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I made up my mind at the start of summer of 05 I would do this. I had so many pit falls I was beginning to think maybe this wasn't such a good idea. My bones said other wise. First my nephew DeMarcus Jackson was killed in a Houston park. He was 11 and a goal fell on his head. I thought this weight was hard. But the hardest thing to do in my life was to call my brother to tell him his child was dead. He had went to Calif to bring his ill mother in law back to Houston.
Then "The Katrina". I lived in New Orleans for 12 years. I knew a lot of people there. I had made up my mind that I was going through this surgery so the first thing I did was empty out my closet. I weigh at one time 315lbs. Can't believe I just showed that to the world. Oh yeah like they couldn't see it. I lost to 260. Took a year to do that. Then I inched back up to 295. Made it back to 285. So I had plenty of BIG clothes to send to Baton Rouge, where my friends had made it to.
Now I am at 279. Talking to the UTMB Staff I found one of my biggest problems was I went about 15 hours with out eating.
I eat my last meal around 3 to 5 pm. Heartburn not control makes me do this so well. In the morning I take off and didn't eat anything until around 11 am. They told me I was straving my body. I said what???? You go that long and your body thinks that it is straving.
My BIGGEST PROBLEM is sweets. Just give me sugar, chocolate, butter and a spoon. I am good to go. I didn't care if I never ate any REAL food. And there would be days a row that I didn't eat any thing but sweets.
Then came Rita. Living in Galveston now we were running for our lives. Decided not to do like New Orleans. So I spent my birthday sleeping in a service station parking lot. It took three days to get from Galveston to Grand Cane La. where my youngest sister lives.
Got back home safe and all the appointments were taken at UTMB.
Finally........I have a pre op for Dec 7th and a surgery date for Dec12th.
Had all the test done including the stress test. Thats enough to kill the fitest horse. But I passed every thing. So we wait.
Did good for Thanksgiving also. I ate only one slice of cake, for three days. One thin slice each day. Then I just stopped. Usually eat ONE CAKE, ONE PECAN PIE and any thing else sweet thats there.
I weighed today and was happy to see I lost a pound.
That is a first in my life. I gain 10lbs over holidays. Not lose.
Well I've talked your head off. So much to tell. So little time.
Will keep you posted.
What I really want to know is......"is any one out there reading this? Or am I listening to my self type"
Nov 30, 2005
Today is not a good day for me. As a child I would tell my mother that my bones hurt. I grew up in the 50's. People just didn't go to the doctor then. She would tell me that I didn't have bones I had grisles. I said well my grisles hurt. Today my grisles are really hurting. My bones are so brittle. I have had two total knee replacements. One each knee. A bone removed from my right hand. Four total hip replacements. Two each side. I need to have the left shoudler replaced. Nothing was wrong with the shoudler. That is until I fell and hit it against the fridge. Wearing too cute house shoes and walked right out of them.
I fell and broke the hip replacement, walking too fast. Living in pain all my life I went home and went to bed. When I went to my family medicine Dr. Islam he wanted to know why wasn't I happy today. I told him I fell about two weeks ago and I am in a lot of pain. He sent me over to ortho. My hip doctor, Dr. Grecula could not believe I had been walking around all that time with a broken hip. We looked like an old Abbott and Costella bit. He kept asking "You were walking on this?" I kept saying "It's broken?" If it wasn't so sad it would have been funny. I told him I am in pain 24/7 so I just took it as more pain. Told me please never do that again. I could have bled to death. He re replaced both of them again. Not at the same time. I tell people if it wasn't for UTMB Galveston I would not be here today.
This is why I am having a hard time today. It is cold (for the island it is KOLD) and the cold gets into my bones and hurt more.
I am ready. I feel this weight makes me hurt even more.
And thank you all for letting me that you are out there with me.
PettyKash was my sewing name. My girlfriend would tell people let Petty do it for little cash. Then she said Petty will do it for Petty cash. It stuck. I changed the C to K
PettyKash or PK
Dec 1 2005
I should be counting down but I am not. I am too busy getting ready for the big Dec 12th.
The clinic called today. Wanted to know how I was doing and if everything was ok. That is a big reason I love UTMB Galveston. These people act like you are family and its not just a job. I am taking all the vitamins, minerals and protein now. I have already started the slow chew chew chew about a month ago. It gets very boring. I still read and watch TV and the clock when I eat. If I don't I will mess up. I put the food in my mouth chew then wait. I have to wait until the minute passes before I can take the next bite. That is boring so I read or watch TV until the minute passes then I can take the next bite.
