When you get this message... you will have completed this journey! Congratulations for being on the losing side! Your words of encouragement, to me, on the night before your surgery was touching and much needed. I thank you. Please let me know if you need anything from me... If it is just to talk to someone who is where you have been (and I can say have been because you will be on the losing side when you read this..yay!!) and no the struggles of being obese. I say a prayer now as I write this for God to continue to bless you and keep you as you go through your surgery. Stay strong. b