and my goal is to take advantage of
that and live, learn and try to help others to do the same.  Well, I know that I am just rambling
but I can't help it.  I'm having a hard time concentrating today at work but I better get back to it.
I have not told anyone at work about the DS and truly have not decided if I am going to or not,
I am praying for peace where that is concerned.  I should start a post and see what people
mostly decide to do.  Well back to work. I sure hope everyone has a blessed day and don't
work too hard...  linda

almost down to the single digit waiting time frame... I am so very happy and excited.  I sure hope and pray things go well. I have only to take my paperwork by the hr office and the work side of things should be done, hopefully. I doublechecked and I have to be at the hospital at 6:30 on the 11th. Wow, now it is like it really is going to happen, isn't it... Dear Lord please let it go well and the outcome be well and please let Rick, the G-kids and kids all be okay, please let everything be alright, in Jesus name,amen.  Not sure how I am feeling, scared or just a little apprehensive?  One day at a time that is all we can do for sure... :-)

i had my nutrition class today, met a lot of nice people.  Now I just have to wait 12 1/2 more days, woo hoo! I am so excited, a little nervous but very happy the day is finally getting here.  I sure hope that when this is over that I won't feel so tired and crapy all of the time like I do now.  Today was a reality check on the amounts allowed eaten and what you can drink for a pretty good while, i enjoyed the information about vitamins because I have read so many different things.  Not sure about giving yourself a shot, but figure that isn't that bad.  Over all it was okay but I am glad it is over. 

12 1/2 days to a new "beginning", I just hope and pray all goes well and I never have to lose this same hundred pounds over and over... I think it would break my heart to do it all again...

18 days and counting and so many questions running through my head. What do i need to have here, what do I need to have at the hospital? What should I worry about eating. How does everyone sleep, sitting up or laying down. Will I be able to do the stairs when I get home. Will I be able to take care of myself alright. When do you start feeling better. How fast will the next 18 days pass. How hard will it be to get all of my paperwork for work ready that isn't going as fast as I hoped. Just rambling thoughts because with each day that passes I get more and more excited with anticipation.  Well I just wanted to share my rambling thoughts so I can look back someday and see what I was thinking and feeling.  I sure hope and pray things go well, all good and no bad, Lord willing. I kind of feel selfish for doing this in some ways but hope that it makes me a better person, mom and grandma and wife when all done that I will be able to live life fuller than feeling like a bump on a post so to speak.  18 days wow, and I never thought it was going to get here and now I am just a little over 2 weeks away from "switch" day.

I feel like i have been waiting sooooooooo long and now things are starting to seem very real.  I am 20 days pre op and I am so happy and so very excited. 

so I want to remember, i went in today, 8 tubes of blood, go in the cup, ekg, pulmonary test, breathing practice, IS, barium, xrays, ultra sound of kidneys, gallbladder, pancreas, dr mick, weight, history, talk, talk, talk... I met some really nice people. Told a lday all about the DS and she is scheduled for the 30th of Jan., she wanted to know why people don't hear more about it.  trying to pay it forward....................   still don't know if lap or open, dr mick, had no idea dr I was doing the ds lap, ... i just pray I get through it all well and heal well, open or closed.

I really feel like I am moving forward now.... I still have to get my paperwork straightened all out for work and see what is going on with that...

one day closer, one dream closer and one hope closer... that is what the DS means to me

just got home from Dr Mick's office.  I think all of my pre op testing went okay it seemed to. I'm a little tired couldn't sleep last night so I was up bright and early this morning.  All the tests were fine, the people at st v's were awewome but Barium............. well that is another story, YUK! That is all I can say about that...
How long before you find out if all is okay or not? 

i thought it was Wednesday next week but it is This thursday... woo hoo, I am getting so
excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I sure hope it all goes well