I spent the day clipping coupons. When I have coupons I will go to the store and buy only the coupons. I love to see 30 bucks get knocked down to ten. Too bad you can't get the cash but hey discounts are good.
Dec 3, 2005
I have an angel!!! Tiffany Moore. I went to her site after she answered one of my many questions. I loved it and we are so much alike. I could tell from the minute her site came up on the screen. I have read so many post of people being afraid of the surgery right before it is time. I guess I have had way too many ortho surgeries to have sense enough to get scared. I just hope that I haven't fooled my self. I am thinking this will be hard. But not as hard as having your body fileted open like a fish and your bone cut into. But that has always been pain below the waist and I used my upper body to move me around. Now this will be a big change for me. My upper body will be whats in pain. I don't know if I know how to deal with that. I think I am trying to catch a cold. I hope not. With ortho a cold means no go. I guest its the same for gastric.
Dec 7th
Still fighting this cold. I went for my pre op today. I couldn't beleive they didn't want to draw more blood. They take it so much so often I guess they really didn't need it today. Every one at UTMB Weight Management are so nice. They said I was really up and excited. I am ready to go. I know this is a big step and a serious surgery. But when you have had as many as I have its just another walk in the park. Monday the 12th is my day. Jodie my dietian went over every thing then on the list of foods she blacked out spare ribs really dark. I said oh man.,,,,, I'll get over it.
I'm ready....This is the first Halloween and Thanksgiving that I DID NOT GAIN WEIGHT!!!! In fact I have lost two pounds. Two pounds is a lot for me. Can't wait to say I've lost 10, 20, 30lbs
Dec 8th
Bit the bullet today and I was slick about it also. I stated before my moms was totally against this surgery. Every one else said go for it. I just stopped talking to her about it. I have been helping her with the new Medicare Drug bill. So I left a message on her answering machine telling her that I need to help her get the papers filled out and for her to put it in the mail before I go into surgery Monday. She called back we did the papers over the phone. Then she asked why are you going in the hospital Monday??? Did you brake another bone? Here it comes. I told her no I am going for the gastric by pass. Told her again I would not see my 60's if I don't stop living in pain all day every day 24/7. I didn't give her a chance to be negative. Said if I want to be around I have to do this for my self. Sure I have lost 15lbs over the last 6 months but it is not enough fast enough. She listened and I think for the first time she stopped fighting me about it. I said you know they had to put someone elses bone in me the last time I broke my hip because my bones were to brittle to hold the metal and screws. I am not doing this for my looks. I already think I am cute. I am doing this because I want to live and I don't want to live in a wheel chair the rest of my life. Been there done that. I still have the wheel chair just in case. It is the old time wheel chair you know the ones before motors. I don't think I will ever get rid of it. It reminds me of where I have come and where I don't ever ever ever want to be again. Cold is fading. But it is cold for the island today. We went to 36...... for an island girl it may as well had been 36 below. I tell people for our winters we change our white sandals to black sandals after Labor Day .
Dec 11th
Counting down. Tomorrow is the day that my life changes. This is a big step. I have tried soooooo many diets sooooo many pills soooo many every thing. Today is all fluids and the FLEET. Doing colon tests I was ready this time. I started Wed, Thur and Friday taking fiber. Saturday I took Ducolax. Today the Fleet doesn't have that much to work on. I was told I could eat a breakfast then fluids. I decided not to eat. Can't believe I decided not to eat. I guess this is the first of many not to eats...
I always did put away more than 64oz a day. I wonder how hard will it be for me now that I will have no stomach size.
Well I guess this is time. Will talk to every one when I come home again. Thanks to so many who have answered EVERY question that I have asked. I know there will be more to come.
Dec 15th
Came home yesterday right before the big rain storm in the Texas Gulf Coast. I could not go get pain meds due to the storm. Did not want to be worrying about any one out in the rain. I knew this would be different for me. Pain above the waist not below. Even my grandson whos 14 noticed I was moving around too much compared to ortho surgeries. Came and asked was I suppose to be moving like that? They had to do a catheter on me Monday night. I felt full but nothing was coming out. So my Dr. Micheal Trahan wasn't taking any chances about me getting dehydrated. Kept sending more and more water and drinks to the room. I weighed in the hospital and saw I had gained two lbs. I wanted to choke the scale. Rose one of my dietians just happen to be up there when I got on the scale and said you just came out of surgery don't worry about that. That was Monday night and I haven't been on a scale since. Will post more when I am up to it. My hip is out of socket and that is causing me more pain than the surgery. Don't get me wrong the surgery really hurts in my lower left side of my stomach. I would give it a 3 and my hip left one gets a BIG 7!!! They keep telling me I won't be using my walker soon....Can't wait. I used it when I first started my walks in the hospital. I started using the IV pole to hold onto. So I am getting there.
