A year and a bit more....

Jul 03, 2009

I can't believe that it has been a year...but then again the size I am something must have happened in that year! 

Let's see how do I explain what I have learned and what has happened in a short way?  hum.....

I guess to jump in is to say I can jump, walk and run with the best of them.  I can WALK...my grandson is visiting right now and we walk and walk and walk.  We have spent an HOUR walking around town and that could never have happened before. He loves going on walks and begs to go and we go.  We go to the park and play, we go for walks, we walked to the cemetery (probaby about a mile and a half round trip) to visit his big sister's grave and make sure that the flowers were ok there.  We walked to the post office (about a mile round trip) and back so that we could mail some packages.  We stop and play at the park and I can keep up with him, he is 22 months old.  THAT is a miracle...but THAT is one of the many reasons I wanted to have surgery, to be able to spend time with my grandson and others that may show up down the road.

I have a YARD...and I LOVE it!  Now my DH was taking care of it the last 18 or so years, that used to be my love, being able to go and mow the lawn (yeah a bit crazy but a stay at home mom to 5 who were born within 7 yrs of one another leaves all minor things that got me out of the house a treat!).  He did good but our yard was getting smaller and smaller as he decided not to mow the weeds in certain places of the yard.  This drove me crazy I WANT a nice yard, and he just wanted to keep it mowed.  Well this summer those weeds have gone....it took me a month of mowing and working at getting those weeks mowed to do it but we now have a wonderful yard.  I have flowers that are kept weeded as well.    I am so thrilled that I can do it, not rely on someone else and beg and plead for them to keep it nice.  

I have a LIFE!  I can go shopping and spend time with my family, walk up the stairs to visit my daughter's in their apartment and just plain LIVE!  This is awesome to me.  Something I had been destined NOT to do.  I enjoy going places and doing things now, I don't dread it!  

I have to remind  you though, I have to take vitamins EVERY DAY!  I can live with it.  I take in the monring:  1 multi vitamin, 1 zinc, 1 vitamin D 50,000IU, 1 vitamin E, 1 Vitamin A and 1 vitamin K.   In the evening (bedtime) I take:  1 multi vitamin, 1 zinc, 1 biotin and 2 calcium citrate, and every other day another Vitamin D.  My labs are good.  My vitamin D is where the PCP wants it, but it is still low according to others and newly suggested numbers by the AMA (they are NOW saying that numbers should be 80-100). My level is 39.  

All in all I can say that this has been the most interesting ride of my life.  5 kids and  a hubby, two grandchildren but I still think that the DS has been the biggest miracle.  It has given me my life back...diagnosed with a limited life three years ago, now I have an unlimited life.  I am HEALTHY and living my life to the fullest.  Thank GOD and Dr. Sudan for this wonderful gift....


Starting weight:  Jun 12, 2008 was 308 lbs.
Today's weight :  July 3, 2009 is 175.5 lbs
Goal weight :  unknown date  is 140 lbs. 

I am heading down the road of sucess and added life! 

I really am a Nebraskan enjoying THE GOOD LIFE!

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