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A lot has happened in the past 8 months as you can see by the title of my post. All is fine and I am happier than I have been in a long time. No men in my life and I am not ready to date yet. I feel that my body is gross but glad it fits nicely into smaller sized clothes. I had a long trip with dogs and kids but the move was a fresh start for me. My dog business is doing fine out here and I have been fixing up the house and gardening.  Things are looking pretty good for the first time in a very long time!

The kids and I went on a mini-vacation to Carowinds theme park in North Carolina. We stayed a couple nights at a hotel and used our passes for 2 days in a row. My feet still hurt and I have a few bruises from the roller coasters but I did ride some of them about 6 or 8 times! It was great!

Oh, also, I bought myself a pink Schwinn cruiser bicycle and I plan on riding it atleast 2 or 3 times a week.  It is so pretty and I feel like a little girl when I'm on it!

It has been a long journey for me and I am still losing. It has been going very slow and it is hard for me to see othes lose so quickly. I had lost about 50 pounds on my own before surgery so I guess I have only lost about 60 pounds since my surgery and it will be one year to date in about 2 weeks.

That's right.... 4 1/2 months since my surgery and I went to Knott's Berry Farm and rode almost everything. I went on Ghostrider first.... and then the train ride, then the log ride like 5 times, pony express about 4 times, jaguar about 4 times, sidewinder, the rapids ride, and lots of other stuff. I had lots of fun! We went Jan. 3rd. and I am still so sore from walking all over the damn park.  I would not have been able to do any of those things before my surgery.... Thank you Dr. Suh!

12/02/69 THAT IS MY BIRTHDAY! IN THE LAST 15 MONTHS I HAVE LOST 74 POUNDS! THATS A GOOD REASON TO CELEBRATE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME...  YAY!!!

I forgot to mention that right after my recovery I called hubby's gf who had no idea he was still married and ratted him out.... then I threw him out! My divorce papers were filed back in June or July, and will be final around January, 2009. WHOOT WHOOT! Never thought I could be so HAPPY about that. Oh, and the best part is the court ordered child support and spousal. I will be getting half of his paycheck! Life is good! BTW hubby is sleeping in his car at the truck stop in Ontario and has to pay $8 bucks to shower to go to work. And with his back being stiff after sleeping in his car, he won't be up for hanky panky with anyone. Yea... life is good!

Oh, and I take half of my metformin for diabetes once daily instead of two huge pills twice daily, so that is good also.

I LOST MT DADDY!!!
The only bad thing in my life right now aside from bills and all the regular things is that my Daddy died on Aug 17th the day before my surgery and I really miss him. I couldn't let myself cry much because I had to stay strong. He was all the way across the US in South Carolina and wanted to be with me and the kids in California, but my mom had power of attorney and put him in a home. He gave up on life and then his heart did!
I think he was worried about me since he had already lost 2 of his 3 children. Maybe my surgery went so well because he was looking out for me... who knows.... but it did go amazingly well!

MY SURGERY WAS AUG 18, 2008 AND ALL WENT WELL. I WAS ABOUT 345 JUST ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE SURGERY. AT MY 1 WEEK FOLLOW UP I WAS DOWN ABOUT 11 POUNDS. ON WEDNESDAY I WENT TO THE GYM JUST TO USE THE SCALE AND WAS DOWN TO 332.8 POUNDS. I AM NOT LOSING AS FAST AS I THOUGHT I WOULD, BUT I CAN HOLD AN 8 OZ. PROTEIN SHAKE AND A CHEESE STICK ABOUT AN HOUR AFTER SO I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER WHY MY NEW 1 OZ.  EGG SIZED POUCH COULD PROBABLY HOLD ABOUT 5 TIMES WHAT IT SHOULD. BTW... AFTER SURGERY, THE GAS WAS THE WORST PART. tHE RECOVERY HAS BEEN EASY!

I went to the gym to weigh in just last week and weighed 359 with clothes and tennies. My surgeon won't reschedule me untill I get that weight back off. I am sad and my husband is a mean man. He keeps telling me how much he hates me and how disgusting and fat I am. At this point I am ready for a divorce. I just hope to make it out alive. I want to have my surgery first and then I will file papers I already filled out. He is so mean that he refuses to start up the swamp cooler and it must be atleast a hundred degrees here in the desert. Life really sucks right now. My mom stuck my dad in a nursing home and she refuses to talk to me or the grandchildren. Life is just crazy.