Dec 16, 2005
I am in a lot of pain in my lower left stomach whenever I try to stand up. I had RNY Dec 12th. I thought by now the pain would be easing up. I do take a liquid pain killer. I don't need it until I try to stand. I thought about putting on firm control panties. Remember in the 50's they banded your belly when you had a baby. I started using my cane this morning because of the pain. I don't want to stop and I am walking all day every day around the house. I don't want to stand up because it hurts so bad. I start off walking bent over. Also around my navel has turned very dark. I sit all day. I get up at 6a.m. and don't lie back down until 9 or 10p.m.
Dec 16th
Couldn't stand the pain. I put on the control top panty. It still hurts but nothing like before.
Dec 17th
I came home Wednesday. Thursday I was sipping and thinking I am hungry. I had to think about it. Am I really hungry or am I just program to eat at a certain time. Friday was my first protein at home. I only did 4oz of Ampilify Protein from GNC. Took 2 hours sipping it. I am wondering about that. How can you only have 3 to 4 meals a day and its taking that long to sip a protein drink. Now the water and the Crystal Light goes down faster. A lot faster. I am seeing a weight lost in my legs. UGH I won't give a weight yet. I always weigh BUTT NAKED at home so there is a difference in what the Dr. Trahan's scale will say. I was so worried about my boobs I never realize my legs were going to VANISH
Dec 22 2005
Went yesterday and had the drain pulled out....OUCH OUCH OUCH
There is just a little pain left. That comes from where the drain was. I was suprised that I had lost 14lbs. OK 13.8...still amazing. I was worried that was too much too fast. They said it was mostly water. As long as it doesn't come back..... Any one reading this please let me know. I check the recent post and I have yet to see me.
Dec 24 2005
Merry Christmas
It has been a week for me. I had so much to talk about but got side tracked. I guess the biggest thing I want to talk about is my mom. She called Wed and when I wasn't around she knew she could tell me since I was out I could come to her house for Christmas. I let her know I was getting my drain out. OK Thursday she calls and she is talking to me as if I had no surgery.. I just listen to the words coming from her. It was all about food and where we could go eat for all the you can eat. Then we could go to the Kat Fish Kitchen you know you love the hush puppies. I knew from the start my mother would be my biggest enemy I just didn't realize how big. Every one else is in my corner.
I but on one of my favorite stretch dresses this morning and felt it drop from my shoulders. I always have to pull the sleeves up and adjust them to my hugh arms. The arms are still hugh but they have gone down. I have been walking around in too big PJ's to start with so I guess I really couldn't see it. I see it now and I am happy. No all you can eat for me. Besides I haven't dumped yet and I am not trying to find out just how bad it really is.
Dec 28, 2005
Yesterday was a big plus for me. With so much ortho I sit on a rolling chair to sweep the floor. No matter how I ease into it, it always drops about 1 to 2". Yesterday no drop!!!! That was a big plus to me. I have a full length mirror in the hall way that I pass and yes I am looking for the sagging skin and the weight lost. I had no waist line and I think it is trying to come out from hiding behind or inside my several spare tires.
Dec 30 2005
Today is not a good day. I have lost a very dear friend and neighbor. All the years we have lived next door to each not once did we ever have a disargeement about any thing. Katherine was 87. I used to drive her to seinor citizen so she could play bingo. She would always want to stop at the doughnut shop for the others. Once we got blocked in. She told me to drive up on the side walk because she didn't want to miss getting her own bingo cards. Told me to go ahead and drive on it, if you get a ticket I'll take care of it. I said "Look Miss Daisy, I ain't driving on no sidewalk" I went to calling her Driving Miss Daisy from that day and it stuck. Other people started calling her Miss Daisy also. Miss Daisy a lot of people will miss you. You touched a lot of hearts.
Jan 3 2006
I am finally starting to feel my strenght come back. This pass Saturday I was so weak I really thought I would have to go back to the hospital. I was drinking a lot of the water but nothing else. Everything tasted awful and I just wasn't eating or should I say drinking any of it any more. Finally my 14 year old grandson told me to let him see the list of what I could eat. I had sat up a mental block. I would read water broth jello and just stop. He said look you can have yogurt, cottage cheese and cream soups. You like all of this stuff. So we went and got it and I strained the soups. The next day Sunday I finally felt like I could move around. It didn't take me 3 hours to get cleaned up and dressed. Took only 2 ha hah ha. I saw I got a certain weight and stopped dropping. I wonder if that was because I stopped eating and my body kicked back into that strave mood. At least I have lost inches. I worn a pair of dress black pants with no stretch to them today. I bought years ago and was never ever able to get them half way zipped. My waist isn't moving but every thing else is. I can live with that.
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Jan 12, 2006 ONE MONTH OUT
I went for a check up on the 4th. I stayed at the 19.9 lost until this morning. Yeah I was pissed about it. Yesterday I stopped and looked. I wasn't getting in 64oz. I wasn't eating enough either. I felt like most of you that I was eating way too much too soon. So I didn't wait until I felt I was full I would just stop. This morning I had 8oz of coffee with unflavored protein in it. Can't make the coffee as hot as I want it in order to disovle the protein. Later came back 8oz of 2% milk (I just can't do the 1% or skim so no point in starting something I know I am not going to follow through on) With the milk I put one scope of the unflavored protein, one sweetner, one tablespoon of cocoa powder and blend. That taste so much better to me than all the other proteins I have been blending then pouring my money down the sink. I am back on the water. I have a water filter on the outside of my house and I have been drinking this water for 15 years now I can't stand the taste of it. Went and got a gallon of water and I am sipping it through a straw the way I did before the surgery. I just don't gulp. I can have soft and pureed foods. Still afraid of the softs and don't really do them too much. ANY WAY this morning I finally lost a pound. I just hope it doesn't find me in the morning. I can't stay off the scales either. I started to buy a new one this morning and decided I would go buy me a fancy bra instead.
Jan 25, 2006 I wanted to wait until I went to the doctor today before I reported in.
My surgery was Dec 12. Today I don't need my blood pressure pills any more. I hope I won't need my allergy pills when the tree pollens comes in March but thats just wishing. BP was 122/86 Weight was 247.7 Total weight lost since surgery 30.3lbs.
Oh I was so happy with that. I went in to see my Nut. She asked do you know how much you have lost? I said yes the nurse told me 30lbs. She said that was since your surgery but have you forgot that you lost 10lbs before you had surgery? I had!!!! How could I have forgot about 10lbs. Thats a sack of potatoes. She said you have lost a total of 40lbs from the day you first step into our clinic. I let out a scream and we started laughing.
I know every one is different and the lost are different. I was so happy with my 30 but now I am dancing knowing I lost 40!!!!!! I was praying for an 80lb lost and would try for 100. Now I feel like I am half way home and yesterday I felt well ok for 30. 10lbs makes a big deal and now I am really so happy. I am so glad I didn't buy all that chocolate out of the Dollar Tree yesterday......
YEAH ME!!!! Oh and I guess you can tell I feel good.
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Jan 31, 2006
There was a long wait in the drive thru. We decided to go in and wait. I have not been inside of a Popeyes or any where else I thought I wasn't going to fit in the booth or seats. I told my grandson I would sit while he went to order. The tables are bolted to the floor. Didn't know that. So after I finally realize I couldn't move the table out I pull the chair all the way against the wall before I sat down. The lady at the next table kept looking at me. I know she was wondering what is this old woman doing. I sucked in my tummy and sat down. I was a mile away from the table. I sat there looking at ALL the space between me and the table. No wonder the lady thought I was nuts. The whole time I was waiting on my grandson I kept looking at this new space I have between me and the table and I wasn't squeezed in at all. Go Petty Go Petty Go Petty
Oh and I wouldn't pull my chair up either!!!!!! I wanted to see that space. Oh and I have thighs too! I haven't looked down from a table and seen those in years.
Feb 21, 2006
I think around the early 1990's is when my weight really started piling on. When I went into a size 22 I wanted to die. But I kept on eating. Ate right pass the 22 and beyond. Didn't want any one to know I was now in a 22. What a difference a decade plus makes. Last night I tried on some 22 shorts in my closet. I was dancing all over the place. So glad to see me in a 22 with room to spare. Now I want to tell any one that will listen.