Well, no surgery yet! I am really pissed off... can you tell? I had to take steroids to clear my lungs, and gained almost 10 pounds! WTF! And to top it off, Kaiser postponed my surgery, which means I have to wait till the kids are out of school. Easter Vacation was my golden ticket. Oh, and the real kicker is that some of the people in my class had their surgery around Christmas and the new year and are down between 40 to 90 pounds! Good for them! Just in time for Summer. Lucky! Yes, my time will come, but I am feeling more like I missed the bus. Maybe even got tossed under that Mutha!

I GOT PNEUMONIA AFTER THE FLU. I AM WORRIED MY SURGEON WON'T SCHEDULE MY SURGERY APPT.  FOR EASTER VACATION.  HE ORDERED A LAST MINUTE ECHOCARDIOGRAM AND I NEEDTO DO A SUPPORT GROUP FOR CROWN BARIATRIC. MORE HOOPS.... TRYING TO STAY POSITIVE!

In 2001 I delivered my 3 rd child. He weighed 9 pounds and14 oz. He should have been an emergency cecarian...  just because of his15 inch head alone!
I had a baby GEORGE LOPEZ! Anyhow, I had 2 mos. bed rest before and after delivery. So, I weighed about 352 going in to the hospital and about 345 coming out. Then I lost down to 341 slowly, but stopped having periods. I had to take medroxyprogesterone to start a cycle. One time I bled for over a month. When I went into emercency because of the bleeding, they did bloodwork and found out I had an underactive thyroid. I thought, great... I will lose weight now with the med. for that.  NOPE!  My wight went up, up, up from there. Also my OBYGN had put me on wellbutrin which made me gain weight. He said it would stop my food cravings. I wasn't overeating, I was underactive.... and my body hurt to move because I had lost muscle. By 2004 I weighed around 365. I still had to take hormones to have a cycle, but my liver now showed signs of fatty liver disease. This was the year I lost my half brother at the too soon age of  53 to schlerosis of the liver from hepatitus due to a blood transfusion. He had been stabbed by a gang of men while they were attempting to rob him, but he was jogging his 5mile run without his wallet and was, if memory serves me correctly, a 6th degree black belt. His deffensive skills saved his life. He had over 30 stab and puncture wounds. So, liver disease literally scared me to death.Then anxiety from that and being in a loveless marriage set in. My Dr. put me on prosac which did nothing, because I wasn't depressed, I was just fat and miserable. After 5 weeks, he told me I could stop. I did. By then my blood work showed I was pre diabetic.He did nothing. By 2005 I had hypertension, high bloodpressure and extreme fatty liver. HBP meds made me faint so they eventually gave me just 5 mg of lysinopril. In 2007 I was admitted to Kaiser Fontana and diagnosed with full onset of type 2 diabetes. Fow 2 years I had been a shell of the woman I once had been.I could barely get myself out of bed to get the kids to school. I had no energy for grocery shopping or cooking, let alone cleaning and child raising. I was dying. By the grace of God I had gotten myself a referral for GBS from my quack doctor before I had changed doctors. I was  in my GBS classes when diabetes hit me. It became urgent to lose weight and surgery was the answer for me. One condition, though... I had to lose 10% of my total body weight before surgery. I was 384 when my doctor saw me lastbeforemy GBS classes started. I was 381 on my first day of class. I lost about 5 pounds a month untill I went into the hospital for diabetes. I gained 5 pounds in 3 days and couldn't lose weight on the diabetic diet. It was just too much food. My doctor told me to change the diet to suit me... and gave me an RX for  phentermine in a low dose to help control hunger. I continued to lose about 5 pounds a week on a modified diabetic diet.  I have had about 3 months worth of phentermine to help with weight loss out of the whole 7 or 8 months of weight loss since my diabetes onset. I don't rely on the phentermine, but it is a tool to reach my goal. Others in my GBS class have had similar results with diet and exercise alone,  but most have only lost a few pounds, if any.  When my blood work was done to prepare for surgery, my fatty liver was remarkably better. On a graph, my  improvments are amazing. My knees and ankles feel much better, too. Right now I take metformin 1000mg 2xday, lysenopril 5mg, simvistatin 40mg, and levathroid 88mcg. I no longer take 25mg hydrochlorothiazide for water retention and swelling or medroxyprogesterone hormone RX to have a cycle. Since November 2007, my cycle comes on its' own! I never thought that would be good news, but it is.