Feb 22, 2006
Went in to the WLS clinic today to have a follow up on my blood pressure. It was 136/80. Thats good for me. My weight was 237.8. Three weeks ago I think it was 3 weeks ago, I was 245. So as Bobby Bland says "I ain't doing too bad" I think if I hadn't been eating so much salt for leg cramps it would have been less. The bad news was they won't clear me to have my shoulder bone replaced in June. They said that was too soon. I would still be in a weight lost mode and I would not heal right. I hope I can keep dealing with the shoulder pain.
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April 10, 2006
They say things comes in 3's. I don't know but I sure have had my 3 today. First I got that phone call. My mama let me know my sister had passed around 4 a.m.. She called me after calling my brother. Gina had been very ill a very long time. There was nothing else that could be done for her but to keep her comfortable. We were all ready for this. No matter how ready you think you are, you aren't. At least I know shes not in any more pain.
Next I had a 20 dollar bill. Don't have a clue where I lost it. I thought I mailed it with some letters. It is so nice living on an island where every one is nice and knows every one. I went inside the postoffice and told them I thought I mailed my money. The supervisor got his keys and looked. Not there.
Next I have a wild dove that has been around here since 1999. I saw on the Discovery Channel they only live around 2 years. But I fed him good so I guess thats why he lived so long. He had gotten so old and the other birds were fighting him so much. Well this morning I went outside and he was on my porch. A cat had got him. He was in really bad shape. I couldn't catch him. I went and got my grandson out of school. My neighbor and my grandson caught him. We took him inside so he could die in peace. I am telling my self that my dove took my sister on to heaven.
With all of this I am doing well on my weight. My scale says 219 but I don't trust my scale. When I have time I'll run over to the clinic and get a legal weigh in.
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April 12, 2006
Well today marks the 4th month. I didn't have a doctors appointment. I went in just to weigh. I call their scales legal. Mine weighs what ever it feels like that day. Remember 315lbs was the last time I got on the scale at that weight. I flat out refused to weigh again until I knew I saw a drop. Today at the clinic I weighed in at 221.9. I hate those points. So thats a total of 93.1lbs gone. 7 to go to make that first 100lb mark. But I won't ask for a card until I make a 100 gone from the day of surgery which was 279. Oh that seems such a long way away. That would be 57.1 It doesn't seem that I can make it. But hey I never thought I would get this far either. So I'm kool.
We will bury my sister this Sat.
April 24, 2006
I am missing my sister Gina. But I have to realize just how sick she was and how much suffering she was going. Now I know she can rest.
I don't have any doctors appointments. When I went over there I was 221.9. Then I dropped to 218. I was so excited. Just 3 more pounds before I would have a total lost of 100lbs. How you say, I waited and waited and waited! This has to be a famous stall! So this pass Thursday thru Sunday there were a lot of people at my house for the annual Galveston Beach Party. So all those days I ate way more than I normally do. I have not had a weight gain since my surgery. I wasn't going to worry about it. I got on the scale this morining and it said 214!!!! I couldn't believe it! I even turned the scale so I could see it better with my BLIND aice! Now I am wondering have I been eating enough?? I know they say your body will go in a starve mood if it is not getting enough to eat. Maybe I just think I ate more. Oh H##LLL naw I ate more. I had bar b que slow smoked meats. I had my other sisters Paulas famous bar b qued baked beans, my potato salad and my home made sweet potato pie with my home made crust. I didn't have enough of the pie to dump. A new born would have been pissed with that small of a bite. Don't understand it. I do know I also dranked way more than my 64oz. because it was TEXAS HUMID! I just hope I don't see a weight gain tomorrow. Maybe I dropped because I was so busy these days entertaining and cooking and cleaning. UGH! Just had to ruin it didn't I? The cleaning,,,,,everything else was fine.
July 6,2006
It took me so lonnnnnggggg to get here I just thought that it must be a dream. I wanted to get here and stay here a minute before I start jumping up and down. I have been at 197 for days now so I think I am good to go.
I have to be honest. I really don't think that I can call this a stall. I started eating a few carbs EVERY DAY! I barely ate carbs at the start. I went to a support meeting and so many wanted to be a size 0, 2, 4. I was told if I kept at it the way I had been I could be a two too! I wasn't having any of that. I have no desire to be a two. I wasn't a two when I was two! When I went back in for a check up I ran this by my doctor and dietians. They all told me not to worry. I wouldn't be a two. Thank You Jesus. So I have been trying hard to get off the carbs. Let me tell you once they get in you they are hard to get back out of you. They are like a drug. You want more and more. I still do a little carb but nothing like I had started when I freaked out thinking if I kept eating right I would end up the BLACK TWIGGY for those of you old enough to remember Twiggy. So I have made it into onederland and it is my fault that it took me so long to get there. Where do I really want to be. My doctor at the start of this said if I lost to 180 that would be my 100lbs. He would like to see 170 but would accept 180. Now that I am 197 I really don't know where I want to be. We are just in the 6th month and they say we have from a year to 18 months. Only time will tell where I will end up but it won't be a TWO!
PS: It's amazing I don't have a problem saying over and over I weigh 197. When I weighed 315 I would have killed you for asking me. By how I have changed.
I have been so busy crying about not getting into onederland I lost focus on the pounds I have lost. Not just from the WLS but from the point I started to take control of my own life again. As all of you know 315 was the last time I would get on the scale. I am sure I went above that. I don't know how far above because I would not weigh. Now I can't stay off the scale. Ok I have held your attention long enough.
D R U M R O L L LLLLLLLLL
I have lost 120lbs. YEAAAaaaaaa ME
So when I whine about the slow down I will just remind my self 120lbs gone with the wind. Or where ever it went as long as it doesn't come back
July 12, 2006
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August 23, 2006
I see the sagging in my face, neck and arms. I don't like what I see. Then I look at my before photos on my profile. I ask my self why was I ok to bare my arms that looked like hugh basketballs now I am trying to hide them because they are flabby??? Go figure. Why was I ok to wear shorts (not daisy dukes) now that my legs are all wrinkled like a rasin I won't get in the water any more. Before at 315 I had 3 swimsuits. Now I don't have one. I think this is a case of we are never satisfied. My bones still hurt but no way do they hurt before this weight lost. Would I do it again???? To be out of my wheelchair, to only have to use my cane when I am walking a long distance, to be able to bend down and pick up what ever I dropped instead of asking some one to do it for me?????? In a heart beat. In fact I made up my mind just two days ago to finally get rid of my wheel chair
I WILL NOT BE NEEDING IT ANY MORE
I stop to count my blessing and where would I be in another couple of years if that long if I didn't do this. So I smile and ask for my senior discount and don't care no one is carding me any more. I'll get over it.
Sept 25, 06
Hurricane Rita
One year ago Rita raised hell with the Texas Louisiana coast. I spent 3 days on Highway 59 running for my life. I spent my birthday sleeping in a service station parking lot with 2 or 300 of my closest newest friends. Every one kept telling me happy birthday. My brother kept telling people its her birthday. It became a running joke. But as they say you have to laugh to keep from crying.
They thought Galveston and Houston would take the hit. My house was built in the 1880's. So it has taken a lot of hits. Rita did move it a little off the foundation.
Sept 23 in my birthday. Turned 56 this year. Last year I had made bar b que plans. In TEXAS we que and that is THE party. This year every one kept teasing me about my plans. I made NONE!!!!! I spent my birthday doing what I love the most......Spent in two fabric stores with 50% off coupons. Yes I am a pattern and fabric junkie. I really need help in that department.
Just my thoughts on my birthday that will be forever replaced with thoughts of Rita and Katrinia
 
Sept 11
They always say something in your life you will always remember exactly. Well I guess this is the second most thing for me. Katrinia will always be first because I lived in New Orleans for 12 years.
Back to 9/11. I can't remember the exact time on the clock oh but I remembe it well. I would be up for hours before I would get dress. I stayed and still do on CNN News for the events of the day. Every day since I was a child I ate a hugh bowl of
K E double LL O double good Kelloggs Corn Flakes with a bowl of sugar. I was coming out of the kitchen with cereal in one hand and coffee in the other. I saw the plane flying into the tower and thought I must have hit the TV remote and changed CNN to movie station with out realizing it. I said I don't know this movie and picked up the remote to put it back on CNN. IT WAS ON CNN!!!!
I sat in the chair and looked and looked and looked. This can't be real.
I never ate the corn flakes and to this day I have never eaten corn flakes again. I don't know why. I just never had the want or desire for them. You loose a piece of of you when you see your beloved country attacked. I know it is foolish and I am not trying to compare corn flakes to what happen. I just lost a piece of me, my world that day.
I live on Galveston Island. Friday and Sat I could hear the fighter jets flying out of Ellington over the Gulf of Mexico. They are so loud and low it rattles my nerves. They did this for days after 9/11. Hearing them this weekend brings it all back home. Just my thoughts with out being political.
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